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Are You Satisfied With How You’ve Spent Your Life?
Life is short. Use it wisely
Imagine you’re on your deathbed, looking back on your life. Are you happy with how you spent it?
The average person lives for about 28,000 days. If you’re 30, you’ve already used up around 11,000 of those days. That leaves you with roughly 17,000 more — if you’re lucky.
Our time alive is incredibly limited.
But most of us never stop to think about how we actually want to spend it. We rarely ask ourselves: What does a life well-lived mean to me?
I’m 37 now and feel like I’ve wasted a lot of my life. I wasn’t present.
I spent most of my 20s either hungover or avoiding anything hard. I took shortcuts. I chased quick wins and get-rich-quick schemes.
And because of that, it feels like I haven’t really accomplished much.
Then I came across a YouTube video with a palliative care nurse called Bronnie Ware talking about the most common regrets of dying people.
According to Bronnie, the five most common regrets of dying people are:
- Not living true to themselves — Most people looked back and realised they lived the life others expected of them, not the one they truly wanted.
