They had worried about things they had no control over. They had spent vast amounts of time worrying about what someone might think, money, troubles, who said what, who didn't say that.
They regretted the time they had wasted on something that did not really matter.
How many risks could they have taken, if worry had not been in their way? How many dreams were left undreamed because of worrying? So much wasted time.
The present time, right now, this very second, is the only time we really have. We are not guaranteed the next minute, hour, day or week.
If we spend this most valuable of our precious resources worrying, what have we accomplished? Absolutely nothing. If we spend our allotted minutes being mad, not talking to someone, judging others, thinking we are better than the next person, what good comes from it? Absolutely nothing.
There are way too many wonderful things life has to offer. Laughter with a family member or friend, trying something new and different, getting up early just to watch the sun rise, or staying up late and gazing at the vastness of the universe laid before us in a black sky. Making the decision to go for the dream, no matter what.
Understand this, in 150 years, nothing that you are worrying about now, will matter, it will be gone and the only one who will have suffered is you.
Spend your time in joy. God put an unfathomable amount of abundance in our lives. Stop worrying that there is not enough for you. There is, believe it, it is there for the asking and for the taking. The risks we take are far more rewarding than worrying about taking them.
Leave this place singing the song Frank Sinatra sang back in the late 1960's....
"Regrets, I've had a few;
But then again, to few to mention.
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exemption.
I planned each charted course;
Each careful step along the byway,
And more, much more than this,
I did it my way."
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