Live without regrets...

Words once said cannot be taken back.. So is the case of life once lived

This is a true story . May be not of one person alone. It has been assimilated from the lives of different men I know. Let this not happen to you.

And now I sit here on this stony rail,
Feeding the pigeons off my hand.

I don't know which way i took off in life. I wanted everything, money,fame... Though I wasn't famous with the like of Mahatma Gandhi, I did become popular amongst my friends.

Got married , got on with life. Had children to whom i could never say I loved them. Worked very hard. At times I would say to them , I had sacrificed a lot for them. BUT WHAT?? The greatest of sacrifices could have been my time. I could not or rather did not spend any time with them.. I was in a rat race.

Did I love my wife?? How could I have loved her when the money and fame I boast about got me a mistress.When I look back, I was not able to give her a moment of peace or love. Now I realize how she felt, when left alone in this age where all the money and fame is of no use .I let her die without being loved and that, will be my fate too or worse. At least she had our children .

I was a bad example for my boys. But I am glad they never followed my path. It may had left a deep scar that they vowed never to be like me . In those few times I see them, I see their love towards their family. How their kids are happy around them. How they go on calling for Daddy for everything. I would want to go back into time, correct my mistake.

On that day I wrote a letter, For forgiveness In spite of all i had done, And for love For once before I die.

A few days later instead of a letter, my sons came to me. They said they had forgiven me .But they were sad for their mother. If only I had said it earlier. That day I cried and cried. But my kids were there to get me up.

Now I understood how my life should have been...
If only i could have relived my life......