BRANDED
3:46 Thu Feb 15
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For me its pretty simple.
You only ever live now. This moment.
How do you make this moment as good as you can? Is it in your mind or material?
If its in your mind how do you make it good?
Voila
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chim chim cha boo
3:30 Thu Feb 15
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When it comes to these sorts of discussions I always think of Voltaire's last words.
A priest had been summoned to give him his last rites and said 'Voltaire, do you finally renounce the Devil'?
Voltaire looked at him and said 'I hardly think that now is the time to be making enemies'.
I'd love to go out on a great joke like that.
Just like when they compare our fighting forces with the Americans, 'Americans man the arms and the British arm the man', it's also said that Americans find life problems serious but not impossible, the British find life impossible but not serious.
I kind of like that.
It's a bit like when they say 'the British act like they don't have dentists' and we reply 'and Americans eat like they have free healthcare'.
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Full Claret Jacket
12:01 Thu Feb 15
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I've always said I'd want to live as long as I can to see my kids grow up, have families and enjoy their lives but my view is starting to change. I've seen quite a few people around my age and younger die or have strokes the last couple of years and I think now I would rather just pop my clogs one night than end up disabled after a stroke or a burden with Alzheimer's or Cancer when I'm elderly.
I've had an amazing life with great memories. Done lots of things wrong and lots of things right, never had regrets and just see this as my journey.
What I have found as you get older and kids leave home etc. is that it get lonelier.
Many of my mates have medical issues or joint issues of the human kind. They don't go out, meet up or do much. Some are skint, some are depressed, some just wrap themselves up in family problems. The number of true mates gets smaller.
I just don't think we are supposed to live as long as we do now coked up on pills and having procedures in hospital to keep us going. We can't cheat nature and death is part of it. I'm not scared of it, I think I can be happy with my time and whatever is left now is just bonus time.
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Chigwell
11:44 Wed Feb 14
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Of course I'd love to start over, but with the knowledge and experience I now have: second time round I'd make a better fist of life. Among other things, I'd earn a fortune, buy West Ham, then recruit all the best players from other clubs rather than sell our own.
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Eerie Descent
9:35 Wed Feb 14
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I AM content and happy, and you WILL believe me.
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Jasnik
9:34 Wed Feb 14
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but spellchecker is still a BASTARD ....LIFE!
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Jasnik
9:33 Wed Feb 14
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I have a wonderful and fulfilled like ..
RUNS!
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Tomshardware
9:12 Wed Feb 14
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As long as I get to play GTA6.
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Moncurs Putting Iron
7:47 Wed Feb 14
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Manuel,
You are fully entitled to that opinion...Although I strongly suspect you are judging from your own experiences and narrow view of what you define as wonderful and fulfilled.
Whether I am kidding myself and am delusional or not I AM content and happy. And I have spent over 20 years on here talking bollocks
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Manuel
7:32 Wed Feb 14
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By the way, anyone that has been posting on here regularly for say 15-20 years and claims to have a wonderful, fulfilled life is not being honest with themselves and is basically talking bollocks. Truly successful, happy people would not behave in that way and spend decades talking bollocks and arguing on here, simple as that. Carry on kidding yourself though.
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Manuel
7:22 Wed Feb 14
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I wouldn't mind sticking around mainly out of curiosity just to see what happens, but at the same time not fussed to bow out anytime soon. I'm fucking tired and can only see 'more of the same' in the future, so what would I miss?
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Moncurs Putting Iron
7:15 Wed Feb 14
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Death doesn't scare me, my family are all provided for and the days I am not happy, I am content. I tell those that matter to me why on a regular basis and I reflect regularly. Pain in life and a lingering illness that makes me a burden, scares me so much more.
I can honesty say that I would not change a thing. My journey to contentment and positivity has been as much about learning from mistakes and learning from being weak and vain as it has been about my good choices.
Good looking, lovely positive compost.
I settled down early, (So has my eldest) I look at my youngest who went to Uni and has travelled and I wonder what would have happened...Then I remember that I have a eldest and a youngest and my 2nd wife would not have even met me if I changed something and I shake that line off. Never too late to pivot if you are truly unhappy but that is the future, not changing the past.
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Wils
7:12 Wed Feb 14
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I enjoy life but am very aware that the end may come at any time. I believe at my age (50) I could accept it and be grateful for the life I have had. So no regrets as such.
I hope and endeavour to keep going for as long as I can for the sake of my children and my wife rather than for me.
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joe royal
6:45 Wed Feb 14
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And when I'm lying in my bed
I think about life and I think about death
And neither one particularly appeals to me
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Far Cough
6:34 Wed Feb 14
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Non, je ne regrette rien
I love Edith (Little Sparrow) Piaf
Also love Mireille Mathieu who is probably the closest to Edith Piaf and the songs she sang.
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the exile
6:22 Wed Feb 14
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One other thought - I always hate it when people say they wouldn't do anything differently and have no regrets. Bollocks they don't. Fuck off Edith Piaff!
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the exile
6:19 Wed Feb 14
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I have always liked these words from C. S. Lewis:
"You don't HAVE a soul, you ARE a soul. You HAVE a body."
Puts a different perspective on things, and you don't have to take it in a religious sense.
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Far Cough
4:55 Wed Feb 14
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Can you remember anything before you were born?
Of course not, that's what death is like.
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LAF
4:54 Wed Feb 14
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Branded. Thanks for posting that article. An interesting read.
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ludo21
4:05 Wed Feb 14
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I'm 56. Think about death on a daily basis, sometimes several times a day and have done so for about the last 10-15 years.
It doesn't depress me and I'm pretty happy with my lot... just one of those things I guess.
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violator
3:50 Wed Feb 14
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When my mum died last year it left me as the last remaining one (dad and sister died years ago) and that gets you wondering and maybe thinking too deeply. Funnily enough I went for my "MOT" yesterday and had bloods done for organs and prostate etc so should get a heads up in the next day or so. I feel fine, blood pressure was spot on, i'm still going gym and running 4 times a week so I'l hoping they all come back with green lights.
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