Assignment 18-Bucket List (Evan Hays)

Marcus Aurelius once said that a man is nothing more than shadows and dust, and that all we can do when death approaches us is smile back toward him as a friend. This course of thought evidently leads most people to put a premium on some experiences, as if they wish to be remembered for specific experiences. Many call this a "bucket list", something that I find futile and redundant. My bucket list only has one objective, "learn". This is because I think that beyond all reasonable doubt, a mans life can be measured not by what he does or does not do, but what he takes away from his experiences. A conversation with god would be of slim worth if its just small talk. My purpose in life, the one I've given to myself at least, is to catalog any and all experience, analyze it, use it. Become the knowledge I know, live to learn. That's why, in effect, everything you can do is on my bucket list, regardless. I want to climb mountains as well as be tortured, for the sake of those things specifically. One day I will die, I want to know why.