Are you Generation X? Middle-aged, a little cynical, realistic, low in expectation, and a bit of a procrastinator?
We are at the stage in our lives when, if we are ever going to write a bucket list, it’s now or never. But are we even a “bucket list” type of generation?
I’m being a little cynical. Of course, we should have a bucket list! And that’s why I’ve generated this short list of ideas designed just for Gen X.
It’s just a brainstorming exercise, think of it as a jumping-off point. Just a few ideas to juice up your brain and get your own list going.
In fact, you should probably not actually do any of these. Well, maybe a couple of them. But at your own risk.
Anyway, here are some ideas:
Embrace your cynical side
- Steal candy from a baby
- Talk about Fight Club
- Popularize a conspiracy theory
- Write in a vote for President
Be the slacker you were born to be
- Vow to visit a place you’ve already been, immediately check off item from list
- Run for office unopposed, lose anyway
- Build a bomb from a potato, a stick of gum, a bottle cap, and a length of copper wire
- Have AI write your bucket list
Relive pop culture moments of your youth
- Get someone’s attention by blasting a boombox overhead
- Win a martial arts and/or arm wrestling tournament
- Sing atop a parade float
- Hide an alien from the Feds
- Find a pirate’s booty
- Race a train
- Feed a creature after midnight
Just be stereotypical Gen X
- Watch The Bucket List movie because it’s lame when you do something from a movie you haven’t seen
- Attend a party at which literally no one will remember you having been there
- Handcuff yourself to something no one cares about
- Attend a drive-in movie, park backward, and watch the concession stand the whole time
Perhaps this list is a bit too cynical. Perhaps it is too cartoonishly exploiting Gen X tropes when in reality, serious people are looking for real bucket list ideas.
You’re right. I vow to improve. It’s going on my list.
If you have actually done any of the things presented here as bucket list ideas, please leave a note in the comments, confirming or denying the validity of said idea as a bucket list goal.
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