My life would be easier if…

[Rodafina]

Thread premise: Finish the sentence, “My life would be easier if…” with some observation you’ve made about your own life.

It’s not really a place for feedback and advice, just putting our observations about what might make life easier out there for all to see.

I’ll go first.

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My life would be easier if…

Nobody in my family drank alcohol and I didn’t ever have to be around that stuff again.

 

[NDR2]

…I didn’t have so many medical problems.

 

[Progster]

... I had better and stable financial security.

 

[Neonatal RRT]

...if I could socially bond with people in meaningful ways.

 

[Progster]

... I didn't have constant anxiety.

 

[Metalhead]

If the commute to and from my job was not so much of a pain in the ass.

 

[Progster]

... I weren't overwhelmed so easily by obligations and committments.

 

[Aspychata]

If life didn't suck.

 

[Forest Cat]

...I was a dog. Dogs know how to live. Just lying around, falling asleep face down in my food bowl, people petting me and calling me a good boy, chasing a mailman for fun, lying around some more, doing nothin`. That's living.

But on a more serious note,

My life would be easier if…

I didn't live alone.

 

[NDR2]

…I had good verbal communication.

 

[Ursus Chainus]

My life would be easier if:

I could believe what I was told and not question everything.

I didn’t need to have tight definitions around words that most are ok with being not well defined.

I wasn’t going through occasional emotional meltdowns that destroy meaningful and important relationships.

I didn’t have a lifetime of abuse and trauma that leads to above emotional meltdowns.

I didn’t have impossible standards for myself that I can never live up to.

I could sense that others cared about me without reading the tea leaves and reacting when the result feels negative.

 

[tofino]

My wife wasn't ill.

 

[Tom]

I'm not saying better, but easier yes.

 

[Misery]

...if everything hurt less.

...if the threat of more pain wasn't omnipresent.

And if I could just manage some bloody courage for once.

 

[LadyS]

...if I wasn't autistic..maybe..?

 

[Wolfnox]

If people weren’t selfish, cruel, and manipulative.

 

[Dagan]

...if I had a house in the middle of a hundred or so acres (mostly trees).

 

[Misty Avich]

My life would be easier if I were rich

 

[NDR2]

…I could think for myself.

 

[Kisa the tea]

My life would be easier if
-I had good parents
-I didn't have anxiety disorder
-I didn't have such bad eyesight
-I had more focus
-I lived somewhere I actually like
-I had more money
-I had offline friends
-I was able to be more independent