The film entitled “The Bucket List” made that term popular. Characters masterfully played by Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freedom as terminally ill roommates in one of the plethora of hospitals owned by Nicholson’s character, made them unlikely friends as they were from opposite sides of the tracks. Nicholson observes a crumpled, discarded legal pad sheet of paper on the floor, discovering a list of Freeman’s goals before he kicks the bucket. Nicholson has the bucks needed for the bucket, and becomes inspired to add to Freeman’s list, which Nicholson declares “extremely weak.” It’s a terrific movie. Long before this flick, I began such a list when I was fourteen. I now call it my bucket list, a term I stole from that movie.

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