Friday, July 18, 2008

Life is Short

Sometimes when you're young you think nothing can hurt you, it's like being invincible. Your whole life is ahead of you and you have big plans to find your perfect match, the one that completes you. But as you get older, you realize its not so easy. It's not until the end of your life you realize that the plans you made were simply plans. In the end, when you're looking back instead of forward, you want to believe that you made the most of what life gave you. You want to believe you're leaving something good behind. You want to have mattered. 

Regret comes in all shapes and sizes. Some are small, like when you do a bad thing for a good reason. Some are bigger, like when you let down a friend. Some of us escape the pain of regret by making the right choice. Some of us have little time for regret because we're looking forward to the future. Sometimes we have to fight to come to terms with the past, and sometimes we bury our regret by promising to change our ways. But our biggest regrets are not for the things we do, but the things we didn't do. Things we didn't say that could have saved someone we care about. 

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