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Need to blow off steam. I feel like my life is utterly pointless.
2-16-2011
| JamesP81
Posted on 02/16/2011 9:31:50 AM PST by JamesP81
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To: JamesP81
I think it's fairly normal to start having feelings that way at your age. You wonder where the meaning is, the meat is, or if there is all that there is.
I have found that one of the most profound choices you have to make is how you deal with the boredom that life starts to present you as you get older. Some folks turn to drugs or alcohol, others to God, some are just too busy with marriage and children to even contemplate the notion, others become workaholics. But really, it's up to you to decide what will give meaning to getting out of bed in the morning - or even if you want your life to have meaning. And I am not being flippant there. It sounds like you WANT to have some meaning, and just don't know where to take it.
I don't have kids, so I look at what my parents have said - that how they raised their kids is what matters most to them now that they are both approaching 80.
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posted on
02/16/2011 10:34:42 AM PST
by
dirtboy
To: JamesP81
To: miss marmelstein
Yes, I rescue Greyhounds, but I also have a chihuahua, a poodle, and min-pin mix (all rescues).
And I have four cats (all rescues).
We have a full house. Wouldn’t have it any other way.
To: JamesP81
Cheer up, friend...at least you’re WORKING. Praise G-d!
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posted on
02/16/2011 10:36:50 AM PST
by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: JamesP81
it is not too late to join the military. ponder the possibilities... and there are many of them. change what you can, accept what you must, but never ever settle.
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posted on
02/16/2011 10:37:32 AM PST
by
madamemayhem
(defeat is not getting knocked down, it is not getting back up.)
To: JamesP81
I’m going to check back in later this evening when I’m at home. I’m about to fall to pieces right here at my desk, which would garner more attention than I’d prefer. I have to man up and bury this for 5 more hours and I’ll be back.
To: JamesP81
There is a reason they call it surrender...your time will come. In the meantime find a good local church group and get involved but make sure you are doing things that you love and are passionate about - FOR YOU.
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posted on
02/16/2011 10:38:23 AM PST
by
surfer
(To err is human, to really foul things up takes a Democrat, don't expect the GOP to have the answer!)
To: JamesP81
...and you live in Kentucky? Praise G-d again...you could be in Massachusetts.
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posted on
02/16/2011 10:38:25 AM PST
by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: Soothesayer
This is a torture so horrendous that I would not even wish it upon a leftist rodent...however much I despise those things. The worst part is that if somehow God does exist, it wont matter anyway. My lack of faith dooms me to hell. By the time I find out that there is any hope...there wont be any.
Look at it this way. You are being spared the hell of living your life on the religion threads, proving that your individual understanding of every sentence in the bible is superior. You are at least saved from that hell.
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posted on
02/16/2011 10:39:06 AM PST
by
ZX12R
To: discostu
A wife and sushi. Awesome life indeed.
I agree with your post. Life is hard. Even Christ said it would be.
But that doesn’t mean it can’t be meaningful.
To: JamesP81
Ok promise us you won’t do something silly.
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posted on
02/16/2011 10:40:57 AM PST
by
BenKenobi
(Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. - Silent Cal)
To: Soothesayer
I hear the Muslim Brotherhood is looking for “volunteers”
Seriously, isn't this kind of outlook what makes it so easy for jihadi’s to recruit? I know what you feel but Life is not a curse! It's a gift. From God or whatever you choose to believe. Everyone here has, or will have the same feelings you are feeling. It's just how you deal with it. I choose to live my mostly mundane life secure in the knowledge that I do have a purpose. Your trials are preparing you for something great! Believe it.
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posted on
02/16/2011 10:41:08 AM PST
by
saleman
(!!!!)
To: geologist
Many are the lives saved by cats and dogs. Amen, amen, amen! See the tagline...
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posted on
02/16/2011 10:41:08 AM PST
by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: Soothesayer
This world is 100% horror. Agreed, except for kittens and hot peppers.
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posted on
02/16/2011 10:43:39 AM PST
by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: JamesP81
Im about to fall to pieces right here at my desk, which would garner more attention than Id prefer.Hey, when I was about your age, I was in a job - the only one I had like this - where it was all I could do to drive to work and go in the door. I don't know if it was my age at the time, the job, or what, but I've been there, done that.
This too shall pass. I've have learned to find more satisfaction in the smaller things in life that I used to just take for granted, but I've got over 20 years on you (I'm 50) and used to live more for adrenaline, so maybe I just got old(er).
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posted on
02/16/2011 10:43:39 AM PST
by
dirtboy
To: JamesP81
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posted on
02/16/2011 10:47:50 AM PST
by
Girlene
To: mdmathis6
One prayer I often pray is that God may use me inspite of myself, inspite of my imperfections, that I might be made an instrument of his glory, a minister of his grace and a conduit of his love. For I have no high station in life, nor have I riches. Every good thing I have comes not of my self but from out of the will of God. I live twixt flesh and spirit,twixt a body of death I yearn to be free from and the promised glorified sinless body promised by Christ. Ill die too at some point and will be forgotten of man... yet while I live, Ill live in the confident hope of that work begun in me, that it will be worked until its completion on that day...when we see HIM(!) face to face.
Words that we all can live by, and words that I will try to purposely remember on a daily basis. "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God............." So simple, yet so easily forgotten amongst the thorns of life's interruptions and distractions. Thanks mdmathis6!
To: miss marmelstein
What is the nature of your confusion?
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posted on
02/16/2011 10:48:23 AM PST
by
bvw
To: sauron; JamesP81
I have found that I’m more optimistic in the early part of a decade of my life than the later parts.
For instance, in my late 20’s I felt that I was getting old.
Then in my early 30’s, I felt young again.
Hitting each 10 yr. milestone has felt like a reset.
To: miss marmelstein
Does make me feel like Im doing something good for the little helpless ones! I let the neighborhood cats stay in my garage...bedding, food; the whole nine yards. Their damn owners won't take care of them, so...my indoor rescues hate me for it. I tell them to suck it up.
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posted on
02/16/2011 10:50:17 AM PST
by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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