#Sliceof Life 2013 #13/31 Regrets, I have a just a few....

Yesterday, one of our SOL bloggers wrote about living life with "no regrets."   I must admit I have TRIED HARD to live life through the "no regrets" lens saying "yes" more often than "no: and and trying to "live my life without regrets" since my younger brother, seemingly out of the blue,  was diagnosed with terminal cancer a few years ago.  In honor of the life he would have wanted to live, I embrace the perspective that we have only one shot at life and we can "worry through it or we can live it fully."

Yet, I do have a few regrets from my "pre-no-regrets-years."

• I wish I had let my child ride the teacups at Disneyland back when she was 4.  I know the line was interminable and she was exhausted and would have probably thrown up, but it would have saved years of hearing about it every time we saw a ride anywhere.
• I wish I had "let" my child have both a baby brother and a dog of HIS own so that he would have had ready playmates and control over others.  I know that the brother of his dreams would probably have had NO interest in playing endless baseball and that HIS own dog would have been MY responsibility in a heartbeat; however, I would not have to hear about it every time he sees some one's dog or younger brother!
• I should have gotten a diesel fuel car years ago.  With all the gas I'd save, my progeny could have had fuel to drive until their own old ages!
• I wish I had: exercised more, eaten less, traveled more, cleaned less, eaten out more, cooked less, smelled the flowers more, weeded less, smiled more and sweat the small stuff less.