If you lost your way in life, how did you get back on track?

Not easy, personally I can’t get back on track!

@ZEPHYRA I’m sorry, I would ask why, but I guess you would have told us if you wanted us to know more. I hope sooner or later you will find a way.

@RANGIEBABY Thanks for your kind words. I guess we all keep trying in our own way.

@ZEPHYRA That is true, but sometimes we need help. When I lost my mother, I thought my life was over and my faith had been lost as well. After seeing a doctor for a couple of months, I realized my faith was in tact and my life was going on. It was very helpful for me.

You can only get lost if you have a destination you are trying to get to. Otherwise, you are on a journey with hills and valleys, and even a few loopty loos. You just have to keep going.

@RANGIEBABY may your faith carry you through life through thick and thin and may mum’s memory be your guiding light. I am glad you worked your way through it all.

Divorce WAS my way back

I’m with @josie

I have been divorced for 7 years now and am still HIGH AS A KITE on my new life! lol

From the brink of insanity to the shores of a new world. Damn…it’s good! lol

Pray a lot!

GPS FTW, beeyotch!

@BoBo1946 Sometimes we need more than prayers. At those times, our brains are not functioning the rational way they should, most of the time. So we very often need an outside voice to intervene, whether it be doctor, lawyer, friend, and sometimes even a stranger.

@RANGIEBABY I’m glad you sought some help and got some benefit from doing so. Hang in there!

@Dr_Lawrence Thank you, that was 19 years ago, and after about 2 years, with the help of others I began to see the reality. No thanks to family, including husband, not to say that in a mean way, they just would not talk to me about her, because they thought I would fall apart. She was my hero and I wanted to talk about her, she still is my hero. The Family’s intentions were good, but made things worse.

I suffered two devastating losses in my 20’s, and my family was there to help me thorough many months of a Zombie state. I was lucky because I had a wonderful son to take care of, and that is the main thing that pulled me through.

My suggestion is to look outside yourself through volunteer work or getting involved in a project that is important to you.

When I read this, I though…oh my, did I lose my way or what? For 5 or 6 years I was so lost & living is an utterly self-destructive world. Then @tinyfaery ‘s response reminded me that that was part of my journey, as awful as it was. It has taught me a lot about myself and a lot of positive has come out of it.
In that sense, I’d say I changed the direction I was going by looking inwards.
I appreciate my life in a way I never could have without having hit rock bottom. For that, I can only be thankful.

@stardust I am so happy for you, your journey may just have taken you to a side view of what might happen, and wisely you chose to turn around. Now that you have seen that, you will probably never go back.
It is like the tree of life I have taught my granddaughters about. You want to stay within sight of the trunk as you investigate the branches. Go out too far and it may break off and it may be over. The goal is to reach the top by the time you are very old, and alive.

You describe most of your own problems So you do “see” it. You are stronger that you feel because you SEE the problems.
So stop and truely look at your self as though you were an observer. You chose the word track. That means single mindedness to focus and move backward or forward.
What would you tell that person to do, one thing at a time, Biggest thing first to go froward to new goals?

I refer back to my mission statement. That’s what it is there for.

The biggest mistake people make is assuming they were on a path in the first place, without ever having made a plan that describes the journey to begin with.

A Way, is a Plan. Without a Plan, there is no Way to go other than down.

@MaryW Are you talking to me?

Drastic change has helped me out at one time, but I don’t think it’s very honest. Still, it makes things interesting.

Making a plan, breaking it down into steps. Swallowing my pride and admitting when I needed some help or support. Living in the moment and feelig every experience, even the not so good ones. Realizing that I didn’t get here overnight, and I won’t find my way back overnight either.

@Trillian so encouraging. There is nothing wrong with getting help, in fact I think only the smart ones reach out for help when they need it. The others just sit and do nothing and things fester or get worse. Nice to talk to you again.

I don’t know, it seems every time I get my life back on track something always happens to derail me again. I guess thats why I live each day spontaneously. One day at a time. You can’t “plan” a perfect life.

@Jabe73 No, nobody can plan a perfect life, there is no such thing. I remember when I was a young girl, and I was breaking a colt. I didn’t like riding horses, but my parents bought it for me and I didn’t have the heart to say I don’t like it. So I tried to learn to ride and then break the little colt. It was more of a lesson for me than I thought, because when I got bucked off, I had to get back on. When I became an adult I understood why I had to get back on, so I have lived my life with that same idea. If I make a mistake, I understand that, and will not make the same one again. But will continue to move forward. Sometimes it feels very slow and then sometimes moves right along. I have a mix of spontaneity and planning in my life.

@RANGIEBABY I can agree with that. You need at least some type of planning but at least for me I find I do my best when something unexpected interests me and then following through with it rather than long term planning and trying to stick with it. Thats what works for me the best. Everyones different.

@RANGIEBABY could not agree more!

@Jabe73 So your plan is to let the river do the rowing, allowing the winds of change to toss you about. Good plan, and I must admit, that depending upon the circumstance, I myself have made that plan. But in making that occasional decision, the last line item on the plans list is to make sure to cast no blame. For who will I blame when I land in thorns after having planned to be subject to the random forces of natural cause? And I have little faith I will be so easily released from those thorns as I was thrown upon them.

Perhaps the cosmos intended I learn a lesson from the thorns. Perhaps the cosmos is blind, deaf and dumb, without intentions for me at all. Either way, I’m stuck in the thorns. Live, learn, and consciously plan my escape.

@RealEyesRealizeRealLies I love your answer. I too repel long term planning. There are too many variables to get in the way or cause change, sometimes of your own doing.

Telling myself that setbacks are temporary.

By telling myself everyone suffers a set back at some point in their lives. We all have our trials and the only way through it is to push through it till you come out the other side.
Trails are a way of gaining perspective and gaining strength. Each time you win a battle you gain new insite to who you really are and what you are made of.
Its not always our wins that show who we really are but our loses and how we handled them that tell our real story.