A Blessing to Self and Others: Starting Your Bucket List before Retirement or Threat of Terminal Illness

“Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common except for their terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to leave it and do all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die according to their bucket list. In the process, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find joy in life.”

[Source:  Excerpt of plot summary for film production – The Bucket List, starring Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson]

Concerning all matters of life, there is choice. Choices can be made proactively or reactively. Proactive choice usually results from diligent forethought, research, investigation and contemplation (prior to an anticipated occurrence). In contrast, reactive choice, for the most part, relies on instinctual quick or immediate response to an event; normally those that are seemingly, or in fact, life threatening.