Today I woke up totally overwhelmed. Our financial situation is a total mess right now. My husband has a very low paying job as a bill collector. I had to quit my job and go on disability. I was the major wage earner in our family. I can ususally count my blessings to get out of it but I am very frustrated today. I have been babysitting for a little extra money for a friend of mine, and she just moved into a milllion dollar house. Another friend of mine was telling me about the vacation she is planning for Europe this summer. It just seems so unfair that they are able to have things I may never have. I have had kidney failure since I was 19 years old. For the past 20 years I have had overwhelming medical bills, even when I had a transpant. We are never going to have a lot of money. I try not to be jealous, but it is so hard. There is really no answer except life if unfair. How do you handle these feelings?
Thanks for the support. My hubby and I cooked tacos at home tonight and had a good talk. I feel a lot better. I really liked the frugal living site. It gave me some great ideas on how to stretch the I have.
Yes, I understand exactly what you are going through. Thinking obout my financial situation seems like there is no solution or way out. I can forsee myself filed for bankcruptcy in the future even though I am not in heavy debt now after the kidney transplant. I am in the same boat.A year ago, I was very bitter about how my life have turned out and so often compared myself to my peer. But when I joined IHD site, I learned to accept and let go of the past. Health and Happiness. Love and Friendship here Priceless.
"At the beginning of our life is birth, during which we suffer, and at the end of our life is death, during which we also suffer. Between these two come aging and illness. No matter how wealthy you are or how physically fit you are, you have to suffer through these circumstances.""On top of this comes discontentment. You want more and more and more. This, in a sense, is real poverty - always to be hungry, hungry, hungry with no time to be satisfied. Others might not be rich, but contentment provides them with fewer worries, fewer enemies, fewer problems, and very good sleep. On more than one occasion, when I have visited very nice homes in rich communities, I have peeked inside the medicine chest in the bathroom and found some medications to provide energy for the day and others to induce sleep at night. Contentment might do both of these jobs better since it reduces anxiety during the day, paving the way for sleeping peacefully.""In the frenzy of modern life we loose sight of the real value of humanity. People become the sum total of what they produce. Human beings act like machines who's function is to make money. This is absolutely wrong. The purpose of making money is the happiness of humankind, not the other way around. Humans are not for money, money is for humans. We need enough to live, so money is necessary, but we also need to realize that if there is too much attachment to wealth it does not help at all. As the saints of India and Tibet tell us, the wealthier one becomes, the more suffering one endures.""..... Consider the pleasure of eating. Today I had some delicious food. When I ate it, it was beautiful, but as it passed through my stomach and intestines, it changed into something not so beautiful. When eating, we avoid noticing that this is what happens, and we take pleasure, thinking, "Oh, now this is a very good meal! I am really pleased." But that beautiful food gradually passes through my body, and finally goes into the toilet in a form nobody regards as beautiful. This stuff that people regard as very dirty actually is made in this human body. In a way, making stool is a principal function of our bodies!""Eating. working, and making money are meaningless in themselves. However, even a small act of compassion grants meaning and purpose to our lives."Dalai Lama - How to Practice The Way to a Meaningful Life
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