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Atrocities said:
If I had boat loads of cash and never had to worry about money again, I would buy a mountain and fence it bugger in with a twelve foot tall, razor wired toped, fence with gun emplacements every fifty yards.  J/K, I would have no gun emplacements, just fortified camera's.
I would then build a modest home, and have trails cut into the moutain for my hiking, biking, quading pleasure. I would of course go out of my way to preserve wild life habitat and such.
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You post a lot of thoughts worthy of threads by themselves.
I see what you mean by your B. Gates example ('cause I've wondered just how much winning 20 million $ would make me happy...like I said, a whole new thread IF people REALLY considered just how much better their life would be needing to worry about being kidnapped every time you stepped out of the house)
Then, there's the ever appearing "look" we take on our lives periodically that (lots of times) results in a certain disatisfaction in how things have gone so far. Even that could be another thread as I'm sure a lot of good comments would result (and things to make people think).
But, to respond to the thread title, "Depressing Thought", I'll begin with a cliche'. "I cried when I had no shoes till I met a man with no feet." Trite as it may seem, the world only needs to be looked upon peridically to see how true that is. As an example, at Dragon*Con, my wife and I went to McDonalds for lunch one day. We griped at the long lines and lack of cash registers open. Finally, we got our food and sat down. It was then my wife noticed a guy in a motorized wheelchair who was so bad off that he had to lay backwards in it (almost reclining). He had the same disease a co-worker of mine had...I forget the name but it deals with the inability to control motor functions. His arms swung around uncontrolably and his head twitched left, right, and forward. But he had a tunic and leather belt on and some nice elven boots. Obviously, he had come to Dragon*Con to have fun the best way he could. And, there were my wife and I complaining about a long line. It made me feel very small.
I'm kind of sad that way. By sad, I mean a bad individual because I seem to need that kind of reminder too often when I should be able to feel it once and remember it forever. But I seem to need constant reminder that I don't have it bad AT ALL!
So, my advice in this kind of "depression" is to try to remember people like that. People that don't have a pot to piss in. I think I may have mentioned it before but in case I haven't, I'm pretty happy with my house, my family, my income, and my health. Since a lot of people worry about money (and a lot DO!), I'm one that doesn't. Yes, I worry about my job going away but I'm not so unthankful that I want even MORE. I'd be quite content if everything stayed just the way it is...I kept my job, the inflation rate stayed the same, etc. 'Cause, you see, each month, my wife and I add over $100 to our savings. I don't want more than that...not really. I'd stay right there if it never changed...because that's enough.
And, of course, there's the other old saying that goes..."Money isn't everything." And the counter to that goes..."People who say that don't have to worry about money."
I'm not trying to preach. After all, it seems I've only come up with cliche's. But saying like those didn't appear for no reason at all.
My wife, for example. I am her 4th marriage. She never knew what she wanted, I think. All but gave up on finding a person she could find true happiness with. She finally settled on an old codger like me (15 years her senior) before she could believe in love again. And get this (if you've seen my pics and hers...), she is worried all the time that I might leave her! Why am I on this topic? Not sure. I suspect to illustrate that even though one may feel they will never get some of the things they are looking for, they most likely will.
I love the fact that you miss your cat. I can SO relate to that. And, as my mother always told me (and my sister), "A man who prefers cats over dogs will be the better husband." Not a cliche' (smile) since I haven't heard it anywhere else. But, it seems to make sense (to me).
People get depressed when they don't have the things that they think they should have (by a certain time), I think. Some people will never get them (or all of them). But rest assured, MOST people find a lot of the things they want in life. And if they don't think so, they only need to take a look at the guy with no feet in order to understand that they did.
Well, 'nuff said. This has always been a forum for SE4. It's the main reason we are here. But, in case you are "blind", it's always been a forum for a few other things as well. So, I post my thoughts in hopes it helps a little bit, my distant friend.
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