Sometimes when we're seriously ill we can get very low and depressed. It happened to me recently and I lost sight, for a while, of what gives meaning to my life. Reasons I want to stay alive are important to me, as well as simply wanting to live, and they give me hope of recovery.
I have several meaningful things in my life, my son first of course, but for me personally it's studying for a degree. It keeps me motivated and gives me something to aim for, I could get work from home when I get it and I enjoy studying, it keeps my brain active and interested.
What's an important meaning in your life that keeps you going?
Hello Georgia, I am glad that you have found some meaning in your life. Keeping the brain active is a great way to learn, i am partially disabled and i do online courses to keep my brain active. I like to learn new things and doing these courses are free and from the comfort of my home. My main important meaning in my life thou as to be my grandchildren as well as my daughters. My grandchildren are 3 and 1 and i love being with them and seeing them grow and develope their learning. They bring great joy and their innocence is so refreshing. I do worry sometimes about the world we live in and that their innocence will not last, i want to protect them from evil but this is not possible. So on a positive note i will always be there for them while i can.
I haven't got any grandchildren yet but I have a son so perhaps one day; they must be delightful to you.
I do free online courses too when I'm inbetween modules. I study Alison courses, it's great that they're free and they have so many courses! And you can get certificates for a fairly low price though I haven't yet.
Who do you study with? Might be courses I haven't heard of. Oh and there's Vision2learn where the courses are studied from home with local collage tutors. I've several of those.
Well the people that give me meaning in my life,have got to be first and foremost my beloved Husband Peter, we both found a deep love so late on in our lives,it is so very precious to us both. This followed so very very closely by my dear and loving family. My daughter,and her Husband, My Grandaughters and their Husband`s,my four Grandchildren ,and my 6 Great Grandchildren .All of whom I love so very dearly ,always have and I always will.It is so important to me that all those I love dearly and deeply are well aware of this ,and I have made it crystal clear to them all of this .And to all the newfound friends in here my love goes out to you all .
This is what matters to me most of all .
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I'm glad you have such a wonderful family Milly. What gives meaning to your life for you personally? I should have worded my post better because I'm interested in the things they do because even when we're ill, or especially I think we need goals and things to do to keep us active and our brains going etc.
Hi Georgia, I do the Future learn courses. They do a range of courses, i have done Forensic Science, Forensic Physchology, Drugs and the Times of Richard 111 to name a few. I mainly do courses for interest but there are courses to help with your job prospects etc. Courses last approx 6 - 8 wks for about 4-6 hrs a week. They are not degrees but you can get a participation certificate for £25. These courses keep me going as i am not able to work. I will look into the ones you have mentioned.
Thanks, I'll look into that one, sounds good. I also do them for interest but also to improve my chances of gettting some kind of work from home, or if I get better something else.
Future learn looks excellent! Owned by the OU, who I study with. I've signed up for a course on the brain starting in June just after I've finished my module, perfect, thanks!
Well until recently my Husband and I used to go sequence dancing ,I was always interested in ballroom dancing ,so when we met and both loved dancing that did it for me.Adde to that Georgia,I just used to love taking photos ,I still do no one is safe when I am around with my camera.But I tend mailny to read a lot even when feeling depressed I look to my books ,but I dont rwead fiction, al my books are factual books .I read a lot of health books and am into as it says in my dicsussion into holistic remedies. I was a fully qualified heaer for a lot of years till I moved around a lot ,that tended to stop me doing it ,Tha was my passion,giving people healing.It may seem odd to you that while I was able to do this for others ,I can still be depressed with things going on ,but we are not always able to give to ourselves that which we can give to others .
I do so much miss that pair of clowns, and then there was the breakfast scene set to the music of 'the stripper'. I can just hear it now.....#Da, da, da, de, da, da, daaa.....da, da, da, de, da, da , daaa ......Dum, de, dum, de, dum, dum, dum.......................' #
What ever they did was wonderous, especially the one with Shiley Bassey and 'the boot'...........
Such a great loss to society. I could go on and one, but would only bore the younger generation who believe that if there isn't a swear word in it, then it's a bad joke.
Yes, a totally different style of humour (if it is hunour). there was smutty humour but not not brought into the home. Panto had its share of smut but you had to go to get it. I think that made a difference. Still do not like pantomime. Perhaps I was old fashioned then. Perhaps I just like humour to be clever rather than risqué.
I'd have to hide from you because I don't like having my photo taken! Probably because of my mum always forcing us to have them taken. She'd make us get changed and fuss around. We'd stand there for what seemed like ages with a false smile while she fiddled with the cameras! Put me off for life!
I'm a qualified Herbalist, well not with a university but with the BSY school. I know what you mean about healing others, I've done a little of that but it's harder to heal ourselves, though herbs do help me a great deal and I couldn't do without them.