I am having trouble dealing with the everyday pain and discomfort of life

[Lao Tzu]

Well I do have depression anxiety and I found out today ADD.

Second of all Smurfy is right.

Third of all I have a Master's, a house, and a decent job.

I think I'm just now realizing how hard being good at life really is. Am I going to give up? FUCK NO. I'm in it to win it not to just be average that's why I'm complaining. I'm already above average.

Finally I'm 29.

Define 'being good at life'. Do you mean not having any serious mental or physical problems, being highly educated, highly paid, with good relationships (family, spiritual, romantic, friendship, etc) in a job you love? What is your goal exactly.

 

[Lao Tzu]

Hatorade? Feeling sorry for the people around me?

I belly-laugh on a regular basis. As a matter of fact the people around me who know a tiny bit about some of the difficulties I encounter daily can't figure out how I do it. Do you know how?

I think of a woman I saw once when I was going through a bit of a hard time a ways back (and no, it wasn't about getting laid or getting a life). She had no useful appendages.

Was a wake up call for me.

What will it take for you? ADD and a depresive disorder? Come on, that woman had no useful appendages. What is her life like compared to yours? And what did she do to deserve her lot in life?

I don't hate. You just have a hard time accepting the fact that you have nothing to really bitch about yet you are talking of "the pain of life"?

OK

No matter how bad you have it someone is guaranteed to have it a little worse. that appendage lady has people whose lives look terrible compared to hers, and those people have people whose lives look like shit compared to theirs, and it just keeps going. it also goes in the other direction, no matter how good you have it, somebody has it better and got it easier.

At the end of the day how does that help? There is no cutoff point in life where 'everyone beyond this has a valid problem'. Does that help Lumberg, or anyone else for that matter address what is ailing them? Is anyone's life better off? I seriously doubt it.

 

[Lao Tzu]

Someone needs a whole lotta Jesus.

Let me get my bucket o' fish and beard in a can and we are good to go.

 

[Longhorn85]

Hey Lumby it sounds like it's time we met at the SportsZone in Baltimore again for a few beers. If I were you, I'd call your friend with the nice ta-ta's and let her cheer you up a little.

 

[Burning_Inside]

Hatorade? Feeling sorry for the people around me?

I belly-laugh on a regular basis. As a matter of fact the people around me who know a tiny bit about some of the difficulties I encounter daily can't figure out how I do it. Do you know how?

I think of a woman I saw once when I was going through a bit of a hard time a ways back (and no, it wasn't about getting laid or getting a life). She had no useful appendages.

Was a wake up call for me.

What will it take for you? ADD and a depresive disorder? Come on, that woman had no useful appendages. What is her life like compared to yours? And what did she do to deserve her lot in life?

I don't hate. You just have a hard time accepting the fact that you have nothing to really bitch about yet you are talking of "the pain of life"?

OK

Buddy, if you were actually unfortunate enough to ever experience any sort of disorder, like ADD or some form of depression, you'd change your tune. Everyone thinks it's a joke, and it's so easy to overcome, because obviously, they've never experienced it.

 

[the nature boy]

take a trip to some shitty ass country, or even cheaper, go to anacostia and see how bad people have it. it might not make you feel better, but you'll at least appreciate what you have.

 

[Werd]

Buddy, if you were actually unfortunate enough to ever experience any sort of disorder, like ADD or some form of depression, you'd change your tune. Everyone thinks it's a joke, and it's so easy to overcome, because obviously, they've never experienced it.

ADD? You must be joking.

Please. Guess what, I've got it and so.... also have a whole host of other problems that will end my life after many years of degeneration and suffering but I am thrilled to have just one more day so that I can finish the work that I've begun before my time is up. Do I get down about it sometimes. Yes, I do. Then I think about other people who truly have it bad, like that woman who had no past, no present and no shot at a future. Then all of the sudden, I don't feel so cheated. I live daily with terrible pain. Have for many years. I was able to fight it for a long time, but now my body is breaking down and no matter what is done, won't matter any more. So I do the best I can with the time I've left. Before it was only the inside that was being torn down, but now it is becoming increasingly more difficult to hide the external sides, my hair, my teeth, my voice, my musculature....

My physical problems might be bad, but at least I had a past, a present and will do everything in my power to make sure that the time I had here was not wasted by sitting around crying over how unfair it is that I will probably not live to see my 40th birthday.

"Just because someone has 4 appendages does not mean that they can't be unhappy"

Who ever said that? This is not about someone being "unhappy".

This is about someone who is feeling tortured over the pain of life.

Pain of life?

This person has a masters degree, no?

A reasonably good job, though they are "disatisfied".

Some difficulties to overcome, but admittedly he has access to and is receiving excellent care. No?

A clean, safe place to live with every opportunity to have an amazing future. Yet they post up like they are getting ready to go off the deep end because of all the pain they are suffering.

Sorry, but I have trouble feeling compassion for some one who is just a bit unhappy just now when they really have everything going for them. I don't think they need my compassion or support. I think they need to have just one comfort of their daily existance that they feel is causing them such pain taken from them and perhaps they might redefine the word pain.

Which would it be? Their home? (I've lost that). Their health? (Mine has been going for years) Their education? I didn't finish school. Their wife and child? (He has his whole future ahead.... I have none).

I am not bitter at all because of what he has that I never will.

I am angry that he doesn't think that what he has is good enough that he would make the statement that he is having trouble dealing with the tremendous pain of his life.

He has everything.... every opportunity and he thinks that it is nothing.

It makes me shake my head. And yet I still would never want to trade with him. I know what I have and had because it has all been or will be taken from me so I cherish every minute of every day.

Now I'll go back to the stupid bitching I do about not being able to get laid... All just stupid posts to pass the time and bring a little humor into my life whenever I can get it. Laughter is what gets me through.

Loosen up Lumberg, from where I am standing your life is pretty fucking good.

I wish that you could see that. Carpe Diem.... Carpe Diem

 

[The_Ghost]

My friend buried his 15 year old son last week. for over half his years alive he had a rare form of brain cancer. This boy never once felt sorry for himself, bitched or complained about his life and he wouldn't let others do it either. He couldn't do a lot of the things we all including myself take for granted. This brave boy taught me something, that is for sure!

There are plenty of people out there that have it really shitty!

Get out there and live!!

 

[Lumberg]

Define 'being good at life'. Do you mean not having any serious mental or physical problems, being highly educated, highly paid, with good relationships (family, spiritual, romantic, friendship, etc) in a job you love? What is your goal exactly.

I would say having good relationships and a comfortable existence and a job I like.

 

[BO-DEN]

yo im sooo happy. get your own buisness

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