LifeBuoy?

@p1kef1sh (45681)
March 15, 2011 4:20pm CST
We get our lives and generally settle for whatever it brings us. But imagine if we could wash away the grubby bits of our lives as easily as Lifebuoy soap cleans up our dirty hands and knees. What aspects of your life would you want to wash away with your daily scrub?
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@GreenMoo (11833)
16 Mar 11
Actually, I think we can all change our lives far more than we like to think we can. Change is scary so we avoid it! But given a bar of magic soap my first targets for a good cleansing scrub would be those things that just constantly go wrong and take up so much time. So included in today's batch would be the car, the generator and the washing machine. I'm not quite sure that life would be any easier once they were washed away, but at least I wouldn't be so stressed by them.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
16 Mar 11
Well without the generator the washing machine wouldn't work and without the car you'd not get to the laundrette!
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
16 Mar 11
Hmmm. I'll just stay upwind of you if you don't mind! LOL.
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@GreenMoo (11833)
16 Mar 11
But I could live with dirty clothes for an unstressed life!
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@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
16 Mar 11
Nothing. Every bit of my life makes me what I am today. Tempted as I would be to wash away heartache and sorrow, that would mean I would lose the gift of appreciating happiness. Washing away bad memories would reduce the others to mediocrity. I'll keep all my bits of dirt and flotsam, thanks!
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
16 Mar 11
I knew that you'd be so balanced. LOL.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
17 Mar 11
hi pikey yes dragon is right we do learn from our stupidities but I just wished I had learned earlier than 30 but meeting my husband was the one thing I have only wished had happened 10 years earlier. lol.I guess I was in my youth so confused as to what i really wanted to do with my life.
@nannacroc (4049)
17 Mar 11
Nothing because what happens to each of us shapes who we become. It's taken a long time but I am happy with who I am and all that has happened has helped. Maybe what has happened in the past few weeks but then I wouldn't have met the lovely people I got to know.
@nannacroc (4049)
17 Mar 11
So we don't repeat them.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
17 Mar 11
There are no regrets in life Nanna. Just things that we might not repeat.
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
15 Mar 11
You don't really want me to go there...
@p1kef1sh (45681)
15 Mar 11
I do. I do...
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
15 Mar 11
Well then, I'm gonna wash that man right out of my hair...
@p1kef1sh (45681)
15 Mar 11
I thught that you did already.
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@jerzgirl (9327)
• United States
16 Mar 11
Well, I use Dial, but I'd like to get rid of my abusive marriage, my abusive childhood and come out of it all with a healthy self-image and -esteem. Although my psychological health has improved, I can only imagine what it would be like to have grown up in a fully functional household where love was evident and my existence was appreciated.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
16 Mar 11
I am sorry that your past was so rough on you Jerz. At least now you seem to have found your level. Life without love strikes me as being one that lacks so much.
@jerzgirl (9327)
• United States
16 Mar 11
I'm OK, but I do so envy people from families where joy was apparent. I have some days that drag (like now), but my guy friend has made a huge inroad in changing all of that. I don't think he'll every really understand what a difference he's made in my life.
@yoyo1198 (3641)
• United States
16 Mar 11
Lifebuoy. They still making that? I remember that big ole coral-colored soap bar from when I visited my grandparents a looooong time ago. I also liked the gritty gray-colored bar. Wasn't it gray? Anyway, to the question. I'd want to wash away all of the rude, crude people who have no respect for others' opinions and always give smart-a55 answers in trying to belittle those who do not think the same as they do. I loathe disrespectful cads. Wash 'em right down the drain.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
16 Mar 11
Lifebuoy soap was carbolic and not especially gritty and slightly pink in colour. I hope that my answers aren't too smart arsed for you?!
@yoyo1198 (3641)
• United States
16 Mar 11
I remember the pinkish bar. But I could have sworn that they also made a gray/blue one that was more for guys that worked at greasy-type jobs that had some gritty to it. If I think someone has given me one of those smarty answers, I just don't go back for comment follow up. MyLot doesn't approve of what I'd be liable to say.
@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
15 Mar 11
I would like to scrub away any useless and pointless guilts that try ruin my life and break down my little self-confidence. So WHAT if I did something wrong when I was 8 years old, that was 50 freaking years ago, let it GO!!!
@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
15 Mar 11
yeah, well, those old ones can just BITE me!
@p1kef1sh (45681)
15 Mar 11
I think that many of us have a little inexplicable guilt about somethig that happened years ago. But the sucker likes to linger!
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@suehan1 (4344)
• Australia
16 Mar 11
Well where do I start. I would wash away the lack of money, those horrors at work, all the dud relationships I had,ans the list goes on and on, do you have all night. Cheers SUE
@p1kef1sh (45681)
16 Mar 11
I'm sitting comfortably. You may begin....
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
17 Mar 11
hi pikey my stupidity at age 20 to leave college and run off like a little fool with a girl friend to San Franciso. oh how smart we think we are at that age. I did with my dear hubbys help finish junior college in my 30's and wanting to have a bA in English, why I do not know now, but I did it I went back at age 54 hard yes, but I did it at age 56 I had my BA in English which really was not the degree I wanted in Library science but I guess an education really is never wasted. It was something I have always felt guilty about not having finished college when I should have as I wou ld probably have got the degree in Libray science that would have entitled me to be a research librarian. but I did work for years in the library.Now I want to write myautibiography and have made a start and wish to be published. I would have shook that 20 yr old kid and told her to stay in college,you little idiot now is the time. but I did not do it until much later. I did enjoy the experience though and Pikey the kids really were so sweet to me old e nou gh to be their moms. I had fun. l
@p1kef1sh (45681)
17 Mar 11
You did something very positive Hatley and have every right to be proud of yourself.
@neildc (17239)
• Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines
17 Mar 11
i would just like to skip the time i stepped into marriage life after graduating from the technological school. i should have worked and get back to school to continue my engineering course. but i slipped and never got up.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
17 Mar 11
I think that we have to take our disappointments in life and build on them. It is never too late I always say.
@catdla1 (6005)
• United States
15 Mar 11
I'd wash away a few extra pounds, and maybe a wrinkle or two. Will keep the grey hairs, they're bought and paid for already. Not sure if I would erase any events, as much as I don't like some of them. They are the ingredients that make me who I am, and if I took some away, wouldn't I be a different person?
@p1kef1sh (45681)
15 Mar 11
I like you just the way you are. So don't wash!!
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• United States
15 Mar 11
There are a few people in my daily routine I would like to scrub harshly out of my life, unfortunately like my imaginary soap I can't say who they are. lol
@p1kef1sh (45681)
15 Mar 11
Oh go on. You know that you want to....
@saibal10 (89)
• India
16 Mar 11
Had I such a soap to wash way the dirty memory I must apply it to wash away my past related to political victimization during my development of my carrier. I want to wash out them from my memory who prevented me to fulfill my ambition
@p1kef1sh (45681)
16 Mar 11
I can imagine your frustration. Thank you.