Happy to be Alive

[€uroMeinke]

This morning I had coffee with a Woman, who's friends husband died last night in his sleep. He was 42, had no known health problems went to bed at night, and didn't wake up the next morning.

Being 43, I'm feeling grateful at the moment, that I woke up today - even if I did have to go to work.

Carpe Diem

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Carpe DiemSeriously! :eek:

Count me in for feeling lucky to be alive, young though I am...is everyone else still alive today???

[Betty]

Last time I checked.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Alive. Even kicking. And grumbling. And bored. But happy to be bored and grumbling. I don't even mind being a little bit bloated today. Or a lot broken out. Or cranky. Or tired. In fact I LOVE being bloated, cranky and tired on a day like today.

An alive kind of day.

Thanks, Euromonkey.

[Not Afraid]

WOW!

We've had enough crap to deal with lately. Can we both stay alive for right now?

[libraryvixen]

I feel so fortunate about being alive.

[Moonliner]

I've got laundry to do, a kitchen to clean, work that needs to be finsihed, a lawn to mow, weeds growing out of the sidewalk.... Damn if I don't feel pretty lucky right about now.

[Ghoulish Delight]

My biggest worry right now is a dent in my car. Life is good.

[innerSpaceman]

Being alive, and with human-level consciousness - is one of the highlights of the universe. Enjoy it, as I usually do with the happiest groove.

Zillions of years for interstellar matter to coalesce into stars, then billions more for the planets they bathe in light and warmth ... heheh, those that are just the right distance, with just the right mass, and just the right orbit for it ... to give birth to life. None of it possible till the millionth generation of billions-year-old stars to give to the universe their manufactured atoms for rock and water and life. Then billions more years of evolution and lifewipeout and more evolution and more wipeout till finally there are creatures with the consciousness to not only appreciate life vs. notlife, but to begin to comprehend that they came from the stars and that there's a universe out there of which they are a very rare and special part.

Anthropocentric as it may be, it thrills my soul to contemplate that we may be the very purpose of the stars, the very pinaccle of the cosmos, the veritable hand of god.

And of all the kajillions of creatures with whom we share this planet, though each one of them possesses an indomitable instinct to survive, very few of them - along with us - have the consciousness to appreciate being alive.


And always remember - there's nothing to have to DO, there's nothing you have to HAVE. Just BE and, if you so desire, be happy.

[innerSpaceman]

My biggest worry right now is a dent in my car. Life is good.
Ahem, we live like KINGS! (Well, I do at least)

Every once in a while (perhaps not often enough), I look around and see food always on my table, indoor plumbing where I live, refreakingfrigeration and ohmyhellagod electricity! I have a car, I have a job, I have loved ones up the wazoo. There's never more than enough money to simply pay the bills, but so freaking what? Life is so bloody excellent for me, and - compared to the vastness of human history now thankfully behind me - I live like a bloody KING!


'Life is good' is an understatement. I'm pretty damned healthy, I'm pretty much free, I'm in love, I have plenty of friends and get plenty of sex and have practically all the creature comforts it's not obscene to have.


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

(sorry for the double post)

[scaeagles]

I can relate a bit to the OP.

I found out a week ago or so that the surgeon who performed my life saving surgery in April has developed a rapidly spreading form of cancer in his lymphatic system and lungs, and the survival rate with the treatment (which I'm told is brutal) is only around 15%.

My wife taught his three kids in sixth grade, two of whom are now in college and the other is a sophomore in HS.

Kind of makes the everyday problems not seem so bad, you know. Kind of weird when the guy who did so much for my health and life such a short time ago is now facing his own mortality in such a drastic way.

[mistyisjafo]

Always be grateful! That's for sure.

[Matterhorn Fan]

is everyone else still alive today???
Pulse.....check!
Breathing.....check!

Yes, life is good.

When my biggest concern right now is that I mixed two different types of tea that probably shouldn't have been mixed . . . I'd say things are just fine. :coffee:

[Prudence]

My teeth fit together without pain or weird clicking for the first time in 19 months. Today I am, indeed, happy to be alive.

[blueerica]

:cheers: Cheers, folks... Cheers! :cheers:

[Drince88]

My day just started looking much better in retrospect.

Definitely a good day in the grand scheme of things!

[wendybeth]

The other day, a twenty five year old co-worker of Eric's was killed in a car crash. He was on his way up the corporate ladder- a great salesman, great guy. Engaged, good looking, great job- and now he's dead. I told Eric he is not allowed to have a mid-life crisis, because we know so many people that didn't even really get started on living, and it would be ungrateful and disrespectful to their memories. I may not like the slings and arrows (not to mention the wrinkles and such) that living beings have to endure, but it's a damn sight better than any alternative I'm aware of. My friends accuse me of being an optimist, but I'm not that at all- I'm a realist. I'm lucky for the reality I have today, because it could be so much worse.

iSm- double, triple, quadruple post away- your posts are wonderful.:snap:

[CoasterMatt]

I had happy hour at Camachos with a bunch of coworkers today, to just be together and remember the time we spent with a dear coworker who passed away earlier this week.
:cheers:

[TigerLily]

yeah....I'm alive...although with working 6 days a week and all the overtime i may not look it...my biggest concern right now is lettign my child loose at SFMM. I know I can trust her...I mean I think i ca...OMG I don't know...she's a teenager and I know what i did as a teenager...*sigh*

[MouseWife]

I know how you are feeling today.

And, I agree with you, wendybeth, I may not like all that comes with aging but I prefer it over not.

I like your attitude, iSm, and I try to live that way, too. I live a modest lifestyle but I enjoy it richly.

I don't think I'm always positive but I really try to be.

UGH I don't even want to talk teeth.... :eek:

I am glad to see people posting they are alive. I was worried....

[sleepyjeff]

Here.

[dsnylndmom]

Very much here and happy to be alive. :cheers: to you Euromonkey for making me stop and reflect on it.

[alphabassettgrrl]

Yep. Alive and happy to be so.