{"id":2026,"date":"2012-12-20T09:51:41","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T01:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2012-12-20T09:51:41","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T01:51:41","slug":"if-the-world-ended-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=2026","title":{"rendered":"If the World Ended Tomorrow&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8477\/8201460417_09cd024ae1.jpg\" alt=\"539\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me revelling in the sunshine and scenery of Palm Beach, Sydney, up on a hill<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;would I have any regrets and what would I be happy for having done? Well, not that I really believe an apocalypse is going to descend upon humankind, but if it did I think I would leave this world knowing that I have only a few regrets.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;d be thankful for and stuff I&#8217;m happy to have achieved or done:<\/p>\n<p>1. Parents who love and tolerate me despite my wilfulness and the bad decisions I make<br \/>\n2. Family and friends who love me<br \/>\n3. For parents who took my sister and me travelling from a young age and putting the travel bug in us<br \/>\n4. Being brave enough to up and leave to work in London and Hong Kong, with the latter twice over<br \/>\n5. Travelling on my own to many cities around the world<br \/>\n6. Being able to see the sakuras in bloom in Japan with my mum<br \/>\n7. Going along the Great Ocean Road in Australia with my mum<br \/>\n8. Seeing snow actually falling from the sky &#8211; it&#8217;s a big deal for a tropical animal like me<br \/>\n9. Being healthy enough to engage in sports and activities that have taken me to amazingly beautiful rivers, seas, oceans, hills, mountains and waterfalls in different parts of the world<br \/>\n10. Being healthy enough to eat lots of wonderful food around the world<\/p>\n<p>Things I regret:<\/p>\n<p>1. Not\u00a0having\u00a0experienced what it&#8217;s like to fall so truly and\u00a0deeply in love that\u00a0would lead to someone promising himself to me and I to\u00a0him<br \/>\n2. Not\u00a0having experienced what it&#8217;s like to be a mother<br \/>\n3. Not having seen the many parts of the world I have yet to see: South America, Africa, the Egyptian pyramids,\u00a0New Zealand, Tibet, Himalayas, etcetc.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So\u00a0there&#8217;s my list pretty much. And what would your list look like, dear reader?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;would I have any regrets and what would I be happy for having done? Well, not that I really believe an apocalypse is going to descend upon humankind, but if it did I think I would leave this world knowing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=2026\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings-mullings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2028,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions\/2028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}