Forget the past so that you can concentrate and enjoy the present to plan for a better future. We just dont realise it when we keep on dwelling on what is past and gone. Time waits for no man nor does it return for you to undo or redo things. So why harp on it? Instead of feeling sad or guilty about the past, why not do something from the lesson you have learnt (which I hope you did) so that you will not repeat the same thing again and therefore have a better future and in this better future, you will not look back at NOW and regret.

Live your life so that you will not have regrets.

If we have sinned or done something wrong, we should feel guilty and sorry about it. After which, we should all move on and remind ourselves we must not do it again. Through setbacks, failures and mistakes that we learn. And when we learn, we must remember what we have learnt. If not what is the point? We can just keep on making mistakes and feeling sorry for ourselves and dwelling on the past on what should have or should not have been for the rest of our lives. Why waste time on such matters where you can make full use of precious time to do something worthwhile or good to someone's life? Do not waste life away.

Live your life as though you have lived.

There are so many things which I want to do. If I would have died the very next moment, there are so many things that I would have regret not doing. If you know that you are going to die the next month, wouldnt you get out a list of paper and starting writing down things that you want to do before you die and then set out to accomplish it? Well...

Live your life as though you are waiting for death.

Life is precious, time is precious. So many times we have been told but so many times we do not head the advice. Some people wait for a significant moment like a near-death accident to realise the full potential of the advice and then start living their life. Why wait for such experience, why not just do it NOW.

Live your life by just doing it now.

It is about living a quality life and not a quantity life. Compare someone who has lived a long life but has not done anything worthwhile or is not happy, to someone who died when he was 30 yrs old but has lived a complete and happy life surrounded by good friends and loved ones such that everyone sings at his funeral "For he is a jolly good fellow...for he is a jolly good fellow...for he is a jolly good fellow...no one can deny!"

Live a quality life.

Be good to those around you, what goes around comes around. Look on the bright side of things...always. All things that happened are blessings and some are just blessings in disguise. Never compare your life to others. You live your life, they live theirs. We do not have a standard way of living our life nor do we have a standard way of how things will happen to us. We are not robots so there is no need to compare. When you realised that you do not need anything else no matter how little you may have, it is then that you realised that you are truly contented and happy.

SMILE.