3 AM. Why is that the hour to awaken? The brain wants sleep; the mind has something else in mind. Malicious frequencies penitrate conveying past moments you so want to forget. Pleas to return to sleep are ignored. Regrets, regrets - so many to rehash. You toss and turn. Count backwards, follow your breath, substitute prose, name the Apostles, yet still painful memories insert themselves. In the hours before death, pray for kind eyes and affirmation.
Near death, physical details fade in importance, leaving love, connection, authenticity, and joy as the true lasting values.
As death approches, common regrets often revolve around relationships, authenticity, and happiness.
"Don’t confront me with my failures I had not forgotten them."
Jackson Browne
"Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future."
Charles Fulton Oursler
"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these “it might have been"."
John Greenleaf Whittier
"The bitterest fears shed over graves are for the words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
