My Dad passed away seven years ago at the age of 89.  He'd been declining since my Mum died almost exactly five years before. Yet another reminder of how speedily our lives seem to pass. When I was a boy each year seemed interminable but now the years just fly by with alarming rapidity.

In my Dad's papers I found that he'd written down a lot of his thoughts during the past few years and on one piece of paper he'd written: "I may have done a few things I've regretted but I never did anything I was ashamed of".

My advice to the young: don't waste a single day, cherish your loved ones and spend time with them, be considerate to all you meet along the way, and be able to say near the end of your life that you never did anything you were ashamed of.

I composed a short classical style piece of music to express the thoughts and feelings above.