When you get to where you want to be in life,
When you have married and taken a husband or wife.
Or maybe it is single you were really meant to be,
I don’t know, I guess you’ll have to wait and see.

Wherever life’s road should happen to take you,
There is something you must always try to do.
Don’t find you have lived your life with regret,
Don’t sit around later in life and fuss and fret.

Don’t say, “Oh how I wish, I had done that.”
This is not where you want to find yourself at.
Try to envision what it is you really want to do,
Don’t wait until the end to think this part through.

Is it a doctor, dentist or lawyer you want to be,
A teacher or a preacher, you can be anything you see.
All you have to do, if your schooling part is met,
Is to make sure you don’t live with regret.

When you go to school, be sure you go every day,
Don’t be one of those who later whine and say.
“Oh yeah, I never finished high school.”
Because if you do, you have broken the rule.

“What you say, there is no rule!”
“Not about me having to go to school.”
Oh, but there is a rule don’t you see that yet,
It is the one, don’t live with regret.

Do you want to go on a trip to a foreign land,
Go to the airport and get a flight schedule in hand.
Plan that trip you’ve dreamed of and do it now,
You will find the time and a way somehow.

Is there something special you need to do,
To build a business office or a house for you.
Do you say it is something I can’t do right now,
Sitting there alone with a furrowed brow.

This life you are on is just a one act play,
No coming back later or trying it some other day.
So just make sure there is one thing you do for you,
Don’t live with regret when you are through.

© Brenda Sparkman
January 2004

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