When they want control before they’re ready. When you know they’re wrong, yet they don’t. Maybe, just maybe, it is time to let them “smoke” — drop the rope.

from the notes of a palliative care nurse:

1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

I used to be a writer, now I am a write-off…. this is from a professional writer + editor team:

the story isn’t quite that simple (and nor is