Life is too Short for Regrets! - Part 1
As replies to my previous post, some friends responded saying they wanted to be mindset breakers but never ended up doing so. Instead they fell victim to the mindset cycle I spoke of, or atleast I think they did judging from their replies.
My question to these dear ones - What do you mean when you say you do not know what happened along the way? Why think and believe that all hope has gone? Are you saying you are so hopelessly stuck into that cynical social stigma of a mindset that you cannot break away? Who is being the pessimist now - society or you?
Well, you see, I have always held close to my heart the one principle I choose to live by. Life is too short for regrets. I refuse to take to my death-bed all the grief and sorrow of not having done the things I truly wanted to. Yes, I will drive a rally race car, I will skydive and yes, I will own a big fat boat someday and sail to places unmarked on the globe, at my own whim. As everyone else, I am aware that I will need more than a fat pocket for these 'wishes' of mine. But impossible is nothing, right? So maybe I will end up working the best years of my life. Maybe, I will end up doing a job that I despise. Maybe, I will do that 9-5 job after all with nothing but a sleep-filled weekend to recreate myself with. But still, I will die happy. I will be able to retire early and fulfill any of my wishes. I will die having done all I want.
I know some part of this post might seem in stark contrast to the previous one. But there is a point. Instead of regretting that they have fallen into an irreversible cycle, maybe people should find a silver lining. Instead of breaking down one's own morale, maybe they could pursue life with an enthused vigour. I like that - to pursue life with an enthused vigour. Why let life decide the course of our lives. Are we so incapable for an able-bodied intelligent self-sustaining species?
I say - en-cash every moment of your life. Let nothing go waste. After all, life is too short for regrets!
My question to these dear ones - What do you mean when you say you do not know what happened along the way? Why think and believe that all hope has gone? Are you saying you are so hopelessly stuck into that cynical social stigma of a mindset that you cannot break away? Who is being the pessimist now - society or you?
Well, you see, I have always held close to my heart the one principle I choose to live by. Life is too short for regrets. I refuse to take to my death-bed all the grief and sorrow of not having done the things I truly wanted to. Yes, I will drive a rally race car, I will skydive and yes, I will own a big fat boat someday and sail to places unmarked on the globe, at my own whim. As everyone else, I am aware that I will need more than a fat pocket for these 'wishes' of mine. But impossible is nothing, right? So maybe I will end up working the best years of my life. Maybe, I will end up doing a job that I despise. Maybe, I will do that 9-5 job after all with nothing but a sleep-filled weekend to recreate myself with. But still, I will die happy. I will be able to retire early and fulfill any of my wishes. I will die having done all I want.
I know some part of this post might seem in stark contrast to the previous one. But there is a point. Instead of regretting that they have fallen into an irreversible cycle, maybe people should find a silver lining. Instead of breaking down one's own morale, maybe they could pursue life with an enthused vigour. I like that - to pursue life with an enthused vigour. Why let life decide the course of our lives. Are we so incapable for an able-bodied intelligent self-sustaining species?
I say - en-cash every moment of your life. Let nothing go waste. After all, life is too short for regrets!
good point...i dont think every individual has their life plan planned out....it takes a few mistakes to realize what you really want. If you've got ur life plan figured out at the earliest its a great thing...the only worry then would be that those years that u spent doing something u didnt like, how would u look back on them, would you regret how u spent them.....for example, a huge number of engineers feel what they did in 4 years was a total waste....and how much ever they may want that time back, wish to do things differently, they can't.
ReplyDelete...Sure Aye!...i like dat attitude.....life rite frm birth is an evolution...d process has its own rules..but at times planning is imp..i dnt say dat u will follow d same tracks u etched 4 urself...u'll surely digress...but whts imp is contentment...becoz 'if u blv it or not!'....Serenity of d Soul is important...!
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