This is a surprising one for many. Many did not realize until the end that happiness is a choice. They had stayed stuck in old patterns and habits. The "comfort" of familiarity overflowed into their emotions and physical lives. Fear of change had them pretending to others, and to themselves, that they were content.
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The folded list stayed in the house, moving from drawer to drawer, its handwriting fading but its message persistent. Sometimes, on rainy afternoons, her children would find it and read it, and in the spaces between sentences, they learned a small, stubborn wisdom: you do not have to wait until the end to begin living the life you want. the top five regrets of the dying pdf