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At the end , what would you regret the most ?

Life has started  on the forties track . If I sometime go down the memory lane , there are many flashes of happy , sad , crazy or even  tough moments .

I was in class 2nd when we used to go to school in a rickshaw . It was fun , many times getting off the moving rickshaw and then again getting on it with Ramu Bhaiya getting irritated . But I don’t regret that time .

I was in class 10th when we were given farewell party by juniors and rampwalk used to be an essential part of the party . I used to be an idiot when it came to fashion , make-up or style walk . Still  I draped myself in my mother’s magenta saree and did some chaos on the stage. But I don’t regret doing all that funny .

I was doing my PG when we bunked many times , made fun of our professors , used to be busy and happy   dancing , watching horror movies or teasing one another  . When the scholars used to be busy studying in library , we would be busy stealing  the laddoos from someone’s  almirah . But I don’t regret that stealing or bunking the classes .

I had completed my PG and wanted to pursue M.Tech . But  I  immediately got a teaching job and started enjoying the money coming in (to please my shopping desires) ,so I didn’t leave the job and try for my further studies . I do regret not pursuing my higher studies .

Since childhood I never wanted to be a teacher . But I became one . I regret why i didn’t have the courage to drop a year after +2 to prepare for the engineering entrance examinations . Today my teaching job feels like stagnant at times and I regret that stagnation almost daily .

After marriage I came in contact with ISKCON meditation which attracted me . I practiced it for 2-3 years and I was getting better at it day by day but poor determination pulled me back from it . I regret why  I didn’t continue it .

Yesterday is gone , Today is the time to begin. 

I regret the crucial time  when I didn’t work hard for studies . I regret why I didn’t engage in any sports in college . I wanted to learn lawn tennis and swimming but I didn’t take even a step ahead for it.

I don’t regret earning money today but  I think at the end I would regret if not even a little part of my money would come as a  help to others. I don’t regret making myself happy but I think at the end I would regret whether I came on this earth just to enjoy  my life .

At the end I might regret for the bad feelings I kept for others , times when I should have felt sorry but I didn’t . I might regret why I remained over-busy  with daily life chores , why I unnecessarily kept worrying for the future . At the end of life I might have lot of money  but my health might not permit me to fulfill my travel wishes . I would regret then why I kept feeding my bank accounts all my life , and  above all why I didn’t work on  the bigger purpose of life .

“Regrets for the things we did can be tempered by time ; it is regret for the things we didn’t do that is inconsolable “

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Think on broader terms of life . What is your age today and how much more time you think you have ?What you should do and what not ? How much you should earn and how much you should help others ? How much  busy you should keep yourself  and how many moments you should enjoy with your dear ones ? How much should you laugh or be angry ? Life is so short . You can’t keep regrets till the end of your life . You should  die happy .

What do you think ? What would you regret at the end of your life ?

 

 

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