Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent a number of years caring for patients nearing the end of their time on earth.
When she’d questioned her patients about any regrets they had or anything they would have done differently, Bronnie noted that five common themes surfaced again and again.
Years later, in her book, she identified “The Top Five Regrets of the Dying.”
They are:
- I wish I hadn’t worked so much.
- I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
- I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
- I wish that I had let myself be happier.
And the most common regret is this:
- I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
“This was the most common regret of all,” noted Bronnie. “Most people had not honoured even a half of their dreams and had to die knowing that it was due to choices they had made, or not made.”
Facing their own mortality, realizing that their life is on the verge of its expiry, they looked back and thought: How many of my dreams have gone unfulfilled?
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