figurativeme

@figurativeme (1089)

Philippines • Age 68

Joined myLot 14 years ago

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Have you ever felt so overwhelmed by a situation?

Dominique25 @Dominique25 (9464) • United States 23 Mar 12

Have you ever felt so overwhelmed by a situation that your emotions got the best of you? Whether you became highly upset? perhaps you lost your temper? Or you just cried your eyes out? Circumstances and situations like that are...

overwhelmed

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figurativeme Lots of time actually, and mostly lately. Lol! Times like these, I sometimes find it so difficult to control my temper and I have to do extra extra effort to keep my temper down or I would ruin a relationship. So I just turn my back and walk away, instead....

23 Mar 12

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My heart's not in it today

ecaron @ecaron (678) • Canada 23 Mar 12

I'm feeling a little down today as I read some discussions and comments and responses here, I feel like there is not much that grabs my attention, I'm sorry, I just feel depressed today. I feel like crying because some people died...

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figurativeme Hi ecaron… Going through mylot discussions and responses is already an action against depression, even if nothing grabs your fancy. I do that also when I am down and I just breeze through. Whiles away the time and also therapeutic. And you are right, there...

23 Mar 12

A life just moved on to another place

syoti20 @syoti20 (5292) • Philippines 14 Mar 12

If you will noticed me I previously posted the problem of my Big Brother. His best friend just passed a way. I can't provide the details for what happen. But we are currently still mourning for his best friend. Whom we consider as...

life

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figurativeme Hi Syoti… Losing someone dear to you is beyond words. Words simply cannot capture what it feels like inside. But you can be with your brother and connect emotionally by being sensitive to his needs. If what he needs is simply your presence, you are there....

19 Mar 12

Did I have to ask permission to get the iPad?

suspenseful @suspenseful (40193) • Canada 15 Mar 12

As some of you know, I have been saving for the new iPad. Now before you all get yourselves into knots, I am the type of person who says, "I wish I could get ---- but it has not been invented yet." Now here was something whereby I...

should i have asked them about buying the ipad

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figurativeme You wanted it and saved for it so I guess you don’t have to ask anybody permission to buy an item. Sometimes I feel like this, wanting to buy something and waiting till the money is there but holding back feeling I could use it for something else. I end up...

19 Mar 12

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where did you get your name?

savypat @savypat (20216) • United States 18 Mar 12

It's your first name I'm asking about. My name is Patricia, this is the first time that name has been used in my family, I don't know where it came from. But I do know there were always a couple of girls with that name when I was...

ask before death robs you

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figurativeme When I was a baby I was sickly. So my mother added a second name and named me after a saint. I don't claim to be saintly but I guess I am not sickly. I dunno if naming me after that saint did it.

18 Mar 12

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life is like " I Never Promised You a R ose Garden"

Patsie Hatley @Hatley (163776) • Garden Grove, California 9 Mar 12

So many times I have said and others too," Life is just not fair." Well gee whiz think of this " I Never Promise You a Rose Garden" a book written by a lady who had recovered from a nervous breakdown. Seems one of the mental...

life is not all happy happy

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figurativeme Hello Hatley.. I remember reading about a painting a long time ago which was only a white canvas with a black dot at the bottom left side of it. It was an interesting piece of art. Without the black dot, the canvas would be plain and uninteresting. I...

10 Mar 12

Broke into 2

Glitznglitter @Glitznglitter (389) • Canada 4 Mar 12

Every morning I clean my ears with a Q-tip. One morning I wasn't paying attention and stuck it in my ear a little to far. POP! I hear and next thing you know I have blood and stuff coming out of my ear. I didn't think nothing of...

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figurativeme Not with a broken eardrum. But a few years back I could not hear from my left ear and it was painful. My doctor told me that using cotton buds pushed wax deeper inside blocking hearing. She told me to refrain from cleaning my ears for one month. I thought it...

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How do you reward yourself?

dazzledlady @dazzledlady (1618) • Philippines 2 Mar 12

There are those days when we just want to give ourselves a pat in the back for a job well done or a break from a very hectic schedule. So how do you reward or pamper yourself? Do you go shopping and my a little something special...

people

reward

self

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figurativeme Hi... I get to be pulled here and there by authorities around me at my workplace. And all want work done “now!” Like what happened today when I got ulcer pains being pulled by two who want things done. I dunno why I simply can’t say “I can’t!” So now I am...

2 Mar 12

Mean parents?

justme0k @justme0k (152) • United States 1 Mar 12

So I know a couple who has 2 children, a 7 year old girl and a 5 year old boy. When I was at their house the dad got mad and yelled at the little boy becasue he picked up a doll and was going to play with it. This child seems like...

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figurativeme Hi! It must have been really hard on you having to watch a “disagreeable” scene, wanting to do something but unable to do so. The family must be ultra conventional believing choice of toys affect gender. And pity the child and the pliant mother. I myself...

2 Mar 12

have you ever distanced yourself from somebody else, why?

chiyochan @chiyosan (30184) • Philippines 24 Jul 11

So for whatever reason you may have... did you ever had to keep yourself away from a person? an annoying co worker who is always at your back an ex boyfriend or girlfriend who made you feel like you are the worst person in...

relationships with people

staying away

why

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figurativeme Hi chiyosan! Generally, I keep away from people who are all of the things you listed in your post and more. But what comes to mind immediately after reading your post is the time I distanced myself from my relatives who without conscience took...

24 Jul 11

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The pleasure of watching the sea,

marguicha @marguicha (222855) • Chile 23 Jul 11

I read here many posts about ecology and global warming. But there are less posts with pictures that show the beauty of nature as it is. I was thinking that maybe if we looked at it more, we´d take more care of it. I will post...

atlantic ocean

nature

sea

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figurativeme Hi Marguicha... Been away for a couple of months from mylot and missing mylot I browsed through the discussions and your post caught my attention. Coincidence, perhaps, but I watched a home movie this morning where a phrase stuck with me. It's a song...

24 Jul 11

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Time at myLot is never a waste.

megamatt @megamatt (14292) • United States 5 Jun 11

Even if there are times where I might step back and just soak in what other people are saying, I do feel like I am getting some value out of my time. There are times where the thought process for a new topic could get fired up by...

mylot

time

value

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figurativeme How true megamatt. There were times when I in trying to look for topics to respond to and my mind comes up a blank, I find myself absorbed with the interactions in some topics I come across with and able to elicit different emotional responses from me,...

6 Jun 11

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mylot and being in the mood...

chiyochan @chiyosan (30184) • Philippines 5 Jun 11

Have you ever experienced coming to mylot with the intention of being productive and being able to answer more discussions and create as many discussions you can only to find yourself being not in the mood and though the body is...

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figurativeme often and a lot particularly recently. I would have this resolve to respond to discussions or posts a few and even will myself to answer a few just to get in the mood. To my dismay. But a couple of nights ago was a productive night for me....

6 Jun 11

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how long do you stay in a book shop??

tammy27 @tammy27 (1241) • Philippines 2 Jun 11

just a simple question to bookish people out there.. :) i visited my favorite bookshop earlier, and i was there for about 1hr and 30mis. haha since it's not like the other bookstores where books are in order, the books there...

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figurativeme Hahaha.. Your post made me think of my daughter who would get impatient whenever I enter a bookshop to the point where she would distract my attention whenever she sees a bookshop ahead or simply drag me away from one. I spend hours inside browing...

3 Jun 11

Ideal relation between a teacher and his students.

DoctorDidi @DoctorDidi (7018) • India 31 May 11

The best way to be adopted by a teacher in the class room is to behave towards his students more like a friend than a teacher. Am I right?

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figurativeme Hi DoctorDidi! There are many roles a teacher play or take on inside and outside the classroom. And the different roles come to play in different situations. All of which need to be balanced and tempered with reason and compassion. If you are too...

1 Jun 11