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10-11-15 | 08:54 AM

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Doug64

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Originally Posted by kbarch

Yes, I DO get what you have in mind, and that's all fine, of course. I've only been describing why I find a different kind of bucket list annoying - lists like this: 25 Things You Absolutely Positively Must Do Before You Die
and this:
Travel Bucket List: 100 Places to Visit Before You Die
Lists like these are all over the place these days, and it seems to me that the folks who call them bucket lists are the ones who don't get it.

In this context, I can understand your point. I don't think we can figure out what people really mean with e-mails and forum posts. There is too much room for interpretation. There is also a high probability that the term "bucket list" means totally different things to different people. I apologize for getting a little "defensively aggressive."

This thread and many other threads on this forum reminds me of a concept that is attributed to Sigmund Freud:

"Narcissism of small differences: The need to distinguish oneself by minute shadings, and to insist with outsized militancy on the importance of those shadings."

I'm guilty!

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