Does Anyone Else Feel Especially Sad Lately?

LindaB said:
Yes. I feel this, too. I think it is so many things. Social isolation, not being able to do your normal activities, the divisiveness of our country here in the US, hate mongering, racism, misogyny, misinformation and the loss of societal civility. I feel sad for all of this and a kind of helplessness.
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It is the birth of a new age, and like all births, things are difficult, confusing, and unsettling as we say goodbye to the old and usher in the new. Things will change. Some of us will think the changes are improvement, some will not. I am sure the dinosaurs hated the ice age. 🤓
 

Judycat said:
We need better drugs.
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We need to stop being, for the most part, spoiled Americans and learn to cope. Our lives while restricted are, for the most part, good. I do not have to trek on foot a hundred miles or so carrying a starving child to a medical aide center run by foreign doctors to beg for food. I’ve never had to do that.

Thousands do. We need to keep things in perspective.
 
Aneeda72 said:
We need to stop being, for the most part, spoiled Americans and learn to cope. Our lives while restricted are, for the most part, good. I do not have to trek on foot a hundred miles or so carrying a starving child to a medical aide center run by foreign doctors to beg for food. I’ve never had to do that.

Thousands do. We need to keep things in perspective.
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Yes, being spoiled is hard to combat .. We want it all, and we want it NOW.
 
I bury myself in work that I enjoy. Woodworking, Engineering and Restoring historic properties, restoring Historical and vintage automobiles, help maintaining and operating a steam locomotive, and volunteering to deliver for meals on wheels. I let the worlds impacting issues go by, and operate in my small little world. It works for me.
 
needshave said:
I bury myself in work that I enjoy. Woodworking, Engineering and Restoring historic properties, restoring Historical and vintage automobiles, help maintaining and operating a steam locomotive, and volunteering to deliver for meals on wheels. I let the worlds impacting issues go by, and operate in my small little world. It works for me.
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I have an historic property which I am 🤣 restoring, but I do not enjoy doing it. Stupid money pit of an old house.
 
Phoenix said:
Actually the mind can hold a happy thought and a sad one at the same time. The heart also knows both at the same time. We each have to deal with this in the way that is right for us. One size never fits all.
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Do you know what the combination of a happy and sad thought is called: a "sappy" thought. :) Just kidding! However, what you say is an interesting thing to consider.

Tony
 
Phoenix said:
Actually the mind can hold a happy thought and a sad one at the same time. The heart also knows both at the same time. We each have to deal with this in the way that is right for us. One size never fits all.
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I have been giving this a great deal of thought. It's an interesting question: Can two opposite ends of the spectrum inhabit the same space at the same infinitesimal, split second, in this relative field of thought?
One thought is everything is so intimatly universally connected with everything else, it might not even be possible for us to distinguish completely.
Another is: The creation of an original thought, even though integrating with everything in the absolute, has to be an individual action.
But there is a relative and an absolute. In time, there is a linear and an eternal, which flows in all directions. In the unlimited field of influence, all things are possible, and if one views thought as waves of energy circling, So, In the eternal viewpoint, and taking in the concept of the multiverse, not only can two diverse ends occupy this at the same time, but all thought between. I was speaking from the gross, relative ever changing state of life, not the absolute unmanifested character.
 
Gaer,
Well said. I believe everything is universally connected with everything else, sometimes it is not possible for us to distinguish the association completely. We can't see the forrest for all the trees. Yet another person, not so close to the situation at hand, can recognize the association immediately, communicate the concept, hence an idea.
 
Liberty said:
Yes, Holly already corrected me. So what happened "charry" 8 years ago that has initiated your sadness, if you know what it was and want to share it of course (or not).
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My husband had a massive stroke,......turned our life upside down,, and it’s been a rollercoaster since ..we ve had no support....it’s jyst been us.......im his shadow carer I've not left his side since then ...mike is paralysed down his left side...he can’t do anything for himself .....I .miss my lovely man ..🥺😢
 
charry said:
My husband had a massive stroke,......turned our life upside down,, and it’s been a rollercoaster since ..we ve had no support....it’s jyst been us.......im his shadow carer I've not left his side since then ...mike is paralysed down his left side...he can’t do anything for himself .....I .miss my lovely man ..🥺😢
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Oh Charry! I'm so sorry that happened! What a beautiful lady you are to be by his side all the time! It takes great inner strength to do what you are doing. Bless you!
 

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