Do you ever sit back and reflect on your life?........................

I do this a lot. I miss my child hood so much. I wish I could go back to it. It was such a carefree time. I had so much fun and it was in the 1970's so it was just so much different back then.

Well, I do that a whole lot. I do it almost every day. It's really good to be aware of it. It's a good thing you have three great children though, I'm sure you're very happy with your life as it is anyway. As for me, I am just kind of beginning my life so I'm still making my plans! I want at least one child, and I want to be a psychologist!

I oftenly do. When I am about to sleep, I reminisce my childhood days. I remember when I went on an excursion with my family and we were very happy. I had no fear and I was very active child. I was my father's favorite daughter then. Hayyyy! How I miss my father so much. He just pass away and it really makes me sad.

I used to do this all the time, and believe, my past is very very ugly. It's not good to dwell on things that have already happened that you can do nothing about. It's always good to look to the future and focus on what's ahead of you. Thinking about the past too much will cause you to miss out on the future, so just focus on where you going and put the past behind you.

hello Linda4ualways, belated happy birthday... i guess you're right, we have to think and reflect about our lives... that serves as a reminder to me... lately, i've been wanting to do that, i just hope i could find time to meditate...coz i could never do it with my kids around me :)

Happy Birthday, Linda! Count your blessings, you have three beautiful boys and they'd bring joy in your life. I guess when we reflect on our lives, we just have to count our blessings! We may have gone through a lot of difficult times but I guess it made us what we are now. If we see it negatively, then, it's time we change our perspective! You say you made the plans, now probably, let God do the planning for you!

[i]That's rather sad, not getting what you always wanted but still I admire you for raising three boys by yourself, that's a pretty tough job! I always sit back (and lie down, hihihi!) to reflect about where my life is leading me. I've had so many plans in the past that went astray, this isn't actually the life I'm envisioning at 27. But as you said, this is life. I'm not sure however if God was laughing about my plans or about them getting wasted. I have deep faith on Him. I have been through many downs lately and even found myself constantly stepped upon by others but still, I believe God will make me happy soon. Well, I'll be having my little baby and I always wanted to be a Mom so at least I'm getting what I wanted... You take care too and belated happy birthday. See ya around![/i]

They said we are all planned to be happy one day with God... EW may have a different route in building our life but at the end, we have the same destination, unite with HIM. I always sit back and reflect my life too, I'm only 21 years old but they are lots of things that happen, I can't control the reality of life, but what I can do is to seize every moment wheather it is good or bad season. Besides, Living Now is the main key to happiness in buddhist view of life... God bless you!

Yes I do sit back and reflect on my life, a lot. I have made so many mistakes on the way, some of them turned out to be lovely mistakes but it has all brought me to being 35 and still not knowing what direction I want to go in my life! You are right about not making plans it is probably the worst thing to do, but I intend to do something with the rest of my life, just don't know what it is yet! Happy belated birthday though.

hello friend, i think life is always like this going on.from old days till now,no one can explain the real meaning of life clearly. we just follow the fot of the life to live with the people around.when i recall the life in the past, i feel i am happy.because whatever i am poor or rich,and whatever the life treat me in any way, i all acknowledge the life which teach me a lot of precious experience that lead me to spend a higher quality life.lol good luck

Hey linda! Life doesn't always turn out the way we plan! I surely should know that! I too thought that one day I would meet Prince Charming and be married and have a boy and a girl! Yea right! I am 56 and never married, have not children, just cats and I am sure that I did the right thing! It just wasn't meant to be for me and I am fine with that. My Mom is angry with me for not giving her grands, but I told her to get over it! She has grands, but they have tails! So instead of feeling sorry for ourselves we have to just get on with our lives. At least you have 3 beautiful boys to share your life with. So things didn't turn out the way you wanted them to. That guy was a jerk and it is better that you found it out before he totally messed up your life like he is going to mess up the life of the poor woman that married him! So think of that as a Blessing!

Most of the time I do the recollection alone in my past every time I was left in my house. From the moment I have started to recall my past to the present life. During my school age up to my teenage and when I fall in love up to getting married and have the family. I wouldn't stop thinking why my life is like this. How if I could not marry my husband where I am now and what kind of life do I have now. There is a lot of things to think and to thanks God for what we are today. And I know that God is the author of life, from the beginning He know to where He will place us on earth. From that reason, I stop thinking why I was like this. But the most important of all I did not regret at all. Thanks I was born.

Hi!I just turned 43 last month and most of the time especially when I am so down and depress that's the time I am having self-reflection because that's the time we want to be alone and dont want to be bothered.Yes,I definitely hibernates,it makes me emotional when reminiscing my past happy childhood days that no matter what happened ,my parents would always be there at my side.Now,I have my own family how I wish I can do what my parents did to me and my siblings.I am always weighing things out if I've done what must be done,if I have served my purpose as a person,as a sister,as a daughter,as a wife,as a friend and as a good mom to my two daughters.And what went wrong if things didn't happened the way we want it to be.Self reflection makes us pause for a while and gather our thoughts.At the end,it just dawned on me that this is life,life is so precious,mysterious,magical,wonderful.we just have to make the most of it.

Hi linda!!! So true...I am only 19 years old...I always use to think about my life when I'll 25 or 30 years old...And I also think of the days when I was a kid.... When I was a kid I used to think of the days when I'll be in a medical college...NOw when I am in a medical college I think of the future and the past... So its part of life...I enjoy it!!!

Well i did reflect my life , i had somehow wasted my youth but i will try to make up for it yea .

belated happy birthday.ofcorse,i do have my share of problems and 1 thing i do to de-stress myself is to think about my childhood days,when i was so happpy and carefree and i did have a care in the world.

Yes, I do. And I have done that a lot of times too. Sometimes when I can't sleep I would just let my mind wander around and reflect on my life. Sometimes we need that to assess on what's going on with our life and check if we are on the right track. I even do it with my husband. Sometimes we talk about our past problems and how we were able to solve it or sometimes we talk about our future plans for our kids and our finances. Reflecting on our life is very useful, I guess. It makes us stop, assess and internalize, not just doing whatever we want to do without directions.

Just the other night, my childhood bestfriend and I were discussing all the fun memories we've had. Since we hardly see each other anymore, due to our family problems, it's hard to keep in touch with her. So, while we were talking about it, I almost busted into tears because it made me realize how much I miss her. =/