The Book of Random

Regret

Today, I watched a video, called "Regret" by Prince Ea. His words on paper are strong, but not as strong as the video he made. I HIGHLY suggest you watch it.

Here it is: Regret.
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"It is not death that most people are afraid of. It is getting to the end of life, only to realize that you never truly lived.
There was a study done, a....hospital study, one 100 elderly people, facing death close to their last breath. They were asked to reflect about their life's biggest regret. 
Nearly all of them said they regretted not the things they did, but the things they didn't do.
The risks they never took.  The dreams they didn't peruse.
I ask you, Will your last words be 'If only I had?'

Hey, you. Wake up. Why do you exist? 
Life is not meant to simply work, wait for the weekend, and pay rent, no, no I don't know much, but I know this: Every person on this earth has a gift.

And I apologize to the black community, but I can no longer pretend. Martin Luther King? That man never had a dream. That dream had him.

See, people don't choose dreams, dreams choose them. So the question I'm getting to is:

Do you have the courage to grab the dream that picked you? That befits you and grips you... or will you let it get away and slip through?

You know, I learned a fact about airplanes the other day. Now this was, this was so surprising, see, I was talking to a pilot and he told me that many of his passengers think planes are dangerous to fly in.

But he said, 'Actually, it's a lot more dangerous for a plane to stay on the ground.' I said, 'What?' Like, how does that sound?

Well, he said, he said 'because, on the ground, the plane starts to rust, malfunction, and wear much faster then it ever would if it was in the air.'

As I walked away I thought, 'Yeah, makes total sense. Because planes were built to live in the skies, and every person was built to live out the dream they have inside. So it is perhaps the saddest loss to live a life on the ground...

without ever taking off.'

See, most of us are afraid of the thief that comes in the night to steal all of our things, but there is a thief in your mind who is after your dreams. 

His name is Doubt.

If you see him call the cops and keep him away from the kids, cause he is wanted for murder, for he has killed more dreams than Failure ever did. He wears many disguises, like a virus, will leave you blinded, divided, and turn you into a...

Kinda.

See, Kinda? Is lethal. You know what kinda is. There're a lotta 'kinda' people. You kinda want a career change, you kinda want to get straight A's, you kinda want to get in shape.

Simple math, no numbers to crunch, if you kinda want something then you will kinda get the results you want.

What is your dream? What ignites that spark? You can't kinda want that. You have to want it with every part of your whole heart.

Will you struggle? Yeah, yeah, you will struggle, no way around it. You will fall many times but who's counting?

Just remember, there is no such thing as a smooth mountain. If you wanna make it to the top then they're sharp ridges, that must be stepped over. There will be times where you get stressed and things you get depressed over, but lemme tell you something; Steven Spielberg was rejected from film school three times, three times but he kept going.

The television executives fired Oprah, said she wasn't fit for TV, but she kept going.

Critics told Beyonce that she couldn't sing, she went through depression, but she kept going.

Struggle and criticisms are prerequisites  for greatness. That is the law of this universe and no one escapes it.

Because pain is life. If you could choose which type, either the pain on the road to success or the pain of being haunted...

with Regret.

You want my advice? Don't think twice. We have been given a gift that we call life. So don't blow it. You are not defined by your past, instead, you are born anew in each moment.

So own it. Now.

Sometimes you gotta leap and grow your wings on the way down. You better get this shot off before the clock runs out, because ain't no overtime in life, no do-over.

And I know I sound like I'm preaching or speaking with force, but if you don't use your gift, then you sell the whole world, not only yourself....

short.

So what invention do you have buried in your mind? What idea? What cure? What skill do you have inside? To bring out to this uni-verse. Uni meaning one, verse meaning song. You have a part to play in this song.

So grab that microphone and be brave, sing your heart out on live's stage. You cannot go back and make a brand new beginning. 

But you can start now and make a brand new ending."