It's not true that your life passes before you just before you die.

It’s not true that your life passes before you just before you die.

There’s not much evidence of that.

It passes before you if you let your mind loose to wander.

And are willing to watch the re-runs.

 

I do not believe those who say, “No regrets.”

One cannot live without having failed or done some damage.

I do not trust those who say, “No hopes,” either.

One cannot live without believing one could do better . . . and will.

 

If that was not the case, we would not be doing what we do now.

We clean up the mess, pick up the pieces, put the holidays away, open the January calendar, pick up the tools that give shape and function to life and get on with it.

 

- Robert Fulghum