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I am not a positive person. 2021 is going to be worse

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    #62
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    Graces7 wrote: »
    ((((HUGS))))

    We lost a young family member near the start of all this. In perfect health. It has altered our response to the virus.

    I have autoimmune issues so was already in effect "cocooning"; I am nearer 80 than 75 so taking great care. Life is precious and fragile.

    Take care.

    This was a really thoughtful post I greatly appreciate, thank you. All the best to yourself.


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    #63
    4Ad
    Registered Users Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭4Ad


    smurgen wrote: »
    The only good thing about 2020 is that it killed off the idea of new years resolutions.

    Yeah, whatever hope (slim) I had of getting the ride is gone now !!


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    #64
    1o059k7ewrqj3n
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,779 ✭✭✭1o059k7ewrqj3n


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwWfE4DAyao


    This is the song I listen to in dark times. I know things are bad. They could get worse. **** it. Do your best while you can.


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    #65
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    we haven't hit rock bottom yet


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    #66
    trashcan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,906 ✭✭✭trashcan


    valoren wrote: »
    And I'm 40 in November. The horror, the horror.

    Ah stop it, you're still a young wan. Some of us won't see 40 again unless it's on the front of a bus !


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    #67
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,804 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    we haven't hit rock bottom yet

    And we won’t, if you need an escape I’ll send the lads...

    unusual-animal-friendships-cute-gifs-3__605.gif


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    #68
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Strumms wrote: »
    And we won’t, if you need an escape I’ll send the lads...

    unusual-animal-friendships-cute-gifs-3__605.gif


    Thank you. Its all i ask. :o:P


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    #69
    AllForIt
    Registered Users Posts: 8,269 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    I find the idea of being in any way worried that Donald Trump will win the election to be complexly ridiculous. When did you ever worry about Putin, or any leader of any other country to the extent your're concerned about Trump.

    Do a total cold turkey on world news is my advice. We'll fill you in when you get back.


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    #70
    Lucy8080
    Registered Users Posts: 1,969 ✭✭✭Lucy8080


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    lol property prices!

    You will be able to buy a house for 12 grand in rathmines!

    The public service pay cuts ..the immigration!

    Immigration to where? How?

    I think you mean emigration, yet still, How/why?


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    #71
    Ultimanemo
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    #72
    kowloon
    Registered Users Posts: 13,278 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Bite down on the capsule then pull the trigger, in that order.


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    #73
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    Hugs Graces and Valentines. Sorry if my thread is a downer.

    Ah it isn;t a downer at all. These things need to be faced, dealt with. then life thankfully goes on. We have grieved our loss and made sure we are all safe and protected. If I died of covid I would not want my family to go into mourning etc. Love me; say goodbye, live on!

    Not checking the news does not work. We all KNOW covid is a disaster. Best keep up with events. pause for compassion then go on thankfully with our lives. Doing all we can to stay well.

    The folk who worry me are the ones in denial. We have faith-family in India where bodies lie in the streets so we cannot ignore the wider disaster . We are very fortunate here.


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    #74
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    screamer wrote: »
    Your sense of positivity are relative to the challenges you face. For example, there are people out there facing far worse tragedy personally and don’t even have time to think of the trivialities mentioned in the OP.
    In spite of all of it, the world will keep turning, time will move on and it’s our own perception that leads to our levels of positivity or negativity. Be happy, what’s the point in worrying really.

    Disagreeing with what I have bolded. Totally! Happiness just now is tinged with deep thankfulness for all we have.

    Worry sometimes leads to action? No one can really be full on happy in this current situation without being callous. Being aware and caring is a way to be.

    I have been deeply impressed as a cocooner at the amount of voluntary help that came in. Already had my groceries to the gate but now if I need anything eg a prescription all I need to do is make a quick phone call.

    Maybe they still need volunteers?


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    #75
    TheBlackPill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 321 ✭✭TheBlackPill


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    And 2022 is going to be worse again.


    #2020 ....we all want it over.

    However 2021 is going to be worse.

    Brexit will have happened.

    However the North will react will happen.

    We won't have a vaccine yet ..and if we do it won't be the best one.

    Economically the state will run out of monies.

    Business after business will close.


    Trump will be president.


    And all this will lead to war.

    And i bet the weather will the ****e too!

    AND THE PUBS WILL STILL BE CLOSED!

    First comes denial ..then comes sadness ..then comes ..acceptance. Then more sadness and denial as i regress

    So ...how worse will 2021 be?
    Trump being president has resulted in less wars. He has repeatedly refused to start wars(and pilloried by the democrats for this) and has brokered deals between Israel and some Arab states.. compared to every other Us president of the last 70 years, he is a saint


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    #76
    TheBlackPill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 321 ✭✭TheBlackPill


    4Ad wrote: »
    Yeah, whatever hope (slim) I had of getting the ride is gone now !!

    You are more likely to get the ride during times of strife. People not worried about consequences if the world is ending and the biological imperative to pass on one's genes kicks in. Pro-Tip... join a doomsday cult and enjoy all the ridin' but don't drink the KoolAid


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    #77
    TheBlackPill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 321 ✭✭TheBlackPill


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Next year and the year after are the economic oblivion.

    During the last crash, it wasn't until about year or 2 after recession when we started to feel the pinch and lack of opportunity.
    All the captains of industry knowing they are all fur coat and no knickers, quietly transferring company assets to themselves/wives/kids while telling everybody the landing will be soft, while securing massive loans for their insolvent businesses(and paying themselves hugely from said insolvent businesses).


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    #78
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    TheBlackPill wrote: »
    You are more likely to get the ride during times of strife. People not worried about consequences if the world is ending and the biological imperative to pass on one's genes kicks in. Pro-Tip... join a doomsday cult and enjoy all the ridin' but don't drink the KoolAid

    Where might one find one of these doomsday cults?..
    Are they on that meetup yoke?..


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    #79
    TheBlackPill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 321 ✭✭TheBlackPill


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Where might one find one of these doomsday cults?..
    Are they on that meetup yoke?..

    They are easy to find. The trick is finding one with a soon enough doomsday. Dont wanna spend 60 years practicing abstinence and self-mortification waiting for the desparation to kick in. A lot of the Born again churches act as if armageddon is nigh, very handy way to get people to give up their worldly goods to the pastor. And believe me the whole abstinence thing with them is just an image. The reality would make a medieval pope blush


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    #80
    Gruffalux
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Gruffalux


    Every day all the years lots of people all over the world suddenly find themselves getting the living shyte kicked out of them by life - told they have terminal illness, in an accident that leaves them messed up, lover leaves them, child gets badly sick, sex trafficked, going to work with Da mining rare earth minerals like a beast, and on and on, in the multiply torturous ways that a human can suffer. It is petulant to think we are having such a bad time right now. You're here, ain't ya? In reasonably good health, ain't ya? The mountains and sea still beckon and you can do an incredible amount of stuff others would donate a kidney to be able to do. You're free and strong. Pock on, as I used to say to my kids!


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    #81
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    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    First comes denial ..then comes sadness ..then comes ..acceptance. Then more sadness and denial as i regress

    I tend not to reply to your posts or threads I have noticed. But I was watching this video just this morning and it made me think of your thread for some reason.


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    #82
    McGinniesta
    Registered Users Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    Why do people care about Donald Trump and Brexit?

    It's not like dementia Joe is going to change our lives one way or the other nor will Brexit.


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    #83
    topper75
    Registered Users Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    McGinniesta wrote: »
    Why do people care about Donald Trump and Brexit?

    It's not like dementia Joe is going to change our lives one way or the other nor will Brexit.

    Cop on!

    Biden is a saint who will release all the minority people from jail that dark lord Trump put there just because they are minorities.

    And everyone knows the Brits only began to buy Irish-made goods in 1973 because Brussels abolished customs.

    Or something.


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    #84
    completedit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭completedit


    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    Next year and the year after are the economic oblivion.

    During the last crash, it wasn't until about year or 2 after recession when we started to feel the pinch and lack of opportunity.

    Late 2009 was when the **** hit the fan. Sxary times indeed


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    #85
    begbysback
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    Graces7 wrote: »

    The folk who worry me are the ones in denial. We have faith-family in India where bodies lie in the streets so we cannot ignore the wider disaster . We are very fortunate here.

    The problem isn’t with watching news reports, the problem is putting those news reports into context. Same here with your comment, context is important, people have been dying and left in the streets of India for many many years now due to preventable diseases.


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    #86
    McGinniesta
    Registered Users Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    topper75 wrote: »
    Cop on!

    Biden is a saint who will release all the minority people from jail that dark lord Trump put there just because they are minorities.

    And everyone knows the Brits only began to buy Irish-made goods in 1973 because Brussels abolished customs.

    Or something.



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