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...
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.
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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 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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 dear
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. :)
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.
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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...