How do you get by?

Shandashey

Life. Different for everyone. Trials and tribulations. Highs and Lows. What are the things that get you through every day?

Knowing that the alternative is worse.

tomwaterford

Shandashey wrote: »

Life. Different for everyone. Trials and tribulations. Highs and Lows. What are the things that get you through every day?

Staying busy...not taking time to think on these type questions??

The Diabolical Monocle

Shandashey wrote: »

Life. Different for everyone. Trials and tribulations. Highs and Lows. What are the things that get you through every day?

Decadence in the little things. Chocolate, internetz, oversleeping, comedy.

fermanagh_man

Music

Tigger1

My children

6 days work, eat, bounce baby, sleep. 1 night on the tiles. 1 day of recovery.

That's how I roll.

Gotya

The hope that more highs are just around the corner.

Berserker

Chocolate, junk food and those few hours in the evening when I can lie down on the couch and watch my fish swim around the tank.

Kovu

Cats. Cats are Nice.

Duggy747

A good shíte.

The_Valeyard

Think fast, hope it work outs, take the credit.

johnny osbourne

drink

Berserker

Deleted User wrote: »

6 days work, eat, bounce baby, sleep. 1 night on the tiles. 1 day of recovery.

That's how I roll.

Is that bouncing an actual baby or some ghetto-style talk for partying?

jamesoneill

dreaming about having sex eventually

Tombi!

I subscribe to the way of thinking "everyone but me is a fecking bollocks" and the power of hate keeps me going.

Lau2976

Art, my dog and Netflix. I like to shut out the world when things get too much.

Berserker

Berserker wrote: »

Is that bouncing an actual baby or some ghetto-style talk for partying?

The puking gurgling smiling little person type!

Shandashey

Sunny Saturday mornings with a good coffee and book I can't put down.

Filmer Paradise

With a little help from my friends.:)

Forgotten password 99

Thinking about the weekend.

One eyed Jack

Shandashey wrote: »

Life. Different for everyone. Trials and tribulations. Highs and Lows. What are the things that get you through every day?

Prayer.

That, and the patience of a fcuking saint :pac:

Shandashey

tomwaterford wrote: »

Staying busy...not taking time to think on these type questions??

being passive aggressive on forums....

engol

Love life. Every minute of it.

When you consider the alternative, it's the only way to live.

Aimeee

Exercise.
Some tv.
Nice food.
Have started colouring (books) lately, great switch off!
Less thinking more doing (of anything at all even if i really really don't feel like it) usually works.
Feeling thankful for my good life.
Bit of shopping.

I find contentment in the little things, and keep my expectations realistic.

Tigger

cars and bikes
and doggies
and burbon
won't let you down if you care for them

Buck Melanoma

Shandashey wrote: »

Life. Different for everyone. Trials and tribulations. Highs and Lows. What are the things that get you through every day?

Keep a balanced outlook on things ie. accept there will be ups and downs and try to keep things somewhere in between.. oh and also my wife and kids, they are what really matter.

Tigger1

^^^^
You're the one that stopped me being Tigger! Forgot I had this user name and you pop up on the first thread I post on!
Odd

ToddyDoody

Foot fetish

PLL

Read Boards.ie threads. Seriously.

It is refreshing to read threads about real topics/current events and see the range of opinion and healthy debate. Most women in my age range are brain washed and materialistic as fúck. They don't know anything about important things in the world, so I come here to see other peoples views on the world. It is liberating. Even the crazy people.

(Such reading may also be accompanied by comfort food, glass of wine or the odd painkiller for me whiplash) :-D

Sh1tbag OToole

Just thinking about when I'm half dead in a bed or sitting in a chair on a drip, do I wish I spent more time playing computer games or sitting holed up in some boring house watching netflix and eating sh1te food? Feck no, I'd be wishing I explored more of the world, spent more time with interesting people and was more creative and took the road less traveled.

I know people who spend their whole life worrying about what could go wrong, what happens if they get sick or if the government or the tax man or some other boogeyman of their choice comes after and get nothing done as a result because they're afraid to live. I used to be like that in many ways but then at one point I just stopped giving a f_ck for some reason, I don't know how it came about but it did and my life has improved immeasurably since.

Sure even if I get myself killed tomorrow it's better than living the settled down life in some housing estate in the Dublin suburbs with a plain wife, a dull car outside the door, working a boring job and having a sh1tty wooden shed out the back that came from some massive chain store like Bee and Queue. You'd be only getting drunk in the same pub every week until death came calling, or worse, your children put you into a nursing home because they want your house

The Backwards Man

Same as it ever was..

cloud493

Having a smoke
Looking forward to the simple things, like bacon butties and nice days in the sun with a chill.
The young un.
Etc.

ToddyDoody

PLL wrote: »

Read Boards.ie threads. Seriously.D

Not afterhours I hope.

Mickey H

Duggy747 wrote: »

A good shíte.

Can't bate it with a big stick.

Shandashey

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

Just thinking about when I'm half dead in a bed or sitting in a chair on a drip, do I wish I spent more time playing computer games or sitting holed up in some boring house watching netflix and eating sh1te food? Feck no, I'd be wishing I explored more of the world, spent more time with interesting people and was more creative and took the road less traveled.

I know people who spend their whole life worrying about what could go wrong, what happens if they get sick or if the government or the tax man or some other boogeyman of their choice comes after and get nothing done as a result because they're afraid to live. I used to be like that in many ways but then at one point I just stopped giving a f_ck for some reason, I don't know how it came about but it did and my life has improved immeasurably since.

Sure even if I get myself killed tomorrow it's better than living the settled down life in some housing estate in the Dublin suburbs with a plain wife, a dull car outside the door, working a boring job and having a sh1tty wooden shed out the back that came from some massive chain store like Bee and Queue. You'd be only getting drunk in the same pub every week until death came calling, or worse, your children put you into a nursing home because they want your house

Reading that again, I've come to think that some people in life have things a lot harder than what you've mentioned.

the evasion_kid

I just run on hate

Sh1tbag OToole

Shandashey wrote: »

Reading that again, I've come to think that some people in life have things a lot harder than what you've mentioned.

Some do and they genuinely don't have the ability to turn things around for themselves, but for an awful lot of people the misery is self-inflicted.

It's very easy to get stuck in a rut and others will tend to avoid people who're stuck in a rut and instead gravitate to the happy-go-lucky socialite on Facebook who claims to have a great life

Earthhorse

So what are you doing with your life, Sh1tbag?

eviltwin

Sex and chocolate

forgodssake

Always think to myself there is someone somewhere in a worse situation than me. Helps me!

Tigger

Tigger1 wrote: »

^^^^
You're the one that stopped me being Tigger! Forgot I had this user name and you pop up on the first thread I post on!
Odd

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/06/07/article-1284646-09EDF72E000005DC-418_634x474.jpg

TheBeardedLady

At the moment:

The Housewives of Beverley Hills to shut the brain down
My Kindle
Wine
Tea
Raspberry Jaffa Cakes
Feeling sorry for myself
Hugs
Kind words from old friends
Photos of my niece in Ireland
Trying to make my boyfriend laugh (it's very easy), which makes me laugh.
Being an eejit
Kila

A good friend in his mid thirties just jacked in his well advanced career to go back to university to study in a completely different area. I've great admiration for anyone brave enough to do that after investing so much time and effort on the first path.

Some people have harder things to get by than others, most of us are lucky enough to have some distraction when times are rough. Sometimes it's too much to ask to look for happiness, sometimes contentment or peace is enough.

harry Bailey esq

I'm one of lifes worriers,I constantly question and over analyze the most trivial of things.It gets to a point that it can sometimes hinder my quality of life as my little brain is constantly going a mile a minute.Ill probably get lambasted for saying this but smoking weed really helps me to step back and appreciate the things I have,rather than fret about the things I don't.

bottlebrush

I visited my cousin tonight who was diagnosed with motor neuron disease six months ago. The most cruel of all diseases with certain death imminent.

If that didn't jolt me into appreciating all the little small things I have to get up in the morning for nothing ever will.

Mountainsandh

I love to day dream, just imagine good things, like winning the lotto and going off to travel. I browse the world on Google maps. Even if I'm in distress and it's hard to imagine something, I'll click on an unknown spot, suss it out, and try to learn something about it.
I pick on something (generally with lots to learn about) and research it to the point of obsession.

Creid no na creid: learning to draw in perspective.

I can draw averagely well, but few people are aware how impressive technical, perspective drawing can be.

I learned it some years back. It is incredibly rewarding, especially if you would like to be artistic but are not naturally so. It takes your mind off your earthly worries, and compels you to focus on the instant moment. I could not recommend it more, both for mental health purposes, and general relaxation.

So rewarding.

Filmer Paradise

bottlebrush wrote: »

I visited my cousin tonight who was diagnosed with motor neuron disease six months ago. The most cruel of all diseases with certain death imminent.

If that didn't jolt me into appreciating all the little small things I have to get up in the morning for nothing ever will.

Health is wealth. No truer saying.

I had a health scare last year. Got a health check for the first time in my life (I'm 46 BTW).

To come up as having no health worries was to me at the time euphoric.

All the other worries pale into nothing afterwards.

As long as you have your health, you have the chance to do anything.

howdoyouknow

I have to bate it with a stick. It won't flush otherwise