Regret

I have written about this before... But each day that goes by,  I understand it on a deeper level.

I was talking to a friend about regret yesterday. I think we all know that feeling well. There are things we wish we would have done differently in our lives... Things we wish we could take back, or things we wish we would have done.

I learned this lesson the hard way a long time ago, when I pulled my lifeless friend out of the Ocean in Mexico, and realized that he would not be coming back. And then 11 months after that, lost two more friends in a shooting, one of which I had a nasty fight with that I had never made right.

Every day is a gift, every day is new chance to say the things we should say, do the things we should do, be the person we want to be. And the thing alot of us don't get, is that we really only have this day to do it.

One day we will wake up, and it will be our last day. Our last day to tell those around us how much we care. The last day to do the things we know we should or we want to do. The last day to make things right that are wrong. The last day to be the person we want to be.

This life really is a race. Some of us will be in this race longer than others, but we will ALL come to the end of it at some point, and have to deal with how we ran it.


I realized something yesterday, that each day is not just a day to try to live without regret, but also a beautiful gift to rectify regrets we already have. We DON'T have to settle with past regrets, we MIGHT just have time to make past mistakes right.


I encourage you today... Just go for it.

 Make things right.

IF you still can change something you regret, DO IT.

BE the person you want to be.


Today is all we ever have.