What Is Your Preference? Are you living a comfortable life, caged life or maybe a charged one? Have you ever said to a friend, that you have a great idea to write a book, and they've said you are crazy for even thinking you could. Well, like many folks im sure, this has happened to me. It took me a long time to realize that, hey, if you really put your mind to it, you can do it! So, i started spending more time with people like myself who had ideas and going to do them with the greatest of confidence. I get excited when i see other people who are living their dreams, Doesn't matter what it is...book writing, learning how to fly, or maybe even scale the CN tower...whatever their choice, they will do this with great confidence and will power. They want and are living the "charged life" of their choice. Author Brendon Burchard's novel tells of 3 different lifestyles people live; a comfortable lifestyle, a caged lifestyle or a changed lifestlye. The person living the charged life wonders if he is inspiring others and if he is really actualizing his potential. This book is a good rea I am living a comfortable lifestyle currently, but do wish i had the courage and still the youth to live a charged one. Heck, i might even consider bungy-jumping! Now, there is a charge! Dee
I totally agree @Dee Roenz . I've always been a bit of a hedonist most of my life , and up for most challenges....and currently I have a few niggling health issues that won't allow me to live my usual 'charged life''...but I'm still working full time, and as you say..to live your dream you can live a comfortable life...not necessarily a charged one.. I've lived a caged life in the past for a period of time ..I don't like it, and I feel as though to a certain extent, comparatively, that I'm living a caged life recently due to the health issues...but as well as working full time at a very stress filled job..and I've just returned from 2 weeks on the continent where I even took a ride on a cable car.....so I'm still trying to live life to the fullest in whatever way I can..
This is the same post...... word for word..... that you posted last February, @Dee Roenz . It even has the same partly finished sentence in it; so you had to have known the old post was there and copy/pasted it again. I am puzzled why you are posting the exact post again and not just re-opening the old one ?
Hello Yvonne, i apologize i had honestly forgotten i had previously posted this blog. I wasn't sure how to check if i had.
I've lived a comfortable life with a few "wild" years and I've gotten anything crazy out of my system then. I don't need excitement anymore. I actually like routine and don't do well in chaos.
@Dee Roenz, you also posted this same message to FiftyPlusTalk. I understand that many of you are involved in other seniors forums, and that's okay. I also understand that the same topics might come under discussion. If I am going to tell a story here, if it's a true story, I am likely to tell the same story somewhere else, so I get that. But I wouldn't use the same words. I wouldn't copy and paste the same thing in another forum because that's not a conversation. This is a forum, not a blog; but even in blogs, it's not a good idea to duplicate blog posts. This thread begins with a question, which suggests that you are looking for a conversation. You talk about spending time with people like yourself who have ideas, and you say that you get excited when you see other people living their dreams, so why don't you show us some of this here? Copying and pasting something that you've said on another seniors forum is a little like trying to strike up a conversation by walking up to someone with a tape recorder, and playing back a pre-recorded speech instead of talking to them. Talk to us instead. It's okay if you talk about some of the same stuff elsewhere. In real life, I have told the same stories to countless numbers of people, but I doubt that I use the same words or tell it the same way each time. So if you want to talk to us, we're always eager to listen and to join in. Welcome to the forum, by the way.
I think I'm living a changed life. Mother being with a pacemaker and had a mild heart attack already for she has AFib so I get worried and can't wait to get my new computer next month so I can be at home. I do go out shopping on the bus we don't have a car so it takes ages to and from home, yet I worry for my neighbor kindly has found my Mom fallen getting the mail already. She is 90 and I'm 62, Dad is gone too, so luckily our family is here for us even in the event of evacuation. Definitely a changed life for everything changed when Mom got a pacemaker.
Its a caged life for me, not by choice but because of severe health problems I'd love to be able to do the things I could do and admire anyone that enjoys their life Do what you can while you can and gather up those memories to look back on
Writing is not my forte and as I had said before, I joined forums to enhance my written communication skills that I need in my office work. But maybe when I retire, I can also say that I am living comfortably although I cannot be comfortable all the time by not doing anything. Perhaps I can also venture in a big project like writing a book but not really a novel, maybe a book of short stories. But for a respite from my day to day drudgery, we travel near or far. Last nigh we were in a hotel for a temporary respite (despite the bad cold that is bugging me). And 2 weeks from now, we are going to Singapore. Maybe I am quite comfortable when it comes to travel but the pressures in my job is taking away the comfort.
Thanks, @Patsy Faye. I'm feeling slightly better today. We are already home from an overnight stay in the hotel. My barks (coughing) are still the same, incessant and ugly, but not too frequent anymore. Maybe the medicines I'm taking are getting control over the virus. And my indication is my appetite for food. Yeah, I had a hearty lunch in the buffet restaurant as an advanced celebration of my birthday. With me are my sister and brother and their families. And what I had for lunch is the nido soup which has the bird's nest for the main ingredient.
Well I guess the next best thing to the chicken soup is the nest Keep going Corie you'll soon be there