Regrets on death bed.

I have been reading a book which was rejected by 25 publishers before it was published independently in its raw form. The raw form of the book was such a hit that publishers started pleading Bronnie to let them publish the book. Makes me wonder what made them reject the book at the first place.

Bronnie has narrated her experience beautifully. She was working in banking industry and was doing a great job. But emotionally she was getting exhausted. She was not at all happy. She left the job. Took her car and around 50 bucks with her. She used to sleep at the back of the Jeep. As days passed she was not able to figure out what she wanted to do. She kept moving from places to places. She did some odd jobs just to make the end meets. She was filled with fear as how to proceed. But she had the leap of faith on nature and which helped her to overcome her fear and fill herself with courage. Eventually she became a care taker.

In the book, she discussed about the patients and their stories. She has beautifully detailed the conversations she had. The theme of the book is on the regrets before dying. The number one regret that most of the humans have before they leave this planet is, “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.” She describes about Grace, one of her patients, who had this regret. She lived throughout her life as others expected her of. She didn’t live the way she wanted and by the time she started doing that it was too late. She wanted to live a free and independent life. But due to traditional circumstances she couldn’t leave her husband.

Even in today’s day, we do most of the things wondering what will other think of us if we don’t do it this way. People even end up buying expensive stuff they don’t need at the first place to show off to the people who don’t even matter. As we don’t need to show off to the people who matters to us. You might have come across similar before too. But like Grace, we too take things for granted and realise them towards the end. We don’t even wonder consider that we have limited time on this planet as we take things for granted.

In nutshell, “सबसे बड़ा रोग क्या कहेंगे लोग”