No Regrets

On the way to work today, I heard a country music song that I had not heard in many years. It is titled "I'm Gonna Live Like I Was Dying". All of us are alive, but how many of us are really living. Most average people live within the rules of normalcy. We dress appropriately, even if we are uncomfortable. We have public behaviors and monitor our actions. We have dreams of what we want to do "some day" but we all know that the majority of these things will never be done. We plan for all of life's adventures "when we retire". With retirement age rising we will all be lucky if we can still remember our lists. If we knew the day we would die, would we live a fuller life? If we were born with an expiration date would we use our days wisely before we became rotten? Would there be much waste? I want to be able to say that I did what made me happy and have no regrets or no" I should have's". Someone close to me did something on the spur of the moment this weekend. She went out of her comfort zone and followed her heart. She said it was the best thing she ever did and would have felt bad forever if she missed that opportunity. For that brief moment, she lived in the moment with no regrets.