Just what is it in life

[Jeff]

Brichard's post made me think...just what is it in life that keeps us going...what is it that gives us joy that gives us sorrow. Personally I just can't there... Hope this envokes a talk...jeff


ps this board is great...

[Brichard]

I saw a speaker this year, and he is really somewhat of a phillosopher. He described life this way:

"Everything is in conflict and we are in the middle"

I thought that was a pretty deep and valid statement. He went on to describe how everything has an opposite. Good and Evil, Love and Hate, Strength and Weakness, Joy and Sorrow, ... and on and on it goes.

And we live somewhere in the middle of all of those things. Sometimes we are on the right side, sometimes the wrong side, and sometimes we just drift in the middle! ;)

I just think of the ups and downs of my job this year.

In January I got the largest raise I've ever received and was absolutely in love with my job.

Then we lost a major provider, had a reorg, and I had to adjust to moving at home.

But... in the last week I've closed several sales that were on the fence and life at work is good again.

Life is alot like the seasons and I try to think of it that way. I try to remind myself that Winters are always followed by Spring!

[Jeff]

I would have to agree with your statements. It appears that as one extreme is reached the opposite tends to surface more readily.

Whoa-- depth first thing in the morning!!
I have been trying to appreciate little things that happen in my life and things that I see, and to feel, if not joy, something like wonder at the amazing world around me. I think I have been guilty of getting so wrapped in busyness, that I live my life somewhere in the middle of Brichard's extremes, experiencing neither the highs or the lows. But I know it's the extremes that have the power to teach and make life meaningful. I have been accepting, rather than embracing, and content instead of curious. I thought when I was younger, that that was what I needed. But it's not very fulfilling. I don't want drama or crisis, just the ability to feel and express a full range of emotion.

Sorry for the ramble, it is something that I've been struggling with lately. Jeff, you hit a nerve.

[Linda/NE]

Wow that really makes me think....
Not sure that this really hits the subject but I find myself constantly wanting something to look forward to or longing for what was. So much so that I know I'm not appreciating the present.

Also, I have a hard time appreciating things when they are good, because of a feeling that something bad has to be around the corner.

Does that make any sense?

[RCT]

not sure I understand the question here, but here is what I think keeps me going.....I wake up knowing I have two lives to mold.... ds and dd...somedays I just want to stay in bed, feeling blue or sick aren't going to solve anything.....so I have to keep breathing and move forward...like Linda said with nothing around the corner for insentive......I try to stop and smell the roses too but, sometimes I too forget to revile in the moment....I think the human mind has a will to survive, the worst circumstances can prove to be your best survival skills....this past year has shown me strength I didn't relize I had.....and I guess that's good, but I too wonder what is going to happen next....

[Amy2]

I think we just keep going. When I have been in the depths of despair, thinking there is no way I CAN go on, or that life SHOULDN'T go on, it just does somehow whether I want it to or not. I mean, one could kill oneself, but most of us don't. We just go on. Time somehow "weaves it's circular magic, and eases us back to the threshold of joy again" as a friend of mine once put it. The life force is so strong. And I think that the beauty of the life force, God, Love, Peace, all those things are so miraculous that they reveal themselves to us and we understand. Maybe not consciously, but it's there inside us, and we get it. And we go on.
Amy

[Ryleigh]

What keeps me going these days?? Good question. Too in depth with everything that's been going on I'll have to sleep on it. :sleep: :sleep: :sleep:

Just off the top of my head I would have to say my family, my faith, and my friends. (that would include you guys)