regrets...

today i was reading an article in the toronto star that really got me thinking... about regrets...
regret is obviously, something i try to avoid, as most do... unfortunately, it tends to creep up on us every once and a while... the funny thing is, we're usually aware that we're going to regret something and yet choose to be powerless and let it happen anyways... i'm happy to say, that i really don't have that many regrets... except...

Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden. - T. S. Eliot

 my regret to sarah....

for every day that you are gone, i regret the things i could have done...

i regret that i wasn't there on the day you became my greatest inspiration... i regret not seeing you cross the finish line and not screaming your name and letting you know that i cared..

i regret not feeling the emotion of your life's greatest feat... i could have been there, and was not... i regret allowing fear to govern me, not believing in you and being afraid to see you fail... i regret not thinking it was a big deal...

the last day i saw you... i regret not hugging you longer or telling you how proud i was of you... i regret not taking more pictures, having more laughs, and sharing more stories... i regret rushing to get home...

i regret these things because i can't change them.. you are gone.. and all i have left is the regret..

Let's not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that's gone. - William Shakespeare