How do you get by?

Buona Fortuna · 12-04-2015 08:37AM

Nice long sunny evenings for a walk in the fields and if its raining Coach Trip - just gotta love Brendan

Failing that a line or two of Charlie.

hairyslug · 12-04-2015 09:51AM

Get all the badness, roll it up into a ball and push it all down and hope that it never gets out.

Happiness and sunshine and all that sh1te.

Wompa1 · 12-04-2015 09:51AM

Novella wrote: »

When I wake up in the morning and open the blinds, I see a swimming pool surrounded by palm trees and more often than not, a clear blue sky. Since I moved to California, I feel like I am on holiday every day of my life so it's not a case of getting by for me at the moment, it's hoping that this feeling never goes away.

Enjoy it while it lasts. I've been in the same situation for almost 3.5 years, sunny all year round, the swimming pool, hot tub, palm trees etc.. Bill Hicks did a bit about the sun in California about how you leave to go somewhere with actual weather. But I'm living in Arizona, so the heat here is a lot worse in California for 5 months of the year.

I struggle to get by mentally, now. I feel very restless. I make a decent living, I enjoy work some times, I've gone as far as I can in my career, pretty much. Things in my personal life are great but I feel like I want the next big thing of my life to happen now but even when making good money, it just seems like getting enough to be truly secure enough to start a family is a struggle

RollieFingers · 12-04-2015 09:54AM

Weed!

monkeysnapper · 12-04-2015 10:02AM

I go out walking my dogs with kick ass music

nullzero · 12-04-2015 10:43AM

Cockeyed optimism, it's the only way to plough on.

Desolation Of Smug · 12-04-2015 11:10AM

"I'll give up and lie down next month but I'll just plough on through till then".....there's always a next month..

lazeedaisy · 12-04-2015 11:20AM

Novella wrote: »

When I wake up in the morning and open the blinds, I see a swimming pool surrounded by palm trees and more often than not, a clear blue sky. Since I moved to California, I feel like I am on holiday every day of my life so it's not a case of getting by for me at the moment, it's hoping that this feeling never goes away.

I found myself after 25 years unemployed, (a year ago) I had been working with people who sent their children to private schools and became rugby moms the likes you would never see in D4!

I decided for a laugh (!) to apply for a job my masters would not get me in! I became a sales assistant - working in a shop 3 days a week;

BEST JOB EVER

I live in a beautiful part of the irish countryside, spend days in the garden, with the dogs, we got a poly tunnel now, and I love life.

gone are the 4/5 hour daily commute, the big salary, the tiredness, looking forward to a lie in coz you are tired,

i never need a break, the dogs are the best, growing your own veg, only downside was the fox killed all our hens earlier in the year.

I never have money, once there is petrol in the car life is good. who needs money?

I dont think you need to be in the right location, i think its the right of mind more so,

we had it rough, have had too many knock backs, mental health issues with the hubby, a long road, looks like we are through it for now,

My thing is to watch the sun come up and go down every day and enjoy it,

too many of my ex colleagues talk about me as if i was a bad dream, they all think i am mad getting out of the rat race to live! The Irish are great at telling you where your life is gone wrong, but ask for genuine praise and they leave you standing,

I have the last laugh, and am the happiest in the last 12 months than the sum of the previous 10 years before that.

Gran Hermano · 12-04-2015 11:23AM

Oxycodone..

...and caffeine.

beks101 · 12-04-2015 11:59AM

Healthy living really helps when I can be arsed. Training my ass off for something and eating really well. Makes the world of difference.

Sex helps too. Nothing else matters when you're about to have an orgasm.

And nature. Climbing a mountain or Going for a walk by the sea. Sitting on a park bench and watching the world go by. Feeding the swans. Lying in the sun.

cloud493 · 12-04-2015 12:57PM

beks101 wrote: »

Healthy living really helps when I can be arsed. Training my ass off for something and eating really well. Makes the world of difference.

Sex helps too. Nothing else matters when you're about to have an orgasm.

And nature. Climbing a mountain or Going for a walk by the sea. Sitting on a park bench and watching the world go by. Feeding the swans. Lying in the sun.

Well la di da mrs I have a significant other that isn't my hand.

mikom · 12-04-2015 01:22PM

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

Renton?

Aongus Von Bismarck · 12-04-2015 01:28PM

Regular exercise, good diet and a positive mental attitude all help. I've also incorporated a mindfulness practice into my life so I can explore moments of tension, stress or worry in a more loving and accepting way.

Mongfinder General · 12-04-2015 01:32PM

Cracking one off every day. Oh the relief.

my teapot is orange · 12-04-2015 01:43PM

Go out for a coffee when I need to clear my head, just sit in a nice cafe somewhere and chill on my own for half an hour. Also, listen to some classical music at home - very relaxing before bed. As regards, getting through difficult stuff, thinking for a few minutes before starting something about the best, most efficient way of doing something can save loads of time in the long run. Tidy up - feel more in control when my space is tidy and well-organised.

Tomagotchye · 12-04-2015 01:50PM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Regular exercise, good diet and a positive mental attitude all help.

That...honest to god...sounds like my nightmare. The only thing that gets me through a day is knowing I can eat some crap, do shag all and completely self-implode in personal exile without question. It's the only reason I work so that nobody can really say anything about it because I'm earning and from there I'm independent of it all.

Though my job is pretty soul destroying too so might mix it up...maybe I'll go for a jog and try this to see.

libelula · 12-04-2015 01:52PM

Exercise.
I started it a few years back when life was all over the place and have been addicted since.
There's nothing like the peace and quiet your brain gets on a long slow run. I could leave the house annoyed/worried/upset, and come home with all the answers and happy out.

suicide_circus · 12-04-2015 03:15PM

It's very important no to dwell on the fact that you are orbiting the the plughole in ever decreasing circles.

cloud493 · 12-04-2015 04:51PM

dedeviant wrote: »

whores and lots of them.

nothing like ****in a hot girl to within ah inch of her life well as much that is thats possible to bring someone to within an inch of her life with an instrument made of flesh and that doesnt have any leverage of its own and thats part of your body and doesnt have any bones in it

and that the fee you pay them to never contact or acknowledge you outside of the meeting means it never goes beyond amazing deviant sex of the kind you just dont get in civvy street.....much

Thats not true though.

dedeviant · 12-04-2015 05:03PM

cloud493 wrote: »

Thats not true though.

youre probably right, to within an inch of my life I meant, girls are built for a pounding after all and can really take some amount of .....thigh abuse

cloud493 · 12-04-2015 05:20PM

dedeviant wrote: »

youre probably right, to within an inch of my life I meant, girls are built for a pounding after all and can really take some amount of .....thigh abuse

No thats just ****e. But your banned now, so there we are.

Cupcake_Crisis · 12-04-2015 05:21PM

dedeviant wrote: »

youre probably right, to within an inch of my life I meant, girls are built for a pounding after all and can really take some amount of .....thigh abuse

Spoken like a man who's never had the ride in his life!

Just Be Yourself · 12-04-2015 05:27PM

Cheap whiskey and cheap prostitutes. I wish I was making this up.

r93kaey5p2izun · 12-04-2015 05:29PM

I'm not sure I am really getting by much anymore. Seem to have lost all joy and hope somewhere along the way.

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

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.

What you say here really resonates with me. How does this actually translate into your everyday life now? What do you do or not do now that's different than before?

Eugene Norman · 12-04-2015 05:34PM

Earthhorse wrote: »

So what are you doing with your life, Sh1tbag?

Apparently he's posting on an Internet forum quite a bit.

magentis · 12-04-2015 05:37PM

Just realising life is actually worth living.Thank you St Pats.

libelula · 12-04-2015 05:40PM

magentis wrote: »

Just realising life is actually worth living.Thank you St Pats.

Good job, keep that up

Eugene Norman · 12-04-2015 05:46PM

libelula wrote: »

Exercise.
I started it a few years back when life was all over the place and have been addicted since.
There's nothing like the peace and quiet your brain gets on a long slow run. I could leave the house annoyed/worried/upset, and come home with all the answers and happy out.

This is so true. Scientific fact.

Renegade Mechanic · 12-04-2015 05:52PM

Sideways. And sometimes on fire

CruelCoin · 12-04-2015 06:15PM

Shandashey wrote: »

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

Have pride in your work. Do your best. The day i walk away from work saying "that'll do" is the day i put a bullet in my head.

How do you get by?

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