What regrets, if any, would you have? What would you want to spend your last moments doing, and who would you like to share them with?
I'd regret not having been able to find someone to fall in love with (cheesy but true), and would spend my last moments watching Cinderella with my dog while eating carne asada fries from Roberto's.
Having lost the first love of my life to cancer, I enjoy every day with the second love of my life. So, I would have to say that there are always regrets from the past, but I have learned from them and have moved on. Now, I enjoy every day not knowing if today might be my last. For my last moments I would like to be cuddling with my lover with a glass of wine watching the sun set. In reality though, I am sure that it will be one of those examples of him dying in his sleep while I die screaming in the passenger seat of the car he is driving....
Regrets there are a few... I regret not having kids, not seeing Portugal or Italy, and not finding my sexual voice till later in life. My last moments would be laying on a sun soaked beach, sipping rum laced drinks, and listening to the waves crash on the sand. For me like so much of my life, it will probably be alone.
I wouldn't be ready to die tomorrow, I have things I still want to do in life....
I'd have no regrets. I may not be proud of everything I've done in life, but those things made me who I am.
As for my last day...
1. I'd be pretty pissed that I've only got one day left!
2. Write a couple letters, and post them 3rd class so those I care about can hear from me after I'm gone. I'd also trust as many as I can write to my best friend to be given to my son on his birthday every year.
3. Spend the rest of my time with my son, doing what ever he wanted, so that his last memories of Mummy are the best of his life!
I want to be with my wife and kids. Hugs and kisses and I love you. If I got to the point of not being able to raise a hand, keep me in the room so that I can hear their voice, their laughter and joy.
I want to be with my wife and kids. Hugs and kisses and I love you. If I got to the point of not being able to raise a hand, keep me in the room so that I can hear their voice, their laughter and joy.
We could ALL die tomorrow...
(The TRICK is to live TODAY as best you can...)
Morbid, I think, to dwell on it...
So I don't...
(I'd LOVE it if everyone I ever slept with showed up at my cremation... GOD THAT WOULD LOOK COOL!!!)
But they won't!
The ENGLISH ACTOR Oliver Reed died at his home in IRELAND after his terminal illness. WEEKS BEFORE he died, (and this is true) he went to his local bar and put five grand on the counter...
"That's for drinks at my funeral," he said, "BUT they have to be in tears before you serve the bastards a drink..."
THat's Class.
xx SF
I wouldn't have any regrets. I have done some amazing things, I've travelled to beautiful places. I've climbed some of the highest mountains and been into some of the deepest oceans. I have my dream jobb. And I have a perfekt baby boy.
I would want my last moments to be with my son and to paraphrase Jack Kerouac 'I just want to lie in the grass and watch the clouds'. That would be perfekt.
I do not want a funeral. I want a Roast.
I don't know what regrets I'd have except maybe thinking I should've given even less of a damn than I have about what other people think/thought. I just hope I go peacefully and with dignity and hopefully not lonely.
Regrets? Hmmm.. not taking more risks in life and in love.. I would spend my last moments in my lover's warm embrace, sharing one last earth shattering, mind blowing kiss...
I think my biggest regret would be not spending my high school years 100% sober. I would regret letting the influence of others affect me so much. I would regret not once attempting to patch things up with my mom. I would regret the bridges I burned and the relationships I ruined from my own selfishness. I would regret not being married to my current boyfriend.
I would go see my grandma one last time, bright and early in the morning. Tell her I love her and thank her for always caring about me no matter what. By noon, my boyfriend and I would have lunch at my favorite Italian restaurant. Then I would visit my sisters and tell them I love them. When the sun starts setting, I would cuddle with my boyfriend, telling him all about my fantasies of a future with him.
The perfect last day of life.
This is a great reflective thread. I have such a small and benign list of regrets, they are not even worth listing. Ok, I'll list one as an example. I regret losing the 2nd grade spelling bee and being the runner up. I didn't study, and should've. An early life lesson for me. I hope that my last day is spent with my loved ones and that I can leave this earth with 2 things: My dignity, and my memories to soothe me where ever I go.
Just live for today ......yes, we could all die tomorrow - that's why it so vital to squeeze every drop out of life each day. Live life to the limit and beyond ?
My Karma just ran over your Dogma
As William Saroyan once said... "Everybody has to die, but I always thought death would make an exception in my case." I'm not done yet, but at least I'd leave a beautiful corpse! Mostly, I'd regret not having traveled more, and I'd spend my last day with friends, probably in bed! lol
Of course I'd have regrets. How can you not have regrets? A thousand victories, a thousand failures. Overall I am very proud of the life I've led, the people I've loved, the chances I've taken, the things I've accomplished.
I'd be happy spending my last day playing Scrabble with my daughters. And I still won't let them win.
I'd be pretty bummed.
I'd probably also regret never having a deep, serious relationship (at least one I could say I was head over heals in love) and would probably just spend my time thinking about all the stuff in life that made it worth and probably reading some good poetry.
id want to spend my last moments on my horse. riding her.
ive giving it alot of thought i want to die riding. and i do not want to ever know the last time i get to ride my horse!