No Bucket Lists For Me

[bainbrig]

The Grim Reaper draws ever nearer, and thoughts turn not to the abjectly selfish ‘bucket list’ (me, me, me, Things I must do before I die - just another manifestation of the Me-generation) but to an A4 sheet of paper listing what good I have done.

Very little on it yet, in fact it’s blank. Maybe kindness to animals gets on.

Saddened by its blankness.

BB

[murraymints]

never too late to start doing good for others...

[woofgang]

i sometimes think that we don't know what good we have done.....that the smallest of kind actions can have huge results that we never know about....or there is a time when something needs to be done that is neither kind nor pleasant but its a job that needs doing. if you can do it cheerfully and as gently as may be, then that can count too. i don't have a bucket list either.

[maggiebee]

Sure you will have done many good turns throughout your life BB but perhaps they meant more to others than they did to you? It's the little things that often mean so much.

[bainbrig]

Thanks maggie, woof; just feeling very low at the end of some bronchitis - give me a week and I’ll be a normal god’s-gift-to-the-world bloke again rather than this doomy lump...

BB

[maggiebee]

Get well soon BB - bronchitis is horrible.

[Old_Geezer]

I don't have bucket lists. If I've not done something already it is either because I'm not finding the time, which means it isn't greatly important, or I've done it already. Trying to enjoy the day and reach tomorrow is task enough.

[spathiphyllum]

Like a butterfly affect, woof

[Tilly2]

What was your line of work, BB?

[murraymints]

hope you feel a bit brighter soon BB xx

[bainbrig]

Tilly. Typesetting morphing into running a design company, so very me-me-me, no use to anyone else, and I can’t look back at those days and think “What good things I did”, cos I didn’t. And that’s more realism than depression!

How was the optician?

[ummmm]

I bet you've done more than you think, BB. I think when people do kind acts they don't register it because it comes naturally.

[AuntLydia]

Yes of course kindness of any kind would get on your list.

Bucket lists are not necessarily all ' me me me '. They often include making memories with other people.

[anneasquith]

For goodness sake, it's far to early in the morning for self analysis, put the paper down, have a coffee, I hope you are feeling better .

[ludwig]

Anyone that can write a long list of all the good things they're done, thinks too much of theselves.

[AuntLydia]

ludwig -if you are feeling depressed its a good coping strategy . Sometimes you just need reassurance that you've made a difference to at least someone/something in your life.

[Prudie]

Being ill always make one depressed (well it does me, I get very weepy). I think you need to watch 'It's a Wonderful Life', it answers the question you have asked :-)

[ummmm]

Prudie - I'm the same, cry over anything when I'm ill.

[zebo]

We rarely get to know whose lives we've touched in a positive way. A new colleague said she had worked with a young teacher at her previous school and when she heard about my new colleague's move she asked her to pass on her best wishes to me, she had gone into teaching because of my influence. That touched me so much.
Hope you're feeling better soon, chin up.

[Tilly2]

I got on fine at the opticians, thank you, BB. I did update my post.
Thank you for asking.

There you go. That's one thing for your list...being thoughtful. :-)

[bainbrig]

anneasquith. Your 'curtains' approach to psychology (pull yourself together) made me chuckle, which is a Good Thing. Thanks.

BB