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Anonymous Coward User ID: 74585269 United States 05/19/2017 03:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have had a tuff 5 years as well... If not for my Lord Jesus, I do not know how I would have mede it. I had a friend suggest ask someone or yourself this question... What things MUST I do today? People will respond with go to work, pick the kids up from school, pay a bill etc. Change the question and your thinking to... What things CAN I (or am I able ) to do today? I guess for me it helps to try and find good in even the worst years and count my blessings every day. As bad as things are, I'm not hungry, not cold and I have GLP via WIFI access so everything is not so bad. God Bless OP and all of us that are having a tuff few years! |
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Hikkkaj1 User ID: 61138450 United States 05/19/2017 12:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Since 2009 for us... lost everything Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69845763 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. Wow, this was my same experience... to the ones with family and friends who really love you, you HAVE IT ALL RIGHT NOW. Get on your knees and be thankful |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 47289148 United States 05/19/2017 12:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | check if you are in sade sati shani, the 7.5 year bad luck transit of Saturn. Quoting: joepits84 When I was in my sade sati shani from 2004-2011 things were real bad. It's when saturn transits through your 12th, 1st and 2nd house of your chart. [link to www.vedicscholar.com] My husband is in his sade sati, the main part where Saturn is over his moon in its house. Also, I have Moon/Saturn/Rahu conjunction, do you know anything about this? Good luck to OP. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 32602649 United States 05/20/2017 06:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | check if you are in sade sati shani, the 7.5 year bad luck transit of Saturn. Quoting: joepits84 When I was in my sade sati shani from 2004-2011 things were real bad. It's when saturn transits through your 12th, 1st and 2nd house of your chart. [link to www.vedicscholar.com] Right so apparently the entire world is having this simultaneously? Really now. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 32602649 United States 05/20/2017 06:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Anybody else? Life has never been great, but these last 5 years have really sucked and there is no end in sight. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 63891481 So many people say the same thing right now. I think it is getting closer to the great tribulation. Why do you say that? Doesnt it make more sense, when you look at all the people describing the tribulations they have been through in the past 7 or 8 years, to conclude that we have already passed through the tribulations period? Personally I think maybe we've completed that... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 74925577 Australia 05/20/2017 06:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Anybody else? Life has never been great, but these last 5 years have really sucked and there is no end in sight. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 63891481 Take a lesson from the lotus flower. It knows it is surrounded by putrid smelling waters of decay and foul essence, yet it blossoms into a radiant flower above the rancid waters, vivid in color and beauty. Only to wither and die and sink into the shit. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 74588060 Netherlands 05/20/2017 12:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 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. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74868699 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. There's immense wisdom in this post. Thank you AC. I've done something like 12years at the coal face since my formerly successful life was impacted by crime and then poor health. Lost almost everything, and all of what matters most. Still struggling. Not out of the woods by a long shot yet. One of my favorite lessons is realizing that only about 10% of humans are genuinely kind and helpful.(The rest appear to be mindless, heartless zombies who'd sell their own grandmother whilst bullying you to death if they could make money or get some advantage from it.) The trick is to find those 10%, to appreciate, support and love them. They are your people. They too are struggling against the overwhelming tide of dementor zombies. Being timeless is excellent. See the big picture and the context. What it all boils down to is love - the hardest thing in the universe to do. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1550123 United States 05/20/2017 01:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Anybody else? Life has never been great, but these last 5 years have really sucked and there is no end in sight. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 63891481 I got a consulting gig and made enough to buy a car. Bought a failing company for ZERO because I promised the IRS I would help them collect the receivables that the Seller owed them. Yes everyone heed this man's advice, because everywhere there are failing companies that you can acquire for free. That's right, just buildings, supplies, equipment and a business already in place, just for you. It's all right there. Give me a break, not everyone get's lucky like you did. And as far as beating cancer, there's a lot of people who don't, and they fight just as hard. So fuck off. 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. You are so right. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 70242683 United States 05/20/2017 01:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Anybody else? Life has never been great, but these last 5 years have really sucked and there is no end in sight. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 63891481 Take a lesson from the lotus flower. It knows it is surrounded by putrid smelling waters of decay and foul essence, yet it blossoms into a radiant flower above the rancid waters, vivid in color and beauty. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 13876338 United States 05/20/2017 02:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 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. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74868699 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. There's immense wisdom in this post. Thank you AC. I've done something like 12years at the coal face since my formerly successful life was impacted by crime and then poor health. Lost almost everything, and all of what matters most. Still struggling. Not out of the woods by a long shot yet. One of my favorite lessons is realizing that only about 10% of humans are genuinely kind and helpful.(The rest appear to be mindless, heartless zombies who'd sell their own grandmother whilst bullying you to death if they could make money or get some advantage from it.) The trick is to find those 10%, to appreciate, support and love them. They are your people. They too are struggling against the overwhelming tide of dementor zombies. Being timeless is excellent. See the big picture and the context. What it all boils down to is love - the hardest thing in the universe to do. Both of these posts show that you all have actually endured the chaos and the loss, while gaining new understandings at the same time. You are describing conclusions I have also reached. None of the stuff "out there" counts for anything. I now fully appreciate what the sages mean when they say that all you have is the present moment. Then it changes into something else. There is nothing you can hang on to. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 72834636 United States 05/20/2017 02:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Yeah, things have sucked for a few years now. I've decided to not give a shit about anyone who is not important, work out and start writing my book. I'm just going to keep working my stupid job until eventually one day I have enough books to support my living. |
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Ostria1 User ID: 74901347 Greece 05/20/2017 03:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Many years ago I remember reading about how our lives change every 7 years...we go through cycles... Quoting: nutmeg I kind of follow this cycle, i just checked it and i was surprised! 14 good years, 7 not so good, 14 good years, 7 not so good..so according to this pattern my good years start again in 2018! Ostria |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 13876338 United States 05/20/2017 10:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Make mine the last four years. Worse time in my life, although I am sure it could have been worse but still... pretty rough. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73797368 There is a lot to deal with when you age, the loss of loved ones, many of your good friends gone, your own health failing. Everyone who I really liked has died. The ones that are left are okay, but I really loved the ones who are now all dead. I just can't get interested in people anymore. I am only 62 years old, which I never regarded before as being all that old, and I am so damn surprised at how my body will not work right. My knees are totally shot to the point I can barely stand up. For the first time in my life, I have to ask for help for the simplest things, like getting groceries. There are some other ailments, too, that I had never heard of before until they started showing up in my life. I never, ever imagined it would come to this. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 5209654 United States 07/19/2017 08:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Make mine the last four years. Worse time in my life, although I am sure it could have been worse but still... pretty rough. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 73797368 There is a lot to deal with when you age, the loss of loved ones, many of your good friends gone, your own health failing. Everyone who I really liked has died. The ones that are left are okay, but I really loved the ones who are now all dead. I just can't get interested in people anymore. I am only 62 years old, which I never regarded before as being all that old, and I am so damn surprised at how my body will not work right. My knees are totally shot to the point I can barely stand up. For the first time in my life, I have to ask for help for the simplest things, like getting groceries. There are some other ailments, too, that I had never heard of before until they started showing up in my life. I never, ever imagined it would come to this. I'm really feeling you. I'm so sorry. I know the feeling!! Sendong you caring thoughts... That maybe God woukd be kind enough to send one person (or more) into your life who you coukd love or at least like a lot, and have that reciprocated. I'mwhile you're waiting (because I do believe there is a shortage of good people in the world) i know for certain that dogs make excellent companions and can really lift your spirits. But they do cause extra work. So maybe you coukd share a pet with someone? I was feeling pretty bad myself. I live with someone I don't particularly like, kind of stuck here after I had to leave my old life behind because my own tribulations became so intense. He isn't all that happy himself. We had been debating about getting a dog for a couple of months and decided not to. So then guess what happened? The most adorable little stray dog showed up, literally at our door. We are now taking care of him, but not sure if we'll keep him. I'm noticing that our moods have brightened considerably. This little tiny dog is some kind of miracle. Probably this will end in tragedy.. I've come to expect that. Not wishing for it! But always looking over my shoulder now. What next! |