A Heart Touching Story Of A Lost Life (Regret)

We all have stories, and life can teach us some great lessons the hard way, unfortunately sometimes it gets too late to wake up to what is wrong, but sharing a sad yet inspiring heart touching story, might change lives of other people, and prevent the misery of regret to be experienced by others, and that's what 'True-Stories-World' is all about, it's to learn from the only and greatest teacher of all time, witch is life.

The Story Is Called "Don't Be Me ... Don't Miss your life"

The Story Begins ...

I need to get my life off my chest. About me, i'm a 46 year old banker, and i've been living my whole life the opposite of how I wanted. All my dreams, my passion, gone in a steady 9-7 job, 6 days a week. For 26 years. I repeatedly chose the safe path for everything, which eventually changed who I was.

Today I found out my wife has been cheating on me for the last 10 years. My son feels nothing for me. I realised I missed my father's funeral FOR NOTHING, I didn't complete my novel, traveling the world, helping the homeless. All these things I thought I knew to be a certainty about myself when I was in my late teens and early twenties. If my younger self had met me today, I would have punched myself in the face, I'll get to how those dreams were crushed soon.

Let's start with a description of me when I was 20. It seemed only yesterday when I was going to change the world, people loved me, and I loved people. I was innovative, creative, spontaneuous, risk-taking and great with people. I had two dreams. The first was writing an utopic/dystopic book. The second, was traveling the world and helping the poor and homeless. I had been dating my wife for four years by then. Young love. She loved  my spontaneity, my energy, my ability to make people laugh and feel loved. I knew my book was going to change the world. I would show the perspective of the "bad" and "twisted", showing my viewers that everybody thinks differently, that people never think what they do is wrong. I was 70 pages in, at 46, by 20, I had backpacking around New Zealand and the philippines. I planned to do all of asia, then Europe, then america To date, I have only been to New Zealand and the philippines.

 Now we get to where it all went wrong. My biggest regrets. I was 20. I was the only child. I needed to be stable. I needed to take that graduate job. which would dictate my whole life. To devote my entire life in a 9-7 job. What was I thinking ? How could I live, when the job was my life? After coming home. I would eat dinner, prepare my work for the following day, and sleep at 10pm, to wake up at 6am the following day. God, I can't remember the last time i've made love to my wife.

Yesterday, my wife admitted to cheating on me for the last 10 years. 10 years. That seems like a long time, but I can't comprehend it. It dosen't even hurt. She says it's because I've changed. I'm not the person I was. What have I been doing in the last 10 years? Outside of work, I really can't say anything. Not being a proper husband. Not being ME. Who am I ? What happned to me ? I didn't even ask for a divorce, or yell at her, or cry . I felt NOTHING. Now I can feel a tear as I write this, But not because my wife has been cheating on me, but because i am now realising I have been dying inside. What happned to that fun-loving, risk-taking, energetic person that was me, hungering to change the world ? I remember being asked on a date by the most popular girl in the school, but declining her for my now-wife. God, I was really popular with the girls in high school. In university/college too. But I stayed loyal. I didn't explore. I studied every day.

Remember all that backpacking and book-writing I told you about? That was in the first few years of college. I worked part-time and splurged all that I had earned. Now I save every penny. I don't remember the time I spent anything on anything fun. On anything for myself. What do I even want now ?

My father Passed ten years ago. I remember getting calls from mom, telling me he was getting sicker and sicker. I was getting busier and busier, on the verge of big promotion,. I kept putting my visit off, hoping in my mind he would hold on. He died, and I got my promotion. I haven't seen him in 15 years. When he died, I told myself it didn't matter what I didn't see him. I rationalized the being dead. It wouldn't matter anyway. WHAT WAS I THINKING? Rationalizing everything, making excuses to put things off. Excuses. Procrastination. It all leads to one thing, nothing. I rationalized that financial security was the most important thing. I now know, that it definitely is not. I regret doing nothing with my energy, when I had it. My passions. My youth. I regret letting my job take over my life. I regret being an awful husband, a money-making machine. I regret not finishing my novel, not traveling the world. Not being emotionally there for my son. Being a damn emotionless wallet.

If you're reading this, and you have a whole life before ahead of you, please, Don't be me and miss you life. Don't procrastinate. Don't leave your dreams for later. Relish in your energy, your passions. Don't stay on the internet with all your spare time ( unless your passions needs it). Please, do something with your life while you're young. DO NOT settle down at 20. DO NOT forget your friends, your family. Yourself. DO NOT waste your life, your ambitions. Like I did mine. Do not be like me !

Source : ThinkingHumanity 

After reading this, I literally had tears in my eyes, life is full of rude lessons, when we see it from a very tiny angle, if we focus on one little side of it, it splits from our hands, and we get lost forever, the price is very high, I wish this heart touching story of this man inspire you, to do take the right choice for your life, because living an unfulfilling life is the worst thing ever.

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