Did You Expect The Life You Have?
@PinkFloydFan (1072)
United States
April 22, 2022 2:57pm CST
Some people expected a better life, some expected a worse life than they lived. I certainly did not. I completed the goals I had control of, but many things I've wanted to do can't be done alone, and need collaboration and/or cooperation. Also, almost everything is contingent upon something else, so one impossible cog in my wheel mitigate everything else from progressing or developing. And with age, hope has died. It's like a car with no gas. Yes, it can move, but it takes so much effort just to move inches.
And I've hit that age where it's too late to change, and an age that isn't very conducive toward anything.
I guess it just seems like a waste to make money to remain unhappy. I've tried to live more hedonistic to speed up this process but to get through the day.
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@Shawchert (1094)
• United States
22 Apr 22
I wasn't sure what kind of life I expected for myself. I actually have been playing my own life by ear.
What I didn't expect was:
To be able to save up enough every other year to go on vacation to do fun things, like NYC, Cruises, Disneyland, etc
That I would be an owener of a house and (very little land)
That I would be good at a skill that is not really cared for, and I hate, but still do it.
That I would have a child who is more a blessing but a little curse as he does have mental disabilities that I have to work around (not bad, mind you, just difficult)
There's a lot of things I didn't expect and that's most of my life right now, but I'm happy because I expected to be homeless, jobless, childless, loveless.
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@PinkFloydFan (1072)
• United States
23 Apr 22
Your last four words have all been in my life and some points or another, for long periods of time.
Thanks for your reply!
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@Shawchert (1094)
• United States
23 Apr 22
@PinkFloydFan in points of my life they have but not the homeless part. I've found that I was able to make sure to have a roof over my head especially when I had my son.
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@DWDavis (25812)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
22 Apr 22
I was raised by parents without much in the way of expectations. Most of the careers I considered when I was in junior or senior high were things my parents told me were impractical or out of reach. I sort of coasted along until I met K. She helped me learn to expect more of myself.
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