Do you ever wonder what your destiny is?

I feel "Path 3" should not be the the path you tread Herr 04. Vengeance is rarley as fulfilling as it should be.
"Path 2" you know all about, it seems.
"Path 1" intrigues you no doubt but you have a little ressistance to this course.

Hence my intervention during your musings.
Would it be too strong to advise you just to do whatever the feck you want to at any given point in time?
It has served me well through the years and leaves no ambiguity for those around you.

Don't intenionally pish anyone off, but go your own way. It seems to work.

You don't need a sign to tell you what to do.  Path 1 will open up choices you probably have not considered.  Always path 1.  For most people a little bit of effort will always achieve at least a little.

My dad used to tell me I was dense.

I have just spent four days convincing myself I had less than two years to live, luckily yesterday I was told the  prognosis is a good deal better though far from ideal, so what's to do ?

A quote from a well known film, " get busy livin " or get busy dying " so yes make the very best of what you've got, you don't know what's round the corner.

All three paths are delusional bllshit.

So, could it be there is a hidden path 4 ... how do you decide what path to go down, or is the path chosen for you?

Psycho - you may encounter some resistance though.

"Destiny" is actually a bad word. Isn't there a famous Joy Division lyric, "Gotta find my Destiny...before it gets too late..."? It also has associations with the Nazis - "Manifest Destiny" etc. Sorry - scrub that! No, the association is with American expansion at the expense of the Native Americans and Mexicans.

Then, to top it all off, every connotation in the Bible is negative, the upshot being that it's the Destiny of humans to die.

There's a good line in a Clint Eastwood film : "Tomorrow belongs to no-one."

So, to sum up, your Destiny is to live one day at a time and hopefully, be thankful for that. Blimey, it sure takes the pressure off...

best of luck pump

Hey pumpy, good news.

Cheers guys

Sep 23, 2014 -- 4:15AM, pumphol. wrote:

I have just spent four days convincing myself I had less than two years to live, luckily yesterday I was told the  prognosis is a good deal better though far from ideal, so what's to do ?A quote from a well known film, " get busy livin " or get busy dying " so yes make the very best of what you've got, you don't know what's round the corner.

After what has happened to you, what were your feeling the next morning when you realised you had indeed beaten what you had convinced yourself to think? What are you going to do as a result? ... lets hope you get more good news

Schalke, I was given a prognosis by one Dr on the Thursday & an appointment was made to see another specialist on the Monday, the first Dr told me " you life expectancy will be severely cut short, after reading about the disease I was told I had I made the fatal mistake which I suspect everyone would do of looking it all up on the internet, there are three stages to this & life expectancy for latter stages was  6-24 months, the Thursday to Monday was the longest four days of my life, the reason for my pessimism is this illness can lay undetected for several years & it was only detected now by chance when I went for a blood test for something else, when I saw the specialist & he sat me down & told me I had early stages & had a life expectancy of 8 -15 years I wailed like a baby  before I blurted out I'm crying because I am happy then we all laughed ( sort of )
Now to answer your question what am I to do well to be honest I am pretty happy with the way my life was & is so not much will change, its not as if my kids have left home & I can fly off to wherever I want but I do feel I have been given enough time to do some things that I may have left to a much later stage, time & health wise will tell, my children do not know all the facts & at this time they don't need to know so life will carry on pretty much the same, hopefully.

Good to hear of the better news pumpy. As you say, we never know what's round the corner.

Best wishes to you pumpy.

I realise you were diagnosed by chance, but looking back, did you have any symptoms?

Thanks guys, yes Nick I have been listless & fatigued for some time, I did have blood tests a few years back & I was put on vitamin B-12 injections every three months  to combat that, it was only when I asked by chance for a blood test for Prostrate that something showed up I was then examined & found to have an enlarged spleen, I was then sent to see a specialist & after a bone marrow biopsy I was diagnosed, it could have gone undetected for much longer or perhaps it should have been found earlier, its a case is your glass half full or half empty in the way you look at it.

Pumpy, all the very best to you. I'm sure you know I really mean that.

back on topic thread, I feel I need to take revenge on a few people in my life, but so far never have,the opportunitys there but think if i did my very own path 3 then it would not end up being very pretty

oh and good luck, pumphol, hope you can pack as much fun and joy as you can into your time,if you ever want a night at the greyhounds let me know

Many thanks TT
Cheers Yorky, nice to see you back, maybe  a chit chat night out at the dogs.

back on topic thread, I feel I need to take revenge on a few people in my life, but so far never have,the opportunitys there




There's an old saying Yorky....


'You'll never get ahead while trying to get even.'

Afternoon pumpy

All the very best mate

Blimey Pumpy!

I'm jolly glad to hear that you're not as ill as you thought you were.

Best wishes to you

Best wishes to Mr.Pumphol

good wishes too Pumps  - hope you get many  happy years in

Many thanks for your kind words guys.

pumphol
Best wishes. Enjoy life.  It's the only one we get as far as I know.
Schalke
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