Grateful.

[gerrerd]

Nature knows best. we need to get back to where we came from, Natural. Not the capitalist world that has been imposed on us from birth. We need to reclaim our birth right and our freedom, and not be slaves in golden handcuffs. Ray.

[Turnipgirl]

Even though at present I am looking for a job and it can get aggravating at times I do feel that there are worse things that could come my way than that like being chronically ill when I was in my 20s which was a good few years ago!

Many years ago when I was growing up I had thought that having a baby and getting married over 30 was old as where I was growing up it was a small town and there they seemed to think if you weren't married by the time you were 20 you were an old maid!

Reality is marriage can happen at any age not just something reserved for those in their 20s!

When my father attacked me a good few times when I was a youngster say over career choices and upset when an ex got married he would play God and say to me and I was 19 at the time that in my 20s I would have a marriage and start a family and I had said what about the 30s and 40s?

I think more people get married in their 30s and 40s put together than those in their 20s!

With respect he was stupid to say that as the reality of life is that nothing is guaranteed to anyone and in no way was he God dictating who's faces fitted where!

[gerrerd in reply to Turnipgirl]

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[Dolphin14]

The golden handcuffs.... I lived there for years. Money is no longer at the top of the list. It does nothing if there is no peace within

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[Turnipgirl in reply to Dolphin14]

Yes that's right money in my view means nothing when you are unhappy!

[Dolphin14 in reply to Turnipgirl]

Yes, happiness and peace are driving this second part of my journey.

Sending you peace

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[Turnipgirl in reply to Dolphin14]

Today has been a great day as I have been to swimming with my sister in law and we had a chat about things as well and she said that my father was very very stupid in his attitudes to life with being a bully and a snob as well and how he had reaped what he had sown with not having any of his kids confide in him as all we would have got was a load of sarcastic comments and when someone's upset you sympathise with them!

My father had complained that none of his kids would confide in him about things due to making sarcastic comments when people are upset and I had told him how he can't have things both ways!

Point is where there's no sense there's no feeling either!

There was an incident when we were taking Grandpa out to an Italian restaurant for lunch and my father had said about a Chinese in the evening and I had said don't you think that's a bit much when we're having lunch out with Grandpa?

My father had said how we could save the leftovers for his lunch the next day!

I suggested to my father why don't we postpone the Chinese and go another day and have something in toast for dinner seeing as we are off out to lunch with Grandpa and I had suggested an all you can eat place using the swear words that you can have what you want and others can have what they want is that fair?

No it wasn't and I got shouted at by my father just because I said about being fair to everyone and postponing the Chinese!

My father went and drove half a mile up the road that evening after we had had Italian with Grandpa at lunchtime and had gone and bought himself fish and chips after having had lasagne at lunchtime which I thought was too much!

When I go out for lunch for dinner I have things like soup or beans on toast.

If I have soup and sandwiches for lunch then a Chinese is fair enough!

With respect though getting the fish and chips out of spite was just stupid and childish!

That man was stupid to himself more than to anyone else!

[primrose81]

Yes I agree - it’s the little things that matter and so often we are too busy to notice or just take nature for granted instead of pausing and taking a closer look and realising how miraculous it all is.

[Turnipgirl in reply to primrose81]

A valuable lesson I learned from being seriously ill is that there's very little in life that's urgent or important!

[gerrerd in reply to Turnipgirl]

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