The Best Christmas Gift is Time
So many times as a child — and later as an adult — she corrected me when I got lost in the moodiness of my self-perceived failures and pushed me to keep on going.
Life is hard for everyone at times. It is not easy to maintain my mother’s stubbornly positive mindset, but she powers on, demanding the rest of us to do likewise.
Hopefully, your extended family is also as equally blessed as mine is by young family members who offer their own kind of innocent wisdom.
Children are filled with a natural sense of wonder, joy and hope. They especially love visiting Grandma and Grandpa — my Mom and Dad.
That makes perfect sense to me. Kids and old folks have a natural connection.
It's those of us in the middle of time — from our teens up through middle age — who are caught up in the seriousness of a worldly world.
It’s easy to fall into the trap so many of us are stuck in. We seek success, praise, financial security, nicer houses and more and more stuff.
What we don’t see is that while the youngest and the oldest members of our families spend their time on wonder, hope and laughter we are wasting too much of our precious time on acquiring worldly things.
Nobody ever said on his deathbed, as the old humorous saying goes, “I wish I’d spent more time at the office!”
According to Lifehack, here are some other common deathbed regrets:
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