The F***-it List: swinging, skiing, LSD and many more things to avoid doing before you die
The end of a year is a natural time to reflect on your life’s achievements — or lack thereof — and in the cheese-and-wine haze of December, it’s easy to find yourself thinking morosely about missed opportunities or days unseized. Compiling a bucket list might seem like a natural step but as actor Griff Rhys-Jones recently pointed out, overachieving hyperactivity won’t make you happier, just busier.
Instead he delineated a list of things he’d rather not do, despite the fact that everyone says he absolutely must — a f*** it list, as it were. Which made the entire internet realise that everyone should have one.
To get you inspired, here’s what’s on ours…
Katie Strick
I will never get into bouldering, no matter how many times you tell me that Harry Styles does it. I’ll try most sports in the name of a laugh, but spend my Thursday night getting chalky leggings and callusy hands while stretchy ballerina types and men with top-knots judge me from ten (two) metres below? I’d rather abseil off a skyscraper into the Thames. At least then I wouldn’t have to wear those ridiculous little toe shoes.
Along with toe shoes, can, as far as I’m concerned, also be consigned to life’s dustbin. I’ve eaten a cricket and jumped out of a plane from 15,000 feet. I’ll even consider ziplining over an alligator-infested lake, if you ask me nicely enough. Take a road trip, though? No thanks. I’m still scarred from
