A man grieving his father and separated from his wife reads Bronnie Ware's book on dying patients' regrets. The most common one: wishing they'd lived for themselves instead of others' expectations. He sees his crisis as a chance to change course.
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wife had gone, my father had just died, and I was reading a book by a lady called Bronnie Ware. And I'm saying this so your readers can, can get a copy if they want. It's called The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying, and it's a very popular book, sold millions of copies around the world. This is an Australian nurse who works in a hospice, and she asks every person in there who's in the last days or the last weeks of their life, what do you most regret about your life? And she said They all say the same 5 things, whether they were a janitor, CEO, a millionaire, uh, didn't— doesn't matter. They all say the same 5 things. The number 1 thing is, I wish I'd lived my life true to myself, not the life that others expected. And I immediately resonated with that when I was trying to figure out what to do