Do You Feel Sad When...

[Note]

... you see commercials of all these things (helpful things) you could sue but can not afford?
...you hear of people taking two weeks cruises or vacations, when you need OT just to make rent (assuming they allow you to make OT) because you get no paid time off?
...you hear on the radio, etc how you should travel and enjoy the world, but you could barely pay for gas to get to work?
...people you know take their kids to Europe, when you just wish you could take your kids to the carnival or water park but can not afford to.

Know where I am going at? I have felt like this for years in many of these and similar aspects. Not going to lie about that. I never had such chances without risk and sacrifices, and some things have cost me dearly just to try and enjoy one thing.

What is your take on these situations you find yourself in?

 

[HouseCat71]

Sometimes. I'd love to take one of those Alaskan cruises and see the glaciers, etc. But, I'm on a budget, and I'm the pianist at church. It would really bother me to miss church for a cruise....especially when we don't have a back-up pianist.

That might be why God keeps me on a budget!

 

[Note]

Just the other day saw a commercial, just a diapers commercial, but the mother and baby looked like they were in a really nice home. I have a dwelling surrounded by other human things. I wish I had my own home. Just a small, humbled one with plenty of space, no cars or human noises, no bright lights on the road to prevent the stars from shining. Yes, I get very sad when I see such commercials. Hence, why I not even have a TV, but the bloody Internet filled with life's comforts...

 

[imstillstanding]

Yes, I sometimes get sad when I see stuff like that on TV or hear people talking about "their trip to Disney". But then I look around and realize all that I've got compared to most people in this world, and I ask God to forgive me for being sad/jealous. I may never get to travel or purchase certain things, but God has supplied me with everything I need, just as He promised!

 

[Note]

I feel I am in a different boat. I do not have what I need (money) to survive without debt collectors haunting me. I already had to change banks once because said bank "stole" over $4000 from me, which is what I took from my 401k to pay for bills and rent. So, I lost that plus the penalties for taking it out in the first place. Then fees changing banks. None of them want to work with me, they want me to work with them. I already emptied my 401k, lost one place of residence, car repossessed and had to take out 401k to buy something else (and yes, always used and cheap for me), lost so much more that money can not buy. Without massive funds, I will still be paying back school loans for (estimated) 800 months (without the interest that has built up for 5 years). I face one of these companies suing me and taking money from my checks or something any day. I had one company do that for a job I had for three months, and because I made so little, I never saw a single check. I tried to ask for forgiveness on being sad, etc and not trusting enough, but then another bill comes in the mail I have no money for. I was just never sure if I was the only person around to see commercials on fine dinning (Olive Garden) when I could barely have enough gas to hit food shelters at times during hours I should be working to make said gas money.
All because of a layoff....
I try not to feel this way, but every day....

 

[Saskia]

Yes, I feel sad. Also envious. Wish I didn't, and try to be thankful for all I do have -- safe place to live, food in the fridge, my two cats.

 

[Ransom87]

Life is a struggle if you didn't grow up in a white collar family that saved for your college education, and then got hired as a skilled professional making 40 - 60,000 a year. I read in another forum that the emerging generations have inherited the problems created by the previous one's. I don't think life was supposed to be an existence where you're surrounded by a sophomoric self-centered greedy wealthy class demanding exhorbant amounts of money non-relative to our income's. It is sad that there doesn't seem to be a sense of responsibility to the younger generations by the older, wealthier 40 to 60 somethings to make life bearable related to the current economic climate. It just seems to be the rich or well off business people preying on the less fortunate.

 

[faroukfarouk]

Yes, I sometimes get sad when I see stuff like that on TV or hear people talking about "their trip to Disney". But then I look around and realize all that I've got compared to most people in this world, and I ask God to forgive me for being sad/jealous. I may never get to travel or purchase certain things, but God has supplied me with everything I need, just as He promised!

Truly God is good.

 

[blessedbeyondbelief]

To you, me, and anyone else, please read this (and don't judge my grammar, only God and English professors can):

I know its difficult controlling those emotions while examples of people enjoying life's finer things play out before you, meanwhile you struggle and suffer to hold on to the basics. Its a very dark and depressing place and it can seem like there is no way out of that pit. We all probably know that millions aren't promised to us just because we try to walk with the Father (unless your into that prosperity stuff, lol). So even that understanding can lead to further frustrations. Since you cannot immediately change your current situation, try to gain a new perspective on it. Think smaller and BIGGER:

Think smaller:

You are working with very little. Try making a consistent and conscious effort to enjoy and appreciate the little you have. Be it having a moment to yourself, just read a good article, had a great conversation, or just saved a dollar with a coupon. Make those minor moments last longer in your mind. Played with your kid, got a great parking space. It might sound silly, but spending more time being grateful and thinking positive will leave you in a better place mentally and spiritually (which I personally believe affects the physical...). It take practice but it works. You can't go on a vacation? Find a nice bench in the park where you can pray, skip a stone in the pond, play ball with some friends. Let these times of joy, bliss, or peace linger as long as they can. Stop and smell the roses, literally (or just admire them, they don't really smell 'good' to me, lol). We don't always have to reach far for happiness. We sometimes have it before us and take it for granted. There are levels to happiness, but if your happier for longer, then does it really matter? If we can look at our situation differently that will alleviate a lot of stress on our minds and bodies and may open up more blessings.

"He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much" -Luke 16:10

Think BIGGER:

Remember King David was once a guy living in a cave. He was championed for killing Goliath and was THEE MAN of his region. Fast forward, now he is on the run for his life stripped of all his glory. We know he becomes King later on, but that was the big picture. We see in Psalms how he loved the Father so, and still fought to keep back the fear, anxiety, stress and worry that came with his immediate circumstance. Its one thing to climb to the top, its another to reach it then fall off. But we have to look at the bigger picture. God is beyond our problems, He sees the big picture. We need to lean on Him in these tough times because He can see what we cannot. You may be struggling now, but it does not have to always be this way. Moses was a fugitive, Joseph was a slave and a prisoner. This is not how their story ended. We read it as footnotes, but this is periods of time in their lives. We must look at our current struggles as periods of time in our lives. We must keep the faith that with trusting in the Father and trying to live a more righteous life, He will be faithful in His promises.

"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." - Matthew 6:33


I don't like writing a lot. But thanks for reading a lot.
Blessings.

 

[MWood]

We have to remember that we are filled with the Holy Spirit. We have Christ in us and we are in Him. Because of this infilling we have our peace and joy on the inside, Nothing on the outside can give us the joy and happiness as what we have on the inside. Stay focused on Jesus and your peace and joy and everything else will take of its self.

 

[Teslafied]

I don't get sad, I don't let what others do dictate my happiness. Id rather go out back to watch the chickens graze in the field than travel hours away to Disney (illuminativille) just to squeeze my way through the crowd to see idols. Im not one for wanting to see stars, celebs, all that stuff it's all idols to me.