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Old 04-03-2012, 11:15 AM
 
Location: playing in the colorful Colorado dirt
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Our finances are no where near where we want them, the house needs siding, our trucks should have been euthanized years ago and I need a new tractor.

BUT!

We have a large, loving family, a beautiful granddaughter, a great marriage, land to farm, a roof over our heads, a full pantry and freezer and our health.

Yep, i'd say we're pretty happy and rich with all the things that money can't buy.

Now, if I could just be taller and 20 years younger........
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Old 04-03-2012, 11:21 AM
 
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Yeah not bad thanks. I'd give it a 7/10 atm.
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Old 04-03-2012, 12:10 PM
 
Location: North Central Illinois
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No.
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Old 04-03-2012, 06:52 PM
 
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I'm very content and at-peace, but Happy?! Not yet.
I have hope in fact, expectation that geniune happiness is in my future. I can't be HAPPY yet because I am honestly soul-searching and determined to not be in denial of what I see about myself instead of just what's wrong with others, and the world.
This committment to honesty inside myself about myself....can't possibly give birth to happiness before a bit, or a lot more pain.

I have much to be thankful for, hence the contentment.
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Old 04-03-2012, 07:07 PM
 
Location: ...
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Not as much as I'd like to be ... It is difficult being alone and not being close to family. I'm a social person by nature and it's difficult coming home each evening to an empty home. I try to find as much joy and fun out of life as I can but lately, it's all been difficult.
I agree with you! I am the same way. I have been trying to see how it all begins with me, move out into the world and find what I need. BUT when my first need is a job, and have little money to do anything... it is hard!!

So, no.

I am trying to figure it out, see what I might do different.

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Old 04-03-2012, 07:13 PM
 
Location: ...
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I'm very content and at-peace, but Happy?! Not yet.
I have hope in fact, expectation that geniune happiness is in my future. I can't be HAPPY yet because I am honestly soul-searching and determined to not be in denial of what I see about myself instead of just what's wrong with others, and the world.
This committment to honesty inside myself about myself....can't possibly give birth to happiness before a bit, or a lot more pain.

I have much to be thankful for, hence the contentment.
Oh, this resonates. I can so relate. Thank you.
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Old 04-03-2012, 07:21 PM
 
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I am very glad that y'all, the two above have the internet and CD in-particular. Just reading you both and your soulful comments just reminded me that we don't have to just debate politics and current events at this vast site!

We can share with "kindred spirits" and keep each other company. We can be silly and have hilarity, and because the owners of this website, whomever they are thought to give us well, a smorgasborg? bord? LOL of subject choices we can actually have a fulfilling time of the internet here. Wow...and I do just get so wordy at times.

Bless you both a lot~
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Old 04-03-2012, 07:22 PM
 
Location: Here and There
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I would say I am content. I have much to accomplish yet, but I am learning more everyday, about myself. I am trying to truly embrace the whole "life is a journey", and learning to accept what I cannot change, and changing what I can. I am a bit off from full self actualization (like quite a bit), but working on it!
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Old 04-03-2012, 07:25 PM
 
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Skye, the distance that you have to go on your journey does not matter. *(goes for all of us)
It only matters that you are ON this journey, and I do mean the one of "going within." Wow, just imagine how many folks don't yet see the value of doing-so. Then, pat yourself on the back for being so wise.

I'm in my mid-fifties and truly thankful for finally being on my way out of the "hypnosis of life."
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Old 04-03-2012, 07:26 PM
 
Location: Connecticut
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I am thrilled with my life. Each day is a new adventure.
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