People on Their Deathbed Regret of Working Excessively
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siliconindia | Tuesday, 07 February 2012, 17:17 IST
Bangalore: Most people in their deathbed regret of spending too much of their lives on work revealed Bronnie Ware, an Australian nurse, who spent years counseling men and women at their deathbeds. Brownie noted the revelation and regrets of the dying and wrote them on her blog. Based on the regrets she later on wrote a book known as "The Top Five Regrets of the Dying." Apart from regretting on working excessively the other most common regrets that she found were concealing your feelings, losing contacts with old friends, choosing comfort over true joy and doing what others expected of you over what you truly wanted.
According to 'Aol Jobs', Brownie believed that the male patients whom she nursed missed their children's youth and their partner's company. However, as Brownie was taking care of the older generation, not many feedbacks were received from the female patients. Women's during that time usually were not the bread earners, and therefore, expressed this feeling less. But almost all men, "deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence."Brownie writes in her book.
In the recent years, it is seen that women are increasingly becoming bread earners. There are indications that these women and younger men, will not give up family life for their jobs the way their grandparents and parents may have done.
The findings of many studies reveal that Generation Y (the generation currently in college and entering the labor force) desires working to live over living to work, and are selecting to work in organizations that comprehend that.
According to Lara Sherbin, the director of research at the nonprofit think tank, "Center for Work-Life Policy" "Generation Y looked at how their parents lived, and are saying 'I don't want to do that, I don't want that life for myself."The current generation is rejecting the idea of work life balance, highlights Gustav Grodnitzky, a management consultant who specializes in these issues. Instead they opt for a "blended life" where everything they do is meaningful and has importance. They are giving more heeds to the purpose and the cause and it doesn't matter to them where the work is getting done other than that it gets done.
Bronnie Ware felt that people do realize the importance of domestic life later on when their life almost comes to an end. She further writes "I learnt never to underestimate someone's capacity for growth. Some changes were phenomenal. Each experienced a variety of emotions, as expected, denial, fear, anger, remorse, more denial and eventually acceptance. Every single patient found their peace before they departed though, every one of them."