Monday, 15 December 2014
There is no reason for regret.
If I died tomorrow I wouldn't die with regrets. Sure, today I wish I had travelled more, I'm always going to long for Japan. I wish I'd read more, my book shelves are filled with unread books. I wish I'd watch more movies/series, I have long lists of titles. I wish I had succeeded at something. But if I died tomorrow I wouldn'tfeel regretful about my life. I have travelled. I've seen my own country, I've seen my neighboring countries, I've gone overseas. I've travelled by car, bus, airplane, boat, cruise ship. I've read hundreds of books, thousands of fanfics, and I've read so much relevant and random facts/trivia. I've looked through photographic books and I've taken my own photographs. I've drunk alcohol and I've gotten drunk and I've puked. I've gotten into fights because of disagreements, to stand up for myself, to stand up for someone else. I've gotten black eyes and cuts and bruises. I've played sports on a team and won a region championship. I've filmed for the local tv channel. I've been so far up in the mountains there was no phone network. I've rolled underneath a snowmobile. I've seen the sun shine at midnight. I've fished in the river. I've sat around countless bonfires and listened to tales and jokes of many kinds. I've had great friends that meant a lot to me, that I have had so much fun with. I've made friends with people of many different nationalities. I have international friends, great friends who I've shared more with than anyone else. I've kissed boys and girls. I've finished video games by myself. I've lied on a football field at midnight and stared at the sky. I've held my first nephew when he was new born and felt the world fall away. I've held them all and there's nothing like it. I've seen my sister get married. I've seen the most beautiful man on stage singing the songs that means everything to me. I watched him so intently I don't remember anything but watching him and hearing his voice. I've seen my idol up close. I've followed Harry Potter and it has changed my life. I've been to midnight premiers. I've loved and felt and been a part of something, I've seen and done and changed, I've gained and lost and removed myself from situations, I've smiled and laughed and cried and gotten angry. If I were to die tomorrow I would not regret my life because of the things I never got to do. I would never regret my life because up to that moment I've been doing the things I wanted to do at the moment, the things I could do, the things I had the capacity to do. There is no reason to regret the life you've lived so far, even if you realise that some things were mistakes. This is how your life had to be lived for you to be who you are. And there's no reason to regret the things you haven't done or would never get to do if you died, because the future is unknown and maybe you would never do those things even if you continued to live.
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