Do not go gentle into that good night…

Dylan Thomas knew what he was talking about when he penned his powerful paean about dying to that stage of our lives which forces us to come face to face with ourselves with terrible clarity – the stage when the curtains are coming down on us

Open Culture, that wonderful website of all that is interesting on the web, posted this article – The top 5 regrets of the dying

At someone at my stage of my life, at the launch-board of a ‘career’, so to say, what this says especially strikes a chord – especially when we become very much aware of the much philosophized word – choice.

The choices that we make everyday – that extra hour at work, the postponement of the vacation, that extra effort to drop in a hello, choice to let something make us happy or not, the laziness to do what we like in place of what we must. All of this shapes us who we become.

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