After living in 5 countries, I had and have the opportunity to live and experience life on a level beyond belief with very little regret. So, here’s my 2 cents on why should you live life with no regrets?
Ask yourself how much of your current thinking patterns come from the way your parents and grandparents live or lived? Perhaps how your community are doing things.
One day I got up and realised my will was born from the constant knocks life served up. There came a day when I refused to believe that I can’t or am not allowed to live my best life. Understand, that for one to embody not only just the thought but align it to action with a powerful force is a divine union that not many people consider a blessing or that which is truly something to be grateful for. “As long as my will was present, I WILL be the exception,” is often what stood out in my thinking pattern and so why should you live life with no regrets? I often heard the sentence “where there’s a will there is a way”. I know! It sounds cliché. Everything you decide in your life is about mindset and in my case every experience that made me feel down has strengthened me in some way. From being a weak fragile girl, I became the woman who to this day refuses to give up, but oh! Boy! It’s one thing to be in the down and for that day to come when we look at it from on top.
Planning for retirement is in most people’s books and as I kept living my life, I realised there was continuous uncertainty in the path that I’ve chosen, and then I saw that there is that same continuous uncertainty in the path chosen by every person on this planet. It took a bit of work though or let’s just say it was a process. I spoke to older people, observed younger people and their direction, and engaged with people of my age group. I then concluded that nothing is guaranteed. Why should you live life with no regrets? What is guaranteed is the here and the now. I’ve let some old thought patterns go as my life had to adapt. The answer lies in yourself. Your life experience and what you’ve taken in over time is unique to you and when you can see that you figure your potential and purpose out quickly.
No one can tell you that your sense of humour or personality is weird. Once you understand who you are i.e., after removing the self-sabotage, influence, and all the blocks, you will see this “raw diamond” that can then start to shape itself. Through this process, you will automatically realise how you can best serve the world and live your purpose through being your authentic self. You and the qualities you bring to this world are unique to you, and you only. Once you get this it means two things.
- You have successfully got the BS out of the way.
- Nothing can stop you from shining.
Everyone is special, yes Everyone! This depends on you and whether you choose to believe it or not. I challenge you to find out by taking on life with the thought that whatever you are going to do from this point on, you will do your best with a positive attitude and that where you are now is not your future. This current moment is a stepping stone to a great future beyond your imagination. Why should you live life with no regrets? Because you owe at least that to yourself. There is always fear and throughout history, you will find that the most successful people on this planet had to take risks. Your intuition helps to calculate the amount of risk you plan to take. What I’ve noticed with life is that life doesn’t give you what you can’t handle.
Your purpose will become as clear as day that when shiny objects present themselves to you, you are determined to only choose the ones or the ones aligned to your purpose and your authentic self.
Why should you live life with no regrets? Make today count and tomorrow will take care of itself. Chasing the idea of how you want your life to look like in the future could mean a never-ending chase. Life isn’t a race, take the time to look around, smell the air, smell the tea (because I am not a coffee person) and find gratitude in the now. Take your time and process things that come up as they come up so that when you’re ready to change gears you have a strong foundation.
Lastly, say what you mean and mean what you say.
I hope here you have found plenty of reasons why should you live life with no regrets.
In addition, take a look at this article, it leaves a lot of food for thought.
https://www.betterplaceforests.com/blog/articles/15-ways-to-live-life-without-regrets/
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Article written on 1 November 2018.
Updated on 1 June 2022.
Your sincerely,
T. Dench Patel
