Regrets of the dying.

[DRT]

I retired July 30th after 30 years with the Fort Worth Water Department. This should be a nice bow season.

[DRT]

Honestly though, when it comes my time, I know I worked hard and honest. I supported my family well and never cheated on my wife. Unless you consider a little too much time at the lake and lease cheating. I gave to the church and to charity. I took the time to be a friend and have enjoyed great friends. I have had two good dogs although one went way too soon. I have faith in the promise Christ made and have chosen to follow Him as well as I could.

Would I have done a few things different over the years? Of course. But I will die knowing I did what I could and put an honest effort in it.

[Jmh05]

I'm early in my clinical career, I don't know much of anything, but seeing people die, gasping their last breath there's a few things I've learned: 1) our time is short. 2) I surely believe in Jesus and heaven.

[RascalArms]

I'm early in my clinical career, I don't know much of anything, but seeing people die, gasping their last breath there's a few things I've learned: 1) our time is short. 2) I surely believe in Jesus and heaven.

Great post sir...I commend you for learning this so young and taking it to heart. Lots of folks go through their entire life and the light never comes on. Life only makes sense when we live it backwards...too bad we have to live it forward.

God bless!

[JW]

I doubt anyone who is nearing death wishes they had spent more time at the office.



Some things to think about.



Are you doing what you do to impress others or live up to someone else's expectations?





http://www.lifebuzz.com/5-regrets/

Lmao. Anybody that knows me knows I could give 2 ****s what somebody thinks of me or how I'm living my life. That's my business and nobody else's..

[Buff]

There is also something to be said for hard work, short-term sacrifice, and being able to afford to do the things you want to like no one else.

I've worked a lot this year, but it is shaping up to be an epic hunting season....

Axis Deer at Marty's this weekend,
Aoudad hunt in west texas two weeks from now,
Elephant Mountain draw hunt archery for mulies and javelina in October,
Choke Canyon draw hunt in January.
That is all in addition to regular deer hunting, which we do so much of that we get tired of going.

I think about, but don't worry too much about money.

Life is all about balance, achieving it is the hard part.

For 20 years I worked 84 hours a week with 10 or 12 days a year off.
I worked hard, it was a way of life.
Now...... I get to enjoy what all that hard work built.
I still pretty much work from day light to dark, kind of becomes a habit but instead of working a a far away coal mine, I get to work on my own farm that I bought with the money I made working in my youth.

If I get to dwelling on it it can make me a little sad that in the end I will most likely die before my 100 or so pecan trees that I planted around my new lake ever really make pecans but I take a lot of pleasure knowing my grand kids will have a great place to hunt and fish long after I'm done and gone

[Patton]

Im gonna live life and skip studying to keep up with Fantasy Football. That's what the message is right?

[Uncle Saggy]

I doubt anyone who is nearing death wishes they had spent more time at the office.



Some things to think about.



Are you doing what you do to impress others or live up to someone else's expectations?





http://www.lifebuzz.com/5-regrets/

Your first line started good........ What's up with comparing hard work to impressing others???
Lmmfao

[Stuck]

As I have told all my family, EVERYTHING in life is a trade-off. Think about it. Balance is the key.

^^^^There it is. My work takes me on the road and I miss some ballgames, but when I'm home, we play. On my death bed I may regret working as much as I do, but I won't regret having to watch my children trying to figure out how to pay for my funeral. If the good lord and the govt. willing, they'll have a little something left in the kitty to give them and my grandchildren a leg up.

[Davoh]

No one ever says, "I wish we would not have gone to church today."

Actually, I have said this one. Joel Olsteen is a snakeoil salesman. Went to a service there to get my then girlfriend to quit nagging me about church. After that I found other churches for us to go to.

I struggled with paying bills early in my adult life, and as a result didn't make it through College. By the time I finally had bills under control, my 3rd attempt at college was a flop. I make a fair living, and by all means have a very kushy job. I work from home full time, and get 3 weeks of vacation a year. Most of which I spend hunting and hopefully fishing again this coming year.

That said, I make my living fixing people's websites when they break. Sometimes on websites that I really do not want to be touching with a ten foot pole(though not so much any more with current employer). I do frequently wish I'd pursued a military career in my youth(huge regret of mine, letting my family talk me out of it), or law enforcement. At 32 years old, I've yet to start a family(but new wife and I are working on it), and I feel like I took too long to get traction on life.

If the lord strikes me down tomorrow, my biggest regrets will be having wasted so much of my youth "just getting by".

My new wife and I both share this sentiment, and are striving to balance our work time and home time. We both have a long list of things we want to do and see before we die. Unfortunately, those bucket list items keep getting put off, because we're just barely getting by financially. This gets seriously disheartening.

Not sure why I'm rambling about this so much... I guess just to say... sometimes one can really regret having not worked harder... or at the very least, smarter.

[Kevin]

I think you are wrong. I think parents that are dependent on their kids because they didn't save enough money to retire on have regrets about not working enough or saving enough.

[jaspermac]

When you say yes to something, you are always saying no to other things.

[deer farmer]

I worked most of my life in a job I liked. I started my own co when I was 31 yrs old and then worked more. I have had ups and downs, heck in 1996 I sold just about everything I had, my wife told me I was going to have to get a real job . But I stuck it out and made it through that. Today I have just about all I want with a grandkids, and my kids turned out good, not perfect but good and a new wife, the other one could not stick it through the tough times. Today I own a piece of land to hunt and grow things, and a lake home, and time for my grandkids. So I suggest to the younger ones, work hard, never give up, Set your goals high and don't waste your time on working for someone else. Find a nitch where u can prosper. And as I read in an earlier post, its tough growing old, takes a lot of money, and work through the tough times.