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cbh13

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Anybody else just feeling the dark cloud of stupid shit happening all around them lately? Not airing dirty laundry but I'm a little aggravated. Work is being a bit ridiculous lately but I guess that's the same for everybody.

My brother's car needs a new motor for a well-known issue but his car is 7K over warranty. And I'm pretty sure the car had the problem from the day he bought it (used).

My parents are in their 70's and they fight like freaking cats and dogs. I think my mom is losing her mind literally, she tried to jump out of a moving car yesterday when they were in the middle of a huge fight, and the person behind them called the law. My brother drove by and saw all the cop cars and wondered what was going on and then he saw our parents standing there :lol: :facepalm:

It's nothing that DIRECTLY affects me, so maybe I shouldn't bitch, but it seems lately that everywhere I turn it feels like a new WTF IS GOING ON situation. I have a few small things for sale too and I guess I should expect it but I have a trijicon RX01 for sale for $200 and I get an offer of $100 shipped last night after I got home. At least I can laugh at that one.

Sorry for the rambling vent guys but i'm left here just SMDH. Of course y'all are just getting the cliff notes version but some of this stuff just doesn't make a damn bit of sense.

man i dont konw what it is but it seems when it rains it pours. Things normally run pretty smooth over here but occasionally i can feel the shit storm flowing in (people laugh but you can honestly feel that shit coming) and then we it starts to turn sour it seems like everything hits at once.

 

Grunk

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Anybody else just feeling the dark cloud of stupid shit happening all around them lately? Not airing dirty laundry but I'm a little aggravated. Work is being a bit ridiculous lately but I guess that's the same for everybody.

My brother's car needs a new motor for a well-known issue but his car is 7K over warranty. And I'm pretty sure the car had the problem from the day he bought it (used).

My parents are in their 70's and they fight like freaking cats and dogs. I think my mom is losing her mind literally, she tried to jump out of a moving car yesterday when they were in the middle of a huge fight, and the person behind them called the law. My brother drove by and saw all the cop cars and wondered what was going on and then he saw our parents standing there :lol: :facepalm:

It's nothing that DIRECTLY affects me, so maybe I shouldn't bitch, but it seems lately that everywhere I turn it feels like a new WTF IS GOING ON situation. I have a few small things for sale too and I guess I should expect it but I have a trijicon RX01 for sale for $200 and I get an offer of $100 shipped last night after I got home. At least I can laugh at that one.

Sorry for the rambling vent guys but i'm left here just SMDH. Of course y'all are just getting the cliff notes version but some of this stuff just doesn't make a damn bit of sense.

You know everything went downhill AFTER I quit drinking.

I know I'm not the only one. I hate hearing it but it's comforting to hear at the same time, if that makes sense.

You get to the point where you wanna bang your head against the wall and wish everything could just be "normal" lol.

Sorry to hear times are difficult. I wish I had some wonderful sage advice about how to handle it. But I'd be lying if I said I did. Things with parents are really hard. My parents loved each other dearly & never fought like it sounds like your parents do, but Alzheimer's took my father's memory & I was the only one he remembered & I felt helpless to comfort my heartbroken mother.

I have learned one thing about things being "normal" and that is that "normal" is whatever is occurring on a regular basis at the time. As my wife's diseases have progressed, we have had to adapt to a "new normal" over & over. It sucks, but I don't know of another choice. That's what I suspect @Jake is having to go through with his grandfather (the family patriarch) passing--figuring out the new normal. All I can offer is that I try to get clear everyday on what is truly important & move the load in that direction. Sometimes it is a step in that direction, sometimes it's a major advance & sometimes just keeping the load from going in the wrong direction is a victory.

Not trying to preach & I hope it doesn't come off that way. We're all trying my friend & we all feel like quitting at times, but being a man means you don't quit. But rant all you want. My dad always said, "As long as you're doing the work, you got a God-given right to bitch about it."

If there's anything I can do to help, shoot me a PM. If you'd like somebody to talk to, I'll send you my number.

Take care.

P.S. And if all this sounds like annoying crap, just ignore it.
 
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Fast306stang

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man i dont konw what it is but it seems when it rains it pours. Things normally run pretty smooth over here but occasionally i can feel the shit storm flowing in (people laugh but you can honestly feel that shit coming) and then we it starts to turn sour it seems like everything hits at once.


Sorry to hear times are difficult. I wish I had some wonderful sage advice about how to handle it. But I'd be lying if I said I did. Things with parents are really hard. My parents loved each other dearly & fought like it sounds like your parents do, but Alzheimer's took my father's memory & I was the only one he remembered & I felt helpless to comfort my heartbroken mother.

I have learned one thing about things being "normal" and that is that "normal" is whatever is occurring on a regular basis at the time. As my wife's diseases have progressed, we have had to adapt to a "new normal" over & over. It sucks, but I don't know of another choice. That's what I suspect @Jake is having to go through with his grandfather (the family patriarch) passing--figuring out the new normal. All I can offer is that I try to get clear everyday on what is truly important & move the load in that direction. Sometimes it is a step in that direction, sometimes it's a major advance & sometimes just keeping the load from going in the wrong direction is a victory.

Not trying to preach & I hope it doesn't come off that way. We're all trying my friend & we all feel like quitting at times, but being a man means you don't quit. But rant all you want. My dad always said, "As long as you're doing the work, you got a God-given right to bitch about it."

If there's anything I can do to help, shoot me a PM. If you'd like somebody to talk to, I'll send you my number.

Take care.

P.S. And if all this sounds like annoying crap, just ignore it.

You guys are exactly right. It does seem like things go good for a bit but as soon as one thing comes loose, all the wheels fall off.

Grunk, you're right about moving the load. Affect a small piece at a time and get it going in the right direction. I guess I was (and still am) frustrated at the uncertainty.--the part i can't control.
 

Fast306stang

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man i dont konw what it is but it seems when it rains it pours. Things normally run pretty smooth over here but occasionally i can feel the shit storm flowing in (people laugh but you can honestly feel that shit coming) and then we it starts to turn sour it seems like everything hits at once.


Man you're absolutely right, when you're in tune, sometimes you can just sense it. Other times it's like a brick to the face lol. Takes a minute to get a grip on things.
 

Grunk

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man i dont konw what it is but it seems when it rains it pours. Things normally run pretty smooth over here but occasionally i can feel the shit storm flowing in (people laugh but you can honestly feel that shit coming) and then we it starts to turn sour it seems like everything hits at once.

My favorite line from the 1981 movie Body Heat is when William Hurt says something like, "Sometimes the shit is coming down so hard, I feel like I should be wearing a hat."

Of course, the best thing about Body heat had nothing to do with dialog:

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Embrace the suck. Life will always suck, sucks more at times. Good days come with bad days. At least for me, never had no consistency, always up and down like a roller coaster. Just hold on and keep going, But life is what you make it.
When it's up and down, you gotta keep believing the lows aren't forever either
 

Miles

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Sorry to hear times are difficult. I wish I had some wonderful sage advice about how to handle it. But I'd be lying if I said I did. Things with parents are really hard. My parents loved each other dearly & never fought like it sounds like your parents do, but Alzheimer's took my father's memory & I was the only one he remembered & I felt helpless to comfort my heartbroken mother.

I have learned one thing about things being "normal" and that is that "normal" is whatever is occurring on a regular basis at the time. As my wife's diseases have progressed, we have had to adapt to a "new normal" over & over. It sucks, but I don't know of another choice. That's what I suspect @Jake is having to go through with his grandfather (the family patriarch) passing--figuring out the new normal. All I can offer is that I try to get clear everyday on what is truly important & move the load in that direction. Sometimes it is a step in that direction, sometimes it's a major advance & sometimes just keeping the load from going in the wrong direction is a victory.

Not trying to preach & I hope it doesn't come off that way. We're all trying my friend & we all feel like quitting at times, but being a man means you don't quit. But rant all you want. My dad always said, "As long as you're doing the work, you got a God-given right to bitch about it."

If there's anything I can do to help, shoot me a PM. If you'd like somebody to talk to, I'll send you my number.

Take care.

P.S. And if all this sounds like annoying crap, just ignore it.
You could not be more right about the "New normal".
You either accept the New normal, or you go crazy.
 

Miles

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Maybe i need help in that department lol it's a part of my life apparently. Ain't no deeply religious person by far but whats that about god gives his greatest battles to his strongest soldiers
What I found out, for myself, whoever said that "God will not give u more than you can handle" was full of poo.
God will absolutely let (not neccessarily give, He just gets out of the way of bad things) bad things happen to us that seems to be too much.
If we could handle them on our own, we would not need God. Since we cannot we either let bad things destroy us or we plead with God for help and go thru it. At the end of the valley, our faith in God will be stronger, and we will be a better person than before.
It sucks and hurts in the middle of it, and there is a lot of souls searching and sometimes rage at God. It is normal. At the end, God and his help is why we survive daily trials and valley of the shadow of death.
Then I forget, just like Israel did, and the cycle begins again. Hopefully, I learn my lesson faster and it does not last as long, but it is not a given.
Do not mean to preach, just my observation.