Always outweighs the bad. Do you believe in this statement?





(If you cannot answer with this alone and want an example, look below)


A friend is there for you all your life. Then one day (just one time) is not there. You get upset. Do you let them go?

I have seen this many of times, one day of dark, and the earth curses the heavens, regardless of the many days of light. (So to speak)

the good things and joy we experiance in our lives makes all the bad crap worthwhile..

sometimes we just fixate on the bad things

Yes I believe that statement, but it's all a matter of perspective

I think it's all in how you look at it. After all, how can you enjoy the wonderful things life has to offer if you cannot find a way to handle the worst?

in the end yes the good always does.it may not seem like it.

Always. No.
Most of the time. Yes.

sometimes u have to cry... have to go through pain....
just to be able to see how worthwhile smiling and loving really is.
to respect life in general

This isn't a beauty pageant here folks!

I am just asking what YOU think. How does that question make YOU feel?

Because some of us want to get to know you from these forums. Somewhere out there, someone is just PERFECT for you... They just don't know it yet and vice versa.

This isn't a beauty pageant here folks!

I am just asking what YOU think. How does that question make YOU feel?

Because some of us want to get to know you from these forums. Somewhere out there, someone is just PERFECT for you... They just don't know it yet and vice versa.

ROFL!! I just message them and go from there. Or I used to...hehe

Yeah, but from your experiences, sometimes it is best they come find you.

I feel that you ALWAYs have to think posistive , and look at things as such. If you think negatively and only look for the negative, that is all you may see.

As far as your examples go... No one is perfect and can be everywhere at one time. And a true friend would understand that.

I have let a lot of people go in my life.
Most of my issues stem from loosing my husband. Since his death, I always figured it is easier to let someone go that has disappointed me rather than keep them around. If I keep people around, even if its at a distance, rest assured those people mean a lot to me.
I don't waste my time with those that have no positive impact in my life.

I cut my best friend off.
She was there when I first met my husband, throughout boot camp, the birth of my boys and the death of my spouse.
I called her one day needing someone to talk to because I broke down in the parking lot of Walmart crying. It was my husband’s birthday. I needed someone to listen while I tried to get a grip on the reality he wouldn't be coming back...
all of a sudden; I hear this laugh on the other end of the line. I said "Hello?" and she said "I'm sorry Liz, my boyfriend is making me laugh...what were you saying..."?
- That was the last time I ever spoke to her.

It depends on why the friend wasn't there.



But someone that has been there all your life must love you enough to put up with your crap that long. I wouldn't hurt to do the same courtesy.

People skrew up. It's life.

No, not really. Who contacts who first doesn't really matter. The one really bad experience I had was with a woman who IM'd me first.

Seems a little messed up that you all have had bad experiences. But at the same time, it seems that people are just selfish all together. You are burdened with something, and we would expect someone close to us to see us through. Though at the same time, troubles are burdens that we carry. When you hold expectations on people, and they do not meet them, you are disappointed. That one moment was lost because two people decided to be selfish in their own moments. Severing years for just a bad moment, you may ask yourself "If it was worth it".

To error is human... What does it men to forgive?


Everyone is free and wants to be happy. If you are laughing and having a good time. Do you want to be burdened with someone else's trouble's? But you find time for those who you love, and you display patience, and kindness.

People pick and choose, which is why some of you sever those close to you for that one moment. But just keep in mind, they are human and have just an equal right to be burden free, as you are to harbor them.


I am learning not to depend on anyone for anything. Life is better without expectations anyways. Nothing can be more than what it is, unless you seek use for it. Then it is rated according to your wants and/or needs.


A tree is nothing more than a tree, like many. But when you see shade, you decide which tree is better amongst the others based on your needs.


Much is like people.

The world/life is a combination of equal doses of good & bad. Nothing/no one is either all one or the other. Left to it's own devices, the world will balance itself. It's a person's response to & perception of life's events and the people involved that changes that balance.

Bottom line...basic truth? Gotta 'take the good with the bad'...'you don't get something for nothing'...'there are two sides to every coin'. There's a reason those old adages have been passed on for generations.

It has been the times when I refused to acknowledge & accept the good with the bad that were the most difficult, disappointing or tragic. Another old adage? 'Life is what you make it...'

Sometimes dogs chase cars they will never catch. And sometimes the light attracts moths. That's all I am saying.

The glass is not only half empty
it's JUST FU[KING WATER!!!!

I bet you can create life out of water and household ingredients... Because your knowledge is amazing! I am blown away.