I just broke the back part of my chair off from leaning back too much now I have a stool with armrests.

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"be content" doesn't answer the question

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Mtn. Girl
Uh, isnt that what I said?

yeah, but you didn't add bold and add size!

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JesusChristILoveYouYesIDo
"be content" doesn't answer the question

what was the question again?

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dollabill
I just broke the back part of my chair off from leaning back too much now I have a stool with armrests.

i just pictured you, producing a stool....with armrests.

if it's not soft enough, try this:





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Mtn. Girl
Uh, isnt that what I said?

see, i need the same answer over and over again.

so BORING.

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JesusChristILoveYouYesIDo
"be content" doesn't answer the question

what was the question again?

the question was: What should i do if i am interesting text, telling an intriguing story, with photographs to illustrate the points I am making, along with links to useful resources?

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JesusChristILoveYouYesIDo
"be content" doesn't answer the question

what was the question again?

the question was: What should i do if i am interesting text, telling an intriguing story, with photographs to illustrate the points I am making, along with links to useful resources?

i am....the Whole Wide World!

the correct answer is actually
HOW THE FUCK SHOULD I KNOW?

if you are interesting text, telling an intriguing story, with photographs to illustrate the points you are making, along with links to useful resources, you should be content.

because good content has interesting text, tells an interesting story, has photographs to illustrate its points, and provides links to useful resources.

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oh wwoof!

awwww yeaahh...

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mike10k
is this all that life is?

grow up. go to school. have some fun times in your teen and twenties. maybe get a job, find a spouse. start a family in your thirties, enjoy that as much as possible, which won't be much since both you and your spouse will have to work full time and day care costs an arm and a leg. work full time until you're 65 then do more fun stuff, hopefully you don't lose track of your spouse along the way. watch your family grow as you shrink smaller and smaller. then you get old or sick, all your friends are dead. your spouse dies, all grey. buncha bad stuff happens like weeds all around the good stuff flowers we once tended. we go to a hospice or caretaking facility and turn into dust. all alone.

i think that's fucking bullshit!

Mike I dug up my password cause these post's deserve a response.

I am no wordsmith and would make a mess of putting my thoughts into words, but what you have written Mike sums up my understanding of life over the past few years.
What you have described rots my brain on a daily basis and is getting worse. Im not sure if its the same for anyone else on the forums but I set some basic expectations for myself as partner and a father, a block of land with a basic shed to live in and eventually a house - the goals I have set become more out of reach every day.

Depression is a luxury that is out of the question, I work seven days with a golf ball size lump in my arm pit that is a 8 out of 10 on the pain scale, Ive driven that many miles in the last 20 years its causing me to go blind. Every time you feeling like giving up and calling it a day you are faced with the fact that giving up, depression and having some time off is not an option.

This life makes us do shit against our will and better judgement the older we get.

What you have described Mike is not depression in my brain dead opion,its much fucking worse. For me it started with a feeling of been numb - a total loss of connection with the people and events around you.

For a while I used to get back on the motivation path and say fuck it, ignore the missing teeth and the pain various old age shit is causing, fuck the $140K debt that doesnt seem to move, etc, etc. I would say like a lot of people on this forum have the same problem - a thick skin is never thick enough.

The motivation path always crumbles and I find my way back to these thoughts of what the fuck is this all about?

I was reading the other day about someone saying goodbye to a dying relative, at the end it had the following: "The dead would take us with them if they could"

Sounds about right.

cronic.

don't know what to say bud. you knocked me out.

thank you for your post, i hope everybody reads it.

i'm not sure if in heaven, everything's perfect.

all i know is, it's gotta be more perfect than how perfect it is now.

don't lose that password now.

cynicism....gratitude....cynicism....gratitude....

boring.

i'm gonna make some fun happen this weekend.

i don't care what kind either.

fun is fun.

fun is fun to have.

also, seriously...fuck zoop the goat.

cronic needs some fuckin TEETH.

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cronic needs some fuckin TEETH.

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"Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice." Or so says Alain de Botton, one of my favorite writers.

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ajr213
"Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice." Or so says Alain de Botton, one of my favorite writers.

Ya know, that's so true.

I learned a hard lesson in that with my last job fiasco. Now I reprioritized my life and am much happier for it! I work part time which allows me more time to help out at my daughter's school. My new job has flexible hours so I can work around things like field trips with her and I can even work from home if I have to, like if she's sick!

I let go of useless 'ambitions' for the things I realized were actually most important to me.

Since then I've been offered more and more side work (as I have continued to impress the people I work with) and I've actually turned most of it down so as not to sacrifice the time I created to spend with my family. The only other thing i took on was becoming a traditional media director for a committee to elect a state representative, which even with that, I've had to tell them no, I'm sorry I can't stop everything and do what you want in record time. (Surprisingly they took it well. However, if they didn't like it, they could have hired someone else and I would have been totally fine with it. No hard feelings or anything!) I am trying very hard not to let the almighty dollar run my life! My bills get paid. My daughter doesn't want for anything (well, anything she actually needs! haha) And so what if I don't have a ton of extra spending money to blow on useless shit that only satisfies for a short period of time?! I now look to entertain ourselves with things that don't cost money! Hiking, biking, family video games and game night. Time. It's more about Time than Money!

I have been earnestly practicing to be content. And it's working! It just took working a really super duper shitty job around people who showed me what I NEVER EVER want to be to finally realize what was Important!

ETA: In short, everything happens for a reason! Even the shitty stuff! You just have to be open to the lessons you learn from it and you walk away a better person for it! The worse the shitty stuff is, the better the lesson. At least that's been my experience! It's during the worst times that I learn the most about myself! This past job even had me in the hospital overnight from a suspected heart attack! Holy shit man! Thems some lessons right thar!

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Suz, that's a wonderful post.

TankQ Daniel!

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This life makes us do shit against our will and better judgement the older we get.

truth. nice post cronic. good to see you back.

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This life makes us do shit against our will and better judgement the older we get.

truth. nice post cronic. good to see you back.

I think a good question might be why you feel you dont have any choices in life?

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ajr213
"Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice." Or so says Alain de Botton, one of my favorite writers.

well is a relative term.

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This life makes us do shit against our will and better judgement the older we get.

truth. nice post cronic. good to see you back.

I think a good question might be why you feel you dont have any choices in life?

i read somewhere that people are allowed to feel what they feel.

i'm not sure who it is allowing them though.