Change The Menu Options

April 28, 2025

We can sit with our regrets. Our wishes. What we hoped would be. Our well intentioned plans. We can always be getting ready to start. We can sit with envy, towards those who had the courage and ability to try and make their life what they wanted.

Or, we can sit with our efforts. What we've actually accomplished, We can sit with the confidence knowing tried. We made adjustments. We did it scared. We're content with our courage and this whole time, we kept building ourselves up for what is for us.

To reuse yesterdays quote, "sooner or later we all sit down to a banquet of consequences." -Robert Louis Stevenson

When you reach adulthood it hits you that time is but a myth. Especially if you become a parent or guardian. We aren't 18 anymore, where we can eat like crap, put things off and assume that what we say and do doesn't matter. IT ALL MATTERS NOW. Our time to sit at a banquet of consequences is fast approaching. So, what do you want the banquet to be? A pity-party? Where you carry on with self-loathing for what you did not do? Or will you start making the efforts today to have the life you want?

We've used Bronnie Ware as an example here before and the book she wrote, "Top Five Regrets of the Dying." Ware was a palliative care nurse, she had first hand experience of the consequences the dying were sitting with. Some worked too much, others did not spend time with family, several did not have the courage to live their truth or to say something that they simply held back. This isn't only for when we find ourselves in our death bed.

Many of us, right now, are not living the life we want. We aren’t doing the work we want, We aren't being the type of parents or people we want to be and so... what are you waiting for to live up to what you expect for yourself. Sooner or later, the time will come. You can change the menu options at this eventual banquet, right now.