I love you and I appreciate you

REGRET-  By definition it is a sense of loss, disappointment, dissatisfaction, etc.  Basically it is everything you don't want to feel.  So why on earth do we regret so many things?  I don't know about you but I don't want to regret anything in life.  Life is way to precious to regret or take for granted.  We often are so busy and worked up in our day to day activities that we forget to stop and appreciate everything that we have.  

This really hit home for me the past couple of days.  Friends of mine have recently experienced the loss of loved ones and it has just been weighing heavily on my heart.  A particular friend of mine, Allyson, had a bad wreck a couple of years ago and we were talking about it the other day and I asked if she could remember everything that happened.  She said she blacked out for some of it but she vividly remembers slamming on her brakes thinking "There was so much more I wanted to do."  I thank God she survived and she is a great friend of mine now, but things like that are perfect examples of how tomorrow is never promised.  I don't want to wait until some life changing event happens to me to realize everything I wanted to do in life and that it's too late.

Since this is the year of big decisions for me I have been thinking about this a lot lately.  Granted, I know money and time are crucial for things I'd like to do such as travel and time off school and work to do so, but I'm okay with starting with small adventures.  I just don't want regrets.  Life is to short and precious to waste.  So stop obsessing over the past and don't focus too much on the future that you forget to live in the present.  Tell your friends and family how much you love and appreciate them, you never know how much of a difference a few words of kindness can make.  Always keep your eyes open as I leave you with these quotes.
 

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”  -Alexander Graham Bell 

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.” -Buddha