How happy are you with life?
supersonic
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Just curious how we all feel about things in today's world!
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I tend to be an optimist,have a good comfortable life, great friends and family, sun was shining today, what more could you want
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I like that thinking!0
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How about you then Supersonic?0
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I get down sometimes, and a bit peed off with my illnesses, but I know it could be lot worse, and many people are much MUCH worse off. That brings back a sense of reality.0
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Yeah, I know what you mean about perspective. Being a teenager with no responsibility etc probably helps me as well though0
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Great except...last 2 yrs, bike injury/dog chase/attacks still giving grief.
If you see what the poor buggers in China, Pakistan, Afghanistan have to put up with with natural and man-made disasters, we got it bloody made...
Recession? How bout your whole family/village being wiped out overnight?
Can't begin to imagine the grief/horror.0 -
It's amazing how depression seems more of a 1st world malady.0
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It's like hearing people say "I'm starving" when to be honest they don't even know what hungry is.0
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Yeah pretty good. Awesome wife/house/friends, only thing that's been dragging me down lately is my job but things have started improving on that front in the last couple of weeks too.
Health could be better but I'm surviving 0 -
Things ain't bad tbf could have abit more money and a full time job but otherwise lifes alright
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Not bad... Don't like my job but it's easy and doesn't roll over into my time at all, so that kind of balances. Currently single but then that's just because every time I'm actually in a relationship it never seems worthwhile to put the work in, so that's OK too. (I'm a bit of a misanthrope, I can do social but I'm quite happy not to, I just was away on a stag do and after 2 days in the company of good friends having a great time I just wanted to get away by myself) I could do with more money, an understanding supermodel girlfriend with low expectations, all that but I'll survive I reckon
But at the same time, am I actually happy? No, not really, just not unhappy. Which isn't too bad a state of play but it's not what you aim for either is it...Uncompromising extremist0 -
I went for can't complain.
I know i have got it easy but yet there are times where I never feel truly right (whatever right may be) But in balance i'm a pretty happy chappy!
As has been said - we should be on top of the world really considering what others are going through. But rarely do we compare our own situation with others, it is as if they are not in the same world as us, it all feels very detached somehow.
I don't know what it is about our lives but we never seem truly happy, i often wonder how some of the people you see on tv manage to be so happy considering how they live and what they have or are going through.0 -
There's a crapload I could (and do) complain about. Eczema's causing me to rip my skin to bits, my joints suck, I can't sleep. Yet, oddly, I'm the happiest I've been in a long, long time. It makes no sense, but there you go.0
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I am running a little thin on the friends side since leaving Uni and them all moving away, but I have a house, a wife who enjoys MTBing and live within my earnings so no debt.
Could be a lot worse and I don't think I have felt depressed since I got made redundant and my Dads health first deteriorated 0 -
was as chipper as a laughing boy right up to the point where i smashed up both wrists and my collarbone, still happy but just a little pissed off at hurting all the time.
Still, can't complain really as i'm still here!{insert smartarse comment here}0 -
See this is a question to which the answer, for most people, would vary on any given day.
However, trying to take an objective cross section of events over the last 12 months to form my decision....
My life is full on and crazy, I get by and try to have fun doing so. I am rather jaded in my view of love and relationships so whereas I do miss being with someone, now is not the right time and I accept that and I am just trying to make the most of what I have and have fun. Have a few minor medical issues but nothing that's going to kill me. Work is boring but hey....
So to sum up, stuff is OK. Mediocre, average.......
Considering that 6 months ago I didn't want to get out of bed in a morning becasue things were that bad, I think I am doing pretty well!
Onwards and upwards Ride it like you stole it!0 -
Life is good
Great wife, kids & friends, reasonable job (turns out I am not a pro cyclist - but life is about comprimise)!
Currently how good / easy I have got it is all in context as my 3 yr olds Godmother has got terminal cancer. She is 27 with a 5 yrs old & a 9 mth old.
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Well apart from teh occasional down day that I think we all have im a pretty happy person. Ihave an awsome family, lots of great friends, and I have no reall big problems in life.
Im also (and im not sure if any of you know this) one of Jehovah's Witnesses, i try to keep it out of forum conversation for fear of someone being upset, or thinking i was doing a Surf Matt only with religeon, not cars. This gives me a real purpose in Life, and a real posotive hope for the future. I have a huge circle of friends, and i know im doing something worthwhile with my life.... this contributes to my happiness greatly!I like bikes and stuff0 -
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Could be better, but i'm not complaining. I love where I live, I have good friends and family and pretty good riding right on my doorstep, but the down side is I'm stuck in this job that really doesn't inspire me anymore and doesn't pay all that well so the chances of me being able to afford a house down here any time soon are slim. But there are people far worse off than me and at the moment and all in all the positives outway the negatives!Santa Cruz Chameleon
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^^This.supersonic wrote:I get down sometimes, and a bit peed off with my illnesses, but I know it could be lot worse, and many people are much MUCH worse off. That brings back a sense of reality.0 -
<ponders> Job's quite good. I get to work for me at hours that mainly suit me and it pays quite well... So that's good.
Girlfriend's off studying in another country, so that's not good
Car's broke, so that's not good - but it's nearly fixed, so that's good...
I guess I'm 'meh' at the minute 0 -
Can't really complain. I've been treated ever so slightly like crap in the not too distant past, but that's gone now, and you learn from these things right.
Now I've got a decent enough job, it pays enough, doesn't give me any real stress, (let's me come on here!) and doesn't intrude on my non-work time. I get to ride fairly often, got a few mates round here, although my old 'closest' friends have moved away now, but I still see them fairly often.
I've got a couple of months off work and a trip to Asia planned, started seeing one of those wimmins and I've got money in the bank so I can move out, hopefully with a mate from uni, and get a more bike friendly car when I get back from the trip. So things are looking fairly good.
As others have said, it can take something awful to remind you how lucky you are. I was feeling pretty bad around the time of the Haiti earthquake, and that was a wake up call.
I'm genuinely grateful that I live in one of the greatest countries on earth, no matter how much the papers like to portray Britain as some kind of 3rd world hellhole (which pees me right off!). (on the whole) We're free, wealthy, we have a decent welfare system, good education, free healthcare, safe roads, decent police. If you get lost in the mountains there are people willing to risk their lives to save you, we have a fairly 'boring' climate, so it doesn't tend to kill us, so flooding, mudslides, hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, blizzards, tsunamis etc don't tend to be a problem. And yet we've got stunning scenery, areas of real isolation and natural beauty, which aren't actually that far from a decent sized town/city.
I bloody love Britain so that's always something to cheer me up! 0 -
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As already posted elsewhere I feel I need to get out more as my life currently consists of walk dog > drive to work > work > drive home > walk dog > put kids to bed > eat > house work > sleep > repeat.
Not really depressed, just increasingly totally demotivated. Perhaps I'm just having a bit of a mid life crisis?Visit Clacton during the School holidays - it's like a never ending freak show.
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could be better for me. everything is good and can't ask for better at this stage (e.g. job, house, bike, bank balance) but would like better."It is not impossible, its just improbable"
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No, don't be silly. It's not a mid-life crisis. The way that's going, you're nearing the end. So, more accurately, it's a close-to-the-end-of-life crisis.
Man, I should be so be a counsillor0 -
i went with can't complain as thers a few things that i want to be better but as some said that imagine what it would be like in a 3rd world country so i can't complain tbh 0
