Arghhhh! I never got the instruction manual

[focusondisney]

One thing I am finding as I go through life is that there is no one set answer. Just a choice with different consequences. Some are more tolerable than others to me.

In the end, you just do your best and hope it all works out. And if you fall on your face, you comfort in the fact you live to tell the tale and try again. Life is full of second chances and God is always there to provide them.

Edited to add: And if you're not of that religious mindset you can just think of it as humanity or fate or creation or whatever. Something keeps humanity from destroying itself and helps drag individuals out of the gutters of life.

Really good points! Make your best decision, accept it & be Ok with it. I believe in good Karma!

 

[Liberty Belle]

I wrote one when I was a teenager and knew everything, but I lost it in my 20s.

 

[Carly_Roach]

Thanks Focus.

But seriously, when you all have some situation that you're not sure how to handle, do you just talk it over with your family, friends, clergy? Even if it's something that would take a very long time to explain and you don't want to give one impression over another, if that makes any sense. You don't want to bias people, you want them to try & understand the whole situation but you aren't even sure what's true & what's not so much...
Or do you guys just know how to handle things using your common sense & life experience. Do you ever just plod along & figure this particular situation will never get any better & just learn to live with it?

I have often found that when in situations where my upbringing and life experience hasn't prepared me for a potential solution, and talking it over with someone else would be dragging them into my drama, the best action is inaction.

And I would stay inactive of the situation for as long as it takes. Years if necessary. That's how I learned patience.

I can now wait forever for those kinds of situations to right themselves (and they always do) or, at minimum, to drift out of my life so that they're no longer a problem to me.

But it takes a tremendous amount of patience and an enhanced forgiving nature. Something I'm still working on and probably will continue working on until I leave this world.

 

[Carly_Roach]

Sometimes if I don't get validation I take that to mean God is telling me I've strayed or am ignoring the truth inside me. I hate it when He has to whap me upside the head to get a point across.

When I don't get that 'validation' from God, I have to presume then that the answer he's giving is "NO".

 

[Philagoofy]

double post

 

[Philagoofy]

Everyone, especially BroganMc, thanks for your thoughts. As you said, there's not always a right or wrong choice, just different ones with different consequences.