Is there anything that makes you feel "trapped" in the times (or the place) you are living?

[belamyi]

Not that I prefer to live anytime in the past (for all I know about ages past), but sometimes I can relate, now, to reports from the constrictions of past eras (and places).

 

[Alistair]

I actually wish I wouldn't have bought my house. I bought it in better times, and it's not rebounded much from the housing bubble. Now I'm kind of stuck with it. I'm in a different place in life and would really like to move on.

 

[belamyi]

^ Don't you have a mom or best bitch or something to bomb you now with "I-told-you-so-s"?

 

[Alistair]

Unfortunately no one gave me any advice against it at the time. Everyone thought it was a great idea

 

[belamyi]

^ Worst kind of bitches: "good 'normal' people who go with the flow".

 

[Alistair]

^ Worst kind of bitches: "good 'normal' people who go with the flow".

Did you just call me a bitch?

 

[belamyi]

^
No, I called "bitch" those who let you get stuck with little house on the prairie or whatever you live in right now: you seem just a plain average sucker

 

[Alistair]

^
No, I called "bitch" those who let you get stuck with little house on the prairie or whatever you live in right now: you seem just a plain average sucker

I'm an above average sucker, thank you

 

[belamyi]

^ Oh... all right: this fucker will take your word on that

 

[Rickrock]

I live with my brother and sister. My brother is Power of Attorney for a distant cousin who we just recently had to place into a nursing home. He had a little dog and another woman offered to take the dog but my brother didn't like her so we inherited the dog. The dog is spoiled, thinks it is the boss, and is demanding too much of our time. It pees on the carpet at times and if it doesn't want to do something it growls and snaps at us, or cries if we leave it to go someplace. It is beginning to get used to us, but it still needs constant watching and we end up sitting and wasting time holding it on our lap. It was abused my an earlier caretaker and we are concerned for it. For a couple of years we were tied to the house taking care of my elderly father and couldn't leave without checking with each other to make sure that someone (or later, two of us) were covering. I didn't mind because it was my father and I didn't mind confining myself to home because of him, but since he passed we have had about a year of freedom to come and go as we please. Now we can no longer come and go as we please again and it was because my brother made the decision to not give it to the other woman and we are being confined by his decision. Last summer the three of us went on a two week trip together, but won't be able to do that again for many years.

 

[frankfrank]

I've often wished that I had been born 5 to 7 years earlier.

Considering that I was born THAT close to what I consider to be ideal, I think I'm pretty lucky.

Now, as for PLACE, I'll say again for the umpteenth time over the decades: "I wish I had been born Canadian." I have to admit though, that I'd rather be in the United States than the vast majority of countries in the world - I'd rank it probably #4 or #5 which is decidedly decent. I could have just as easily been born a waif or been orphaned in India, or a slave in Belgian Congo (at the time).

 

[IBendOver]

I'm locked in. Here in South Africa as a While Men, you are always the target! Glady that in Cape Town people are more chilled

 

[Willie Boy]

What has me feeling trapped in this time in which I live is the fact that, despite a budget of multi-millions of dollars, my tech guys still have not produced a working time travel device....

 

[72-Jay]

Yep, I'm trapped in my pathetic life

 

[mikeyjon]

I live with my brother and sister. My brother is Power of Attorney for a distant cousin who we just recently had to place into a nursing home. He had a little dog and another woman offered to take the dog but my brother didn't like her so we inherited the dog. The dog is spoiled, thinks it is the boss, and is demanding too much of our time. It pees on the carpet at times and if it doesn't want to do something it growls and snaps at us, or cries if we leave it to go someplace. It is beginning to get used to us, but it still needs constant watching and we end up sitting and wasting time holding it on our lap. It was abused my an earlier caretaker and we are concerned for it. For a couple of years we were tied to the house taking care of my elderly father and couldn't leave without checking with each other to make sure that someone (or later, two of us) were covering. I didn't mind because it was my father and I didn't mind confining myself to home because of him, but since he passed we have had about a year of freedom to come and go as we please. Now we can no longer come and go as we please again and it was because my brother made the decision to not give it to the other woman and we are being confined by his decision. Last summer the three of us went on a two week trip together, but won't be able to do that again for many years.

I don't mean to sound "nasty", but why in the world would you let a dog control your life? I get being "concerned for it", but it's a dog!

 

[Willie Boy]

I live with my brother and sister. My brother is Power of Attorney for a distant cousin who we just recently had to place into a nursing home. He had a little dog and another woman offered to take the dog but my brother didn't like her so we inherited the dog. The dog is spoiled, thinks it is the boss, and is demanding too much of our time. It pees on the carpet at times and if it doesn't want to do something it growls and snaps at us, or cries if we leave it to go someplace. It is beginning to get used to us, but it still needs constant watching and we end up sitting and wasting time holding it on our lap. It was abused my an earlier caretaker and we are concerned for it. For a couple of years we were tied to the house taking care of my elderly father and couldn't leave without checking with each other to make sure that someone (or later, two of us) were covering. I didn't mind because it was my father and I didn't mind confining myself to home because of him, but since he passed we have had about a year of freedom to come and go as we please. Now we can no longer come and go as we please again and it was because my brother made the decision to not give it to the other woman and we are being confined by his decision. Last summer the three of us went on a two week trip together, but won't be able to do that again for many years.

Pet sitters? Or better yet, obedience training for the dog. Or even pet therapy. The dog may be suffering depression/anxiety, yes animals can suffer from this too, after all its whole life has been thrown asunder. Even dogs need to grieve the loss of loved ones (whether through death or just long term/permanent separation).

 

[Kulindahr]

At the moment I can't conceive of any time or place that would leave me feeling less trapped.

 

[belamyi]

At the moment I can't conceive of any time or place that would leave me feeling less trapped.