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What do you yearn for?

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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.

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Littlemice · 13/03/2023 06:31

@DarkDarkNight - you put that perfectly. That’s also what I yearn for - to meet and love and be loved by someone, now I finally understand who I am.

NoraLuka · 13/03/2023 06:39

Most of all, I would like my DDs to be happy - they are in a miserable phase at the moment and I’m properly worried about DD2 who seems depressed and nothing I do seems to help.

For me, I’d like to run away for a bit and when I get back, all of DP’s DIY projects would be done. I actually already live in the country, but I don’t think anyone would yearn for our house due to the half finished DIY in every room. He doesn’t like me trying to finish anything and it drives me crazy!

Spidey66 · 13/03/2023 06:42

To be slim.

Flidina · 13/03/2023 06:42

Not so much material things, although enough money to be comfortable would be nice. More like my health, which is in decline, I miss being able to go on long walks with my family, and having the energy I used to have.

electricmoccasins · 13/03/2023 06:42

Allmyarseandpeggymartin · 12/03/2023 23:14

The 90s when life was so much simpler and the music was better

I came here to say this. The 90s.

cassiastatham · 13/03/2023 09:03

HorribleHisTories15 · 13/03/2023 05:58

You are brilliant @cassiastatham 🤩

😅👍

WandaWomblesaurus · 13/03/2023 09:32

Freedom

AnyFucker · 13/03/2023 09:39

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

Indeed.

cassiastatham · 13/03/2023 14:10

Why are people nostalgic for the 90's? What was better than it is now? Genuine question

Thatwastheweekthatwasnt · 13/03/2023 14:12

cassiastatham · 13/03/2023 14:10

Why are people nostalgic for the 90's? What was better than it is now? Genuine question

Lack of intrusive social media and 24 hour rolling news on mainstream channels. I miss a tech free society.

EmmaEmerald · 13/03/2023 14:16

cassiastatham · 13/03/2023 14:10

Why are people nostalgic for the 90's? What was better than it is now? Genuine question

From my perspective

Race relations, I wasn't doubted as English due to my skin colour

Possibly treatment of women because that's been inflamed by something that shouldn't be an issue

workplace culture - it was okay to do your job and keep politics and private life to yourself

general help with things - you were signposted to a human, not an app

lower population, which brings vast benefits

less pressure about how you look at work, though I hope that's wearing off again

EmmaEmerald · 13/03/2023 14:17

Oh, yes, I don't watch news but rolling 24 hour news is quite damaging to society

Mogloveseggs · 13/03/2023 14:19

My Dd to have no mental health problems.

For me. To not have to adult every day. To not have to listen to others woes. I do listen and try to help where I can but I'm exhausted. There's no room for me anymore and I don't know who I am.

Justcashnosweets · 13/03/2023 14:36

Money. Not millions, but enough so I wouldn't have to work anymore. Or do a lower paid job that I actually enjoy. Its actually pathetic how often I fantasise about this!

whoruntheworldgirls · 13/03/2023 14:39

To be slim, i have no willpower to diet and as much i try and exercise i give up as i hate it so much.
For things to be better for everyone, food and energy prices to come down, jobs and wages to go up etc.

SallyWD · 13/03/2023 15:01

I'm very lucky to have a happy, healthy family and a nice home. I feel very fortunate. The thing I crave most is solitude. I don't get it as much as I need (I'm a real introvert). I feel so peaceful when I'm alone.

ShakeYourFeathers · 13/03/2023 15:07

A base. Feel a bit discombobulated. Living between two places. Neither really feels like home rn

Meandfour · 13/03/2023 15:30

Nice weather! Absolutely sick of rain and snow now. Roll on blue skies and sunshine!

BramleyAppleHotCrossBun · 13/03/2023 15:50

Peace. I don't want any 'stuff' or even fulfilment. I just want peace. After nearly 18 years of having to deal with an abusive man, and the aftermath (we had a child), I am so ready to have peace. No drama, no gaslighting, no guilt, no accusations and undermining. Just peace.

Said child moved out to live with sad man recently and I can feel the dust beginning to settle now. It is glorious, even though I should feel sad that DC moved out. Obviously I miss DC very, very much, but they had become an extension of their father and a weapon he was using to abuse me. At least now, they aren't being put through that, and neither am I or the rest of my family at home.

WeWereInParis · 13/03/2023 15:56

Sleep.

Makegoodchoices · 13/03/2023 16:01

A kitchen table fitted into a big bay window.

A cottage next to the sea where I can enjoy hearing crashing waves.

My waistline to return - lost in 2010 and much mourned.

Idratherbepaddleboarding · 13/03/2023 16:07

To return to the 90s.
A horse.
A cleaner.
To not having to decide what’s for tea every god damn day.

Jesko · 13/03/2023 16:29

For someone to look at me and kiss me like you kiss when you're 19 and carefree and full of passion.

DustyLee123 · 13/03/2023 16:32

To own my house myself, not to have a half share with DH.
To have someone I trust to live in my house and look after my dog ( who wouldn’t be happy) while I go on holiday.
To be in love again.
To see my adult children more.

Bluevelvetsofa · 13/03/2023 16:58

Good health and youth, which would mean going back some years.