Being Present is to Live Without Regrets

I was surprised that my neighbor Basil was so affected by my mom's death. He was just a few years younger than[image error] her and about a week or so after she died, we met up on the driveway of house between us (one of our usual meeting spots) and he told me that he wished he could have done something more. 

Basil had invited my mom to lunch and also to Frontier Restaurant for coffee in the morning (where I joked he held court with his friends) and she always turned him down. Basil was one to live in the present so what surprised me was that he felt as if he should have tried harder to get her out.