Life. It can be a real pain sometimes.
Always something you don’t want to do, that needs to be done.
And some boring reason why you can’t do the thing you actually want to be doing.
Modern life is like a list of 80% things you don’t want to have to deal with.
10% of things that you can just about deal with without going out of your mind.
And 9% things that you actually enjoy doing, and want to keep doing. Whatever the consequences.
Oh, and that odd 1%?
That’s the mystery of life.
What about the current scenario…how to deal with uncertainties
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The pandemic is an unsuual uncertainty, that’s for sure. At first, I just presumed I would catch Covid, and die. I was 68 years old, and a prime candidate to end up in Intensive Care. When I didn’t die, I had a rethink, and decided to be ‘safe’, but not to the extent of not living my life. Despite having had both vaccinations, the danger is far from over. But I have learned to worry less, and live a little more.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Thanks…but for me its overwhelming……………
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Are you in India? in which case I can understand why it’s overwhelming. I lost one of my oldest friends to the virus in May 2020, and we have had 150,000 deaths in Britain. But we never had the chaos we see happening in India now. Stay safe.
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Yes…i lost young friend of mine recently….no words to comfort her parents
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Thanks atleast u replied….
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I always do my best to reply to all comments. I am so sorry for the loss of your friend. It is rare here for young people to die from this virus, but not unknown.
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🙏
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Love the last line 💖💖
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Thanks very much. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Sometimes I think it would have been nice to live 20 000 years ago (apart from the lurking predators); just chilling and spending only a few hours a day worrying about food, and the rest just walking around in the wild, talking and philosophizing and star gazing – and not knowing there are such things as vacuum cleaning and bills.
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And we wouldn’t have lived long enough to start worrying about getting old either. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Haha, unfortunate but probably true! 🙂
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Oh the mystery of life, only accounting for 1%, yet possibly the most consuming aspect of life as we know it!
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I gave it 1% because that’s about all the time I get to ponder upon it. 🙂
Thanks for your comment, and also for following my blog.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Awwww so beautifully written.
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Thanks for those kind words, Sanjana.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Love the last sentence!
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Thanks, Jennie. There’s always a little mystery. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yes!
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I feel ya on stopping doing the things you don’t like doing. I definitely enjoy life more when I limit doing those things I don’t like to do. If they don’t fit into the “need” category—which few things actually do—then they can be ignored, or at least put off until I have more of a desire. Recent lesson I am so thankful to have learned.
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Thanks, Danielle. As I have got older, I have acquired the skill of putting things off for so long, I no longer do them at all.
Cleaning windows and washing my car come to mind. Wait long enough, and the rain washes off the dust. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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The other day I found a to-do list I wrote this time last year. I still haven’t done any of those things, and the sky hasn’t fallen in. Yet.
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Very much how I feel, Annabelle. I call it ‘normal’, but others insist it is procrastination. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Maybe one should begin each to-do-list with “Find this list a year from now”.
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The 1 % is the time spent making lists of all the things you don’t want to do, so you feel a bit more positive about not doing them.
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Or in my case, walking past things without looking at them, so I don’t officially know they have to be done. 🙂
Thanks, Janet.
Best wishes, Pete.
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The mystery of life – I like that Pete.
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Always that elusive 1% there is no answer for, Robbie. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I love it! You have defined it perfectly. well done my friend chuq
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Thanks, chuq. Glad you agree.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Definitely food for thought!
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Thanks, Diane. I get more reflective as I get older. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I really enjoyed reading your post and the comments, knowing full well I needed to be doing other things! You expressed what I feel on a regular basis.
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Thanks, Geoff. Recently, I just stopped dong most things I don’t like doing.
I felt guilty for at least ten minutes. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Pete, most of us work on jobs we don’t enjoy so we’d have enough money to do things we enjoy (vacation?). On the day we are supposed to be doing that thing, we are managing kids, packing stuff, driving through crazy traffic to reach that spot, managing kids again through and once there, managing kids again, still doing things we don’t enjoy. By the end of it, we are so tired, we drop on a bed and sleep and return home the next day in the very same but reverse fashion, to go back saving for another vacation…
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Luckily for me, I never had to manage a holiday with children. Good holidays were almost always something enjoyable. I also managed to work for most of my time in a job I thought was worthwhile. Maybe not always enjoyable, but it made me feel good to do it.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Hear, Hear! 😁
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You have perfectly summed it up, Pete! Life is a mysterious misery.
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Happy to hear you agree with my summation.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Oh golly.. you are turning into a wise sage… is that a gong I see next to you seated on that mountain top? 🙂
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Sadly, there are no mountains in Norfolk, Doug. But I do often sit quietly on a bench next to the river…:)
(Do people stil say ‘Golly’? That must be an Americam thing.)
Best wishes, Pete.
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(“Golly” is an old American thing… hence I qualify in using it because I am an old American. But to clarify further.. I never say “groovy”) 🙂
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I’m so pleaed to hear you never say ‘groovy’. 🙂
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Gonna start calling you Positivity Pete 🤣
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I had a whole year of Positivity. It was a while ago though, you may have forgotten. 🙂 🙂
(Maybe 2017? I forget too)
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yes I remember it well. 2017. It all went downhill from there 🤣🤣
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In my defence, there were solid (personal life) reasons for that happening. 😦
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Just teasing 😘
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That’s fine. I like teasing. 🙂
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True 🙂♥️
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Thank you for agreeing. That means a lot.
Best wishes, Pete.
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The older I get that 1% just keeps growing
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Cheers, Bobby.
Best wishes, Pete.
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So true!
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Thanks for understanding, dear Kim.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Feeling just a tad jaded today, Pete? Totally understandable, of course 😉 Keep on truckin’, old friend. Cheers, Jon.
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I am actually quite perky, Jon.
But life is something of a nonsense, you might agree. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Life is also a breakfast cereal, not to be confused with a beetleypete serial.
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I don’t eat cereals. I have a toasted ham and cheese sandwich at midday. Same thing, every day. It’s boring, but I enjoy it. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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