Unhappy Feeling

[sunny-dave]

I'm not a big one for introspection - but today I'm feeling decidedly maudlin.

Not for myself, but because I'm now exactly the same age that my Dad was when he died.

Comparing my happiness (and the future I hope to have in front of me) with his struggle with continual ill-health and then an early death has made me sad - he (and my Mum) must have felt cheated of the retirement they'd worked for.

I'll be fine tomorrow - but right now I'm stuck in a brown study ...

SDx

[sherrardk]

If people feel the need to *** maybe they could keep it in CB - this is body and soul and someone who is helpful and usually upbeat has just expressed they are feeling maudlin. They’re not asking for pity but sharing something (which has hit a chord with others). If this doesn’t interest you or elicit any empathy then just ignore and go and snipe elsewhere. This is the reason why people stop posting because no topic seems to be immune from sniping and nastiness.

[Calicogirl]

Agreed Sherrard, there are some really nasty comments in the most inopportune of places on this thread :(

[Zacs-Master]

I’m pleased to see there has been an overdue cull.

[Sqad]

LOL LOL ^^^ oh! dear oh! dear........half time at the football.
Sheradk....all we are doing is to give our opinion (naomi and myself) about the emotion of AB. Note it is called AB......so we are answering.
You don't have to agree with us and we don't have to agree with the OP, although if you do you get a better chance of a BA, which incidentally has missed the point of our posts.

Just say.........and give your opinion, nothing nasty was said as as as i can see.

[Calicogirl]

I missed it but I notice the usual suspect is now banned (again)- was it her Zacs?

[237SJ]

@ 21:05 Until the next reincarnation.

[Calicogirl]

Yeah give it 5 minutes... :/

[Zacs-Master]

Maybe another daphne du maurier character?

[Calicogirl]

Well she'a always named for a villain so I await with antici........pation :)

[sherrardk]

Sqad, you can LOL as much as you want but you are somewhat infamous for your lack of empathy but you would have thought you’d know when to keep your opinions to yourself in a ‘serious’ category. Maybe if you want to express your opinions about the downfall of AB due to people expressing their emotions maybe you should start a new one in CB?

[gness]

Why just piggy back on other threads then, Sqad.....start your own if you and Naomi feel so strongly about doom and gloom and wallowing.....which the OP wasn't.

[pastafreak]

What Dave...and others...have described, is part of the human condition, and something that obviously many of us share. Why shouldn't it be spoken about? But it seems quite unkind to belittle those feelings because you may not feel the same.

My first experience of this was my ex, and the anxiety he clearly felt as he approached the age at which his father died. 52...and from a massive heart attack. That's got to make anyone feel less than immortal...

[-Talbot-]

Naomi's attitude to most threads is enough to send anybody away. U



And your attitude brings em flocking does it, Theland?

As sqad is on the thread...LOL LOL

[anneasquith]

SP, they are out to get you, whatever did you do to upset some abers . ;*)

[pastafreak]

'user inactive...already? Weird.

[rowanwitch]

My dad died when I was 2½ he was 38, my mum was 25 I think part of her died back then she is now in her 80s but admits she has hated most of her life. I have spent most of the last few days in reflection too, all I can come up with is we have to live best we can knowing it ends one day. Loss and the fear of losses can add shadows but without the dark stuff the bright stuff seems less precious. Laughter returns quickly when you are loved and the future remains an adventure. Accept the moments of contemplation, they are lifes way of helping us live better.

[Cloverjo]

Omg, rowan. You and your mum.
Do you mind my asking, did she marry again?

[rowanwitch]

Never even had a boyfriend after that, my sister was six weeks old.

[Cloverjo]

Oh gosh. So sorry.