Two men are leaning against the office water cooler. One says to the other, "Say, you look depressed. What are you thinking about?"

"My future," his friend sighed.

"What makes your future look so hopeless?" the first man asked.

"My past," he replied. (1)

Don't you wish you could be a fly on the wall for the rest of that conversation! I'd like to know what regrets from that man's past were stealing away his hope for the future.

A few months back, there was a particularly sad letter in the Billy Graham newspaper column. Someone wrote:

"I'm in my 80s and all alone, and I know it's my own fault. I went through life being disagreeable and demanding that everybody do things my way, and all my relatives turned against me. Maybe someone will learn from my life. I wish I could live it over."…