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| Sunday, 26 March 2006 |
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If you had a chance to live your life over ... Cheers! by Chamitha Kuruppu If you could live your life again....... will you walk in the rain without an umbrella and never worry about weather reports ? Take more long baths and not worry catching the train on time spend more time with children and animals and less time trying to please strangers?
Thirty-two-year old Anil, an unemployed Graduate says he would never waste his life again on arming himself with educational qualifications. Unable to find employment despite his academic qualifications, Anil regrets his decision to refuse a job offer in a reputed bank, in order to pursue higher education. "Thanks to this meaningless life, I have always wished that life should come to an end soon. If I ever get an opportunity to live life over again, I would never run after academic qualifications. This is not a country for people with sound educational backgrounds" claims Anil. Not only Anil, even genius Albert Einstein said that he would be a plumber if he had his life to live over again. But people like Bernadine has regrets. She believes that getting married to a Muslim was the biggest mistake she has ever committed. "At a young age you don't think deep, and tend to take hasty decisions. I have done the same by marrying someone with a totally different background. Now my three children suffer the consequences of a terrible mistake committed by their mother," complains Bernadine. "If I ever get another chance, I will never marry him, and not hurt my parents by going beyond their wishes," Bernadine said. While Bernadine wishes for a better marriage, forty-six-year-old Sivasubramaniyam stresses he should never have 'punished himself' with matrimonial bonds. "Nothing like being a bachelor. I had to get married to please my parents and it was an arranged marriage. Getting married to a person I hardly knew was different. It has been nearly five years and we both speak two different languages. I wish I had less commitments. That I could go home anytime and not worry about the person awaiting my arrival at home". Sidath Hettiarachchi, a banking executive by profession says " If I could live my life again I would smile more. I'd express my feelings more, try less to impress my friends and bosses,". Sidath in his early forties believes that his life as an executive officer has always been overloaded with work. "I hate this rat race," points out Sidath adding "How I wish I could get some extra sleep and play with my two little children and take my wife out for a candle light dinner or at least attend Sunday Mass," asserts Siadath. Although Sidath complains about lack of free time due to his career-oriented lifestyle, fifty-three-year-old Anthony repents about his lavish lifestyle as a youth and therefore his inability to save money for a secure future. "My two daughters are in their late teens and as the breadwinner of the family I failed to fulfil most of their requirements. If I ever had used my youth to earn more money, and save a bit"! While Anthony regrets his failure to provide a better future for his children, thirty-something Anusha grieves for ill-treating her own father. "He was a single parent trying to be protective of his two daughters. As the youngest of the family I always locked horns with him. Two years ago, we had a fight and I left the house and never went to see him. Last December my father died following a heart failure," repents Anusha. "If it wasn't for my thoughtless behaviour my father would have been with us today." "If I could live my life again," says Pushpananda adding "I'd spend more time playing with my children and grandchildren, less time trying to be the perfect father. More time enjoying what I have, less time thinking about the things I don't have. I'd laugh at my misfortunes and spend more time counting my blessings". If I had my life to live over, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time. I'd relax; I'd limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice-cream and less beans. I would perhaps have more actual troubles, but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. If I had my life to live over again, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances;I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies. - Anonymous |
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If you ever had your life to live over, will you climb more mountains and
swim more rivers or waste your life again trying to yearn for what you
wanted in this life and make the same mistakes again? 
