'When The President Thinks Of You'... President Obama Shares His Biggest Regret (The One That He Prays You Won't Make)

 

 

Take a break, relax and imagine all you would change if you had the power to navigate through the intricacies of time. An invaluable gift that would be!

This past weekend, the POTUS, Barack Obama spurred some young Southeast Asians into poignancy. While giving a speech to young folks, he  paused to reflect on his own mom, Ann Dunham who died -in 1995- of ovarian cancer just 22 days before her 53rd birthday.

I regret not having spent more time with my mother. Because she died early — she got cancer right around when she was my age, actually, she was just a year older than I am now — she died.  It happened very fast, in about six months.

I regret not having spent more time with my mother. Because she died early — she got cancer right around when she was my age, actually, she was just a year older than I am now — she died.  It happened very fast, in about six months.

I regret not having spent more time with my mother. Because she died early — she got cancer right around when she was my age, actually, she was just a year older than I am now — she died.  It happened very fast, in about six months.

He continued...

There was a stretch of time from when I was, let’s say, 20 until I was 30, where I was so busy with my own life that I didn’t always reach out and communicate with her and ask her how she was doing and tell her about things,” Obama said. “I was nice and I’d call and write once in a while.  But this goes to what I was saying earlier about what you remember in the end I think is the people you love.  I realized that I didn’t – every single day, or at least more often – just spend time with her and find out what she was thinking and what she was doing, because she had been such an important part of my life. [...] Sometimes I was enjoying life too much.

Now that’s natural as young people. You know, As you grow up you become independent. For those of you who have not called their parents lately, I would just say that that is something that I regret.
He also revealed that his greatest legacy is not being the President of the United States of America, but it is being a great husband and a great father...

Being a great husband because if you don’t do those things well, then everything else you’re gonna have problems with.
We get to let go of wonderful memories and moments when caught up in the struggles and rigors of every day.

 

Years ago he paid an amazing tribute to his mother just months after he released his book, "Dreams Of My Father."