Please help if you know this one.. I am searching for a poem and its author, or at least the correct version of this poem.. When I was a child I couldn't wait to grow up and go to school.. .. get married.. .. etc., at the end it's something about I forgot to live.. I'm stuck and I really want to find this poem.. Please help me!

“First I was dying to finish high school and start college, then I was dying to finish college and start working; then I was dying to marry and have children; then I was dying for my children to get old enough for school so I could return to work; and then I was dying to retire. Now I am dying and suddenly I realize I forgot to live.”


Is this it?

It was credited to "an old woman"

I have been trying to find this poem for so long, my old high school english teacher had this poem hanging on her wall and i always loved it!

i was looking for this peom for bible club and thank you because that is the exact poem that i needed , thanks.


God bless you!

PS: the athour was unknown.


THanks!!!

I believe it is from
Real moments
by Barbara DeAngelis

Apparently Barbara herself quotes it as anonymous:

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