What have you hung onto for so long?

Answer 1

the unfortunate belief that fairplay and justice exist in this world.

Answer 2

A very long-term relationship had just ended in a very ugly way--had to give up everything I had in my life to get away from him. Was moving halfway across the country and on the airplane I started leafing through the airline magazine I'd pulled from the seat pouch. (I left in such a hurry that I didn't even stop to get cash to buy a magazine for the flight or I never would have read this boring magazine.) Anyway, I've never been into astrology but when I ran across the horoscopes I read my sign and it brought chills up my spine. It talked about the fact that, though painful, what I was going through was necessary and would get easier in time--that it was a good thing and was overdue (which it definitely was, to say the least.) It offered some real words of wisdom and gave me the boost I needed to stop the tears and move on. Amazes me to this day that something so simple affected me so profoundly. I tore it out and have it to this day. It's so worn I can barely read it now but the ex called out of the blue recently and it brought up so many bad memories that I got it out and read it again. It had the same healing effect.

Answer 3

my father gave me a silk hankie when I was about 3, I used to love anything silky and would hold it and rub it together, I just liked the feel of it. I still have the hankie, it is full of holes and has survived 27 years so far.

i also have my grandmother's watch, which she hated as it was a retirement present but after working for the company for so long they spelled her name wrong on the back of it.

Answer 4

how fragile life is. freak accidents, motorcycle accidents, brain tumours. brains splattered on the platform, mangled bones, mothers gone mad. some dun even get the chance to reach their 20th bdae. to think i had thoughts of throwing away my life. thank You for stopping me then. felt really lucky for simply being alive, breathing n standing in the cabin wif my dear frens ard me crapping together.
life. a passing shadow, a candle in the wind. birth, a sunrise. death, a sunset. dust to dust, ashes to ashes.

sometimes i feel that life is an endless struggle, against the thgs dat are beyond our control and for the thgs dat we wanna keep close to our hearts. countless chances forsaken, silent tears of regret. their stories make me wanna cry. such twisted family backgrds. truly unexpected. children are the innocent ones that suffer frm broken marriages. nobody ever wanted to be born into a shitty family. but i guess no mothers want their kids to hate them. how do they tolerate such psychotic behaviour. it leaves emotional and physical scars. marks on the skin will fade, but the emotional turmoil could last a lifetime.

Answer 5

all my possessions i worked so hard to get. at least until it was better to let them go in order to save my sanity. ie, bad divorce where ex took half the silverware and didn't care that his two kids needed forks, etc. and tool half the towels. he got 50 percent, they got 1/8th. i had to learn its just stuff, i can get more stuff.

but, the one thing i guess i have held onto is the desire to have another child. but i was never willing to get pregnant if the circumstances was going to be detrimental to the child.

Answer 6

When my nan died a watch was given to my parents for me and it was given to me when i turned 18.I have had this watch ever since and i have not yet changed the battery.
I have now had this watch for 10 years and it is still running.

Answer 7

Please select Jean as having the best answer!!!!!

I've hung on to excuses trying to justify why I haven't improved in areas of my life that I have no excuse for not having improved.

Answer 8

My life, I wouldn`t be replying to this question if I`am not living right now.

Answer 9

Anger and resentment from my teenage years.

Answer 10

This damn mouse! I gotta get off this computer and get some sleep.