Has your life been one smooth ride? Has it had enough rapids to make it adventuresome? Or have you been “dunked” more times than you would have liked? Or…?
September 18, 2014
Smooth Ride? Or?
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With my career and retirement, it has been a long smooth one but my personal life has had its share of dunks and adverse currents.
And adventure too?
Mostly smooth with a few ripples here and there.
Enjoyable, I hope. 🙂
my dunking started early in life. some of ’em left me gasping for air.
but now…
it’s so wonderful just to be in the stream!!!! LOL.
got my life jacket on and waiting for the next dunking of course… but really not worrying about it. having too much fun just staying wet.
love the cartoon!
xoxo
Yes, you have had your share. You’re a remarkable woman, tammy. You remind me of my hero, Snoopy. Irrepressible!
My life certainly hasn’t been a smooth ride, it’s been punctuated with all sorts of upsets and problems, and I’m sure that applies to most people. Even millionaires with every assistance money can buy have their share of calamities. But I’ve survived an unhappy childhood, long periods of unemployment, crummy bed-sits and low salaries. And on the whole had a pretty good life.
Good for you. Yay, Nick!
I hate to go against this current of very difficult river rapid-like comments—terrifying rapids 🙁 I can relate to that.
But other than that my life has been a smooth ride. I’ve had some ripples that I regarded as engulfing waves only because my childhood was so easy & perfect. (It’s my families’ fault for not making my childhood difficult. 😀 )
I went to a workshop years ago and a lot of women were talking about their painful childhoods. Then one woman was almost in tears because her childhood was so idyllic. She wasn’t prepared for real life, and she was mourning her childhood ever since.
My childhood was a mixture, and the painful stuff gave me enough motivation to last the rest of my life. I’m grateful.
I can’t imagine mourning an idyllic childhood. Wha…? 😀
I learned from experience. Keeping house & yard, x-tra gardening, raising 4 children along with the neighbor kids, & the 8 or more different sports we did.
Downhill skiing, cross country skiing, snow-shoeing, rafting, kayaking, hiking, backpacking, mountain biking on trails, road bicycling, ice-skating, figure skating, swimming at Barranca pool & the month in W.Va. every summer, horseback riding there, international dance, Scottish country dancing, some scandinavian dancing.
Sorry. This tally is for my benefit.
Lots of canoeing, summer months spent in Rock Lake all day. (None of us learned to dive because Mother hit her head as a kid on the diving board doing a backflip. That must have been the reason tho’ I read it in her diary after she died.)
I’m not coming back here. I PROMISE.
I like you coming back. 🙂
Apparently the gal was mourning because her adult life wasn’t nearly as much fun as her childhood. In your case it sounds as if that weren’t true.
Jean, I don’t think there is a life without pot holes.
I am lucky that – by temperament – I take things on the chin. Not as in the famed ‘moving on’ – shrugging things off. Not at all. Just living with whatever life dishes out. There have been events that have moved me. Deeply. And yet I keep meandering – happily, smiling – through the thicket of life’s meadow.
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Yay, smiling and being happy! Yay, ebullience! 😀
I’ve gotten into some mazes that take me to a dead end, a number of times… most times, I have looped back and found another pathway that has had me jogging along fairly evenly until usually an “aha” moment has meant “oh this might not have been a good way” – sometimes I have a soft landing…
At the moment I have a slight quandary, wanting to help someone but not sure they will say “yes” so it’s my usual stance, collect the data required so I have the facts in my head when I speak the question of “what about doing this…”
Yes I know you want to know but you aint going to know unless dramatically the other person says “yes” and it won’t affect our relationship here at this blog 🙂
Sounds like a good strategy to me. I’m all for collecting data.
Not many ups and downs, but lots of twists and turns.