Ive lived in the uk for 36 years out of my 36 years on this planet.

@SammyJo Good post!
When people are depressed (or just in a sad mood), it's difficult to conjure up 'the good old times' when life was 'great'. But it's an important impediment to overcome i.e.: sadness! so @Guitarman123 you really should take @SammyJo's advice and think back to that childhood when everything that was new was a wonder and when 'new' kids could become friends within a few minutes of playing a simple game of marbles or a bike race to the store or who can climb highest in that tree? The little innocent challenges that cemented our relationships and reassured us that even if we lost a race, that someone else appreciated being able to 'beat' us and that they felt good and thanked us by putting an arm around us as a new friend.

@JollyRoger relying on past nostalgia is just living in an imaginary bubble

@Guitarman123 OK....Based on you asking what's great in life and then diminishing the past of other people: If you want to sink into a self-induced depression I'd be the last person to stop you!

@Guitarman123 ...and that's it EXACTLY! When we're young we think of those things that we like, especially if we've had a nice childhood.

DO NOT tell me that, at the age of 4 you were going "Well, the TellyTubbies is fine and dandy but the state of the economy is scary! And how, exactly, does one actually be able to get on the property ladder?"

No...you were going "Cool! Sweets!"

So, shut up with all that bollocks! When you're young and just have to deal with TV, having a bath, friends and going to bed...that's the very best time!

Rose tinted? Hell yes! But YOU KNEW NO DIFFERENT!!!

Understand?!?

SJD x

@SammyJo i grew up in a poor council estate in a household of emotionally unstable and argumentative family members and an environment where violence wasnt uncommon. Thats not a past i can look at with rose tinted spectacles and from a naive perspective. Especially once blair got us involved in the 2nd iraq war. Even then i knew it was a fight we should've stayed out of.

@SammyJo my favourite subjects at school were English and history. Learning about the horrors of ww2 taught me that our interpretations of the past don't exist

@Guitarman123 You are correct that 'The World' does not learn from it's own history - or, perhaps it does as P. tRUMP seems to be practising the same tactics as other historical despots. But, as I intimated to you earlier: You have to find your own happiness... look for those 'secret' spots in your mind where you felt 'whole'. If we try to wear every 'horror' as if it were our own we'd all be anarchists.

@JollyRoger a major part of being an anarchist is finding ones own happiness and recognising that the best way to achieve that aim is in a society where everyone has the same abilities to find their individual happiness. Stoicism is an important philosophy in my life but im not dicated by it

@Guitarman123 ...and psychology has taught me that they do...to the individual.

SJD x

@SammyJo and that soely aiming to improve ones happiness while ignoring others is more likely to isolate yourself and create a sense of loneliness

@Guitarman123 ....and...you...just...don't...get..it!

*Sigh*

SJD x