The 2023 Bucket List

Before the world as we know it changes forever, here's a partial list of experiences to try in the year ahead

IT'S 2023. WHO would have thought we'd get here? We thought the pandemic would take us out en masse, and we live in the hope that it will not come back for seconds. We feared that a bellicose Russian tsar might nuke half the world, though it's still not out of the question if he swills a few vodkas with that inflated war-punk from North Korea. And what about that asteroid that's said to be hurtling towards us? Maybe the aliens backed off and decided to wait it out, because we are much more likely to engineer our own doom.

The times they are a-changin'. While there's time, enjoy the world as we once cherished it.

Here's a bucket list for 2023. Feel free to argue.

BREATHE SOME AIR

That stuff you're inhaling into your lungs, especially in the national capital, can no longer be called air. It's a toxic cocktail of all the villainous atmospheric constituents your high school chemistry teacher warned you about. Plus some particulate freebies that will ensure that your pulmonologist retires rich along with his best buddy, the oncologist. Might be a good time to plan a vacation to some unspoilt, underpopulated part of the world (Bhutan comes highly recommended) where you can get high on oxygen and its friends. Too bad you can't bring back any from duty-free.

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