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Bungee Runs are very fun and surprising tiring.
Alternatively those trampolines where the jumper has bungee cords connected around their waist so they can do really high jumps is cool!
If you have the room, hire an inflatable laser quest. They're normally pretty dark inside and because the floor is bouncy you can do movie style diving shots.
Bungee Runs are very fun and surprising tiring.
Alternatively those trampolines where the jumper has bungee cords connected around their waist so they can do really high jumps is cool!
If you have the room, hire an inflatable laser quest. They're normally pretty dark inside and because the floor is bouncy you can do movie style diving shots.
Why do humans always seem to desire MORE, regardless of how little or how much we already have?
Angela
Have you ever been completely satisfied with every aspect of your life?
Even when things aren't perfect, why can't we just be happy with what we DO have?
But isn't it human nature to be in constant pursuit of improvement, progress?
I'm just wondering why I'm not satisfied with my life. Much is lacking, but frankly I'll tell you what I DO have, and why can't I just be satisfied now?? Husband with a fantastic career, stable income, renting a not-too-big, not-too-small house in a middle class neighborhood, soon will be buying the house, surrounded by fantastic neighbors, no crime, excellent schools, two gorgeous healthy children, the most perfect cat we've ever had, we're lacking nothing really. Of course we do haveto budget and we can't just buy every little thing we'd like, so it keeps us appreciative & disciplined. I'm a housewife with a gym membership and I love the gym! I love to mow our huge lawn, and I love to pull weeds, I love to entertain the neighborhood children after school on hot days with our huge inflatable water slide and/or put the sprinkler under the trampoline, and yeah it's a lot of physical labor to maintain that water slide!
My life sounds great, right?!?!
But humans are always in pursuit of forward progress, right? What's lacking here that is invisible to everyone but me is that my husband has absolutely no personality, and he never really did now that I can see as the desperate frenzy of courtship & marriage is 11 years behind us. I honestly never really did like him, but I was so sexually charged when I met him (he was the first man who came along), and my religion recommends marriage for the sake of being civilized. So here we are now.
What else am I lacking? After being a stay at home mom for 9 years I've managed to become ill-adept at keeping up with the pace of the career world. My college education is incomplete, and I've tried to go back. I'm at the end of spring semester right now and it was going well until a couple of weeks ago, and now I feel like a failure and my self-esteem is shot.
But I am beautiful & healthy (sometimes), and even at a flying trapeze class a few months ago one of the apprentice instructors was heavily taken with me. Well he was on the trapeze and I was learning silks, and next thing I knew he was standing 6 feet away from me, watching me. He wasn't trying to hide the fact that he was watching me either. It was just he & I, everyone else was busy at other things. He was standing right at the foot of my silks gazing at me. Then when I was available he spoke to me. He hadn't planned anything to say, it was just as if we were both in a dream. I didn't know what to say, and frankly I've sort of forgotten how to speak over the years of being a mom to two little kids, and a wife of a man who never has conversations with me. So there we were, in a dreamlike moment, two acrobats caught in an unexpected moment of rapture...
He stayed so close to me throughout my class, then the class was over and I didn't know what else to do, so like I always do, I went to the changing room, changed into my street clothes, and went home.
And I continued on with my mundane life as if that enchanting hour had been a dream. Because it really did feel like a beautiful dream. There have been three or four nights I've cried myself to sleep, yearning for joy in my soul, yearning for love, and wondering what if...?
Maja & Paul G, Bravo! Thank you for listening to me, heart & soul...I really want to pick you both as Best Answers and give you exponential points, I wish I could do that!!! So I'll eeny meeny miney moe...randomly between you two.
Oh and to Mr. Blimey, I do not watch television AT ALL...EVER!! for precisely the reasons you stated (and for so many other reasons too), so thankfully my dissatisfaction with life has nothing to do with the TV :)
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Yeah, we only think that we want 'more', and libertarians say that we are free to choose whatever we want, and we all have chance to get anything.
But in the other hand, we don't know actually what is the final goal of it. We don't know when to stop, when it's enough. And we're so unhappy. Many years ago people knew their purpose and now? we only know that it's not the limit.
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And now I have actually read the whole post of yours. (Sorry, I thought at first it was merely a philosophical question)
I think... well you seem to be trying to persuade yourself that you are supposed to be happy because you have lots of things, family etc. You talked quite a lot about things. And it was so... I don't know, so nice to read then about that event on trapeze. Because you were talking about your experiences. There's so much difference between what we gain by posessing things and what we gain by having experiences (whatever they are, love on trapeze or bungee jumping or whatever).
I feel so strange giving an advice for a woman who has seen probably much more than me while I'm just learning to be one right now. But I just... wish you good luck. Have a lot of these experiences. Learn new things. Change your routine maybe. I'm not saying- change everything but maybe...put some colors in your life:)
Yeah, we only think that we want 'more', and libertarians say that we are free to choose whatever we want, and we all have chance to get anything.
But in the other hand, we don't know actually what is the final goal of it. We don't know when to stop, when it's enough. And we're so unhappy. Many years ago people knew their purpose and now? we only know that it's not the limit.
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And now I have actually read the whole post of yours. (Sorry, I thought at first it was merely a philosophical question)
I think... well you seem to be trying to persuade yourself that you are supposed to be happy because you have lots of things, family etc. You talked quite a lot about things. And it was so... I don't know, so nice to read then about that event on trapeze. Because you were talking about your experiences. There's so much difference between what we gain by posessing things and what we gain by having experiences (whatever they are, love on trapeze or bungee jumping or whatever).
I feel so strange giving an advice for a woman who has seen probably much more than me while I'm just learning to be one right now. But I just... wish you good luck. Have a lot of these experiences. Learn new things. Change your routine maybe. I'm not saying- change everything but maybe...put some colors in your life:)
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