[short arms....got rub my aching back with my feet]...;D
Theracane Even long-armed apes like me can use a little extra reach. It's hard to massage a muscle in spasm when you're torquing it around to get your hand to it.
Posted on 03/01/2011 9:05:12 PM PST by PhilosopherStone1000
So I'm 50. I have a very smart, very beautiful daughter who is a junior in high school.
Every day, I wake up and say to myself "Crap. I'm still alive."
I feel like I've done my job. I have give birth to and raised an extraordinary human being. There's nothing I can do now to advance her career or life.
How much does God expect me to endure? When can I say "I've had enough?" At what point is it rational to jump off that bridge simply because one is tired of putting up with all the crap?
Ask your daughter.
That's pretty darn good too. Thankfully it's been some years now but I've had days when crawling on all fours was the best I could do. It's all a real slice of heaven! ;^)
Your daughter isn’t “raised”. She will still need you for many years. You need to stick around for graduations, weddings, and the births of your grandchildren. You will blight her life forever if you selfishly kill yourself. A girl always needs her Daddy.
My father is in his 70s, and I don’t know how I would have made it through my four children and I being dumped by my husband without him.
You need to see a doctor immediately.
I’m 49 and having mega hot flashes.
No more heat for *me*, thanks.
[I’m going to go out in the 35 degree back yard wearing shorts for a while, now]...LOL
You need to have a mission for the rest of your life.
Mine is to provide an example to others of how free men should relate to one another and to G-d.
A wise man once told me: “Never underestimate the example you set. You’ll never know who you are affecting, but they are watching you, and if you do good, you are a role model.”
As a straight answer to your question, no, it isn't permissible to check out. You are part of something that needs you.
LOL....crawled there, done that.
[the dogs thought I was finally gonna get down and rough house with them]
The *worst* thing is when my left hip just up and decides it’s done for the day.
I’ll be walking along and suddenly the nerve pinches and *bip*...left leg goes all noodley.
Gets you some wild attention in a Wal*Mart, I guarantee.
[sorta looks like disco until I grab something to keep myself from falling over]
One time in Best Buy, I was hunkered down looking at something on a bottom shelf and when I stood up, the hip said “nope” and I just fell over like a turtle.
I bet 8 or 10 men just walked on by me, not even offering to help.
Chivalry is toast.
That last sentence was supposed to be, You know what? I think that cured her.
It’s not as though she didn’t have good reason to be messed up. She had more things happen to her than any one person should, starting with being molested by her own grandfather at the age of 13. At sixteen her parents had to call the police because the guy across the street was lying in wait with a rifle to shoot anyone she went out with. Then my dad had a heart attack and died when I was in high school and a lesbian from our church started putting the moves on her and her boss exposed himself to her. She got a new job as a bank teller and got robbed, the guy put a gun to her head and told her fill the bags and locked the rest of the people in the vault. There were probably other stories as well, but it seemed like her life was one crisis after another.
[short arms....got rub my aching back with my feet]...;D
Theracane Even long-armed apes like me can use a little extra reach. It's hard to massage a muscle in spasm when you're torquing it around to get your hand to it.
As my jolly old crippled auntie used to say, that's funnier than snot. LOL.
I have a friend who did something like that once while shopping with his wife. Following along behind her he drug one leg and made some goofy face. People started giving her sympathetic looks. She finally snapped to what was going on and turned around and caught him at it.
She doesn't take him shopping anymore. ~8-P```
People get away from me real fast!
You need serious help.
I would pray to God for strength.
50 is too young to check and the single biggest mistake you could make becoming a cripple.
You see God doesn’t make cripples, they make them selves.
You quitting on life could make you a cripple.
God doesn’t want you to quit nor does he want you to check.
Trust me, tomorrow is another day and there will be plenty of good that goes on in it and you should be grateful to God for things that most people don’t notice.
When you wake up - Thank God
When you shave or shower - Thank God for making you.
When you think about your daughter - Thank God for giving you a great gift and a responsibility.
Thank God for having a job. If you don’t have one Thank God and trust in him to deliver a new opportunity as you consider all the great gifts you have been given and a new door or as is my case, you will find 5 doors with contemplation and God’s guidance.
Thank God for all your experiences thus far in your life.
Thank God for all those who love you.
Thank God for all those who cause you pain. You learn who and what personalities to avoid and if you can’t, tolerate them and Thank God you are not like them.
Thank God for weather. Rain, Sleet, Snow, High Winds and Sunshine. They all serve a purpose and are beautiful. Thank God for the work he does and marvel at them.
If you have a favorite place to go to, such as the ocean so you can bask in its beauty and strength, to the beach and Thank God for making something so beautiful, for you and surround yourself with its peace.
Same with the forest. If it brings a renewal and vigor to stand or walk in it’s silence as you listen to all the living creatures, take in the visual and olfactory senses - Thank God and bask in its beauty which renews you.
Examine your life and truly take an assesment of those things you are grateful and those you should be more grateful for - Thank God.
In all that is good in your life - Thank God and honor his gift with your continued presence on this earth, which serves a greater plan, in ways you know and ways you may never know - Thank God.
If your daughter is truly amazing, consider and ponder what that means - Thank God.
If your daughter is truly amazing, consider your role in her life thus far and Thank God.
If you daughter is important to you and you would never want to see her in pain and would do anything to prevent her from pain - Thank God he has allowed to be present in her life and pray for her to grow as God intended.
Bask in the beauty of her life and consider what your presence will mean to her in the coming years and Thank God.
Freepers love you and we will never even meet you - Thank God.
In all you do, in all you aspire and all you endure - Thank God.
And then Thank God for being such a benevolent, warm and caring father who wants you to speak with him as he holds you, his unique creation and Thank God.
Think it over. Hasn’t your life actually been pretty terrific? Thank God.
Thank God for your entire life and ask that he guide you further.
Thank God I ran out of things to say.
Thank God.
My friend has a rather warped sense of humor.
Arrrgh!
But salamanders got no *thumbs*!
LOL!
Oh goody....yet another disgustingly funny line for my already weird, socially unacceptable repertoire....LOL
My life has one long series of horrors.
Know why I’m still around?
*Spite*
If I died, it would make one person really happy so I’m determined to outlive them.
:)
“She doesn’t take him shopping anymore. ~8-P``` “
And that was his plan all along, I’ll bet money.
/Sal reminds herself to keep an eye on *her* hubby from now on
I briefly thought about checking out at 17, 25, and 33, and at 37 I am extremely glad I did not.
I am a Christian, and want to be ready to meet Jesus. Plenty of suicides and lukewarm Christians in Hell right now, and I have no intention of joining them.
He saved me to be Holy, not Happy.
No they don't. FReepers are the most realistic folks that I've had the good pleasure of meeting.
And here's a hard dose of reality for you...
You're a whiny, selfish wimp.
I bet you've never even stopped to consider how traumatic it would be for your daughter if you checked out, have you? Emotional wounds like that never heal.
"And what, exactly, do I have to “give” her?"
She needs you, you fool... and that's what you have to give her.
Stop focusing on yourself for a change and just imagine how lonely your daughter's life would be without you.
The problems you think you're escaping will only be passed on for her to deal with in the mess you'll leave behind. Are you really that big of a coward?
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