When you look back on your life will you have any regrets? Or will you have loved and lived life to the best of your ability? Will you have had a purpose? Or are you spinning your wheels at the corporate job you hate, thinking about the new car you will buy? Will that make you happy? NO... but loving people genuinely will. Caring about the way you treat other people will.
Are you living a life true to yourself? Or will you be 80 and still be miserable and alone? What price are you willing to pay? Are you willing to hurt others to make yourself happy? Or are you the kind of person who's character will be remembered as someone who lived, laughed, loved, and was good to everyone.
Life is too short to continue loving douchebags... it's a fact. There comes a point when you have to quit messing with other peoples feelings and become a genuine person. Do you have regrets? Is there someone you have loved or that loved you, and because of a stupid mistake or a bad choice you lost them along the way?
I remember my mom telling me about her one true love that she lost my entire childhood. My mom was raised in foster care for most of her teenage life. She started dating a boy named Joe and eventually was engaged to him. Her foster parents did not approve of Joe because of his race and made my mom break off the engagement. She walked away from her one true love and was never really happy or in love in any other relationship for the rest of her life. I remember her telling me stories about him but never really knew how much regret she had by letting him go until I read her diary after she passed away 3 years ago. I was heartbroken for her.... I decided to do a little search and try to find out where he was and how his life had gone, but what I found was an obituary showing he had passed just 13 days before my mother. WOW! She was finally with the one man she had always loved and I knew she was happy!
My point of sharing that story with you is do you want to live your life with the regret of losing someone who truly loves and cares about you because you're too busy only caring about yourself? Do you use people or disregard their feelings and emotions for your own personal gain?
I made a promise to myself a little over a year ago that I was going to be someone that didn't have any regrets. I made a conscious decision to love without the fear of getting hurt, because at least I was able to love. As hard as this has been for me after so many heart breaks I can honestly say that even though once again my heart has been crushed... knowing that I gave it my all and didn't run... means no regrets.
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