What are u hopeful for urself or some else in the future?

[st789]

I recently feeling blue and am trying to do my best to think positive and be hopeful about my life.  Free of emotional and financial worries.  Having inner peace with myself.

How about my extend family members here?

[thegrammalady]

i learned a long time ago, not to sweat the small stuff and not to obsess over the big stuff i can't change. watch it, yes, but let it run away with my life, no. i am a firm believer in "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". it's all my mother's fault. i nearly smacked myself the first time i heard myself say to one of the kids, " can't never did anything". but i can't really blame my mom for that, it came from my grandmother. not that i don't forget every now and again, that gorilla in the corner can be very damaging if you pay attention to him. i've been told i make mountains into molehills.  but i just can't see getting panicky over something that i can't change. doesn't mean i don't care about it, just means i don't make unnecessary noise. my best cure for feeling blue is sitting on the floor at my feet. 6 months  of bubbles and energy. i insist on a baseball team, only 5 more boys to go. my kids just look at me in horror. free of emotional and financial worries probably isn't going to happen. but i can be at peace with myself.

[boxman55]

feelings like that for me come and go I just deal with it the best I can. I try and go do something any thing to change my train of thought. Best of luck...Boxman

[Deanne]

I'm trying to live much more simply than I used to. I don't want a lot of "stuff" around me because it seems that the less excess stuff that I have, the happier I am. So I'm hopeful that I'll continue to need less to feel more & more happy and at peace. So when I'm scrubbing my bathroom floor, it makes me happy that I live in a house with small bathrooms instead of having one of those beautiful spa-like bathrooms you see on tv. When I'm sitting in front of the tv on the weekends (because it doesn't take all weekend to scrub a small bathroom), I look at the critters sitting on the couch next to me and I'm glad I'm not out doing something "fun" because I feel cozy and at peace right where I am.

[st789]

Sometimes I do my best not to dwell on bygone stuff.

[goofynina]

OH how i wish i could be free of any financial burden, i honestly think if i was,  then the emotional problems i have would go away as well.   But, i do not forsee the financial fiasco i have gotten us into disappearing anytime soon so i am stuck with who i am.  I have to deal with it and learn to be happy regardless (which i am trying really really hard and it aint easy)  but i am doing it dammit.   

[Sunny]

There are some things you have no control over, and you have to let those things go. For those things you have Some control over, take them one at a time so it's not all coming at you at once and feeling overwhelming. As for the Blues, it will pass. Wait it out. I find it helps to do "something" to occupy both my mind and my body. Hope you get through this soon. Holidays can be like that.

[MyssAnne]

All good replies. Me, I have Ran to be my worrier. He worries for the two of us, I just work on surivving each day, and trying to enjoy at least one thing out of it. Mostly my pets when I am not with him!

[MattyBoy100]

There's a few things that I would like.

I would like to remain healthy enough to keep working and stay financially independant.

I have a big dilemna at the moment too.  My sister lives 2 hrs away by car and has just had a baby.  I receive excellent care at my dialysis centre.  I was on holiday lately to visit my new niece and my sister and her husband.  My worry for the future is this:

Do I stay here and visit my niece during holidays or do I move so I can see her every day?

I just don't know what to do and we are going to discuss it as a family at Xmas time.

My other minor issue is that I would like someone to share my life with as I am single at the moment.

[Jannie]

Deanne, I'm with you. When I visit my sisters with their big homes, I am glad that when I come home, I only have to clean one little bathroom, not three or four. I wish us all peace and contentment, and someone to love and love us back.

[st789]

Trying to survive and be contentment at the same time!!

[st789]

I am in the same boat as you Matty.  Sometimes, it is hard to approach the opposite sex with issues we are dealing with everyday.

[MelissaJean]

I am in the same boat as you Matty.  Sometimes, it is hard to approach the opposite sex with issues we are dealing with everyday.

One thing I have learned.. having a disease all my life is that there area lot of people out there who don't want to "deal" with the issues, but there just as many people who are willing to look beyond all that at who you really are and what you have to offer. 


As for what I wish for.... to stop being so tired!  Between work, taking care of my new condo, and dialysis I am exhausted and have no time to enjoy work, decorating, or doing anything extra like dancing or cooking... Netflix is my new best friend..haha

[goofynina]

Sorry to take this off topic for a sec, just wanted to say HI  to you Melissa Jean, it is great to see you here and posting again.  Thanks for coming and visiting us again, dont be a stranger 

[Jannie]

I know the day is coming when I will have a successful transplant and I will feel well and strong. I am on three kidney lists, local NY, national, and over age -50-donors list.

[petey]

One thing that ALWAYS chases my blues away is .... Hop-Sing!  He's my five-year-old Pug/Pekingese mix.  He doesn't know that Marvin has a chronic, terrible disease (ESRD).  He doesn't know that I'm struggling to pay all the bills.  He doesn't know that we're now poor -- afterall, he lives in a warm house, sleeps in the big bed between me and Marvin every night, has a bunch of squeaky toys to play with, and always has food and water in his bowl.  He wags his tail every time he sees me and loves to sit in my lap and sleep.  He knows that he loves me and that I love him.  If there is such a thing as re-incarnation, I want to come back as Hop-Sing.  He's got it made!

[kitkatz]

I pretty much have learned to let things go...If I cannot do anything about it, I have to let it go... But then sometimes the flying monkeys and I have to take it on!

[petey]

The older I get, the harder it is for me to HOLD BACK my flying monkeys!  It seems that their let-us-whip-some-ass wait time is shorter than it used to be.

[KT0930]

Petey, Hop-Sing is so cute (he's the one in your avatar, I suppose?)! Dogs definately have it made!

I've actually found that after having lived with a controlling, emotionally abusive husband for eight years, it's extremely easy to let things go when they just don't matter. I wish for anyone who was in the kind of marriage I was to get themselves free and find true happiness. (I have since remarried the most wonderful man in the world.)

[goofynina]

Shooooot, my hope is to comeback as Hop-Sing too, talk about being pampered   I wish my dog could sleep with us in the bed, but she's a huge Doberman Pinscher and Sam wouldnt like that very much, lol, 

[petey]

Yes, KT, that's my Hop-Sing in the avatar!  Since Marvin and I don't have any two-legged children, Hop-Sing is my baby!  Marvin always tells me, "He's a dog not a baby."  To which, I say, "He can be your dog -- but he IS my BABY !!"

And, KT, I'm glad you got out of that other marriage and into the one you have now...but, and you and I have disagreed on this issue before, yours is not the most wonderful man in the world -- MINE is!   (teasing you, here -- laugh with me).