What are you thinking about today?

[LightAngel]

Lately I have been been surrounded by people who are hurting, even if they don't say it out loud.

It's been sitting heavy with me.

I wish we all felt safer leaning on one another when life gets hard.

No one should have to carry everything by themselves.

[quintessentone]

I too, lately, seem to be surrounded by people who are hurting in one way or the other. I can only be there for them either as a shoulder to cry on, an ear to borrow to listen to their sorrow be known in good and bad ways, an alternative opinion or advice giver, if asked for advice, which I am, so the burden on giving advice can weigh heavy on me. I am heartbroken and sad for them, but I must separate myself from being too involved empathetically because it will only bring me way too down.

What am I thinking about today? All that and I need new car tires and I will end up with two sets (Summer and Winter) with rims and do I want to recycle the tires into garden art or campfire chairs and sell the rims? 

I am trying to keep my mind busy with other things.

[David64]

Pretty mundane things really. 

It's beautiful day here in Kentucky and I'm about to go out and start picking up dead branches that fall every Winter and then there's a few trees I want to trim back, so I'll be getting out the chainsaw. The guy who tills my garden every year stopped by and we set a date for him to come. I paid him so if I'm not home he can go ahead and do it. He's got one of the bigger tractors with a tiller attachment and he does a great job. My Wife wants to plant a Weeping Willow, but it's a little too early. Probably wait a couple more weeks. I plant 5 different kinds of tomatoes every year and keep the seeds, so I need to decide which I'm going with this year....and fix one leaky gutter.

Just regular homeowner stuff.

[YesItsMe]

Thinking the same things I think about every day ... do we have enough money and how is our health.

[DonnerPartyOf404]

Change is what I am thinking about today 24/7.  Change happens but I don't care for it.

I've spent the past year plus helping someone to get out of an abusive relationship.  As I am disabled this duty has put me in the hospital a few times for surgeries.  Perhaps I'll explain that part later.

Now that the dust has settled, moving wise, I see that we get along as well as cats and jellyfish so I will be saying goodbye to this person in the next month or so and starting over once again.

[EndtheMadnessNow]

"What are you thinking about today?"

See this thread: https://rogue-nation.com/mybb/showthread...n=lastpost




Aside from that and for past year, just adapting to change, not worry about anything that I have absolute no control over. On that note, planning for my garden to be even larger than last year just in case SHTF in my parts.

[LightAngel]

 I am heartbroken and sad for them, but I must separate myself from being too involved empathetically because it will only bring me way too down.

Yes, I also have to learn that, but it isn't easy.

On some days I can be empathetic in a healthy way, but on other days I can feel people's pain so much that I almost get sick - our boundaries get thin when we are tired.

Caring deeply is a strength. The goal isn't to care less, but to care in a way that doesn't drain you.

I am working on that.

[babushka]

I'm thinking about little birds that forget that they have to do work with their theories. Without movement there is no light

Doing is rewarded. You are rewarded with what you seek, if what you seek is knowledge you are rewarded more knowledge to seek. If what you seek is action, that is the reward. Everything measured towards your ability.

It has always been the way to seek the help of a higher power when something is beyond your ability to enact.

If there is no higher power to assist you then it's pointless reaching beyond your means and how small is your dreams then?

[kdog]

Internet forums don't like my honest opinions and I am banned everywhere but here.
It's really amusing, to be honest.