How to Look Back on Your Life with Zero Regrets

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]and he and he was so good and so helpful to the place he had come from and he'd had real tragedies in his life. He'd lost a child and when he learned that I was going to medical school a long long time ago he asked to see me and he was in his actually would have been in his early 90s at the time and he told me that he was happy with his life and that he realized that he could die at any moment and he understood and he accepted that that he tried to do the best that he could and he'd made something of himself and that there were was sadness in his life and and and things he certainly wished would have been different but that he was happy with his life and he was okay with dying and and he wanted me to know that he thought that was a good way to feel right and and that it was tempting to to want to to be so much and put so much pressure on yourself that you that you could achieve a lot and not be able to feel good about it and it's not it's not something I've forgotten. I mean I do think about with with fair frequency and and it made me think of that here. I thought that's that's a person who's lived a good life and and now I wasn't thinking it at the time but he was clearly describing being able to have peace and have contentment to to feel good about his life even knowing the things that were not great and then the capacity for delight. There were still still things he was very very excited about and his face would still light up and and I think that was probably earlier role modeling for me of oh like that that's I'd like to feel that way. You know, I'd like to be in my 90s and be able to say that and it's really stuck with me.

[00:01:31]That's all awesome.