Bucket List

Bucket List is the story of two elders who continued to live their lives at its fullest upon realizing that there are still a number of things things they want to accomplish before they could kick the bucket (death). It is a heartwarming story that most people could relate for we also have our own ambitions that are yet to be fulfilled and the movie further shows how age triggers such dreams.

The movie is an evidence of how the conflict of Integrity versus Despair occurs to most people in which we review life's acomplishments and failures. It is the last stage in Erikson's psychosocial development theory that spans from a period of later adulthood until death. Now a sense of accomplishment signifies success in resolving the difficulties presented in this stage of life or the failure to resolve the difficulties result in regret over what might have been achieved but are not.

There are things in life that we wanted most but not all of these could become possible. I alone have countless dreams. However, some were impossible--like climbing the Everest, see? Then I started to realize: will this dream, if not accomplished, would so much bother me when I retire? Perhaps yes and perhaps even worst than I have imagined. Maybe it would cause me not to sleep well at night dreaming of Everest regretting, "that I could have at least climbed the half of it when I was younger. There could be so many things that I could have accomplished using my younger self--being active, more aggressive, and thus, more capable than what I have become now".

But the movie taught us that there's always this very little possibility of even the most impossible dreams yet all we have to do is to think that it is possible, and therefore it could become possible. It is our endless motivation that keeps us going and our optimism could bring us farther.

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