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How often do you feel "joyful" or "happy" ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 450674" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>Sit me in a room with the grandkids, and I'm both joyful and happy. I'm a mother hen type. Now that my chicks have grown up.......I'm still trying to redefine life without chicks to care for. At first that was really hard. It was like my life just suddenly came to a screeching halt. No purpose. Nothing. That was depressing as heck. </p><p></p><p>I found the purpose I was lacking. Matron to this family. Although it's hard work and the hours suck, at least I have the fringe benefit of grandchildren who think I'm almost right up there with God himself. LOL </p><p></p><p>And I'm slowly getting back into doing much of the things I once did before children made my life too chaotic to do anymore. </p><p></p><p>But I'll admit that having to constantly work at just surviving month to month makes it much harder to be either joyful or just plain happy. I have to work at it. And I have to remind myself that having a lot of money doesn't necessarily make you happy either. If I'm having I low point.......I'll do a search and destroy mission to actually find / list all the things I've got to be happy for......if it's a really bad day......I go hunt down grandkids. They never cease to make me feel 100 percent better. </p><p></p><p>As a kid I had few friends. As a teen they got even fewer. I grew up with grandma and I was ten times more mature than my peers which made relating to them really hard. So I was pretty much a loner and I still am. I like it that way. No drama. And the friends I chose to have are really good friends, not just casual acquaintances.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 450674, member: 84"] Sit me in a room with the grandkids, and I'm both joyful and happy. I'm a mother hen type. Now that my chicks have grown up.......I'm still trying to redefine life without chicks to care for. At first that was really hard. It was like my life just suddenly came to a screeching halt. No purpose. Nothing. That was depressing as heck. I found the purpose I was lacking. Matron to this family. Although it's hard work and the hours suck, at least I have the fringe benefit of grandchildren who think I'm almost right up there with God himself. LOL And I'm slowly getting back into doing much of the things I once did before children made my life too chaotic to do anymore. But I'll admit that having to constantly work at just surviving month to month makes it much harder to be either joyful or just plain happy. I have to work at it. And I have to remind myself that having a lot of money doesn't necessarily make you happy either. If I'm having I low point.......I'll do a search and destroy mission to actually find / list all the things I've got to be happy for......if it's a really bad day......I go hunt down grandkids. They never cease to make me feel 100 percent better. As a kid I had few friends. As a teen they got even fewer. I grew up with grandma and I was ten times more mature than my peers which made relating to them really hard. So I was pretty much a loner and I still am. I like it that way. No drama. And the friends I chose to have are really good friends, not just casual acquaintances. [/QUOTE]
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