Five Things You can Pursue....An Achievable Wishlist

In today’s world there is an unending quest for happiness.  But what makes you happy does not necessarily make me or another person happy.  In trying to pursue something which I don't want to go after, I am probably living a dream of someone else.

The question is....Is it something difficult to find out what you should pursue.  Is there something we can learn from others experiences.

One way to look at it is from the perspective of terminally ill people.  If you have lived with someone who was in the terminal phases of cancer you would find that they are in a hurry to achieve as many things as possible in the short span of time they have staring ahead at them. They want to do many things and the last days do see some good  progress being made.   They also regret they tried out this so late....Learning something new,  trying out what one never tried out,  meeting others, generally speaking.  All this in the midst of the suffering, the trauma that they go through.   

There was an interesting post that someone put up based on the discussion she had as a nurse with the terminally ill patients she spoke to.    Here's a link to the article.

The five things that most terminally ill people wished they did was

a) Had courage to live a life true to themselves and not living others dreams

b) Wish they did not work so hard... burning themselves and not having time to be happy and enjoy the small joys of life

c) Wish they had courage to express themselves

d) Wish they had stayed in touch with their friends

e) Wish they had let themselves be happier.

These are phenomenal ways in which we can look to in order to make things look and feel different for us.   Anything in hindsight might look simple but to have thought of it that way was the difficult part.  These five are good cues to pursue in our lives.  That would surely make it easier not to regret that we missed out doing these things in a life time.