Name: TEDx】Kill your bucket list｜Edward Readicker-Henderson｜TEDxMaui (【TEDx】Kill your bucket list | Edward Readicker-Henderson | TEDxMaui)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:34:44.000Z
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過去形

and if you go, if you're not in the whole pine box motif,

to 不定詞

If you want to be buried in a giant beer bottle, that's not a problem.

Water goes through the afterlife proclaiming

your undying devotion to the oil industry.

It's a little weird but you could do that.

How about be buried in a fish, in a cow, in a pineapple,

in a sort of chocolate eclair looking thing.

They've got a ride on the showroom floor.

And here, of course, is the one I picked, the traveler's coffin.

And you know, maybe I'm being presumptuous

because this is obviously the good traveler's coffin,

bad travelers going to hell, get a middle seat in coach.

that was billed as "the West Africa you must see before you die;

check off your bucket list," and we were doing really cool things.

We went to Timbuktu which means for the rest of my life,

I can casually say, "When I was in Timbuktu..."

We went to Victoria Falls which is unbelievable.

The force of all this water, falling off the edge of the world

when I got cornered by an enraged monkey and started to yell for help,

not a single one of the zebras looked up.

And we went out into  the sand dunes of Namibia at night

where there were more stars than I've ever seen anywhere in my life.

so I didn't know them, I didn't recognize any of the patterns in the sky.

And I had this weird moment of transposition, of thinking

maybe one of those little, blinking lights is everything I love.

And in Ghana, our hotel was right on the beach,

I discovered that not a single one of the people I was with,

not a single one of these people spending vast sums of time and money

to see the world they had to see before they die,

had so much in going to stuck a toe in the ocean,

not one of them had gone down and stood into the Bight of Benin

I thought when I was washing the coffin sawdust off my feet,

but you know, it just wasn't on my bucket list.

And somehow it has all become about the bucket list:

books you must read, movies you must see, music you must hear.

These great imperatives of all these things you must check off

because art and beauty are things that you could say, (ticks) "Did it."

And nowhere has this taken over as much as it has in travel.

you don't just go to Spain and drink sangria,

you go to Spain and hike for Camino [de Santiago].

And you don't go to Paris and watch the boulevards,

you go eat in every 3-star Michelin restaurant,

if you ignore these imperatives of things you must do before you die,

you've got to be checking off that bucket list

like you're Santa Claus on a cocaine bender

because for just like the naked teenagers in the horror movie

you are going to die  and the question is not if but when.

What if, instead of thinking I had to do something before I die,

what if I just did something while I was alive?

is more or less what you are left to live sounds like.

The doctors would not let me record my own heart,

under the title "sounds associated with sudden death,"

which is just this really fun thing to have come up on your iPod shuffle,

and you can just hear in the back in your head that Dick Clark voice saying:

"It's got a crappy beat, and you absolutely cannot dance to it."

I had less than a year to live was about 15 years ago

and since then I've been told five more times.

Once every couple of years, the medical profession gets together

and says: "Hey, you!" (whistles) "Out of the pool. Time's up."

And as you've already guessed: spoiler alert!

that somehow, I am as indestructible and immortal as Keith Richards

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