Who taught: Deb

bucket list (source: http://www.imdb.com/)

Two months ago, Jessy and I were invited to Dave and Deb’s house. Deb showed us her house. As we walked into the kitchen, we saw some pictures of beautiful places. One of them caught my eyes. It was the picture of a resort in Bora Bora, Philippines. So, I asked her why the picture is there. She said, “Dave and I really enjoy traveling and, one day, Dave was reading a newspaper and found that place. As we see the picture together, we decided to put it into our bucket list.”

As we heard her saying, “bucket list,” we were like, “What? What is bucket list?” She said, “Oh! That is an expression we use to refer to the things that people want to do before they die, mostly, in relation to places to visit before they die.”

Ever since we got to know that expression, we have heard the expression from our friends. More importantly, I have used it when I talk about going to Europe, especially to Paris, to my friends.

Once again, I was curious about its origin. When I first heard it, I thought the expression totally makes sense because people put things in a bucket. Putting the list of items into your bucket is so perfect to mean having something to do in a bucket before dying.

But, I found this very interesting resource, this wikipedia page.

As you may find from the page, there are mainly three theories with regard to its etymology. I am very leaning toward the first theory which says the expression, kick the bucket, is from the usage of a bucket for suicide or execution by hanging. What do you think? What is your choice? Knowing the origin of the expression, I now do not really like to use “bucket list.”

Anyway, what do you have in your bucket list? I think, this Thursday, I will scratch out one of them, buying a house. Wait, buying a house can be included in a bucket list?

Deb also told me that there is a movie called, “Bucket List.” I think I should watch it. Is there anybody who wants to watch it together with us? It’s a date.