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When You Get to the End, Will You Celebrate or Regret?
Life is full of choices both made and not made.
No matter what happens between now and tomorrow, your life will come to an end.
Sorry if that’s a very downer statement. But it’s a simple truth for everyone everywhere.
It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from, your social status, wealth or lack, or any other factor you can think of. Life ends for everyone.
You can look at this as a real bummer. You may also lament, rue, and otherwise desire to avoid this truth as much as you possibly can.
However, that can open you to an end result you might not want.
Avoidance of this, that, or the other thing — people, places, experiences — to protect yourself can serve many purposes. But if you do it all the time to avoid suffering, you close yourself off to living rather than merely surviving.
You are meant to experience life by living it, not merely surviving it. Because no matter what you do, it will end. But before that happens, here and now, you can address this via the choices you make.
The question might be off-putting, but still a worthwhile inquiry. When you get to the end, will you celebrate or regret?
