Bucket List 2024
Dated: 02/04/2024
TLDR; Make friends.
Read on if you have spare time and why I arrived at that.
Around this time last year I wrote this bucket list and put it up. Most of these didn't come out to be true, which is a bummer I suppose but I never wrote that list with the intention to feel like a failure if nothing came out to be true.
Not excusing my lack of work; a lot happened in 2023, a lot changed, and every month brought it's own new bucket lists and whatnot.
This year, in the starting I felt it again - wanting to write another bucket list of 50 things that are near impossible to achieve so I just keep at it everyday and even if I get 2% closer to getting them done, horizontally or vertically, that would feel incredible.
But I stopped, since I feel like I'm changing a LOT day by day it felt worthless to write up a big list at the start of the year that I never look back to; and keep saying "oh it's just being ambitious haha i dont really care about it"
I want to put something here I care about.
After much consideration - my life nowadays looks way different than that 365 days ago, met incredible people, made incredible friends, broke incredible things - all fruitful things in what they call "character development". So now I don't feel like slapping a "Make $1m" and calling it a day. It feels too shallow. Not saying money isn't important or being financially well off doesn't have its benefits, it does, but I just don't feel like being the indie hacker on twitter who's posting tons of MRR screenshots or saying "LFGG" everyday.
SO, YOU MF YAPPER, WHAT'S THE LIST JUST GET TO IT
Yes.
Cultivate good friendships, find ways to spend time with them. (also family)
This is it, only one item.
That seems too simple but I've realized nothing else brings me happiness. Now it's simple not easy by any means, finding people who genuinely root for you and believe in you while you believe in them, is hard. And on top of that there's too many shenanigans nowadays in genz friendships I personally feel, or maybe it's being in your 20s i dont really know.
Now that doesn't mean I don't want to do entrepreneurshipnenmenting or making youtube videos or making music or whatever other 100 things I want to dabble in, but it means whenever I do it, there should be some sort of fun I have during the process, and not really care about the output.
Making music with friends, playing live with them sounds WAY more fun than sitting at home looking at a DAW and doing mouse clicks.
Making a team to grow a startup that eventually fails sounds way more fun than indie hacking.
Working hard to save up money, then travelling the world to meet people I've acquainted online and doing random gokarting, adventure sports or neovim configs -- sounds a LOT of fun so much that even if that becomes my life, I couldn't be happier.
What I'm trying to say is - life changes, and you can try to look at the past or you can look forward and imagine what would make you happy, and the people around you, and leave whatever good impact you can leave. In that order.
Well that's pretty much it. HHAAAVE 2 SONGS
Also I'm going to make a feature on the site so music's always playing and make a github repo where it's all youtube links on autoplay audio only mode so if you know a thing or two about that without getting me server costs pls dm on twitter @mehulsharmamat
Also the music I put does not mean that's what I'm feeling (when I post music sometimes my friends get concerned) it's just that most times I listen to sad boy music