When you think about your life, what isn't right in the picture?

The only thing really not right to me is where we live. I never really pictured myself living so far away from family once I was married and had children. Luckily, we are trying to fix that. :-)

I’m not happy with a particular situation (I’m locked into going to a particular church). Hubby knows this, and we have an agreement that I will attend a different one periodically. It’s a win-win.

I wanted to be a filmmaker and somewhere along the way I ended up having a family and then having to make detours to provide for them. Now I make glue for a living! Hell, I suppose I should be grateful I have a job right?

I think life is a grand opportunity to advance our lives and find all the mysteries and information available to man. It is very rewarding, exciting, wonderful and amazing. And we all can have the exact life we want.

I love my second wife to death, but when I got married the first time, I always thought it was for life… that we would grow old surrounded by our grandchildren and great-grandchildren. When I think about that, I get melancholy. My children and grandchildren live about 1,200 miles away and I get to see them for about two weeks every six months or so. I miss them more than I can express. :`(

the only thing not right is I don’t have a career that I’m passionate about, but it’s also hard to think of what I’d really enjoy doing. Right now my motivation is mainly money and job security. My happiness is secondary, I also have a family to feed so…...........

I should have been rich lol.

Just kidding, but I feel I should have gone to college right away, or chosen a different lifestyle in general.

Heh.
When I was a teenager, I set up the master plan to invest my time in writing the single most epic fantasy novel ever, then sell it to get filthy rich, and use the money to go solve world hunger and stuff.
Well, I have a different approach now.

Other than that, all going pretty much according to plan, insofar as there is one.
What’s still not right is that I still don’t have a job and I still haven’t moved out, but those are just the next items on the to do list.

Well, I’m not simi-retired and able to afford those private yachting adventures on ships like the “Octopus” that Bill Gates and Paul Allen are able to enjoy.

Other than that, life’s pretty darned good!

That I’m not married. When I got married, like @CaptainHarley I thought it was for life. I see my kids regularly but never expected to be divorced.

I would have liked more children, but I am happy with the one I have
@Cruiser are you ‘stuck’ in your job LOLL

:)

@lucillelucillelucille

Nice sound! Great attitude! : ))

@partyparty And then some! Fonny girl!

Here’s a message for all of you who had dreams and goals. I’ll give you the same advice that Winston Churchill gave to the boys at Harrow School: “Never, never, never give up!”

Oh heavens, what a question.

I wasn’t supposed to get sick with a mental illness.

I should be in an earthen house in the woods and mountains somewhere, hunting, gathering, and gardening for a living with a group of friends and family, not living in an apartment working multiple jobs to pay rent and such.

@CaptainHarley
Warm fuzzy feelings aside, I hope you do realise that’s horrible advice. Giving up on a good idea may lead to lost potential, but sticking to a bad idea in spite of clues that it’s a bad idea can get you into serious trouble.
A much more useful skill than obstinate pig-headedness about everything is the ability to judge when you should stand by your decisions, and when you should cut your losses and try something more promising. And that’s difficult enough when you do allow yourself to feel nagging doubts when you have good reasons for them.

Me, actually.

I’m not supposed to have diabetes. There is no history of it in my family and I’m 6’0”, 147 pounds and I don’t meet the profile of a diabetic at all. That definitely isn’t right. Or fair.

@Bluefreedom

Are you a veteran? Were you in Vietnam, boots on the ground? Then you may have diabetes from exposure to Agent Orange. Contact your local office of the Disabled American Veterans and get more information.

It is rather minor and working toward remediation at this very moment, but I should be married to my love and we should be under one roof. The big day is March 21st. On a larger scale: by this point I really should have been teaching for about 20 years, instead I am just getting started.

The house we live in.

The dynamic between my daughter and us. I have always craved a close mother/daughter relationship and this makes me incredibly sad. I have recently accepted that this is not a “phase.” She is a “strong-willed” child and we need to adjust our parenting. Once we get that in order, I believe things will be considerably more pleasant.

My lack of career.

@Fyrius

I said nothing about ideas, only about the individual never giving up on themselves. There is never a point where I would recommend that an individual give up on themselves.

As for giving up on a bad idea, I also believe that doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different outcome is borderline insanity.

I think I should have been a farmer’s wife in the old days when I could have stayed home.

Thank you for all of these responses. I really liked this thread. GA’s to everyone. I hope we get more.

@CaptainHarley
Nice amendment. And congratulations, you’re more sensible than Churchill.

The way he put it, what you say defies his pseudo-wisdom. If you keep failing but you never, never, never give up, that’s borderline insanity, you say.
I agree, it is.

I was supposed to be making about double what I do now, in an entirely different field. Ahimè, such is life.
Before that plan got mooshed, I was supposed to be a doctor. Before that, I was supposed to be in a different country altogether.

@Fyrius Never, never, never giving up is fine when the alternative is thoroughly unsavory.

@CaptainHarley. 23 years in the military now but way too young to have been in Vietnam.

My biggest complaint is that I don’t have enough free time to socialize with my close friends and family. I have a long commute and it sucks all this time out of my day. I make the best of it by listening to music and reading and even working on the train to and from work. But when I see movies where there are a group of friends just hanging out with each other, having time to share each other’s lives, I feel a void. It’s not that I don’t have friends. Only that we never seem to be able to make our schedules mesh so we can have some decent time together.

@Nullo
A “never” excludes the possibility of any particular conditions on the situation, though. Let alone three of them.
But yeah, semantics aside, we agree. It’s wise to persist in certain situations.