'Life is for living', according to thewell-used expression: What we choose to do is up to us. That may not becompletely true, but there is no harm in dreaming about what we'd like toachieve in our life. Many of us write a list of things we'd like to do beforewe die - often called a bucket list.

Bucket lists have been called 'the greatesthits of your life' and have helped some people overcome anxiety which wouldhave stopped them following their dreams. Some of us may choose to write one tofill our life with exciting and new experiences - from skydiving to swimmingwith sharks – the list is unlimited.

This is something the BBC radio program All In The Mind has been looking at. It heard from a blogger called AnnetteWhite who said she made a promise to live her bucket list which"continuously pushes the comfort zone to its limits and beyond it."Such a list can be exciting and can indeed help you plan your life and give youfocus. When the BBC reporter Helen Fawkes knew she was suffering from incurableovarian cancer, she took comfort in drawing up a bucket list -although shecalled it her 'list for living' because these were things for making the mostof life. Sadly, she was not able to achieve all of her 50 things before shedied at the age of 45.

Creating a bucket list can certainly giveus hope, but some people have argued it can be used as a coping strategy to tryto control something uncontrollable - death. Clinical psychologist Linda Blairtold the BBC that she was "not really in favor of bucket lists… [they]take you away from the chance to be spontaneous." It's probably true thata list can encourage people to follow someone else's idea of the perfect life.And also, following a fixed list of goals makes you less impulsive - your aimsand wishes might change as you approach the day when you finally kick thebucket.

But why not at least dream of what we wouldlike to do? Why not reach for the stars, even if we only reach the sky? Whetherwe want to plan it or just see what happens, we don't know what tomorrow willbring, so maybe we should live for today.