Was our country ever content?

niksyg

Well, if you're not content now there is no hope for you!!

Bootski

niksyg wrote: »

I am really in the minority...I don't watch TV, don't have a Wii, haven't had anything I don't need in ages and am happy with my life....maybe something is really seriously wrong and I am too blissfully unaware of my own misery to notice it??
OR perhaps I am just realistic about what I can and can't have and luckily have a great OH who makes me happy....maybe human nature is evolving to replace love and a partner with material things as the high divorce rates are causing us to evolve into loners, better off alone...we can even reproduce using a test tube! So it is an evolutionary issue that we are all 'want want want' and no one can take the blame! Ha! Sorted!

I'd not say you were in a "minority" but you have what makes you happy so good luck you to. Human nature is something I don't think you'd have to contend with as you seem to have a very loving partnership.

Your wants and needs will change but you've got it in the bag so good luck and well done!

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niksyg

Bootski wrote: »

I'd not say you were in a "minority" but you have what makes you happy so good luck you to. Human nature is something I don't think you'd have to contend with as you seem to have a very loving partnership.

Your wants and needs will change but you've got it in the bag so good luck and well done!

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I grew up as a very spoilt young lady (dad died when I was young and mum wanted I guess to try and make up for that by giving me everything she thought I wanted) After leaving home and getting into debt at 18, a really !!!!!! relationship and severe depression because of dad I guess I have just learnt to simplify my life and find happiness in the little things...simple pleasures.

Maybe the true question isn't "was our country ever content?" but "will we ever learn to accept what we have and be grateful?" I don't think 'we' were ever truly content because 'we' worry about the big picture that 'we' can't change, the power is in the hands of politicians who won't listen to our needs because they all have their own agendas...if people took more happiness from the simple things in life,maybe we would all be a lot happier and overall, content.

maybe in another 10 years I will have changed my mind drastically, but I doubt it!

morag1202

niksyg wrote: »

Well, if you're not content now there is no hope for you!!

Think you are mixing me up with wageslave. I do not own a handbag and my £600 loan furnished a flat in 1975.

niksyg

morag1202 wrote: »

Think you are mixing me up with wageslave. I do not own a handbag and my £600 loan furnished a flat in 1975.

Yes yes, sorry, think we posted almost at the same time but you just beat me to it and so yours came out below wageslave's rather than mine.
I could furnish a flat now with £600...let alone 1975!! I hope that bag has a blummin house inside it...or that it came with a free yacht or something?!

wageslave

morag1202 wrote: »

It was a bargain

I wanted it and could afford it therefore I am entitled. Only it is just a fu cking bag and you get people like Single Sue who live on that for a month and do something worthwhile. I just have another handbag. My Granda would be so ashamed of me.

I can remember when I would have happily have murdered a stranger for a tenner for the leccy.

You are right about the whole stuff thing.

Snooze

mrsmoneypenny9 wrote: »

Does anyone remember when the mortage rate hit something like 13%, and the miners strike which caused power cuts which led to 3 day weeks, i remember when my kids were babies aprox 20 years ago listening to the budget year after year and getting nothing to help me as a stay at home mum struggling to make ends meet, you got nothing, maternity pay was for 12 weeks max, and the only other benefit you got was child allowance, now families get all kinds of help, new mums can get maternity pay for up to 33 weeks, even fathers get paternity pay, the baby gets a lump some to be invested for him/her to start them off saving, we have childcare and nursery places paid for for all under 4's, we have had years of boom times with housing prices going up and up, and everyone was happy but as soon as things started to down hill everyone started whinging and whineing well now we are having a few lean years, we have had it a lot worse than this, this is nothing for gods sake, as far as I'm concerned the best thing that has happened to this country in the last twenty years was Tony Blair and the Labour Party, the conservatives drove us to our knees and i would never ever want to see them back in power because they dont give a hoot about the normal working family.

Perhaps you should've thought about that before you decided to have the kids instead of carrying on regardless and expecting everyone else to fork out for your lifestyle choice.

As for the second part - :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

niksyg

wageslave wrote: »

I wanted it and could afford it therefore I am entitled. Only it is just a fu cking bag and you get people like Single Sue who live on that for a month and do something worthwhile. I just have another handbag. My Granda would be so ashamed of me.

I can remember when I would have happily have murdered a stranger for a tenner for the leccy.

You are right about the whole stuff thing.

"I have therefore I am" dontcha think?!

Our priorities are all different, my mum spends a ridiculous amount of money on things that I think are pointless but then she is happy and can afford it, so good for her I guess. She is happy with what she has,as I am happy with what I have...what we have is very differnt though. I don't think there is an "entitlement" though, it surely should be about whether it is useful/makes you happy/does some good as opposed to "I'll have it just because I can".
If you are that ashamed you could ebay the bag and use the money for a 'good cause' I suppose!!

chucky

wageslave wrote: »

I wanted it and could afford it therefore I am entitled. Only it is just a fu cking bag and you get people like Single Sue who live on that for a month and do something worthwhile. I just have another handbag. My Granda would be so ashamed of me.

I can remember when I would have happily have murdered a stranger for a tenner for the leccy.

You are right about the whole stuff thing.

so it was you that put that 0.1% on the numbers today and that's why the country came out of recession :j

Bootski

niksyg wrote: »

I grew up as a very spoilt young lady (dad died when I was young and mum wanted I guess to try and make up for that by giving me everything she thought I wanted) After leaving home and getting into debt at 18, a really !!!!!! relationship and severe depression because of dad I guess I have just learnt to simplify my life and find happiness in the little things...simple pleasures.

Maybe the true question isn't "was our country ever content?" but "will we ever learn to accept what we have and be grateful?" I don't think 'we' were ever truly content because 'we' worry about the big picture that 'we' can't change, the power is in the hands of politicians who won't listen to our needs because they all have their own agendas...if people took more happiness from the simple things in life,maybe we would all be a lot happier and overall, content.

maybe in another 10 years I will have changed my mind drastically, but I doubt it!

Nyksyg!!?? Is that right - anyhow I don't think you should change. I have my own history that I'll not go into but I think you should stay as you are. Don't look outside the (call it if you will ) the bubble you have created. Hang on to what you have, there's nothing better outside it! Don't look at the bigger picture, it's not easy, unfair and really doesn't make sense.

I envy you in a way, you do have and are happy with the simple things in life, don't look beyond that, you'd be sooo dissapointed, believed me.


Things will only get more complicating in 10 years time so don't hold out for a greener grass. Look to yourself and what you have now

I'm no Guru and am still young. But you seen to be fortunate in what you have