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2007-08-02 12:31:06 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
since you are a dear friend, i have to be honest all the way..
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i have been taking my "Future" for granted all my life, like the only thing that keeps me going is my sentimentality(more of looking back than looking forward)... most of my answers are encouraging people to do otherwise because me myself cant do it in my own life. i often get dragged by past hurts and things i find very difficult to let go of. which in the process, ive totally taken the future for granted. i never plan, i never save(i work hard here in Bermuda for my family back home, sending my earnings to my parents and my brother who has a family of his own because nobody works except me) and i always thought my own worth is just that- i have no future so i shouldnt look forward for it.... i can die now or anytime i want to, and i dont care for myself..................
Hope that changes, coz as time goes by i find my future getting bleaker and bleaker.....i have nowhere to go, nothing to look forward to....
2007-08-03 03:53:09 · answer #1 · answered by enki 4 · 13⤊ 0⤋
Honestly, Moon, I don't take anything or anyone for granted. I'm so aware of the myriad of things that I see, hear, laugh at, experience every day of my life. Just now I glanced out the window & saw the ice cream man trundling his cart along the lake path, little kids almost stumbling with their short legs running after him, & scattering geese that had been cooling in the newly watered grass. I remembered a very good friend that I "lost" this year, who talked me into letting him buy me my first ice cream cone for years from that ice cream man when we walked around the lake & he saw the rock covered with turtles for the first time. I just sat here smiling. Such a little thing! & I know I never took that man for granted; I always loved him. (If anyone calls me a name about that, I will personally rip their face off.) I enjoyed the smiles & laughs with strangers when I went out today, & something on the car radio I hadn't heard for a decade, "A Night on Bald Mountain." Of course I've had my up times & down times in life, but I'm always alert to beauty, comedy, & love. I simply have to say that I was saddened by enki's answer. "..nowhere to go, nothing to look forward to..." With all that responsibility, it must be diffcult to carve a place for "self." Yet! Although he's "alone," he draws on some inner source to create the most beautiful 360 pages that awaken ALL my senses. All the beauty that he shares...I wish I could give him a hug & convince him that there IS a future. He's so young...
How I do ramble! I don't believe I ever took anything for granted; I learned as a very little kid that things are transient, that what is held can be lost but always valued & the very best of it remembered.
2007-08-03 22:50:17 · answer #2 · answered by Psychic Cat 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't think I have taken anyone or anything for granted of late. I have sooo many blessings in my life and acknowledge the people who have helped me to obtain and keep these blessings on a daily basis. The only person that I take for granted at times would be myself. I loose myself in the daily routine; I forget to take me time and my hair and body have been showing it of late : ( I have a spa day coming up next week, so I am working on not taking myself for granted as well!
2007-08-03 09:37:36 · answer #3 · answered by Mum's the Word : + 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm always taken for granted, mostly because I choose to be. The only person I need to impress is myself and my results are never good enough for me. What anybody else thinks of me is completely irrelevant. So I make it a point to conceal most of what I am. A lot more is accomplished when people don't know everything there is to know about me.
2007-08-02 20:52:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi, Moon.
It's my left index finger. Then, the tip got crushed and I nearly lost it - lost the bone, though. Doctor said the bone would grow back. I felt frustrated because everything couldn't be done properly "my way". :-)
It's recovering now - training it to bend all the way.
I now realise that everything (and everyone) is created for a purpose. Never take anything or anyone for granted anymore.
Take care...
2007-08-02 19:55:17 · answer #5 · answered by waterlily 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've been to places and seen things most people will never experience their whole lives...
Now I take everything for granted. Even the little things.
Like sleeping in a warm bed
Being able to eat healthy looking food
Not having to look over my back every five minutes
Breathing clean air
Wearing normal clothes
Being able to close my eyes
Walking with my own two legs
Being able to hear silence
Driving my car on safe roads
Going to my civilian job
Happiness, Laughter
Being with loved ones and never having to say goodbye
...Freedom
2007-08-02 19:53:57 · answer #6 · answered by soldierM16 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
everything.
I just came back from a vacation to my home country and i realized how much stuff (that usually i dont even think about ) people over there need. Like teenagers here start driving at 16, while over there if you are 25 and with a car, you are damn lucky.
Everything from a hot shower, to even having water accesible 24 hours a day.
There's just so much stuff in this country we throw away with a couple scratches, when around the world, people actually need it.
2007-08-07 22:42:17 · answer #7 · answered by natilla445654 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wish I had this problem.
For too many, life is such a struggle that the common every day occurences are of the greatest magnitude. Just remembering a person's name can have a positive influence on many.
We are a pampered society who are far too caught up in our own little worlds. It's quite disgusting at times.
2007-08-02 19:46:04 · answer #8 · answered by guru 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Alot of people take freedom for granted. Were really lucky.
2007-08-02 19:34:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I try to take nothing for granted, and if I find myself doing that I ask God for forgiveness and humility.
2007-08-09 22:22:57 · answer #10 · answered by Brandy B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋