What a wonderful movie! Ok, I won’t spill much beans on this movie for those who haven’t seen it, I’ll leave it for you to enjoy!

But here’s bits of it:

It revolves around this: My Adventure Book, it’s a scrapbook of a little girl that follows her till her adulthood, old age till she passes away…One of the things that resonate with me from this was, she had a page titled : Stuff that I’m going to do. And following were empty pages which she intended to fill up with her big adventures & dreams. But life turns out differently, as how life always likes to do.

What a brilliant reminder to go after Stuff I’m Going to Do…(and will do!), and YET remember to treasure all the LITTLE TREASURES along the way. Coz sometimes don’t we have grand plans, and we impatiently wait for it to materialize…sometimes forgetting that treasures are aplenty, here and now?

I remember these words from Tenzin Kacho (formerly Emi Kiyosaki, yes, she is Robert Kiyosaki’s sis). She is now a Tibetan nun, involves in hospice work where she talks to people facing death.  Through it, she realizes the common regrets of dying people:

3 of man’s biggest regrets in life:

1. Regret that they didn’t lead their life (Mel’s understanding: Take the leap of faith to go after what I really wanted & believe in)
2. Regret that they didn’t forgive or love someone. (Mel’s understanding: Give, and don’t expect a return)
3. Regret that they didn’t speak out. (Mel’s understanding: Express yourself, be it love or forgiveness in your heart)

And to add to this, over a beery conversation last Friday (me, not her) with a dear friend, she told me: When you die, it’s irrelevant to argue over where to put the table, who is right, who’s wrong.

Someone asked me, are you afraid of dying? Of course everyone is afraid in one way or another. But my fear which is my biggest drive is this: ”I do not wish to realise when I die, that I had not lived “

Because, really, everything is irrelevant after you die.