There is so much vain living these days. That kind of living that sees the dying regretting. Unfortunately, such regrets find people on their deathbed.
Very
few would dare to know why people do regret on their deathbed. Without proper
planning here on earth while it is still “today,” it is likely that one will
get to know the real reason at their deathbed too. This must be a very hurting experience
as that act of regretting can seldom bring anticipated remedies on the table.
People
choose to end up focusing on the temporal while neglecting the eternal; they
love to care for the material while forgetting the spiritual.
The
devil takes advantage of such avoidable spiritual blindness which people often get
struck with. This is even evident in the book Top Five Regrets of the Dying by an Australian nurse, Bronnie Ware.
In her book, Ware shares the following top five regrets of the dying that she
witnessed: I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the
life others expected of me; I wish I hadn’t worked so hard; I wish I had the
courage to express my feelings; I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends;
and, I wish that I had let myself be happier.
I
haven’t seen or heard of any right thinking individual who left his home for
some distant place to come back after some days without making proper planning
or arrangements for his accommodation, transport, food, and even clothing. We
all ensure to put all that in order.
