Living day to day

United States
February 20, 2011 8:34am CST
I had a discussion the other day with a friend of mine. She is divorced and living alone. Her kids are living with her and her father has been helping her out financially. She is disqusted with life. She lives from paycheck to paycheck and now the politicians are messing with her income. She said no matter how hard she tries nothing ever works out. She fixes, something breaks - Christmas comes, there is no money for gifts. Then she said there are people that nothing happens to and life is easy and productive. I told her that good things come to those who wait. She has a good close family and good children. She has God in her life. We should look past our noses and help people out. I think this is our reason for living. We are all each others brothers and sisters.
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• Pamplona, Spain
21 Mar 11
Hiya AG, It is a hard thing to live through a very hard thing with four Children even more so. But if she has a paycheck and her Father to help her out then she does have something after all. It does not sound much I know. For a long time very long time I have been living from hand to foot (very badly) with very little Money and no stability as the Bills have had to be paid so there was no saving for nothing at all. Can seem like you are the only one going through it but it passes everything passes and changes sooner or later. We can all have bad Days too when nothing goes right tell me what have I been doing this Morning just making one messy thing after the other till I take a hold of myself to stop it and that´s it. I sit down to work help out I don´t get paid for doing it either but I think myself very lucky to have the little bit that I do have. Hope she finds a better situation soon.xxx
@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
25 Feb 11
i find that most people don't want to help people that are less fortunate than themselves. they thank God that they are not in the same boat but do nothing to help. last year, my hubby was off work for 9 months and we did get some extra Christmas money from friends (from church), but no one else in our church even offered to help us, they clucked about how bad it was but did nothing.
• India
20 Feb 11
Things like this happen to many people. There is a saying in my place that God will keep hurdles for good people, but he won't leave them, And he will give everything to Bad people he will leave them . She may now have such troubles. But there will be one day when she overcomes all of her hurdles and she will shine brightly like a star in her life. Dont worry.
@sswallace21 (1824)
• United States
20 Feb 11
I think everyone goes through this at times. Some people handle it better then others. It sounds like she has family support which is great. Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like she has any support from her ex-husband. I hope this isn't the case. He need to step up if it is. Just stick out with your friend. Help where you can. I mean as a friend and not financial backer. You don't want to put yourself in a bind. Moral support can be the best support of all.
@naani533 (70)
• India
20 Feb 11
hi friend... it is a bad news to hear. but i can confidently say that she did wrong in her life. actually now a days it is not a big matter of divorce with each other. but makes their life disturbed. she should think about her children too. the fighting in married life are common. but we should not leads them to divorce. but without living our beloved one's we can't live happily.
• Egypt
20 Feb 11
I agree with you.Life means fighting for better living,all our lives are full with ups and downs . I think the best quote about this is that " life is not by waiting for the storm to pass,but by dancing in the rain.learn from yr downs and never give up in waiting for what u deserve.strong connections between people can make u pass easily through yr bad time.hands in hands ,we can try walking up a mountain.your friend has the best gift from god which is great family,she understands what she has and that this gift deserves fighting for better everything.