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^ oohhhh, I understand now. Sorry for misunderstanding Bo592.
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Are you Thankful for what you have ?
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ImNotMyIllness
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Yes, I am.
MikeyC
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This is a very good point.
I am thankful to be living in Australia: a wealthy, industrious country with low unemployment, high wages, a good health system, and good people. No, we're not perfect, but damn, it could be worse. I don't think enough people in my country realise how good we have it!
SilentBird
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I am grateful for what I do have, thank goodness for small mercies, but I would like more from life.
xDreamseller
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Much rather live alone than with a bad spouse or friends...
upndwn
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I am thankful that I live in a country were no one has to go hungry and don't have to be afraid to not have a roof over ones head. I'm thankful for my friends, who have stuck with for all these years me despite my problems. I am thankful that I get to live a life of freedom not ruled by any other.
I am grateful, but it doesn't justify other people trying to ruin my life. The trap of gratitude is when you become complacent enough that you tolerate anything that comes at you, including malicious people. That happened to me, I had suicidal feelings every now and then.
MBinMN
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Sure! Absolutely!
Wish that was the cure for this horrible mindtrap of a disease ...should be but nope.
I too also see others and WISH I had enough money to drive a car that isn't 15 years old and falling apart. Go with a group of friends off to vacations to Mexico, Jamaica, Belize etc... Wish I could pay for my kids college, wish I could ... wish I could...
Wish that was the cure for this horrible mindtrap of a disease ...should be but nope.
I too also see others and WISH I had enough money to drive a car that isn't 15 years old and falling apart. Go with a group of friends off to vacations to Mexico, Jamaica, Belize etc... Wish I could pay for my kids college, wish I could ... wish I could...
Graeme1988
Hie yer hence from me heath!
Ye cannae (can't) take for granted what ye don't have!
^ Ma physical disability (cerebral palsy) taught me that life lesson early!
Of course am thankful. Thankful am alive, despite no weightin' more than a bag o' sugar when ah was born. Nae joke, there. Seriously, that is a fact!
Thankful n' grateful for ma mum because her off-the-cuff, surreal nonsensical one-liners huv me roarin' n' greetin' wi' laughter. And withoot her, ah probably wouldnae huv ma love of guitar-driven, loud music or ma dark, twisted, deadpan Scottish sense o' humour or a love of comedy which border on obessive.
To quote ma mother: "See if it was'nae fur laughter, you'd just be sittin' aboot grettin' (cryin') aw the time!" Ain't that the truth?
Though, expose yer son tae swearin' in the Scottish accent - even when done for comedic effect - when he's just 7 years auld, hmmm... = Great parenting?! :thinking: Angrily callin' a secondary school teacher an "...effin' c*nt!" 10 years later = :no:
^ Sorry if aw that above is sentimental, clichéd BS, by-the-way! Ah dinnae (don't) half ramble on in ma posts!
Entertainment value = F____K ALL! :ironicsmile:
^ Ma physical disability (cerebral palsy) taught me that life lesson early!
Of course am thankful. Thankful am alive, despite no weightin' more than a bag o' sugar when ah was born. Nae joke, there. Seriously, that is a fact!
Thankful n' grateful for ma mum because her off-the-cuff, surreal nonsensical one-liners huv me roarin' n' greetin' wi' laughter. And withoot her, ah probably wouldnae huv ma love of guitar-driven, loud music or ma dark, twisted, deadpan Scottish sense o' humour or a love of comedy which border on obessive.
To quote ma mother: "See if it was'nae fur laughter, you'd just be sittin' aboot grettin' (cryin') aw the time!" Ain't that the truth?
Though, expose yer son tae swearin' in the Scottish accent - even when done for comedic effect - when he's just 7 years auld, hmmm... = Great parenting?! :thinking: Angrily callin' a secondary school teacher an "...effin' c*nt!" 10 years later =
:no:^ Sorry if aw that above is sentimental, clichéd BS, by-the-way! Ah dinnae (don't) half ramble on in ma posts!
Entertainment value = F____K ALL! :ironicsmile:
neardeath
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You two sound like a couple of fun characters. :bigsmile:
Hellhound
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Where did you get the idea that other people are rich, social and happy? You seriously think that others don't struggle at all? Come on.
Labyrinthine
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There are so many things I am grateful for. But at the same time, I'm choosing to recognize things I'm not so happy about, and am striving to try to change them. Despite how uncomfortable it might make me.
Graeme1988
Hie yer hence from me heath!
Sure! When we're no being dour, depressingly cynical pessimists.
And, if ye called listenin' tae a screwy, somewhat mentally unhinged Scottish woman makin' up nonsensical broadway musicial numbers off-the-cuff like somethin' from The Sound of Music. And talkin' in accent other than her ain (own) - Russian, German, Polish... F**k! Even she cannae tell the difference, then neither can ah!
^ The hilarious thing is am no even jokin' - that description is terrifyingly accurate! :bigsmile:
Ah tried tae huv ma mum sectioned under the mental health act but.... she put the straitjacket on backwards! :sarcastic: :ironicsmile: Only jokin'...
coyote
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i think this is important
if we define things in terms of "should" and "supposed to" or whatever we think that other people possess, we're bound to find some reason to be dissatisfied
what makes us unhappy is not what we have or what we don't have - it's how we choose to measure it