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What do you yearn for?

121 replies

Happysalley · 12/03/2023 21:38

Ever since I can remember, I've wanted a beautiful home. It doesn't have to be grand or fancy. Somewhere rural, quiet, safe, and enough bedrooms so me and the dc can have one each. An extra room for a yoga studio/sewing room would be the icing on the cake. A decent garden, flat and secure, and full of plants.

I've lived my entire life in council flats and I know I'm incredibly lucky to have a roof over my head. Even so, I still spend hours nosing on rightmove or looking at other people's houses and imagining what it would be like to live there.

OP posts:
JupiterFortified · 12/03/2023 23:59

My dad. I can’t believe he’s not here.

Sending love to anyone else missing someone x

MintJulia · 13/03/2023 00:08

Retirement.

I'm 59, already had one health scare, mortgage nearly paid. Just need to do two more years...... Nearly there.

cassiastatham · 13/03/2023 00:14

Small 2-ish lil things:

What do you yearn for?
What do you yearn for?
ALongHardWinter · 13/03/2023 00:14

Just enough money to be comfortable,and more energy. I have a disability,and a health condition that drains my energy. I can cope with the disability,but find it so wearing and demoralising having so little energy and stamina.

cassiastatham · 13/03/2023 00:15

Escapetofrance · 12/03/2023 23:20

For someone to really love me.

Aw 🌷

CurlyhairedAssassin · 13/03/2023 00:16

The 90s, and being young and carefree.

CurlyhairedAssassin · 13/03/2023 00:19

JoonT · 12/03/2023 23:01

To live somewhere quiet, surrounded by fields and trees and flowers. God, how I wish I could live an ideal rural existence, the sort of thing you see in Postman Pat, or the old David Jason series the Darling Buds of May. I wish there weren’t so many human beings. I hate noise and cars and stress. I hate screeching boy racers waking me up three in the morning. I hate being surrounded by ghastly little new build homes, all squeezed on top of one another. Sometimes I feel like I can’t feckin breathe.

I yearn to live in a detached house in Norfolk or Surrey (but with far fewer human beings around me). I’d have a conservatory filled with flowers and books, and do nothing all day but walk in the country, watch the seasons change, and immerse myself in Dickens and P G Wodehouse and Jane Austen. The nearest neighbours would be 200 yards away, and they’d be smiley and kind, but not noisy or intrusive.

Sounds like bliss.

Pasithean · 13/03/2023 00:19

MeMyCatsAndMyBooks · 12/03/2023 21:44

Good health.

My health is declining rapidly, I miss the days of having bundles of energy and being able to do long walks with my family and not being bed bound.

Me too 💐

Rewind20Years · 13/03/2023 00:20

Health and Freedom

Coxspurplepippin · 13/03/2023 00:21

jackstini · 12/03/2023 22:45

Retirement. Sick and tired of work politics
Some days I love it - most I just think I could be doing so much better stuff

People to wake up and realise in order to improve the world we all have to do better, be better, take responsibility

Just one bloody decent non alcoholic wine! How can we do astrophysics and nuclear energy creation, but not be able to create something that tastes exactly like Chardonnay with zero alcohol

Hello doppelganger.

Isthisexpected · 13/03/2023 00:31

For time to slow down.

^ I think I yearn for this. Sometimes all I see ahead is loss. Losing more people I love, losing my health etc. I don't yearn for anything I don't have. I yearn to keep those close to me forever.

CurlyhairedAssassin · 13/03/2023 00:43

Isthisexpected · 13/03/2023 00:31

For time to slow down.

^ I think I yearn for this. Sometimes all I see ahead is loss. Losing more people I love, losing my health etc. I don't yearn for anything I don't have. I yearn to keep those close to me forever.

Yes. Life is a parabola and I’m sliding down the other side now.

Rainbowshit · 13/03/2023 00:43

I just want a quiet life. There's too much drama going on at the moment. I don't want to go to any more funerals.

Greenfinch7 · 13/03/2023 00:43

To be able to talk to my friend
A reason to get up in the morning
For my kids to be happy with who they are

DarkDarkNight · 13/03/2023 00:48

Love, sex, companionship. A shoulder to rest my head on, an adult to converse with at night, to feel wanted and desired again.

CallieQ · 13/03/2023 01:03

Duhduhdub · 12/03/2023 21:42

The demise of my in laws

Nasty

CallieQ · 13/03/2023 01:04

allthegearandnoideaatall · 12/03/2023 22:09

My mum.

Seconded

CanOfPop · 13/03/2023 01:13

To be able to step off for a year. I am under so much stress. I just want to be able to have a year out in a villa, lying about, reading, swimming and resting.

HorribleHisTories15 · 13/03/2023 03:08

Another Border Terrier.

DH says 'never!'

😞

HorribleHisTories15 · 13/03/2023 05:58

You are brilliant @cassiastatham 🤩

Elvira2000 · 13/03/2023 06:02

For my husband to not be shagging someone when he "walks" the dog

Pinacalola · 13/03/2023 06:10

Good health, a nice house and a best friend

Thisisnotahotel · 13/03/2023 06:16

My neighbours to fuck off and move.

ohfook · 13/03/2023 06:17

Another baby

A cabin in the woods like Americans all have on tv. The U.K. equivalent seems to be a caravan in Berwick which I don't yearn for.

Youhaveyourhandsfull · 13/03/2023 06:23

Anytime in 2022 or before when I could talk to my best friend who suddenly died this year.

otherwise, the 90s. I’d like to walk into the album cover of What’s The Story Morning Glory and be on Berwick Street in Soho at that time. That would be simply wonderful.