Is there something missing in your life?

[Everyday Sunday]

That is the question?

 

[Far Side Of the Moon]

Yes. My degree..but I'm working on that.

 

[dayhiker]

My live feels very complete ... so I don't see that anything is missing.

 

[quietpraiyze]

A peanut butter & jelly sandwich!

 

[blackribbon]

My husband.

 

[rubyinprogress]

Missing? Probably not. But there is room for some additions...for example, I would like to develop a network of friends outside of work. I have a few but it's pretty sparse since I moved to TX. There's room for a husband. There's room for more grandkids someday.

 

[TammyinGA]

Yes, but I don’t know what it is. I have been praying for answers. My answer has been Jeremiah 29:11.

 

[Lady Bug]

As a single, it always feels like something is missing from my life.

 

[JAM2b]

Financial stability, but God still always provides at least basic needs in spite of that.

A husband could potentially solve the financial problems, but even then there could be financial difficulties. I'm picky about the way I want to be treated and picky about how others interact with my sons, and I don't feel bad about that. It does create a situation where I'm not as open as I could be, or as the world is, to relationships.

Nothing in this life is guaranteed except for God's love and continual presence in our lives.

 

[MorkandMindy]

I'm missing as far as I can work out, pretty much everything.

My job is a bit above minimum wage, but I wish it wasn't because that means I can't get Medicaid, and the tiny bit of excess pay goes in the yearly fine for not having medical insurance.

I live in a semi-converted garage. I have some use of the bathroom in the house but owing to the inconvenience and the cost of water obviously mostly use the gravel behind the shed.

My first degree was in physics because my dad absolutely insisted that the job prospects were far better for that than for engineering which I was planning to take. He was totally wrong and my first degree was worth nothing.

I eventually took another Bachelors in Computer Science but the bottom fell out of the job market as programming went global while I was still taking the degree, so that one is also trash, though it was fun

I often feel there is no point in trying to do anything, but I keep going, but it's very difficult now. I'm trying to get restarted in engineering but when I do I keep remembering doing the stuff as a hobby back in 1971 and wondering if I'm ever going to catch up, so I keep stopping.

Now that my PTSD is over I'm going a bit faster, around my job and all the stupid pension and tax and what not rubbish I have to do.

 

[MorkandMindy]

Wife found she would get more money as a single mother than with me in the household, that was in England, that's the way it works over there. So that was me out of the house.

After ten years the Four Spiritual Laws, one that God has a wonderful plan for your life, was obviously not working out. People had kept saying 'you have to give it some time' and 'a baby needs to grow' and 'pray and read the Bible every day'

But none of it worked and after a while people started saying 'you can't succeed by your own efforts' 'let go and let God', so I did and after that totally nothing happened.

So I also lost my wife and God and owing to lack of money my children aren't interested in me, they are watching a wealthy Grandfather who is actually worth staying in good relations with.

They say you find out who your real friends are when you lose all your money. Well, it's pretty simple, it's nobody.

 

[blackribbon]

Missing at this time: Direction. I feel like my life is in a holding pattern for the moment. I feel detached from life and I wander through it. God is still providing so maybe this is just a wandering in the desert time.

 

[JAM2b]

My job is a bit above minimum wage, but I wish it wasn't because that means I can't get Medicaid, and the tiny bit of excess pay goes in the yearly fine for not having medical insurance.

I live in a semi-converted garage. I have some use of the bathroom in the house but owing to the inconvenience and the cost of water obviously mostly use the gravel behind the shed.

You might qualify for an exemption from healthcare instead of paying the fine based on hardship. You can apply for an exemption and send in a written explanation and supporting documents. Because you live in a garage, you might even be classified as technically homeless.

https://www.healthcare.gov/health-coverage-exemptions/exemptions-from-the-fee/

 

[MorkandMindy]

You might qualify for an exemption from healthcare instead of paying the fine based on hardship. You can apply for an exemption and send in a written explanation and supporting documents. Because you live in a garage, you might even be classified as technically homeless.

https://www.healthcare.gov/health-coverage-exemptions/exemptions-from-the-fee/

Brilliant, not being from this culture it's amazing the number of things I just never think of.

 

[quietpraiyze]

Missing at this time: Direction. I feel like my life is in a holding pattern for the moment. I feel detached from life and I wander through it. God is still providing so maybe this is just a wandering in the desert time.

Aren't you almost an "empty nester" or very close?

 

[blackribbon]

Aren't you almost an "empty nester" or very close?

Getting close but still a few years away. My life is lacking direction because my choices are still shaped by what my kids need. I am finding that this is also the time that the "kids" are also needing to struggle with some issues that are still related to having their father die. Change doesn't come easy for one and the other suffers from anxiety issues. They both still need the safety of a stable nest to return to after they exercise their wings. Both are in college but live at home. Both the best option for them and the only one we can afford.

 

[MorkandMindy]

Many thanks blackribbon for the post, it was the most valuable post I've read this year.

I read it late on Monday and felt I couldn't do it justice with how good it was, when I don't get things right people think I'm being sarcastic so I decided to wait until I had a day off and now I can't find it at all.

The post offered me hope and somehow when I read it I realized I had made the mistake of combining the things that had gone wrong in England with things that were going wrong here, and that there is are a lot more opportunities than I had imagined and there really is a stepladder out of where I am right now.

So many thanks for that post which I can't find now, but I've now started a job-o-meter, like a thermometer with the steps I need to get from where I am to where I want to be.

 

[Lotuspetal_uk]

Time. Time for me to just vegetate, to take a knee and gather my thoughts. Just popping out to take mum shopping but feeling as though I'm going to pop...

 

[Lost_In_Nothingness]

a girlfriend