Just Wondering

[jazzy_dave]

Do you ever get anxious about anything?

Do you feel that life is a constant struggle?

Do you feel confident in the future?

Have you ever felt nostalgic for something?

Comments

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

I am constantly anxious about.. well, everything.

Yes.

Nope. The country is going to hell in the proverbial handbasket.

Not only do I feel nostalgic for things in my own past, I can manage to feel nostalgic for eras and things I've never experienced!

[ravena-kade.livejournal.com]

yes, since I was laid off from a 29 yr job my worry has a lot to do with finances...and how to survive another lay off.

I struggle lots. I have a lot of responsibility but not much control of things.

No

Yes. I am nostalgic the company of old friends.

[soundofsunlight]

Yes.

My opinion is that struggle is part of life, but I don't feel that life is a constant struggle.

Sometimes I feel confident about the future, sometimes I get discouraged. I go back and forth on that. Fortunately I'm pretty good at focusing on the present, and it's much easier to feel positive about the here-and-now, which I have more control over.

I have. Not so much for specific things, mainly just missing "the old days" in general. I feel like life used to be less rushed, and I wish it could still be like that.

[nerthus.livejournal.com]

Yes, anxious is my middle name, sigh...

Yes, I feel like a large portion of my life has been a struggle of one sort and another.

Hate to always sound pessimistic, and a few years ago even I think I had higher hopes for mankind's future, for the idea that we might actually LEARN something and become more enlightened as a species. Nowadays I look around and tell myself, "What were you thinking?! It's just getting worse and worse, not better!!"

I've always always had a strong nostalgic streak, without nostalgia and living inside my own head/imagination most of the time I'm sometimes not sure I could survive present-moment reality. It's not so much wanting to actually return to the past, that would just become the present again and thus not 'romantic' or 'evocative' at all, ha; but I do have strong sentimental attachments to certain nostalgia points of my whole life and am especially affected by music and certain older movies or tv shows that take me back to particular points in time and particular intervals of my life. My son who died last year often said he felt nostalgic all the time for eras that existed before he was even born; he too had a very strong 'nostalgia' vibe in his soul.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I do occasionally.

I don't think I reach quite that point.
Annoying struggle maybe.

I want to feel confident, but it's getting hard. :o

Always. Could we start turning back the clock? :)
Hugs, Jon

[froganon.livejournal.com]

Yes, I have anxiety about what I will and will not be able to afford as I age. And life too.


The last few years have been a real struggle for me.


No. I know that cat food has more protein in it than dog food does though.


Yes, though my memory is a bit too accurate for me to indulge in nostalgia for very long.

[markmc03.livejournal.com]

It's distressing that you would have to know that cat food has more protein than dog food. But it's good knowledge to have. I suppose on crackers, one could imagine it is pate? Sigh. I feel your pain.

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Constantly, lol!

There are times...but I can usually find something positive by day's end.

Actually, despite all my struggles, I do. Don't know why. but it is a good feeling, so I roll with it!

Not often. And it is more of a whimsy than memory.

[xfirefly9x.livejournal.com]

Yes.

Sometimes it is, but not always.

I feel neutral about the future. (Figure it out when we get there?)

Oftentimes.

[kabuldur.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I get anxious about things. But I don't think I am that anxious a person. Gyro was, and it was catching. I'm gradually returning to my usual self.

Yes, I do feel that because I don't get enough income to live on. But a lot of the time I forget that and just be happy at home.

Funnily enough I am usually pretty lucky, so I don't worry too much about the future. logically, I should. I guess I worry about certain parts of it.Like, what will happen to me when I am too odl to look after myself? Will there be mandatory euthanasia by then? That sort of thing.

Yes, a lot. For example, living in the 70s, when life was much more simple. Also, when I had kids. I loved that part of my life...except for the sucky partners. And life in student sharehouses, etc. I do enjoy life at the moment, though.

[maxauburn.livejournal.com]

I'm anxious all the time.

Life is a constant struggle to me.

I don't feel at all confident about the future.

I am nostagalic for friends, pets, and good times that are long gone.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Sure I think most people get anxious about something now and again, more so as we age.

Nope, I've been fortunate in that I've always had enough to make me happy (and it doesn't take much).

I do feel god about the future, providing we don't elect Trump president

Again, I think everyone feel nostalgic now and again. For me, it's usually Christmas that does it for me.

[riath.livejournal.com]

Yes, about everything.

Yep, that's life living with multiple mental illnesses

Not really. That just goes back to being anxious about everything

Hell no, at least not from my own past.

I know, I'm a right bundle of joy eh?

[eternalbook.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah! I suppose that my entire life I was anxious about everything.It gets my distracted from really significant stuff.

[ba1126.livejournal.com]

Do you ever get anxious about anything? Not often, only when I have to drive somewhere new and fear getting lost (this has happened a lot in the last year of my nanny job, and was essentially the cause of my ending the job.)

Do you feel that life is a constant struggle? No, thankfully I have a wonderful Hubby who handles a lot of the 'tough stuff' and together we are a great team.

Do you feel confident in the future? Somewhat. We are both in our 70's and although we enjoy good health it is not possible to go on forever. Inevitably we will grow feeble and will have to change our lifestyle. I try to not worry about it.

Have you ever felt nostalgic for something? Oh yes! I miss my Mom and Dad, miss the small cottage on a large lake which we enjoyed all through my childhood and into the early years with my own kids.

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[malterre.livejournal.com]

Love and employment

Yes, but the levels are what make it bad or good

Not really but try to hope anyway

Yes, often people and my energy levels

blecchhh

[markmc03.livejournal.com]

Yes

Yes

No

I don't think so.