“Adopt a policy of being joyful.”
At 17, I wrote a speech titled, “When You Come to
the End of Your Days, Will You Be Able to Write Your Own Epitaph?” It reflected
the approach to life I adopted after my mother’s untimely death from cancer at age 49. I
chose to live each day as if it could be my last — but with a watchful eye on
the future in case it wasn’t.
My goal was, and still is, to die
without regrets.
