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Jul 27, 2009 3:33 PM CST How you handle it?
Laura25
Laura25Laura25Somewhere, New York USA50 Threads 6 Polls 8,178 Posts
When you face something awful in your life, really awful, how you handle it?

I've known a person who in life's worst/toughest situations would do as much as she could and then was able to put it right out of her mind. Always looking cheerful, and smiley, and very pleasant. Not even loosing her sleep.

A great gift.

Can be cultivated if you work at it?

I believe it can but don't think I'd ever could...
conversing
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Jul 27, 2009 3:35 PM CST How you handle it?
dirko63
dirko63dirko63brussels, Brussels (Bruxelles) Belgium2 Threads 426 Posts
you alwways look at life with what is thrown at you and learn to deal with it.

The other option drown in every situation and it will eat you alive.hug
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Jul 27, 2009 3:36 PM CST How you handle it?
kissmedeeply
kissmedeeplykissmedeeplyPetitcodiac, New Brunswick Canada70 Threads 15,139 Posts
axe & shoveldevil
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Jul 27, 2009 3:42 PM CST How you handle it?
Tulefel
TulefelTulefelGöteborg, Vastra Gotaland Sweden24 Threads 1 Polls 2,848 Posts
When the time is tough you deal with it, when it’s over… No need to nurse old grieves…


wine
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Jul 27, 2009 3:42 PM CST How you handle it?
Laura25
Laura25Laura25Somewhere, New York USA50 Threads 6 Polls 8,178 Posts
dirko63: you alwways look at life with what is thrown at you and learn to deal with it.

The other option drown in every situation and it will eat you alive.


Oh, we all deal with whatever-it-is-that-comes-our-way.

It's the way we deal with things that is different.

Some people are always grouchy and raving while not doing much about their situation,

while some other - the way I described in OP.

And I meant really able to put it out of her mind.
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Jul 27, 2009 3:43 PM CST How you handle it?
Polarbutterfly
PolarbutterflyPolarbutterflyunknown, Northwest Territories Canada115 Threads 9,486 Posts
Losing a loved one was and still is the
hardest thing to go through.And although
it's been years,it's still so very heartbreaking,
especially for my children (teens).
I guess what's kept me grounded is the fact that
I have no choice but to endure the hurt and the heartache.
Life does go on.So now,I smile and hug my loved ones
a little longer.
Good post. wine
In response to: When you face something awful in your life, really awful, how you handle it?

I've known a person who in life's worst/toughest situations would do as much as she could and then was able to put it right out of her mind. Always looking cheerful, and smiley, and very pleasant. Not even loosing her sleep.

A great gift.

Can be cultivated if you work at it?

I believe it can but don't think I'd ever could...
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Jul 27, 2009 3:43 PM CST How you handle it?
druidess6308
druidess6308druidess6308Aliquippa, Pennsylvania USA79 Threads 13,695 Posts
dirko63: you alwways look at life with what is thrown at you and learn to deal with it.

The other option drown in every situation and it will eat you alive.


Well said, Dirko. wine
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Jul 27, 2009 3:46 PM CST How you handle it?
I delt with the loss of my late husband one day at a time.It wasn't easy but with some encouageing words from a CS member I came through it and I'm now beinging a brand new chapter in my life.
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Jul 27, 2009 3:47 PM CST How you handle it?
somechick: I delt with the loss of my late husband one day at a time.It wasn't easy but with some encouageing words from a CS member I came through it and I'm now OOPS!!begining a brand new chapter in my life.
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Jul 27, 2009 3:48 PM CST How you handle it?
Laura25
Laura25Laura25Somewhere, New York USA50 Threads 6 Polls 8,178 Posts
Tulefel: When the time is tough you deal with it, when it’s over… No need to nurse old grieves…


Exactly, Tulefel.

When it's over and done with,

me too - never look back. Don't have this problem.

But when you are still in the predicament of facing something horrible and there is nothing else can be done, beside waiting,

my life in this situation would be "on hold", kind off...
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Jul 27, 2009 3:54 PM CST How you handle it?
Boban1
Boban1Boban1bigplace, Central Serbia Serbia144 Threads 5 Polls 18,789 Posts
Laura25: When you face something awful in your life, really awful, how you handle it?

I've known a person who in life's worst/toughest situations would do as much as she could and then was able to put it right out of her mind. Always looking cheerful, and smiley, and very pleasant. Not even loosing her sleep.

A great gift.

Can be cultivated if you work at it?

I believe it can but don't think I'd ever could...


You do know the prise
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Jul 27, 2009 4:01 PM CST How you handle it?
Laura25
Laura25Laura25Somewhere, New York USA50 Threads 6 Polls 8,178 Posts
somechick: I delt with the loss of my late husband one day at a time.It wasn't easy but with some encouageing words from a CS member I came through it and I'm now beinging a brand new chapter in my life.


sad flower Sorry and hope things are very different for you today. hug


This is it Anna - a good example.

Me too... When my father passed away, for quite a while it would show outwardly - through my facial expression, my day-to-day attitude.

Others on the other hand... OK, an example:

Not so long ago my coworker, a young 50-year-old man lost his battle with cancer. At his funeral his wife and 2 young-adult daughters (in their twenties) were kind of chatty with people and smiling at people attending funeral. Knowing this family, I can only imagine how awfully hard it was on all of them, yet it didn't show.
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Jul 27, 2009 4:03 PM CST How you handle it?
Laura25
Laura25Laura25Somewhere, New York USA50 Threads 6 Polls 8,178 Posts
Boban1: You do know the prise


Yes.

But I thought there might be more to it.
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Jul 27, 2009 4:18 PM CST How you handle it?
JS171965
JS171965JS171965Somewhere, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany4 Threads 169 Posts
Laura25: When you face something awful in your life, really awful, how you handle it?

I've known a person who in life's worst/toughest situations would do as much as she could and then was able to put it right out of her mind. Always looking cheerful, and smiley, and very pleasant. Not even loosing her sleep.

A great gift.

Can be cultivated if you work at it?

I believe it can but don't think I'd ever could...


I took one step at the time. I lived for a long time in the states, got a email and phonecall one day and it changed my life forever. Had to make the decision to give my life up where i was happy and take care of something i did not understood in this time. It took me almost 4 years to take care of things and i cryed myself most of the time to sleep. Everthing we will have go through in life can us make only stronger. You have to look forward and don't look back only that is the way you can go on. I think always positiv, sometimes it not easy, but i love my life and want to enjoy it.
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Jul 27, 2009 4:20 PM CST How you handle it?
Laura25: Sorry and hope things are very different for you today.


This is it Anna - a good example.

Me too... When my father passed away, for quite a while it would show outwardly - through my facial expression, my day-to-day attitude.

Others on the other hand... OK, an example:

Not so long ago my coworker, a young 50-year-old man lost his battle with cancer. At his funeral his wife and 2 young-adult daughters (in their twenties) were kind of chatty with people and smiling at people attending funeral. Knowing this family, I can only imagine how awfully hard it was on all of them, yet it didn't show.



Oh yes Laura things are very very different today and will be from now on.I'm able to enjoy and go on with my life again and it feels good to be able to do so.
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Jul 27, 2009 4:46 PM CST How you handle it?
ladyfingers
ladyfingersladyfingersclovis, nm, New Mexico USA261 Threads 1 Polls 5,456 Posts
I used to fight it, get upset, make myself crazy, and waste my time and energy.

Now, I think it through. Can I do something to eliminate the problem or change it...or is it something that there is nothing I can do to alleviate the situation.

If I can do something, I do.

If I cannot, I think...this too shall pass. Grin and bear it

I've found that as you get older mountains seem like molehills.
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Jul 27, 2009 4:59 PM CST How you handle it?
Ashes
AshesAshesPunta del Este, Uruguay7 Threads 5 Polls 469 Posts
Laura25: When you face something awful in your life, really awful, how you handle it?

I've known a person who in life's worst/toughest situations would do as much as she could and then was able to put it right out of her mind. Always looking cheerful, and smiley, and very pleasant. Not even loosing her sleep.

A great gift.

Can be cultivated if you work at it?

I believe it can but don't think I'd ever could...


It´s tough Laura, and very, I lost my first child...I then had three more and very Healthy I must say.
People used to say...oh...you will get over it...not my case.
Easy to say, but in Daily Life, all we can do is cope with it...time does help, that much I can say.
I don´t know what has happened to you...that´s ok...just deal with it one day at a time...try and stay calm, surround yourself with people you love and love you.
I don´t know if you are a beleiver or not, this did help me, and it does every day....as this is not the only sad thing that has happened to me....It´s Life...unfortunateley...not, "A Garden full of Roses" as we would all like it to be....
Bless You dearheart wings
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Jul 27, 2009 5:03 PM CST How you handle it?
Bentlee
BentleeBentleeSmith Falls, Ontario Canada44 Threads 4 Polls 874 Posts
I've always faced adversity, steppin back, get a game plan, a day a week or what ever it takes to ready me for it. Then grab the bull by the horns an deal with it. Sometimes i wait an get backed in a corner, then my game plan works better. It's all circumstantial dependent. Either way you have to come out ok, for self! Cheers ty Laura good thread. :)
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Jul 27, 2009 5:13 PM CST How you handle it?
cameraman
cameramancameramanSt. Petersburg, Florida USA29 Threads 19 Polls 2,501 Posts
what will you do in that situation conversing ask the doctor to give me a prescription
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Jul 27, 2009 5:56 PM CST How you handle it?
littlesusie
littlesusielittlesusieElizabethtown, Kentucky USA1 Threads 81 Posts
In the time of my lost, I had my children to fall back on, but when it came to the point that I had to be by myself, I thought I had it all plan out on how I would deal with the lost and the empty house. I would work 15 hrs. a day then come home and clean house until 2a.m. in the morning, I would be so tried that when I did go to bed I didn't even think, because I would be getting up to get ready for work at 5:30a.m. This did work, I didn't have time to think, had the cleaness house around. But it did put a toll on my health, in 6 months I lost 103 pounds ( I did need to loose the weight, but not that way. I never really cry for my husband, until one day i was washing dishes and drop a dish and for some reason I just sat in the middle of the floor and cry my eyes out, I was sad for myself and mad at him for leaving me. But at the same time I relize that the things that I was doing wasn't working that well. I had to face it and talk about it and try to go on with my life. It has been 3 years now and I have decided to start dating again and see how it goes, and hope for the best.

Susie
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