Life

kendalfox

kendalfox

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Incredible how we adapt is'nt the learning curve of junior and senior school, then coming to terms with having to work and support yourself, that first day at work the feeling of dread at a new way of life, then follows the love life until you get to the stage of wanting to settle down with the right one, that's when your burdens of life begin, now it's not one but two people you are looking after along with that dreaded mortgage as you want a home.
You find this home settle into a routine to keep the pair of you afloat until the day you get the news "I'm pregnant" your fears then multiply not only for yourself but your wife and unborn child, after the initial shock of a new born and the thoughts of how the hell will we cope you hope nothing happens to keep life on an even keel, and then I all probability another child comes along still you worry and fret
As freedoms you once had are going on back burner once again wondering how you will cope.

No sooner than that you reach middle age
Kids growing up fast you ponder life whizzing past at a rate of knots one again you worry for the kids going out into the wide world will they cope.

No sooner than life settles down once more as a routine for just two now in short while afterwards your contemplating old age and retirement
and all the worries that can bring


No life is not a bowl of cherries it's about surviving all the ups and downs the pitfalls, sprinkled with joy and laughter occassionally.

Make the most of joy and laughter as it gets you through the pain and sorrow
 
Im jealous of the young uns for one reason only. For most of my life City have been shit. The youngs uns have never really experienced that, and may not do so in the later years either.
 
I would not want to be young again, I lived through some great times, and saw the breakthrough of what now kids take for granted . You have to remember the bad times to appreciate the good ,and I had more good than bad. I think what is coming is not how I want to life. So when the time comes I will pass the baton on and let the next generation have there day with out regret.
 
"Do not regret growing older; it is a privilege denied to many." Ayọ̀délé Ìbíyẹmí (crazy name, crazy guy!)
 
I am glad I am old. Time to stop and breathe the air., appreciate the simple things, things I never had time for. Life - sometimes I used to wonder why I was bothering.
 
You hate to be young again, because there is another world out there that belongs to them, and it would be alien to you
 
I think it could be Alien to a great many people, especially if its the great reset that is being promoted. either way like you say it belongs to others. who the others are I suspect will be the ones who think they know better.
 
A wise man once told be life’s a bitch and then you die. I’ve tried to live my life with that in the background, to try not to let it get on top of me and to go out and enjoy it as much as possible.

My wife and I never had children, that is a blessing and a curse. We’d have loved a son or daughter and Mrs Dags would have been a great mum but it’s only now I’m in my mid 40’s that I feel ready to settle down. Is that weird? The benefits are it allows me the freedom and the money to get out and do my Germany trips, enjoy great holidays, eat out when we want to, follow Leicester as avidly as I do etc.

It’s not all been plain sailing, far from it but I still say the same today as I have done for 20 years or so, I wouldn’t swap my life with anyone else’s. Regrets I have a few, we all do, but if I had the chance to go back and live it all again I’d happily make the same choices as I did first time around.
 
Made hard workof my teens ,wouldnt go through them again for a million pounds ,the sad thing was during that time there was enough good advice to be had (often from the most unlikely places)
 
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