The Bucket List

Just done watching the movie “The Bucket List”. Maybe I take movies too seriously. Or maybe it’s just their theme. But this movie has deeply moved me. I couldn’t help but pen down my feelings in here. For those who haven’t watched the movie, I’d suggest GO AND DO IT NOW!

Here’s a brief synopsis: this is the story of two dying men – a multibillionaire, and a mechanic who coincidentally happen to be admitted into the same room in the hospital. They slowly get to know each other, and prepare their own Bucket List-list of things they wanna do, before they kick the bucket. And at their 60’s, they are actually out to do it – Travel around the world, drive sports cars, go skydiving, get tattoos, get laid (with some medicinal help).

It puts forth the question – how do you want to live the life? Worrying about the unpleasant fact that you’d die one day, any moment, even now; or, live the time that’s left with us to the maximum; Do what we want to do, get what we always wanted – find the most joyous thing in our life, so that while we take our last breath, we don’t regret that we have wasted a lot of precious time in our life?

I believe that death isn’t the end, but just a final test to the body and final meeting between the body and the soul. Before this test, we get a few milliseconds of time to revise our entire life in brief, and judge ourselves, and how we spent it. It is at these final moments, we rate our lives and decide where we should end up – heaven or hell; that’s right! You live your life happily and usefully and you’ll definitely end up in heaven-a state of bliss; satisfaction that one life wasn’t wasted out. That’s when our soul gets ready for another better life. Or rather we can choose to worry over our death all our life and end it regretting that you have just wasted one full life-time.

Most of the times, we use our mind to do the thinking for us; human mind that’s so fragile, easily altered, uses logic and reasoning to arrive at conclusions. Logic, that is biased, and blinds us from the acceptance of the facts as they are.

This leads us to the doubts; doubts within as well as over the society. And doubts give rise to mistrust and hence to hatred. We live every moment of our life through these phases. All we end up with is hatred, which of course is mostly found today. We strive to get what benefits us, rather than what brings us joy, the ultimate pleasure; the ultimate satisfaction that this life is not being wasted.

Let’s work on our own bucket list. Let’s think over what are the top 10 things we really wanna do before we end this journey and take up a new one. Let’s decide whether we are going to spend this whole life thinking that we may die at any moment and keep fearing it and try to hide from it; or just go out there and get the joy we deserve because we are going to die at any moment anyway.

Am not able to put a proper end to this post, since this topic is neverending, and I don’t wanna be spending my time here just preaching, when I can’t put it to practise myself ;)