Things we are glad we lived to experience

If you have made an S attempt before, what are the things you are grateful to have lived to experience?

Mine are:

1. my dog

2. the author David Foster Wallace

3. Scrabble

4. "Breaking Bad"

5. buying my condo

6. my one close neighbor

7. this group here on PsychCentral

8. my IRL support group

9. getting private disability benefits

That's a fair bit, tho it has been 21 years.

1. Contact w dad and loved ones.
2. See kids again.
3. Growing in my relationship w God.
4. Exercise
5. Going to state hospital for five years to learn what it can be like for us.
6. Living among spectacular mountains, rivers, 600 yr-old firs, and my blue ocean--it is truly paradise here.

Having a chance at a stable, loving, HEALTHY romantic relationship. And being able to be there for my son and watch him grow up. As he reminded me today, he is now nine and three quarters! He will be a tween in 3 months.

I never had a bona fide S attempt. More "calls for help", but I found that what seemed a tragedy (traumatic) and a long period of stagnation, had a purpose in my life. I find many things uniquely curious.

Learned how amazingly loving and devoted my husband is. He's a purely genuine man who loves me unconditionally. The latter is significant. Though I don't love easily (or superficially), when I do truly love, I love forever and deeply. Anyone who can recognize that fully would never fall out of love with me. Such is a treasure of a relationship.

Nothing is hopeless, unless you fully declare it so. That's a choice. Though depression can muddle thinking, developing a firm mind frame that "shtt will always pass" or that "there is always a reasonable way out" fuels pushes forward. Maybe it's a gift I have? Or something I reinforced in my mind early on? It's burned in my brain. I practice telling myself it will always be true. I can fly. I can dance. I can sing. Even if for a while I seem catatonic, it's simply a hibernation, of sorts. Not a death.

I always loved learning about different cultures and languages. How interesting that 30 years later I would revisit a passion from my teenage years. Somewhere in me, I must have known I'd need what I'm pulling from the dusty recesses of my memory. LOL! Destiny. Stuff is for a reason.

An adventure begins again! I was an adventurous girl in my youth. I'm again adventurous as a mature woman.

-Hanging out with/talking to my group
-Powder days at Cannon Mtn.
-Reconnecting with an old friend
-Discovering some bands I love

Being here for my daughter and cultivating an awesome relationship with her.

Guess I'm glad for the few friends and minimal family members I have relationships with, but they don't really reach my radar if I'm to be completely honest....

having the olympics hosted in the UK.

I am not a massive sports fan (and didn't really watch much of the games, just the horse racing and swimming), but that's beside the point. the olympic games were hosted in my country of residence. the chances of seeing that again.. it's like england winning the world cup. I would love to see england win the world cup (again, not because I'm a sports fan, but because it's a rarety)

other things I am glad that I lived through

1. my friendship with bethany (and I will always have her memory, always)

2. finding (and becoming) an active member on this forum

3. experiencing thunderstorms and lightning (I love them both)
4. the kids shows I enjoyed then (and the new ones I enjoy now)

5. listening to the birds dawn chorus

6. the big bang theory (especially soft kitty)

7. meeting a war veteran in the hospital, and getting to talk to him about life back then (I love learning about it)

8. all the wonderful music I have (and continue to grow my collection)

9. my soap operas

10. mcdonalds

coming across the video of charlie bit my finger on youtube

it makes me howl with laughter every time

My dog. She came into my life a month after my attempt.

I used to own a dog as a child. when ever my soap opera was on, she'd come in and sit on my lap, and then leave when it's finished (not sure how she even knew, she just did)

1. My puppy. I got her in April and have wanted a dog since I was a young child.
2. My trips to Europe
3. My niece and nephew
4. Being in love, even if the relationships ended
5. Living in my own condo, even though I decided it’s better for me not to be alone
6. Going to college, even if I kept having to drop out
7. Time with the people I love
8. Doing the things I love

technology advances.

things like the internet going from dial up to broadband (remember that annoying dialling sound?), apple I phones, I pods, the launch of facebook and twitter, youtube, birth of electric cars etc.

I can honestly say the kovid 19

10, 20 years down the line when this is all over (hopefully, we'll never know) I can look back and say.. I lived through a period of change, a period of history.

schools are going to talk about this in history classes (maybe not for a long while, but they will), and I was a part of it

being able to take a long drink of water from a glass

small thing, but so refreshing

being able to save the life of a woman

honestly,the look on her face when she came round next to me, was one of complete apreciation

My son, my family, my cats, right now it's hard to be happy I'm alive I guess. But I would never attempt again bc I don't want to leave my son without a mother. But right now my life is really challenging...