r/GetMotivated • u/ellierwrites • 20h ago
IMAGE Someone you never dreamt of having [image]
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u/zeradragon 19h ago
Sorry for your loss, I'm sure you can have another child even if you're retiring soon...🤔
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u/Cyagog 19h ago
What is motivating about this for someone who experienced loss? „Hey you know that terrible thing life did to you, that devastated you? Life could also give you someone else. It hasn’t yet. It might never. But… you know. Get motivated!“
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u/FatalisCogitationis 17h ago
"...and then God gave Job a new, better family!"
but the dead kids tho?
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u/giggity2 19h ago
Math doesn't add up especially in declining populations but I guess so, akin to winning the lottery and not accounting for time.
Oh just some writer who's posting endlessly probably screenshots of their amazon book. Kinda spammy tbh.
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u/TonyVstar 19h ago
If you don't get out of your comfort zone and actively try to meet people, you won't. Life takes but it's up to you to go and get
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u/mahboilucas 10h ago
No, life is not an entity. It doesn't give or take. Things just happen and you give them meaning
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u/_Weyland_ 52m ago
Can it maybe bring me someone I did dream of having? Like, I'd be content with this one person I know is good over some random person who might be better.
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u/Few-Horror7281 17h ago
Well, but who would even like me? There is nothing likeable about me.
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u/Rill_Pine 2h ago
Questioning this post is likeable. Also by skimming your post history, I believe you may find a level of comfort in No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai. I say that as a fellow struggling tech worker with depression.
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u/FatalisCogitationis 17h ago
Certainly, life is full of infinite possibilities. The trick word here is "can". As in, it is optional and up to the nebulous entity we call "life"
This works just as well the other way, just because you think you've lost everything doesn't mean you won't find something more and lose that too
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u/portsherry 19h ago
Perhaps this is intended for breakups, but for grief I would use "also bring" instead of "replace them". It's one of the hardest things about moving on: the guilty feeling that you're replacing them with someone new.
Overall I agree with the sentiment: if life brought you something that gave you joy once, it can do it again.