Is this as good as it gets?

I’m planning on it all to get better…but in so many ways, I’m the luckiest and it’s better than good, now.

I certainly hope not.

Oh, I hope not. 2010 wasn’t a great year for me so the bar is set pretty low for 2011.
Let’s pray it’s not a limbo bar!

I don’t think so. As Good As It Gets has Jack Nicholson in it, and I haven’t seen him.

I don’t think so.I’ll let you know in a month or so,just how good it can get.:)

No, no, no! I insist not!

Just remember @seazen “No matter where you are, when you get there, there you are!”

@lucillelucillelucille Are you planning a trip to the holy land?

I just can’t get over how someone with “zen” in his name could ask, “Is this as good as it gets?”

@seazen No.Just California ;))

It isn’t. That’s about the only thing I have actual, definition-solid faith in.

Yes! I mean no! I mean I changed my destiny! I was married for over 20 years, I had pretty much resigned myself to the fact that I would be married to this guy for the rest of my life. Did I love him? No. Did I feel any passion toward him? No. But I was married to him and that is the way I figured it was always going to be!

Well lo and behold I moved half way across the country, found a bit of self-esteem, realized there is more to life then settling for what was right in front of me, and got up the nerve to leave my marriage. I am a single mom and full-time student with two part time jobs and I am totally broke, but I have never felt happier and more fulfilled in my entire life.

@wundayatta – good one, hehehehe.

And to answer the question, it gets better every day. And some days twice as good!

@rooeytoo @SuperMouse Yay!

Bad news, my friend. In my experience, when you finally get around to asking that question, the answer is yes. Of course, YMMV.

Like how if Michael Myers is chasing you, you’re technically able to escape and live but probably won’t, as opposed to Jason Voorhees killing you no matter what you do?

I denno, I just grab on to a log and kick stuff that gets in my face haha.

I have a feeling I’m going to get really pissed off next year. No clue why.

Everything is far better than it’s possible for anything to be. It’s all downhill from here.

I’ve taken control of my destiny (or at least my life’s course) a couple of times… and yet I’m still basically the same person. So, yes and no?

It gets as good as you let it get.

By the end of the week things will be well on their way to just that. Couple more little “details” and that day will come sure enough!

I sure as hell hope not!

True story – sitting on my tatami floor one day back in 1995 I had a strong, uh… daydream? wish?.. for a house with a white picket fence, a dog and a husband. I seriously SAW it my mind.

Not even 2.5 years later I was a home owner (a lovely white 1920’s Cape Cod style house with a porch swing), had BUILT the white picket fence with my own two hands (don’t think I could repeat that feat now if I tried) and had adopted a wonderful mutt from the ASPCA.

I met my husband shortly thereafter and he was a single parent to a beautiful little girl. Not 4 years to the date of that “day dream” I had everything I could have imagined/hoped for – back on that tatami floor in rural Japan.

I don’t buy into the whole “visualize it and it can happen” thing.. but I definitely had this strong wish..and it definitely came to fruition. Was it luck? Fate? Premonition? I have no clue.

Over the 15+ years since that “day dream”..each year seems to have surpassed the next for joy, fulfillment and happiness. I feel grateful and blessed—but also I start from having very realistic expectations.
That is – I just feel thrilled that I have a job, health benefits, a roof over our heads and our kids are healthy.

Think of it this way: there will ALWAYS be someone smarter, dumber, richer and poorer than you. It doesn’t pay to compare yourself to others.

So..if you’re asking that question of yourself perhaps you feel like you’re at some pinnacle and can’t imagine it gets better (though, each time I think things can’t get better..it seems that they do)
OR
..you’re at some low ebb and hoping that there is something you can do to make it “get better” sooner rather than later.

If it’s the latter – I recommend getting out of your own head and doing something for others. Volunteer. Help others—‘cause there is ALWAYS someone worse off than you.

(Sorry for the verbose answer.)

@wundayatta Cute. As you know, I’m about as zen as it gets.

If this were as good as it gets, I’m definitely not leaving Earth happy.

Yes. It is always as good—or as bad—as you let it get.