The last 5 years have been the worst of my life

Thanks for that!

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... 2009 for me ... and not seeing improvement ...
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Life's great on my end. I'll be sipping drinks outside this weekend with my hot girlfriend. Maybe I'll throw a few top sirloins on the barbie!

hang in there OP, you made it this far.

Just keep trogging on.

Same. And no end in sight.

Four straight years of hell...and no end in sight. Although, I'm getting better at not freaking out and rolling with it now.

10 horrible years..deaths, divorce, loss of fortune, health..
And then the storm ended
Im so thankful for the passing of it all
..at first I held my breath thinking another round was certainly coming but it didn't and life is good and pleasant.
Just hold on..for me the turning point began when I went on a 30 day raw food diet..I was nearly crippled with inflammation and spiraling downward and this was a last resort ..it was an amazing experience that seemed to jump start a new trend

This is what I love about seeing an ambulance race by. I know that there is at least one person in the world having a worse day than me.

Thank you.

Thought I had stumbled into a Pity Party.

Jeez, guys, quit yer bitchin' and get to steppin'.

The Almighty will bless you if you live a righteous life.

Yep, since 2010 for me........really awful.

Me too friend, me too. I'm barely hanging on also. But just know that if the revelation 12 sign isn't it that it was our fault, our misunderstanding, not God.

We are only human and we see through the glass dimly.

Actually, there are lots of companies failing that you can purchase for little or nothing. Have you looked?

As for beating cancer, YES, my actions had a lot to do with winning that battle.

So, here I am trying to inspire my beloved GLP brethren and you gotta be a downer.

My message is the same: If life has been difficult, change it. A negative attitude will always lose.

Atleast your cats had a good life indoors. A feral cat I was caretaking for died from fiv before I had the chance to get my own place and adopt him. All I had was food and outdoor shelter. Ain't no telling how old he was when he died but he was young. I was never this sad.

Good post.

Yup.

just reminded me...Save a Lot has ribeye steak on sale tomorrow for $4.99/lb. I just have to beat the Amish hoard to the store.

So many people say the same thing right now. I think it is getting closer to the great tribulation.

Yup, same here. Started late 2011/early 2012. Still ongoing. It was as if the bottom dropped out of everything.

Saying a prayer for you. I hope the surgery goes well & lessens your pain.

Yeah god saved you. idiot

Just said the exact same thing a minute ago. Join the club.

Since 2009 for us... lost everything
Friends and family ran in opposite direction
Too hard to watch I'm guessing
Just when we needed them the most...
Learned how fickle people are and how True
God is.
It was all a lesson.

Yes.. each year i reflect back and say.. wow that was such a shitty year.. it cant get much worse.. but it does.. and i find myself looking back with nostalgia at previous shitty years realizing they are better than my progressively worse situation.

with me it depends on what i focus on. some aspects of my life reveal a dysfunctional misfit or "loser" [though i still have some money], other aspects [if focused on] say i'm doing great.

the problem is i like the drama of negative thinking, so i tend towards those assessments.

just remind yourself it could be much worse.

As a Man Thinketh
It's a book by James Allen
Get it.
Read it.

Quit making excuses.

For me, my life changed when I got down on my knees on the side of a hill in a torrential downpour, and yelled 'I give UP!' 'What the hell am I supposed to do?'

Nothing happened obviously, but I moved town, bought a van eventually and became a roaming vandweller.

Over time I added things to make my life easier, as I found work here and there, and am now am at the point where I can see that if I hadn't gone through the hard times, I would not appreciate that which I now have and fought so hard for.

I will never be rich in a monetary sense, but my heart is overflowing with the kindness I have recieved from the good people I have met along the way.

It gets better - the trick is to put one foot in front of the other, and never give up

The last 5 years of mine have been terrible, strange, wonderful, and on the fly. Very hand to mouth. Living in a strange place without much support or friends. Made it out.
Cultivated some lifelong relationships out of nowhere. It was wonderful and terrifying and somehow I made it through.

This experience is totally what you make of it, there are so many strange factors to all of this that get weirder the deeper our understandings go. Simple if thats your thing, deeply complex if that is yours. There is wisdom and then there is folly, circumstance and observation, randomness, yet certainty.

My favorite lesson of the last five years is detachment. What some refer to as "Not giving a fuck". There is sense of separation from the past now, a now and then. Things to make right and things to keep moving forward with. The past is exactly the past, its not now. Make good decisions now and make many.

Do what you can. Learn as much as you can. Go to school or start a business or find a niche job out there. Society is where it is, you are where you are, we are all here. Do as much as you can, within reason, as fast as you are comfortable to do it.

Fads, music, tv, media, they're all distractions. Be timeless. Don't follow or lead. Look out for yourself and realize that everyone else is too; and it makes more sense than it does not. Don't dwell on your weaknesses; work your strengths. Pursue your own agenda and don't worry about Antifa, the KKK, or the Writer's Guild of America; but work with others when you can.

Oh yes 2008, end of the year, EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!

SHIT HAPPENS