Good and Bad Times

[OldDog/NewTricks]

Today Show Is talking about HAPPINESS ...
Are you Happy?
As I look back I see that some of my Most Happy times were also my most broke times.

Getting out from under my first marriage - I was 'happy' GETTING AWAY FROM HER MOTHER - I was "happy" - to work full time as an Electrician and give my X my paycheck ($150±)(good Money then) every week for over a year and Live On what I could make riding outside horses and Living in a $5 per month BOX STALL @ the Fair Grounds - I had roughly 15/17 stalls for Horses/Feed Room/Tack Room (with floor and ceiling i put in) - bath room and shower were one barn over and I was HAPPY...

Sad good times (Learning Times) were when "Jeri" was SICK - in the Hospital (for Kidney Transplants) - I sold (Gave up my Horse times) and moved into the Hospital with her for (Months/years) ending with her dyeing at age 22 - that's when I learned IT'S OK TO DIE - - thank you God - also that there IS AN AFTER LIFE - God took care of us - - in a very LEARNING TIMEs

I saw More Good Church People Blame God and NOT SEE GOD OR LEARN
"More" IF YOU WANT TO HEAR THEM!

Do you have "Good Times"/"Learning Times"

 

[burnt]

That's a pretty interesting question! Not too many people will quickly equate bad times with learning times. Yet in retrospect, those are the times when we benefit a lot. It takes a lot of maturity to refer to them as "sad good times" and it sounds like you matured a lot at a young age.

I can think of an event that seemed very "good" at the time that it happened, but looking back, I can see that it probably was not in my best, long-term interests.

And then there was a period of time a few years ago that it seemed like the world was conspiring to choke the life out of me and I was very, very unhappy. My family almost didn't know who I was anymore, and I certainly did not like what I had become.

Thank God it made its cycle and gradually lifted again. Now I can see how it was likely a necessary time of "refinement". And now I see that I need a lot more! :shock: But until I could accept it and allow it to happen, it was a wasted experience . . .