Do you ever wish that you have a different life than the life you have NOW?

Question

Come on, you can tell. We are all strangers!

Answer 1

yeah, that's what gives me the drive to keep pushing towards the life I do want.

Answer 2

Hey there!

I've never wished for a totally new life, I've never been that depressed! However, I have come close to that. I shall explain...*smiles*

Up until probably about 12... I would think that I wasn't good at anything and I'd think "I wish I could do that" or "I'm not good at anything".

I'd see other children doing things that I couldn't or didn't have the confidence to try. Sometimes I wanted to be a different person, and not have those worries! Before everything I did I thought 'If I say/do this what will they think?' - so I held back and still do (but not as much)..

I didn't have the typical childhood - bouncy castles, park, playing with other children - I preferred sitting and listening to the adults talking instead. At the age of 8/9 I gave adults advice on their problems - I was treated like an adult!

Now, I'm full of life and proud of who I am. I've found that there are things that I'm good at. I've met new friends, I have a great family. At the end of the day - there are millions of people who don't have any of these things that we sometimes take for granted!

Anyway,
Life is awesome right now and I'm the happiest I've been in my 14 years! I'm trying not to hold back and to be me - but easier said than done!

Regards

Answer 3

I think we all wish we had done something differently or that we had something more than we have now in our lives, that's part of the human nature; to always want more than we have.

I'm no different and have always wished and wanted more/different than I had. But I am not 100 per cent sure that would make me happy, or happier than I am now.

I was a little low about 6 months ago and would often feel depressed about my life and what I believed was less than I deserved, I would even blame "God" for handing me such a bad lot as it were. Then I met what I now believe to be my soul mate and my life couldn't be better. I want for nothing and am happy with all I have and all I am allowed.

In short I guess it just depends on how you view life and what it hands you. Life is very precious and very short, live ever day to the max and fullest. Never regret anything.

Answer 4

Yes, we are all strangers here but this also is the one best place for knowing yourself as the only person you could better. Thanks for, beckoning me on to answering your question anyway, which is going to be a philosophical one.

If my life is such a goodness that living it would enable me to wish for a better life, then should rather stick to what I have, a life so rich that it allows me to live and also to dream. This is also an ironical fact about all things in life that, in my view, all things are good things that give us wonderful notions, ideas, fantasies and dreams of better things; the things that would make us think and feel that we deserve a little, or may be a lot, better than what we have. I would therefore keep the life I have, and wish that it woud be a life better still.

Answer 5

I don't wish i had a different life, but, i do think it would be cool to maybe swap lives with someone for a day.
I think if i was able to swap lives with a child in Africa for a day, like we switched minds or something, that would be pretty cool because I would see how hard it is for them and it would make me more grateful for the life I have and then I wouldn't take so much for granted.

Answer 6

Yes I do wish for a different life than the one I have now. I would have had a career in nursing but still had my children and grandchildren .They would all be settled and in good jobs which they enjoy and have enough of every thing to be happy . We would have a problem free life..

Answer 7

Long ago, yes.

We are a species that focuses on the human ego. As a result, it becomes very easy to enter the downward spiral of sorrow and sorrow for the self. Who has a worse life than I, after all? The reality is, and if we are prepared, we are generally very fortunate now matter what has happened to us.

Feeling sorrow for the self often leads to envy for others.

Envy and sorrow are just a waste of time.

Answer 8

I always wanted to live a life where I could pay my rent, pay my bills, buys groceries, and still have enough money left over to actually have some fun for a change, without having to rob Peter to pay Paul! Ah hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the good life! Now, let me see, where did I put that?

Answer 9

When I was young ( I'm old, not too old but old) I dreamed I would go on trips, travel and never never ever compromise. I believed compromise was a dirty word. I would have a family and I would travel and write poetry and teach.
I have and am travelling, I have and have had a family, I write poetry and I teach. To achieve this I have had to compromise. but I live with the compromise and have no regrets. Life has been a carpet ride.

Answer 10

just minutes ago, i was wondering how it would be if my life was different. i'm a uni student and right now i just feel so numb and uncertain about my future. the only thing i would want to be different is to be working instead of studying or just work under my parents...or simply to have a different path which i'm not sure what exactly...but it's just that everything that has happened today makes me wanna quit living life!

Answer 11

Oh yeah, I wish I did have a different life. I always thought that I was adopted and that my real wealthy family were going to find me...LOL. Silly... but it was true...LOL. But if I had to choose the life... I would be born into a wealthy family. But I am not :(