(This was an article I was asked to do for work last year, as a "special interest" piece. I'm posting it here as another "throwback" entry)
Ever since they came out with that film, The Bucket List[1],
people have started doing their own list of things they wish to do before they kick the bucket (i.e. pass away, expire,
go kaput, you get the idea). I am no
different from them. I call mine the Bakit
List. Bakit being the Filipino word for “why”. Things on this list are
mostly those that, when you are out there doing it, will prove to be agonizing,
sometimes crazy, sometimes life-threatening, but ultimately rewarding—assuming
you survive to reminisce about it. Like running a marathon or ultramarathon, or
travelling from north to south of the Philippines on a bike, you will ask yourself
over and over again, “Why the $^@#&
am I doing this? Bakit?”
In the past two years, I was fortunate enough to tick two
items off this Bakit List. I remember
them with sentimental fondness, now that I’m past all the suffering.
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| Our group on top of Kala Patthar (18,192 feet), the best vantage point to see Mt. Everest (the black peak with the plume of clouds at the center). |
