Ever just get tired?

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Yeah... When I was 23 I was a deputy and had someone pulled over on the highway. A sleeper hit the back of my cruiser, that his me and 5 surgeries later, nothing but pain. I'm 64 now and have learned to live with it. But goddamn it wears you out. Saps your energy and causes depression that it very hard to deal with. I have those thoughts every now and again but get through most days with some sort of self satisfaction. Each day is struggle and a win. Remember, this thing you are going through is cyclical. The wave will crest. Be easy on yourself.
 
jdsduster said:
i can still outwork most 85 year old men(and im 56)
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Ya know that's not as odd as it sounds.
When I was a lot younger I heard it said that if you don't use it you lose it.
Well now at age 65 I am living it.
On Tuesdays, I police the local landfill, making sure the various types of garbage arriving there, go to their proper destination. On this day I might lift as much as 1000 pounds in summer to as little as zero in winter. This is repeated on Saturdays.
On Wednesdays I chuck garbage; between 4500 and 5000 pounds usually.
On Thursdays I chuck recycleables, about 1000 pounds worth.
Fridays, Sundays and Mondays are "MY time"
But from Thursday afternoon, to Tuesday night, truthfully, I do very little physical work.And on Wednesday morning I know it.
So my wife got a dog; a 66-pounder. Who needs to be exercised twice a day. For a total of over two hours. And guess who gets to run, walk, and bath, the friggen exercise machine; hyup me. But that seems to be enough to maintain.
Now 85 is twenty years into my future, and I recently told my foreman that this was the best job I have ever had and that I will never quit it. I guess we'll see. I'm expecting the end of the age long before then, and I guess we'll see about that too.
 
Hey brother, it happens to all of us from time to time. Its ok to feel down about stuff, but you also need to get out for a change of venue to realize that your life is still good, and theres a lot of good left in it. Maybe take a drive in your mopar, or if you have a bike thats up and running, go take a ride. Maybe you and the wife go somewhere for an afternoon picnic and just enjoy one anothers company.

**** gets me down too from time to time, i take my mustang GT out and do some driving to clear my head. When my cuda is done that will be an escape machine as well. We all want you around here for a long time, i'm betting that Ernie does even more.

If you still feel like this feeling isnt going away, please get help, and talk to a professional that can help you. I am not sure how religious you are, but this is what i believe. We only get this one life. Its truly Gods gift to us. It hurts him when one of his children are in pain. Be it mental or physical, but he also gives you the tools to seek help. He wants us to be happy, to enjoy the gifts he has given us for our time here.

I hope this helps
Matt
 
I have to say, Chronic illness will suck the life right out of a person. I have no serious problems other than Diabetes but just a multitude of chronic **** that never seems to go away. It wears on you. Hang in there Doug. A lot of people care and are pulling for you.
 
Go help kids or animals. That's my plan when I retire in about six months. I won't be living that long due to chronic illness, so I'm going to do the most satisfying thing I know until the end.
 
I notice that Ink hasn’t posted anything since starting this thread yesterday. I hope he didn't do anything rash.
 
I know how you feel it seems everything piles up and there is no end in sight, we just want a BREAK already. I was involved in a bad car wreck last week, and the air bags didn't go off. I have whiplash and my left shoulder hurts everyday. I am alone, and cannot meet someone to save my life? Everyday i ask my higher power to put people in my life who he feels should be there. So far i guess he wants me to be lonely it seems. I have everything i need in life, yet nothing that i want. Does that make sense? I have been trying to be full of gratitude, instead i am on the pity pot again. Some day i swear at God and say, if you you want me to be miserable, i may as well pull the plug, then you can deal with me in the afterlife!!!!! If i wake up tomorrow morning, i will give thanks and go put one foot in front of the other and try to look on the plusses in my life. Hope you feel better.
 
Fisher said:
I know how you feel it seems everything piles up and there is no end in sight, we just want a BREAK already. I was involved in a bad car wreck last week, and the air bags didn't go off. I have whiplash and my left shoulder hurts everyday. I am alone, and cannot meet someone to save my life? Everyday i ask my higher power to put people in my life who he feels should be there. So far i guess he wants me to be lonely it seems. I have everything i need in life, yet nothing that i want. Does that make sense? I have been trying to be full of gratitude, instead i am on the pity pot again. Some day i swear at God and say, if you you want me to be miserable, i may as well pull the plug, then you can deal with me in the afterlife!!!!! If i wake up tomorrow morning, i will give thanks and go put one foot in front of the other and try to look on the plusses in my life. Hope you feel better.
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Fisher,
Have you tried going to church? A lot of churches have after service get togethers where you can meet other people. Sometimes they have singles meetings. Other thsn that i met my wife in an online dating site called plentyoffish.com. i went on a bunch of different dates with a bunch of different interesting people i never would have met otherwise had i not known about that site. It sucks being alone. I know that too well. Was divorced from first wife, lived alone just me and my dog. No kids. It wears on you after awhile. Then i met my current wife online off plenty of fish. I dont think God wants you to be unhappy, but again i believe he gives everybody the tools to help themselves. Try that dating site i mentioned, put yourself out there, i bet theres plenty of ladies your age out there that are looking too, they just dont know your out there yet. The ratio of women to men is higher too. That means you can be a bit picky and date a bunch of different people until youfind the one that fits well with your personality and lifestyle.
 
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I hope you are doing better. You are doing the best thing so far. Reaching out. I think it might be easier to talk to people you don’t have a relationship with sometimes, because we don’t want to be a burden to them. I am actually glad I came across this post. I have chronic pain in my hands and knees and joints. I am severely tired all the time. I will have a couple of days of energy bursts. Neighbors are always coming over to get me to fix something broken of theirs. My wife tries to talk me out of it cause she knows how tired I am when I get off work. But I go help anyhow. That part of helping somebody else that needs it takes my mind off the pain and the depression. I’m only 46 but have have carried this pain since I got out of the Army 20 years ago. Serving others has been the best medicine.
 
I have been at this hobby since I was 17 I am now 52, I have restored 70-75 cars in that time. Hemi’s , SIX PAC, light weight Ford. No brand loyalty. In 2013 my 30x50 shop burned I lost ‘68 chevelle, ‘69 SS Chevelle, ‘70 Nova and all tools spare parts.
I build a replacement building 30x40 but my heart is just not in this anymore. I keep doing it because it is all I have.
 
Lildart said:
I have been at this hobby since I was 17 I am now 52, I have restored 70-75 cars in that time. Hemi’s , SIX PAC, light weight Ford. No brand loyalty. In 2013 my 30x50 shop burned I lost ‘68 chevelle, ‘69 SS Chevelle, ‘70 Nova and all tools spare parts.
I build a replacement building 30x40 but my heart is just not in this anymore. I keep doing it because it is all I have.
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Thank you for sharing. Something like that can and did take the wind out of your sails. I feel for you.
 
Hey Bud, you should find enough reason in your photography to keep you going!

You have got to find something to keep your interest.

I too would be a lot better off if I had been nicer to myself 30 years ago.

I just figure that God has something planned for me to do, he just hasn't told me what it is yet!
 
DodgeLad said:
Go help kids or animals. That's my plan when I retire in about six months. I won't be living that long due to chronic illness, so I'm going to do the most satisfying thing I know until the end.
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Atleast you know where you stand..... Damn noble for a person to know they have battles ahead of them but want to forge ahead and do some good for the rest of us.... Who knows, it may change your health situation.... Work fuels the mind and can make you overcome things that sometimes seem insurmountable....

JW
 
Sometimes i feel like i'm never gonna get it all done. I work like a fiend , averaging 10-12 hours a day just to keep ahead of it all. then come home and jump in to help rhe wife out, and when the weekend comes i never have time for my own **** that i "want to work on", always some other broke dick **** to fix around here. Spent yesterday afternoon jacking around w rear drums on my pickup. Left rear wheel cylinder took a **** and made a mess. I replaced both wheel cylinders. And changed out the shoes, had drums turned a week ago. Trucks been outta comission for over 2 months because i havent had time to **** with it. Still have to bleed the rears so it isnt actually done yet. Wife has **** to do, says i'm going shopping watch your son. He's 6 i cant do brakes and watch him at same time. I put my **** away till she comes back, then tell her i have to get this done. She tells me its not like you even drive it, ummm well no not in 100° heat i dont because its old and A/C dont work, but temps getting cooler i will be. And when you need it for moving big **** around i'm sure you gonna want it to have working brakes.

Daughter comes in shop asks to air up bike tires. Apparently from it sitting outside the ***** dryrotted, i air up the front ok, rear tube blows out, takes out tire with it. So now i got a tire and tube to replace and another job to do.

Got this partial 71 scamp in the shop i am trying to strip off sheetmetal from i need for a resto project, now every time i go in the shop its mocking me because i cant get to it and get that done, plus a bunch of other car projects.

I hear about the crazies on TV and how people are so dumb they want to flush our country down the can for socialism or some other brain dead stupid ****. Want to take away our right, our guns, religion etc. I wonder just what the hell is going on.

My effing body hurts, like really hurts, and i'm only 50. Had a neck fusion for fucked up nerves in my neck, then had a bulging disc in my lower back **** up my legs. Get that fixed, i still have leg pain, and random muscle spasms, muscles locking up etc. Go buy a sleep number bed supposed to help right? Wrong, this ****** makes it worse. Like sleeping on a $2 walmart air mattress Yeah we all have fucked up ****. I want to finish my 67 and build a 69 up w my son, but lately its looking like these cars will end up being somebody elses barn finds.
 
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For me, it always gets worse this tune of year. Recognizing that it was seasonal depression made it something I could accept and only aggressive exercise makes it something I can live with.

And I know that physical problems make exercise a *****
 
and the older I get, the faster time seems to go.
We are inextricably married to a monetary system, designed to wear us out early, saving nothing for retirement, and bringing at least 2 children into the same slave system, just to maintain. The system wears out your body, messes up your mind, and drains your soul. Families break up,and go bankrupt. Husbands go nuts, and wives are turned into whores, and the next generation fails to mature. The fruit goes bad. It's the de-evolution of the system, I tell ya.
If the country can't see that as evil, it is blind. The system has a cancer at the highest level,called greed, and there is no known cure for it.Even if the common people were able to just quit, the upper echelon has enough assets to endure any siege,any famine, any war.
Think about it; food,water,air,and shelter are the basic human needs. Everyone of us is dependent on the system for at least one or two of those.And a lot of the time at least two or three of those are poisoned. If you stay in the system, you will die. But if you quit, you will also die. It's designed that way. We are just slaves to the system. As long as we bring two more baby slaves into the system, it continues to function.
When we come into the world, the only thing we have is an allotment of time. But the devil has figured out how to steal it from us, one day atta time. And we are so busy fighting, we miss the living.
I feel bad for you Matt. You're angry. and hurting. and caught in a death-spiral.Damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
And no time for yourself. Just like me. Just like millions of others.
IDK the solution, but I think I found a piece of it; and at least I ain't sick no more, and at least I am healed of infirmities. And my allotment of time is back on schedule. 4score if by reason of good health. I got 15 to go, and then I can rest.
And if I say any more, we'll end up in a different forum.
 
AJ/FormS said:
and the older I get, the faster time seems to go.
We are inextricably married to a monetary system, designed to wear us out early, saving nothing for retirement, and bringing at least 2 children into the same slave system, just to maintain. The system wears out your body, messes up your mind, and drains your soul. Families break up,and go bankrupt. Husbands go nuts, and wives are turned into whores, and the next generation fails to mature. The fruit goes bad. It's the de-evolution of the system, I tell ya.
If the country can't see that as evil, it is blind. The system has a cancer at the highest level,called greed, and there is no known cure for it.Even if the common people were able to just quit, the upper echelon has enough assets to endure any siege,any famine, any war.
Think about it; food,water,air,and shelter are the basic human needs. Everyone of us is dependent on the system for at least one or two of those.And a lot of the time at least two or three of those are poisoned. If you stay in the system, you will die. But if you quit, you will also die. It's designed that way. We are just slaves to the system. As long as we bring two more baby slaves into the system, it continues to function.
When we come into the world, the only thing we have is an allotment of time. But the devil has figured out how to steal it from us, one day atta time. And we are so busy fighting, we miss the living.
I feel bad for you Matt. You're angry. and hurting. and caught in a death-spiral.Damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
And no time for yourself. Just like me. Just like millions of others.
IDK the solution, but I think I found a piece of it; and at least I ain't sick no more, and at least I am healed of infirmities. And my allotment of time is back on schedule. 4score if by reason of good health. I got 15 to go, and then I can rest.
And if I say any more, we'll end up in a different forum.
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I am waiting for the Second coming of Christ. That is the only solution to what mankind has done.
 
AJ/FormS said:
There's no way for me to prove this
but it seems that "news" is not news anymore, but rather, is propaganda.I haven't watched any TV-news for well over 4 years now. Probably closer to 6 years.
As a believer, tho, I do keep an eye on what's going on in and around Israel, because there are many many end-time prophecies yet to be fulfilled, that involve her. But I don't dwell on it anymore because I have set a course with destiny, and my ship is steered towards the New Kingdom; I just have to stay the course.
On the home front, I am sad that none of my three kids wants to hear the gospel, so if they continue on that road, there will come a day after which I will never see them again. Also on the home-front; it's business as usual, I still have to mow the grass and shovel the driveway, etc. And I can see the day rapidly approaching, when I will have to sell the house to buy food, so as not to starve. This sounds scary to think about or say, and for some, would actually be scary.But I am ready to go, not eager yet, but ready spiritually and mentally. Yet my body is being preserved for something, it seems, so I'll have to wait to see how it all plays out. The time is drawing near for prophecy to unfold. The board is laid out, the game pieces are mostly installed. Soon the cosmic chess-game will begin; satan will make a move, then God a counter move, and so it will go. The thing is, the outcome of the game has been prophesied thousands of years ago. satan is just a puppet. God's masterplan will not be foiled by said puppet, but rather satan is the major player in it . satan is what I call the great separator; he will separate the goats from the sheep. And thus make the goats an easy target for Yashuwah to slaughter. After the goats are thus reaped, the Sheep will be left standing, waiting for their shepherd to call them one-by-one, by name, to receive their inheritance.
And so it is that I wait with great anticipation, for my name to be called, and it matters not to me on which side of the sod my body is when I hear it. I think, this is the peace that passes all understanding; peace about the end of life, the last breath. Life on earth is just a test. A test to see who will accept Yashuwah as King of kings and Lord of lords. A test to determine who will willingly be obedient to God's Laws and Commands. And a test to see who will worship Him.
That is the First and Greatest Commandment; to love the LORD (YHWH) your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your might.......... And John tells us how to do that; by obedience to God's Laws and Commands. After that our mandate is to ENDURE to the end.
So why worry? Who by worrying ever added a cubit to his stature. We are commanded not to worry. Worrying is stress and people die from being stressed out. Worrying is anti-Christ; the worrier is not believing and trusting God to take care of him. I see my future as "there's nothing I can or want to do, to alter God's time-table". Bring it on I say. The sooner the better I say. Every day that God tarrys, is one more day of babies being murdered to satisfy satans blood-lust. And every day that God tarrys is one more day of the muslims murdering Christians. And one more day that the the earth cries out to God for the blood of the innocents. And one more day that the souls of the martyrs cry out from under the altar, "How long oh LORD must we wait?".
Come quickly Lord Yashuwah.
So, there is an agenda ,in the media,to keep people in the dark, by preaching lies, lies, and more lies. We are being indoctrinated, distracted, and miss-informed. This is the adult form of schooling. The difference is adults can unplug, whereas, by law, children are brainwashed with no escape.
I urge anyone reading this, to unplug, and to get their soul right with God. My greatest hope is to meet you on the other side of death, and swap stories, and to be equally yoked.
Ink, including most especially you.
God wants to bless you, as he wants to bless all his children. All things work together for those who love the LORD(YHWH). God wants to BLESS us. He provided the path, we just have to get on it. The path began at the gates to the Promised Land, when YHWH married the Israelites and itemized the marriage covenant, and listed the Blessings and the Cursings. The path was opened up to the Gentiles by Yashuwah, at the time of His ministry; that's us, any non-Israelite.We are the second stick, that Yashuwah joins to the first, and the wild Olive branch, that He grafts in.
Get right, be blessed.
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You think this has anything to do with your age?
 
Well i was supposed to go into work today. Texted my supervisor. Told him i got 5 days this week to deal with broke dick airplanes, so today aint gonna be one of em. Told him he could keep an eye on my minions today.

I think i am going to clean up my workbench and maybe cut apart some more of that scamp sheetmetal today, remove 1 last bracket from that ford 8.8 i want to hang under my sons 69 notch, and grind the welds flat. I am figuring loud heavy metal, grinding wheels etc and i will be left alone for the day.

AJ/formS, i work hard and squirrel most away in a 401K because i cant depend on, nor do i want to depend on social security when i retire. I been working since i was 11 years old. I want to be done with it by age 62-63. As a matter of fact i wish the ******* gubmint would stop taking SS out of my pay right now. Worst ******* thing they could do to a person. My thoughts keep what you took from me, but dont take anymore out of my checks , i can invest my money and get a better return on it myself. I know how it works which makes me even more pissed off. They dont really invest it, they just use it like an effing gigantic ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff blush.
 
I was always told
life is like a **** sandwich
The more $bread$ you have
The less **** you got to eat.
 
Yeah and now we're getting to the part where there are less people putting in just as a bubble of more people need to take out. Wanna see the gov't fast talk its way out of this! Oh wait, I'm on the short end of the stick.
 
All the Governments of the world are BROKE, and in DEBT to the moon. The Banking cartel has seen to it. This is why we are all slaves born into bondage. Very simple once you open your eyes and look. The politicians are nothing more than puppets to the wealthy banking organization.
 
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