Shaz51Senior Contributor
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
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I like that you are content with your ability to cope -- way to go @Hope4me
Very true @Mazarita, @Former-Member, @Owlunar, you do have different contentment levels through different ages and stages of our lives
if you had asked me when i was twenty , all I wanted to do was to help other people by caring for their childen -- I never ever got rich through it but I loved giving and caring
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Hope4meSenior Contributor
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So true @Mazarita
The word 'contentment' never entered my mind back in the day. It was more about survival. I don't visit here very often, but it's available for when I do and; I'm ever so grateful.
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
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@Former-Member, @utopia 
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utopiaSenior Contributor
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Great topic @Shaz51.
Contentment has been my favorite word for years now.
Do I want to be happy? No.
Do I want to be contented? Yes.
Happiness is a fleeting moment in time.
Contentment is long lasting.
When I am content, is when I feel the most peace. When I feel calm. When I too, look up at the stars and marvel at the universe. When I sit on the grass and feel the sun and breeze on my skin. When I hear the birds. When the fruit is growing on my trees. Everything feels so right.
Contentment is what I aim for in life.
Thanks for a great thread.
Contentment has been my favorite word for years now.
Do I want to be happy? No.
Do I want to be contented? Yes.
Happiness is a fleeting moment in time.
Contentment is long lasting.
When I am content, is when I feel the most peace. When I feel calm. When I too, look up at the stars and marvel at the universe. When I sit on the grass and feel the sun and breeze on my skin. When I hear the birds. When the fruit is growing on my trees. Everything feels so right.
Contentment is what I aim for in life.
Thanks for a great thread.
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Hope4meSenior Contributor
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OMG @Shaz51
You wouldn't know it, but I have Sarah Ban Breathnach's 'Simple Abundance Companion' sitting right in front of me!!!! I picked it up a few minutes ago to look inside.
Sometimes life's just that little bit eerie don't you think?
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NameUnknownSenior Contributor
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The only time I feel completely content is when my little boy gives me his big cuddles that i wish lasted forever
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Shaz51Senior Contributor
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yes Nature is beautiful @utopia, I love sitting next to a creek too soo wonderful
Sometimes life's just that little bit eerie don't you think?-- I agree @Hope4me xoxo
enjoy those cuddles @NameUnknown, they are good for him and you , loving memories
Hello @Jupiter
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OwlunarSenior Contributor
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Hi @Hope4me
Great to see you - I wasn't around much during the better weather but it's March and cooler so I am back more and glad to catch you on such an interesting thread
Great thread
Okay Peeps - my time line - in my early years people were not content with my choices and were always in a hurry for me to move on - I guess you have all had the questions
Actually - I was at night school with a lot of men and in the Army Reserve and had contact with a lot of male soldiers but - at 18 I was career minded and started to get questions I still find intrusive to remember - hated it at the time
I was asked
"When are you going to get a boyfriend?" - in time I got one
"When are you going to get engaged?" - in time we did
"When are you going to get married?" - in time we did
"When are you going to have a baby?" - eventually we adopted
"When are you going to have another baby?" - eventually we did
"When are you going to go back to work?" - at least when I got to this stage I had with my mother and started to please myself without telling people
But it seems this morning no one could leave me alone to just get on with life - how hard to be in the moment when people are pushing me into the next - I was too young then to turn them off and at times the questions were intrusive
Our timelines continue and have unexpected issues - we can only live on day at a time at the most - in reality the time I started this post has gone and the time when I will finish it is still in the future
One way of seeing contentment is just being in our timeline - young people are unusally into acquistion - and we get older we are more into inquistion - and just accepting what is - that's important
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MDTSenior Contributor
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@Shaz51 thank you 🙂
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JupiterSenior Contributor
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Hi @Shaz51. I hope you haven't floated away in the floods...
