The Bucket List

Today in class we discussed about the word mobility. During our class discussion, the teacher had a question for the class. Essentially, he tried to ask why people see sky diving as something that should be put on a person's "to do before I die" list. When my fellow classmates gave their answers and opinions, a movie that I recently watched came to mind; that movie was The Bucket List. "The Bucket List" is a movie about two old men who were both diagnosed with cancer and share a hospital room. One is a hard working mechanic and the other is a wealthy owner of several hospitals. The mechanic decides to make a "bucket list," a list of all the things he wants to do before he kicks the bucket. The wealthy of the two men decides to take the other man and complete his bucket list. The first thing they do on their bucket list was sky diving. The wealthy man jumps off the plane whole heartedly while the other man is hesitant and is pushed out by the professional sky diver strapped behind him. The wealthy man takes in as much as he can during his free fall while the other man is screaming and terrified while in the air, causing him to pull his shoot prematurely. They continue to do everything on the list such as riding a motorcycle through the Great Wall of China and fly above the polar ice caps. The movie ends with both men passing away but not before both of them touching each other's lives in a unique way that changes their perspectives on life. My fellow classmates discussed how people want to sky dive before a person becomes too old to. I believe that a person is never too old to do the things they want such as sky diving or even getting a tattoo. All a person needs to do all these things is time and money. A person can go sky diving at any age or even get a tattoo when he or she is fifty or sixty years old.