The Collected Regrets of Clover

by Mikki Brammer

for most people, death was an unknown—an inevitable but nebulous event that could be minutes or decades away. And from my experience, the ones who preferred not to think about it while living tended to have the most regrets while dying.

“The reason so many people die with regrets is because they live like they’re invincible. They don’t really think about their death until right before it happens.”

That was the day that I began to realize how hard it is to be anything but what the world already thinks you are.

“If you want something you don’t have,” he’d said, “you have to do something you’ve never done.”