21 Tips For Living Life Without Regret
On February - 15 - 2012 6 COMMENTS
A life threatening illness can have you reassessing your life and the choices you made, just like in award-winning director Gus Van Sant’s film Restless. It follows Annabel Cotton, a beautiful and charming terminal cancer patient with a deep felt love of life and the natural world. Enoch Brae is a young man who has dropped out of the business of living, after an accident claimed the life of his parents. When these two outsiders chance to meet at a funeral, they find an unexpected common ground in their unique experiences of the world.
With more single people in the UK than ever before, Valentine’s Day can seem like a day you’d rather avoid if you are without a beau. The origin of the day dates back to the Middle Ages and is officially a celebration of ‘romantic’ love, but how can single Belles really embrace and enjoy it, other than sending Hallmark-encouraged secret Valentine’s cards to George, who sits at the desk opposite? Well psychologist and Belle contributor Rachel MacLynn suggests that it it’s time to give it a more modern twist and follow the traditions of many countries around the world that give it a more generic meaning. ‘In Finland, Valentine’s Day means ‘Friend’s Day’ and is based around remembering friends and similar traditions are found in Estonia and some Latin American countries,’ she says. 
With a worldwide recession, a fast changing world and an online cyberlife that sees your friends updating their status with all the wonderful things going on in their lives it is easy to see why insecurities and uncertainty rule our lives in a way they never seemed to in the simpler, pre-internet past. 
Apparently by now most of us have forgotten about our new year resolutions and fallen off the diet wagon. However not all of us need to diet as such to lose those extra pounds we put on as we indulged in December. 
At this time of the year we often take stock of what we have, and don’t have in our lives and what we would like to change. Most of us seek to be happy as the primary goal in life. Sometime we feel if we can get our ultimate job, meet the man of our dreams, have that longed for family or win the lottery, we will be happy. But happiness is not necessarily a natural state. 
So the suitcase is back in the loft and the tan-prolonging aftersun you’ve been applying daily is down to its final squeeze. Brown crunchy things that look suspiciously like autumn leaves keep appearing in your garden and nights are drawing in. Friends and colleagues have now stopped telling you how ‘well’ you look. It’s all a bit grim. 
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