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The older I get the more challenges and drama I deal with and overcome, thats the same for us all.
Do you feel stronger for dealing with things you have, or feel weaker because each one takes a little piece of you away..? |
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"The older I get the more challenges and drama I deal with and overcome, thats the same for us all.
Do you feel stronger for dealing with things you have, or feel weaker because each one takes a little piece of you away..?"
Wow good question! I think I’m going to go with stronger because I really try to remain positive but it is a tough question x |
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"The older I get the more challenges and drama I deal with and overcome, thats the same for us all.
Do you feel stronger for dealing with things you have, or feel weaker because each one takes a little piece of you away..?"
Wiser and stronger  |
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"The older I get the more challenges and drama I deal with and overcome, thats the same for us all.
Do you feel stronger for dealing with things you have, or feel weaker because each one takes a little piece of you away..?
Wow good question! I think I’m going to go with stronger because I really try to remain positive but it is a tough question x"
Positivity is the key to our strength and motivation  |
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"The older I get the more challenges and drama I deal with and overcome, thats the same for us all.
Do you feel stronger for dealing with things you have, or feel weaker because each one takes a little piece of you away..?
Wow good question! I think I’m going to go with stronger because I really try to remain positive but it is a tough question x
Positivity is the key to our strength and motivation "
Although it can take a hell of a lot of strength to be like that x |
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That is a great question to ask. Think I would say stronger purely because in most cases I have seen it before or have the mentality to just get on with it. When I was younger sometimes felt overwhelmed. |
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My divorce made me a lot stronger. When you live with another person at times you don’t realise what your strengths really are, if suddenly things change immediately.
So when this happened to me and I had to deal with everything from new home, job, finances and the day to day minor hassles that we all deal with. But in this case now alone.
Whatever doesn’t break you makes you.
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I think every thing I deal with pushes me further away from wanting to do any of it anymore. A house with a big freezer and a ready supply of wood somewhere like Iceland where I have to deal with nothing else ever again but the weather beckons. |
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"The older I get the more challenges and drama I deal with and overcome, thats the same for us all.
Do you feel stronger for dealing with things you have, or feel weaker because each one takes a little piece of you away..?"
Stronger 100%... Learned so much about myself and have much healthier, progressive ways to deal with my shit these days. |
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"Stronger, more resilient, and with more experience and knowledge...the dark moments in life can teach you a lot if you pay attention to the lesson. "
You been watching Karate kid lol  |
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I am definitely stronger now as I know my own mind a lot more than I used to and the direction I want to go with life. Challenges are just an invitation to find a solution |
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This is a question that I've been giving a lot of thought lately and tbh if somebody asked me 2yrs ago I'd have said unquestionably stronger.
I hesitate to say this as I don't know about you but I can smell a "please look at me" thread a mile away...
I became a type 1 diabetic aged 20, shortly after I survived a stage 4 cancer where doctors only gave me 6 months. This was the beggining of a list of medical drama that would be way too long to list but include 3 threatened leg amputations, eye operations, only my closest fab friends know again my life was in danger in March of this year which has resulted in medication I will take forever.
The trauma of one divorce and one pending plus what happened with my son last year just adds to it, to give you an idea of the size of mess he left behind that I've had to sort out its accumulated legal fees of £42,000 so far.
There's been as many highs as lows over the years, I look walk and talk like I've not had an ill day in my life. Despite the bit of bad luck I've mentioned I'm the most positive guy my friends know, that said I wonder in times of weakness am I really as strong as people think... |
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I am stronger, my reactions are calmer and measured during the crisis moment.
I reach out for help now rather than bottle it up, I have a partner who is my rock, he is sensible and balanced with his advice which helps me process the problem in my mind of what I can do and what I should do.
I have grown wiser, I am kinder to myself, I understand how my mind responds to stress and know the measures to put in place to look out for myself to enable me to be strong for others.
NBVN x |
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"I think every thing I deal with pushes me further away from wanting to do any of it anymore. A house with a big freezer and a ready supply of wood somewhere like Iceland where I have to deal with nothing else ever again but the weather beckons."
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"This is a question that I've been giving a lot of thought lately and tbh if somebody asked me 2yrs ago I'd have said unquestionably stronger.
I hesitate to say this as I don't know about you but I can smell a "please look at me" thread a mile away...
I became a type 1 diabetic aged 20, shortly after I survived a stage 4 cancer where doctors only gave me 6 months. This was the beggining of a list of medical drama that would be way too long to list but include 3 threatened leg amputations, eye operations, only my closest fab friends know again my life was in danger in March of this year which has resulted in medication I will take forever.
The trauma of one divorce and one pending plus what happened with my son last year just adds to it, to give you an idea of the size of mess he left behind that I've had to sort out its accumulated legal fees of £42,000 so far.
There's been as many highs as lows over the years, I look walk and talk like I've not had an ill day in my life. Despite the bit of bad luck I've mentioned I'm the most positive guy my friends know, that said I wonder in times of weakness am I really as strong as people think..."
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Mentally way stronger , absolutely ,with everything that has happened or gone on in my life but it has come with a price as while l have become mentally stronger to deal with things my own personal confidence,self esteem & self worth in meeting other people has suffered . |
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"This is a question that I've been giving a lot of thought lately and tbh if somebody asked me 2yrs ago I'd have said unquestionably stronger.
I hesitate to say this as I don't know about you but I can smell a "please look at me" thread a mile away...
I became a type 1 diabetic aged 20, shortly after I survived a stage 4 cancer where doctors only gave me 6 months. This was the beggining of a list of medical drama that would be way too long to list but include 3 threatened leg amputations, eye operations, only my closest fab friends know again my life was in danger in March of this year which has resulted in medication I will take forever.
The trauma of one divorce and one pending plus what happened with my son last year just adds to it, to give you an idea of the size of mess he left behind that I've had to sort out its accumulated legal fees of £42,000 so far.
There's been as many highs as lows over the years, I look walk and talk like I've not had an ill day in my life. Despite the bit of bad luck I've mentioned I'm the most positive guy my friends know, that said I wonder in times of weakness am I really as strong as people think..."
ThunderBotty, you are one of the strongest people I know. And also the nicest.
You're life reads like a catalogue of catastrophes most of us can only hope will never happen to us. You didn't deserve any of that shit - who ever does? - but you've come through it, without resorting to a negative outlook on life.
You ARE stronger. You're a fighter & a survivor & a bloody wonderful human x |
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I know you’ve been through an awful lot Thunderace but you sure as hell came through it stronger.
I’m fairly strong in character, not much gets past me and if it does it’s not there for longer. I always come out more positive |
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"the dark moments in life can teach you a lot if you pay attention to the lesson.
Pain and suffering are our most important teachers. "
Asking the question, what is this teaching me? is very powerful |
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A bit of both and can depend on my outlook at the time.
Right now I’m so exhausted that things play on me more but I’m also pretty determined so don’t let people take the piss anymore. |
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"I know you’ve been through an awful lot Thunderace but you sure as hell came through it stronger.
I’m fairly strong in character, not much gets past me and if it does it’s not there for longer. I always come out more positive "
You DC helped me so much with what I went through with my son and I can never thank you enough, can you believe it was 2yrs September just gone since I asked for advice regarding his addictions?
I recounted an event that involved you in a thread I posted a couple of weeks ago, I wonder if you remember it...search for my thread called "Believe it or not..?" |
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