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The biggest waste of life is regretting that you wished you were elsewhere. Wishing you were elsewhere can help your present moment by filling your head with positive feelings. Right now I wish I was on a beach.. and now that I wrote that it feels like a might be there for a second.

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Wishing you are always on the beach is pretty much just about hedonic desire, like wishing you were always eating steak. I've never heard of anyone on their death bed who wished they ate one more steak or spent one more day on the beach in their twenties. People regret not building/maintaining important relationships which generally require real environmental stressors, more like the office but not with coworkers.

> Wishing you are always on the beach

Thats not what they said and you know it.

I've only heard deathbed confessions on tv where they were full of regret in real life. Most people are just happy to see people they loved. Real deathbed confessions are rarely shared.

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