The Top 5 Regrets Before Dying...
We are just a paycheck, a relationship, or some other circumstance away from happiness. And if that's how we become "happy," once we achieve it we are also just a circumstance away from ruin.
Happiness has got to be a choice--a choice you make each and every day. To accept this moment, as it is, you won't necessarily be happy, but at least you can be at peace.
This study was reported by numerous media sources. The study involved interviewing numerous patients in hospice, on their deathbed, regarding their top 5 life regrets.
The top 5 regrets before dying:
1. I wish I hadn't worked so hard
2. I wish I hadn't always done just what others expected of me, and lived a life true to myself
3. I wish I'd the courage to express my feelings
4. I wish I'd kept and maintained the few relationships that were REAL
5. I wish I'd let myself be happier and not worried so much
We are the only species that lives almost exclusively in the past and the future, never the present. We treat the moment as a means to an end.
I probably could have predicted the first one, but seeing it in this context carried different weight. I see people every day who don't do this. We celebrate workaholism.
I knew a man who worked his whole life to retire at 65 and die at 67. I don't want to wait until retirement. Or, there's the six-figure engineer I know who works 12 hour days and travels constantly to maintain the house HE'S NEVER IN.
It doesn't make sense.
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