I Wish I had...

Yesterday’s tragedy of Ukrainian plane crash shortly after it took off from Tehran's international airport reminds me again about the fragility of Life.

We have just celebrated the beginning of New Year, and what do we face? Bushfires in Australia, uncertainty and insecurity in the Middle East and today 176 people died because of the airplane crash.

LIFE...

What are we doing with our lives? Do we live it to the fullest? Do we honor what is important to us? It breaks my heart when I see when some people live their lives as a “draft” version: doing the job they hate, staying in toxic relationships, being afraid to risk, change something and fulfill their dreams. Especially today I feel the urge to share those 5 regrets that Bronnie Ware, an Australian nurse, shared in her book “Top Five Regrets of Dying”. She was working in palliative care and was taking caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives:

And here the most common ones:

1.    “I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.” Most people had not honored even a half of their dreams and had to die knowing that it was due to choices they had made, or not made.

2.     “I wish I hadn't worked so hard". This came from every male patient as they missed their children's youth and their partner's companionship.

3.    “I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.” Many people suppressed their feelings in order to keep peace with others. As a result, they settled for a mediocre existence and never became who they were truly capable of becoming.

4.    “I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.” Often they would not truly realize the full benefits of old friends until their dying weeks and it was not always possible to track them down

5.    “I wish that I had let myself be happier.” Many did not realize until the end that happiness is a choice. Fear of change had them pretending to others, and to their selves, that they were content, when deep within, they longed to laugh properly and have silliness in their life again.