What one book has made the biggest impact on your life?
Or any type of poem, speech, song etc... Im sure lots of you will pick whichever Holy Book you go by, but is there another besides that? Also, how has it affected your way of living, thinking, and feeling about a certain thing or about everything in life?
Mary Olivers quotPoppiesquotbrbrhttpwww.poemhunter.compoempoppiesa
What must one do in bad times?
Hope for the best.brbr Every cloud has a silver lining.brbr Every night has its dawn.brbr Keep faith in yourself.brbr Remember quotwhen the going gets tough, tough gets going quot brbr Pray to God as per your faith, it helps.brbr Share your stress with some one you love.brbr Keep cool, and dont let the stress or pain be reflected on your face and your attitude.brbr Fight all negativities with all your mental power.brbr Do anything possible to change the evironment around you.brbr You have enjoyed your good times, why not enjoy the bad times too ?brbr Remember there is no person on this earth who has not gone through bad times. When they can come out of it, why cant you ?brbr Keep your attitude positive. IT ALWAYS FINDS YOU A WAY TO SAIL THROUGH HARD TIMES.brbr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOOD LUCK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What must one do in bad times?
Hope for the best.brbr Every cloud has a silver lining.brbr Every night has its dawn.brbr Keep faith in yourself.brbr Remember quotwhen the going gets tough, tough gets going quot brbr Pray to God as per your faith, it helps.brbr Share your stress with some one you love.brbr Keep cool, and dont let the stress or pain be reflected on your face and your attitude.brbr Fight all negativities with all your mental power.brbr Do anything possible to change the evironment around you.brbr You have enjoyed your good times, why not enjoy the bad times too ?brbr Remember there is no person on this earth who has not gone through bad times. When they can come out of it, why cant you ?brbr Keep your attitude positive. IT ALWAYS FINDS YOU A WAY TO SAIL THROUGH HARD TIMES.brbr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOOD LUCK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What misconceptions about life did you have as a child?
I used to think there was one of every species kind of joined together in spirit, so if you crushed an ant and its spirit was joined to your best friend your best mate and a heap of other animals would die. I didnt stop believing this til I learned that different species have different life expectancies! How did you find out the Truth!?
That the future was going to be easy....
What makes your heart smile?
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Have a great day!
The wife, saying,Its now or never,lmao xbr PS.best of all my little Down Syndromebr grandson, months,laughing when ourbr little Chi plays with him on the carpet whenbr he comes to see us.Bless.
I dont feel like I have a meaningful life...?
Right now Im a year old college student. My major is International EconomicsBusiness, and Im not really that happy with it. Yeah, I am semiinterested in it, but its not what I want I want to do with my life. The problem is, I dont really know what I do want to do. I just dont know that Im not doing what I want to be doing. Part of me actually wants to drop out of college, but I only have a year left, so its not an option. I just dont know what I want to do.
You sound like you have your head on straight and everybody elses confusion is your problem. Since you have endured many years high school and college to get to where you are now, year shouldnt be that difficult, especially since you sound like an eminently practical person. When you have a degree in Bird Calls, it doesnt matter if you get a job making bird calls, YOU HAVE A DEGREE. That puts you economically in a better place to choose ANY career. You may have to bend your interests slightly to make enough money to pay off your loans or whatever, but you DONT have to take a job in your field if it isnt what you want to do. A semester or two extra and you can TEACH. Or you can work for a magazine using your knowledge of International business to WRITE about international business. Or you can travel and use your knowledge in the traditional way but in an interesting PLACE.brbrI think you have the world by the scruffy parts, and that may still have nothing to do with feeling meaning in your life. Meaning often comes from activity, not from introspection. Try some new things like volunteering or take some elective course you would never have dreamed of taking before.brbrMy gut says you will be fine, but only you can know for sure.brbrGood Luck.brbrPS Asexuality is a lot more common than people think. One can have a great life asexually. Sex is overrated anyway, and as one writer says quotA sex drive is like being handcuffed to a lunatic.quot
I am lost and have never known who I am or my purpose,how can I find myself and mature into adulthood?
Get behind a movement or an orginazation that you believe in. Make helping people your purpose. You can never go wrong with that. I try and help and get interested with the aclu, DNC, and barack obama, and I want to start helping with habitat for humanity. Even if you volenteer a homeless shelter you will feel better about yourself and have meaning, and learn a bunch of things about yourself and the world in the process. This also helps to put on your resume which helps you mature into adulthood. It also helps you to realize that no matter how low your life feels, that there are people who love to live even though they have much less and are worse off than you.
I am having feelings of emptyness and being lost...?
I am having feelings of emptyness and being lost I have been this way for some time. I keep finding myself looking to the sky for answers and getting no reply. Sometimes I feel sick lonely and out of place. what am i looking for?
Isnt it funny how the easiest questions to ask often are the hardest to answer? When you examine human phycology, you realize a few things the first and most striking of these is that we are all very barebones. What we seek in life often falls within similiar paths. If youll allow me to go deeper, Ill try both to answer your question and be brief about it.brbrA A sense of purpose. This is where I think youre at based off of what youve expressed. Its completely naturalespecially when something ugly happens death of a friend or family member, pain and suffering, ect.to feel the need to know that the agony was not in vain. It becomes important for an individual to know that their struggles actually amount to something.brbrB A sense of mastery in a given field. Self esteem builds in very powerful ways as we learn more and more about things that interest us. This is seen in the old saying quotSucess begets sucess.quot Consider that failing at an endevour often leads to personal feelings of inadequacy... these feelings are natural, yet inappropriate, since our mistakes are our most powerful teacherswhich is something every champion of any given field must learn to embrace. The more sucess you encounter at a given effort, the better you feel both about the activity and yourself. Might I suggest setting shortterm goals be realistic! involving fields you find fascinating NOT things youre only quotsortakindaquot into, or things that you do to impress someone elsethis has to be YOUR project? Take up a fitness routine. Or learn more about a certain animal. Endevour to become an authority on something! Your self esteem will skyrocket, and youll be providing yourself with a sense of purpose.brbrC A sense of belonging. Consider the relationships that you have with the people in your life. Why are your friends your friends? Are you the type that tries to get along with someone simply because others consider that person as quotin,quot or quotcool?quot Or do you genuinely enjoy the company of those around you? Youll never feel that you belong amoung those whose company you merely tolerate. How is your relationship to family members, and what can be done to improve things? One terrific thing about working to improve your relationships with others is that youll quickly notice that many of them will try to improve their relationships with you. And why wouldnt they? They, themselves, want to belong to something as well.brbrNone of this is easy work Nothing worth doing ever is. The worst mistake you can make is to try to tackle all of it at once. I wont word it right I dont have it to reference, but theres an old Chinese proverb thatloosely translatedstates quotThe longest journey begins with a single step.quot Chin up, and good luck! This life is only what you make of it, so make it count.
I am being pulled hither and thither ?
And since I am a person with compromised mental faculties which get worse with stress, I must take my leave. No one will tell me which end is up, what their true thoughts are and really it is like Dave once said A tower of Babel.
You must Do as You will. I am Sorry that the Harsh Realities of this Place has driven You from It. It takes Strength amp great Focus to Ignore amp Listen Through all the disparate quotVoicesquot in this quotTower of Babelquot. And even IF You had the mental Ability to stay on Top of It, Im NOT entirely Sure that it wouldve been WORTH your wile ANYway. Nevertheless, I will ALWAYS be a Loyal Adherent of Yours, Where EVER you show up... HERE, or anyplace Else. And You can Count on ME Always for Any Support or Answers I may Have. This is NOT an quotEndquot. Just another quotstep forwardquot along Your Way. I hope you can Take Me with You. But if Not, I will wish You better Days amp Smoother Highways... Good Luck !
