what a good idea. I just click on my icon and it has a list of activities but even then I miss stuff and get quite confused. I am still learning what the symbols mean. 
Take care
Oh yes.
I hate being in the state I am in. She always said … “How can anyone be bored”. No she was not privileged, rich, in the best health, pampered, incessant cruises to pretty places or whatever, but anything and everything absolutely fascinated and interested her. She’d have had a good scrap with you about the world being “beautiful”, but she’d agree that it’s endlessly fascinating and marvelous and to be lived, good or bad. Such a waste. A good brain. a kind soul. She’d never ever have slapped me, but I could give myself one heck of a slap for not GETTING ON with it. And funnily enough. not getting on with it makes a nonsense of everything we ever did for each other. It’s like giving her the biggest slap for everything we shared. I could not imagine ever doing it when she was alive, but messing about in this indecisive hell feels like I’m doing it now.
I’m really confused and upset this topic is "My reason for living In one sentence " none of these posts are about the topic.
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Dear @Dalejackie, before I joined this forum I read a lot of posts, and your posts were very moving. I even replied to one of your posts 8 months after the last post because it made me so sad.
I hope you’re doing ok, and that people have started talking a bit more about him.
It’s because people arnt starting their own thread
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It only diverted ar post 150! Could you not have put it back on track by giving “My reason for living in one sentence” ?
Thank you.
I fully understand how you feel.
A sensible suggestion but I was hoping to find a reason I could relate to.
Maybe the posts go off topic because we have said it all (for the time being)
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On re-reading my post I apologise if it sounded sharp! 
but I genuinely wanted to know your reason.
My reason is my son, daughter-in-law and two gorgeous grandsons even if I only see them on FaceTime. Unfortunately they live at the other end of the UK 
If it wasn’t for them there would be no reason for living.
Thank you for your reply and I hope you are coping. So sorry for the loss of your husband.
Take care, AL x
There isn’t any need to apologise, AL. I do understand how you feel, our daughter and son live 80 miles away in opposite directions as do our grandchildren. I am housebound with a damaged spine. I am allergic to daylight and the sun too because I have a rare, inherited blood disorder called Porphyria plus other medical conditions which have attached themselves to me. I am sorry that you are going through the loss of your wife, life just isn’t the same without our loved ones. Thank God for computers and telephones.
Take care,
Mary
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Thank you for your response Mary, always nice to hear from you. You’re right, life just isn’t the same and never will be.
I’m very sad to hear about your medical conditions. I had picked up on them in other posts but wasn’t aware how debilitating they must be. It makes the loss of your lovely husband even harder to cope with and I’m very sorry that you’re now without him. 
Look after yourself.
AL x
Some very good reasons for living Al. Wishing you well. J
My two Border Collies.
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I simply dnt want to be dead, I need him alive xx
Love border follows such clever dogs.
Oh, so glad to see your phone does the same as mine! x
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I was thinking the same , predictive text can be a news sense
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When there was something I got to do, that my parents didn’t, like opportunities in life or eating something really nice, I would say to my parents that I am sorry they never had the chance to do this. And my parents would always reply with “It doesn’t matter, if our son did it, then it is as if we did it”.
So my reason for living is probably “Living the life my dad isn’t able to live”.
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