What has surprised you the most about life?

David777 said:
After living through the post WWII Cold War era here in the USA when our nation seemed to be on top of the world with a fantastic future and then the counter culture and Viet Nam War period, how utterly bad and sad much has turned out decades later due to the dominant selfish inconsiderate pursuit of wealth not just in our country but across the human world.
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So many times I hear my grandchildren use the word "generational" and I have to stop them and say no, the continued use of plastics, planned obsolescence, or whatever, is not generational, it is greed.
 
Gaer said:
You already KNOW! and you don't want to go back there.
and,
You don't have to! The past is the past, my friend.
(When I visualize you, I see you standing, screaming at the skies.)
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Yes, I do know. I remembered what I wanted to forget. It was the shock & surprise of finding my husband dead.


Yes, I screamed at the sky. I screamed "if you are here, give me a sign," and he did. Immediately.

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This happened a few months, or maybe as long as a year after the event.
 
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Pepper said:
Yes, I do know. I remembered what I wanted to forget. It was the shock & surprise of finding my husband dead.

Yes, I screamed at the sky. I screamed "if you are here, give me a sign," and he did. Immediately.
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@Pepper, The night my husband died in my arms, I was lying in bed, crying.
I heard his voice at the end of the bed, calling my name. (Not psychically, but through my ears)
He was letting me know he was still there.

Apologize to the OP. Don't want to get your thread off track.
 
What surprised me the most was how little real life was like TV, the movies, or Ladies Home Journal. For example I found out when I was 20 that being poor wasn't making your own clothes and having hamburger dishes instead of steak, it was not being able to afford fabric, or hamburger.
 
Della said:
What surprised me the most was how little real life was like TV, the movies, or Ladies Home Journal. For example I found out when I was 20 that being poor wasn't making your own clothes and having hamburger dishes instead of steak, it was not being able to afford fabric, or hamburger.
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See, i learned that early. As toddler most of my clothes were made by Mom from flower printed flour sacks. After my older sisters came to live with us and the age gap meant their hand me downs wouldn't fit me for a couple of years she organized a clothing swap with neighbors.

Being rural poor has it perks-- parents hunted, we all fished. We gave some of it to neighbors and let them fish off our dock, they gave us veggies at harvest time. Still there were times Mama would claim to be dieting to make sure us kids had enough.
 
Della said:
What surprised me the most was how little real life was like TV, the movies, or Ladies Home Journal. For example I found out when I was 20 that being poor wasn't making your own clothes and having hamburger dishes instead of steak, it was not being able to afford fabric, or hamburger.
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When I was very young and first married I can remember watching a salad dressing commercial on TV and thinking, "They probably just threw that salad away after they made that commercial".
 
I think what's surprised me most about 'life' is something that isn't alive as we know it, trying to warn me of impending disasters ...

I get predictions in my dreams.. very real, frighteningly real that haunt me over and over.. .. many times in my life, I get them over and over again.. take a warning, take heed... but altho' I talk about them to people I just feel that I'm not in any position to prevent what the dreams are telling me..

For example, from being a tiny child.. maybe from the age of 9 or 10 I would have dreams that my mother died.. I would be sobbing.. I was never a child who cried, very stoic child usually but this would make me sob , and my mother would come, and say there's no need to worry..but still I'd have the dreams her assurances didn't comfort me.... and sure enough when I was a teen she died..

In between those times..I've dreamt , those frightenly real and upsetting nightmares about other things which have all come to pass...

The most recent was during the whole year of 2020 and half of 2021.. I had recurrent nightmares, probably twice a week. Again so real, that I;d be calling out in my sleep, my husband would tell me he heard me calling..talking.. ... .. . It was always the same, my husband was having an affair, he was going to do several other things that would cause me great anguish, and I'd wake up in a cold sweat, heart completely bursting from my chest, so much I would think I was about to have a heart attack..they were just as real as if they had happened already..

I'd relate the dream to him and he would assure me there was no chance of any of that happening, but still the dreams occurred, and eventually he would say.... I suppose I was doing wrong again in your dream last night..but I could never do that to you..

Out of the blue in the middle of 2021.. during the lockdown, I discovered he was indeed having an affair, and had been for several months.. and everything that played out in my nightmares went on to occur within days of me discovering.. horrendous situation which was completely out of my control...

I only give these 2 examples out of many in my life... because something.. ''someone'' it's warning me of things.. ahead of time.. things that are going to be the most devastating or things that I'm supposed to know... ... that's the biggest surprise for me in life,...and I wish if it;s about to happen whoever is warning me .. would have the power to stop it..

One day I'll discover who or what is behind it all
 

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