So that was summer! It was great! I love summer......but I also love fall and winter and spring. As much as I love summer I am ready for fall, I am ready for the change of season.
Looking back on this summer I find myself smiling and feeling grateful for it. I had such a nice summer, a road trip out west, a visit from family and friends from the west, a visit from family from the east, many rounds of golf, lots of dinners and glasses of wine on the patio, lots of laughs, a wedding, a baby, lots of dog walks, a few new faces, a girls weekend away, hot tubs, bbqs and fires! It was such a great summer!
Heading into fall I am feeling happy, loved and ready for what the weather people are forecasting as another long cold winter. I hope that when I am old and on my death bed I will look back on my life as I am on this summer....fulfilled, happy, loved....ready.
There has been alot of buzz in the media this summer about dying with dignity and the physician assisted suicide issue is at the forefront once again, I keep seeing videos and blog posts about end of life decisions and reflections. Most of them comment on what they didn't do in their lives, missed opportunities and time spent on the wrong things.
Regrets are pointless.
Regrets are avoidable.
SO do what you want.
Do what you feel,
Do what is right.......for you.
I am often reminded that you can not please everyone - in fact it is
pretty much impossible to please everyone. So I say please yourself. At the end of the day you have to be able to sleep at night, you have to be able to look at yourself in the mirror. You know what I mean. You know when you've gotten off your path and are wandering onto someone else's path or are just wandering......without a path. You know that you are not doing what is right......for you. You have been influenced by someone, you let some one guilt you or just plain allowed yourself to be led astray.
It happens. It's ok. Just don't let it get away on you, because if you do you may find yourself looking in the mirror at someone you don't like......or don't recognize.
