Top five regrets in life

[Cindy]

There was a book review of " The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A life transformed by the dearly departing (Hay House) I think the author is Bronnie Ware. Fascinating and moving.

Particularly to us, I thought.

#1 I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
#2 I wish I hadn't worked so hard.
#3 I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.
#4 I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
#5 I wish I had let myself be happier.

Sounds like most of us should consider those ideas and live them.

I will be.

I'm strongly into #1, #3 and #5. They will be my short term goals.

Cindy

[Jamie D]

I try not to have regrets.  Instead, I see mistakes as opportunities to learn and grow.

If you are not growing, you are dying.

[Cindy]

I agree hon,

The work was commissioned by Bronnie Ware as an end of life counsellor and she received reports from people in terminal respite care. It was a comment about people who could no longer make a decision about they wanted to do, they were dying and are now dead. So the purpose of the book, I think, I read the review not the book, was in what would you pass to others that you regret as you die. The implicit understanding was that they have no way of changing anything. But how do we reflect on the advice of these people?

Leave it there for know.

Cindy

[gennee]

It's the chance to starrt anew. The past cannot be changed. We just learn from it then move on. Changing one's mindset is the first order of business. Am I going to let past failures and disappointments hold me back or am I going move forward and create new ideas, have new visions, and make the necessary changes in my life? I choose to do the latter.

[Kelly J. P.]

 My regrets are all tied to things that I could not have helped; starting puberty at seven, not getting on hormones at an extraordinarily young age... even though my mum would not have let that happen... and I regret that I had never been able to keep any friends, though I never knew why.

I will repair the consequences of these things in time... and hopefully my regrets will diminish as a result.

[Amalina]

1. Pushing my real self so deep it can't come back up for air now that I found it.
2. Meeting my gf/ex all that time ago.
3. Not taking care of my health.
4. Surviving my teens.
5. Getting on meds last year. (which led to me having enough clarity to discover my self.)