Welcome to another bonus episode of Sleep Whispers, an extra treat for my Soak Plus members.

This batch episode, which you are listening to right now, is going to be all curious quotes.

I hope you enjoy them.

And tonight's quote is,

it's more of a very short poem.

But still kind of a quote, because it's such a short poem.

No, I guess technically it's a, it's a poem. Yeah, it's a poem.

All right. This is it. For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these it might have been.

And that short little poem is by John Greenleaf Whittier.

The concept in this poem has been said in many other ways by many other people.

I think the poem puts it in a very eloquent way,

but the simplicity of it is, you could just restate all that as, you know, the what if, you know, you've probably, you know, talked about that with other people, is, you know, what if I'd done this? And what if I'd done that?

And that's what the poem is saying, is that

if you live your life with too many what-ifs,

then that can be sad.

Because you don't know how things would have turned out.

The Nike company, they just summarize it as, just do it.

Which, for a lot of situations, may not be the best advice.

But a lot of times that is, or can be, good advice.

I think when people talk about this topic of seizing opportunities and living life without

regrets, they tend to focus on those moments when they took a risk and it paid off.

And those stories are very inspiration, inspirational.

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