My grandpa and I were never particularly close. It sounds mean but I didn’t really think that I would regret much when he died since we hadn’t really known each other all that well anyway. But when he did pass away, it turned out that there were a lot of things that I regretted including that we hadn’t been closer.
I really wished that I had asked my grandpa a lot of things. He knew things because of his experiences that I could have learned some lessons from if I had realized it at the time. For example, he knew how to start your own business or to buy a franchise business for sale which is something that I could have learned from him so that I could take advantage of a turnkey business opportunity if one ever presents itself to me. But I never asked.
Inevitably, there are always going to be some kind of regrets when people pass away. We never say the right things or we remember that we said the wrong things. We never know the final thing that we have to ask or realize before it’s too late that there was one more thing that we wanted to say. The best that we can do is to try!
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