Re: in rereading some of the posts on here, questi... - Page 2

Jamma · ‎03-10-2010

@Preds

I can certainly relate to that.

Jamma

Jamma · ‎03-10-2010

@cotton4me

I'm trying hard on this one,

Allegheny · ‎03-19-2010

I've relied on this phrase for years..."this too shall pass"

Barbara-QVC · ‎10-12-2015

Moved:

This post has been removed by QVC because it is religious

deepwaterdotter · ‎03-09-2010

@Allegheny wrote:
I've relied on this phrase for years..."this too shall pass"

This phrase along with voting for what I believe in whenever I can.

AuntG · ‎03-09-2010

Be content which is far different from being happy.

willdob3 · ‎11-01-2010

@cotton4me wrote:
Faith that things are happening for a reason, a reason I might not understand now. I try to cling to the good things, having gratitude for those. No matter how dark it may feel there is always light.

@cotton4me -

I don't believe everything happens for a reason. Some things just happen. We also have free will.

I do believe and have faith that God will carry me through whatever happens. He always has and always will.

Burnsite · ‎03-10-2010

Great thread topic, @qualitygal.

For me, surviving a setback is easier once I know my next step. A bit over a year ago I ordered an engineer's report on my house, which I intended to fix up. Parts of the house have settlement issues. I'd gotten a line-of-credit equity loan to do the work. But the report was more worrisome than I had expected. For a small house like mine, the money needed was probably more than I could ever get back in equity when I sold.

After a few weeks, I had decided "what to do next." When I leave the house, I must sell it for the land value, with the understanding the house needs serious repairs and might be a tear-down.The land-only value is already twice what I pd for the house in 1990, but the real estate triumph of selling at full value will not happen.But lilfe isn't about triumphs, it's about survival, as the OP says.

At least I found out a year or two ahead of time rather than just as I was selling. I was very unhappy til I figured out a line of action. If I weren't so busy at work, I could tear this one down and build another small house with the line of credit, but I simply don't have the time to do such large-scale work. And it would upset the cats.

151949 · ‎03-09-2010

Gosh, now that I'm no longer working I never have those days when I can barely plow through it. Now a days I pretty much do what I want , when I want. DH occasionally has a day when he is being weird but those are less than before and I pretty much just stay off his radar as much as possible at those times. I'm generally about as content as can be, as long as I don't turn on any political things on Tv.