Toe,

Your post will be something that many of us can relate to. I think a lot of us will question "what is the point".

Personally - I think God has a plan and we often have no idea what it is. I also know that some here are not follower of God.... so what should they hang on to? I am not sure then. Family, friends, kids. Volunteering and helping out others so when you leave - the world remembers you for a sliver of time.

And as for the whining. BOY can I relate to that statement. I am pretty much sick of listening to myself whine (I would think my wife wants to puke over it)... But, my therapist would say it is not whining - it is evidence of how much pain we are in. You can not see our pain as if we broke a bone... Even cancer patients can see the problem on an x-ray (not to belittle such an awful illness). So here we sit with our invisible pain...... and I do not think the world can understand it