A drop in the bucket

People can figure out if life has value or not if their own life has value. Which means that we should be happy and should be continuously looking forward to something, such as completing a bucket list. When there is something to complete in life that we want to either possess or experience, we realize that our lives have value.  A bucket list is a great example of knowing weather your life has value or not; it a list where a person writes all the things he or she would like to do before they die. An example is my own bucket list, here are a couple of my own things I would like to possess or experience before I die: Learn Romanian, Learn to Tango, Own  a Volkswagen hippie van, Travel to New Zealand for a month, and Go windsurfing on the coasts of Southern Spain. Each of these ideas has a significant meaning to me which is why I would want to complete them before i die.
 Romanian, I personally think it is an overlooked language and not many people think of it, not even the country. I remember I was working and a family came in, they had a hard accent that I couldn't pin on it so I asked where they were from, they said Romania. And since then I have wanted to learn Romanian (and in fact have learned some). For the Tango, I have wanted to learn it ever since my sophomore year when I had to present with my friend Penelope, and one of the dances we presented were the "Tango". I loved the music so much and got reminded of it while searching for it (like movies such as "Take the Lead" with Antonio Banderas). The reason for the hippie van is because of how colorful they are. Not only on the outside with all the paintings they can have, but also what is on the inside. Sometimes you can have couches, rugs, disco balls! And it can carry so many people, whenever I see one I get very jealous of the people who have them because now it's rare to find that van. New Zealand would be fun to travel too because of the different climates there. The way it's an island in  the ocean, more isolated, it's very green though near the deserts of Australia, and I find it very exotic. Lastly, I have dreamed this past year to travel to the coasts of Spain to go windsurfing. This is because I have a story that I imagine and in that one, a character I have made goes to Spain on a mission and to cover it, he is a windsurfer; during which I visit and go windsurfing. Hence why windsurfing on the southern coast of Spain if one of my dreams I will pursue and experience before I die. Each of these have their own significance, but not to humanity. These are my own experiences that I want to pursue.  If someone says their own bucket list, I do not think it would effect humanity, though maybe a small percentage who shares the same dreams but not much. The only other way that it would effect humanity is if there was "save the world" which would include humanity, which most of mine are (truthfully) selfish. So, what is the meaning and purpose of my life? It's to fulfill those desires as well as others. Overall though, the meaning of life is to find out what you are truly after, and the purpose of it is to fulfill those needs.