Pause-Mode.

I'm in a strange and uncomfortable situation.     Through my whole life, I've been pushing the envelope and I've done some incredible things - my limitations have always been waiting for the people around me to catch up or financial limitations waiting for funding to carry on pushing forward.

I've always felt like the captain of a ship - I know my destination (retirement, downsizing, escape to the country etc.) and everyone else has been shooting holes in the bottom of my boat - but I was able to keep on course..

I'm not very well right now - but I feel somewhat useless.    I'm unable to push forward.     I'm not waiting for anyone or finances - it's just me.     I've run aground.

I'm spending my days eating and sleeping, feeling ill and watching tv.

It feels really strange to be non-productive.   I'm not moving forwards.    I'm, at best, just treading water.

I'm in uncharted territory - I feel I'm in the wrong place - like an alien in my own life.

I don't like it.

  • I've appreciated your insights and thoughts in other threads on autism. How have you learnt all that? What have you read? I'm AS but the AS person in my life can be unfathomable to me around his shutdowns. They're triggered differently to mine, and he behaves very differently too (though that cd be lack of insight into my own stuff).

  • . Well I may have had clarity of thought, but i didn't have to operationalise it. Who knows how I'd have actually been.

    Similarly being dead has never scared me, but dying, the process over time, terrifies me. I do really understand those who refuse meds, opt for Dignitas or take things into their own hands. I can see that life doesn't have much in it now, and life without a sense of purpose for me is really hard, and again without a sense of control. So you've a double whammy. I get why you're experiencing not wanting to be around.

    I wouldn't worry about whether your thoughts or posts are appropriate, it's a space to offer support, whatever form. So I'd encourage you to break taboos and say what's on your mind. People don't have to engage, and you can set boundaries on what you do or don't want to hear, or how you'd like people to respond.

  • everything is born from love. All fear all suffering comes from love. The fear that you are not loved the fear that you will never have the opportunity to know love or express love, pain torture abuse all consequences of the fear and not achieving the balance of knowledge surrounding it. Sadness born from love itself, grief born from love itself, loss the inability to keep love in a physical form to hold it and keep it safe is where the threat of love becomes and appears to be the opposite. That somehow unfairness is a punishment from an angry parent and that somehow you must have done wrong or bad. Love will give and take from you, but in the end it is the only constant that remains. We all live and die for love and this is our evolutionary acknowledgment to create a utopia we have to understand the basis of all creation. You my friend I shall see in the new utopia where upon we shall know each other as man has known man before he was born. All my love to you and your family there will be peace among the flowers that grow and the wind shall carry you to their very breath and they shall speak of you with such love your energy will surpass the boundaries of time and fill their bodies with true joy. x

  • Think about it logically We all die. We all want to protect people who matter to us. When we die, the ones we want to protect have lost us. Sometimes that makes them more vulnerable. But it is going to happen anyway. I don't want you to die. I think maybe you will live longer than you think. But we're all vulnerable sometimes. Just don't stop being Plastic. You are you. Don't let fear overcome who you are.

  • oh but you will be around, I can hear my mum, I can feel her energy and she has a very prevalent finger poke to my mind if I am becoming misguided and I can hear her laugh when i am truly happy and she is there to let me know she sees it. Believe me it is only doubt that prevents excepting that they are not gone.

  • I'm not afraid of death - but the dying bit sucks.  Smiley

    The bummer is, as a husband and father, I wont be around to protect my family.

  • My tears are falling for you with love you are not alone x  Gods great joke is that we all think its going to end and there be nothing. Well I can tell you my friend that all will be revealed and you will see beauty that you could never have known, and that transcendence will take away all suffering and love is all that shall surround you. We all try to look into the eyes of what we think is death and understand it. It is part of your journey as it is us all. your body is a body your mind is your mind, your consciousness is what understands the truth without seeing and has been born many times, you cant have nothing without something it is our true destiny. There is no death.

  • Thank you.   Smiley

    Unfortunately, the cancer I have is always fatal because it hides and spreads with no symptoms until it's way too late to stop it.   I was given 3-6 months in October.

  • The positivity is in the acceptance that you are part of all things and to love is to know god your true creator and to have shared love is to fullfill your true purpose. If my arms could stretch they would hold you with eternal love that exists eternally.

  • Im am so sorry to hear that, I watched my mum die of bone cancer after she had 12 months of chemo 5 years before for *** cancer. It came back and spread through her body. we all agreed that she did not want to go through anymore chemo as it is was just more suffering. I did everything I could including nearly blowing up my house trying to make 3 batches of cannabis oil. We begged  the hospital for vitamin c iv and they refused I have researched how cancer can be a toxification of the body and its imbalances. Much Anger I have had towards the treatments for cancer and how after many years there seems to only be an increase in developing the disease. Our way of life and the misconceptions of how to live have been bought by mass production of crap food and creams and sprays that build up these toxins over time as well as alcohol and tobacco and stress, which also is environmental and draconian. Cancer does not like cannabis oil vitamin c iv an oxygenated environment and various other minerals and vitamins as well as fully detoxing the body and regular enimas to extract the toxins from the body. There is a women in germany who has reversed terminal cancer based on these natural elements. 

  • No - it's just that I'm dying - end point not established - chemo is literally just keeping me alive so there's no positive outcome to look forward to - just more time treading water, taking pills, feeling weak, sick and ill until the pills stop working.

    I *totally* get it when people refuse treatment.

  • Or you possibly are experiencing part of ego death. Who you are and your purpose in the world has hit a crescendo and you are now ata loss as to your true existence. This dilemma will cause confusion and create a sense of anxiety around time and your purpose within that time. Acceptance of these things can feel like you are losing your sense of self when actually just behind that acceptance lies great peace.

  • could it be you feel you are not in control of your life that you feel like it is a personal arduous journey ?

  • Unfortunately, this is a path where I'm surrounded by people but I'm having to walk this very much alone.  

    I can't decide if this is depression or a realisation of reality.

    I can't tell if this is just the cycle of medication affecting my brain.   Maybe this will pass.

  • peace in the knowledge that you are loved by your own design.

  • Hi there friend, I see your depression and that is what has entombed you. If  man was meant  to exist in solitary confinement he would do so happily. At not one point in your entire life are you alone, to suffer is to know love, when its absence seems none existent, it is that doubt entirely, that pushes away your inevitable natural ability to accept peace. x

  • I feel that I've been pushed from pillar to post, myself, and that I was taken advantage of because I was a go-getter.

    Those 'lesser beings' in my school ended up learning trades and now drive fancy cars and have families. I ended up a Bum with a degree. A Guinea Pig for Milennials.

    I still have hope, but I doubt that others can help me. Happiness comes from within.