When you do leg exercises, make sure you feel your muscle contraction, feel the tightening and the pain. Exercising without feeling the muscle contraction is useless. Do leg stretching and half squat to tighten up leg muscles. You don't need to go out to a gym, you can just jog in place, jog but not lifting your foot fully, just raise the heel part and put the force on half of your foot like you are reaching up something and you tip toe, you will feel the muscles on your calf and hamstrings contract. Do it for 10-20 minutes everyday you will feel your legs tighten up in 1 week

Hello David, I know you don't need sympathy. You are a brave man, full of courage , faith and hope in facing your condition now. I understand we all experience pain in our lives only in different ways and forms. I feel your pain, as I have a back problem too, slight scoliosis in my lumbar region and a slight straightening of my sacral region. I was crying in pain everytime I strain my back I had to go on a therapy, physical therapy for just 2 months to help straighten my back bone. I did some back exercises and a lot of swimming. Now , I feel pain only sometimes. But with your case it is very difficult and yet you still have that smile on your face. How you deal with your condition takes a lot of courage, acceptance and faith. It is good to know that you are active in your church. Through your pain and suffering, God is using you as the living testament of his glory. You have become an instrument of God to share your pain to those people who are in despair, who lost hope and faith. In your weakness, pain and suffering , you show strength as you face the everyday torture. I admire you for not giving up on life, here you are still sharing laughter and joy to the people around you May God continue to give you strength , courage , faith and hope to overcome your pain. You may be just sitting in a wheelchair or lying in a bed but you still have your brain , heart and hands that functions well. Use it to spread the good news. To a life changing testimony of a man in pain, you will be God's instrument to touch other people's lives, an inspiration to all. TO GOD BE THE GLORY ! GOD BLESS YOU DAVID!

My own understanding of "LIFE IS LIKE A TRAIN" is that our life has a beginning and an end , death which is our final destination. Our life is a journey it could be a bumpy ride or a smooth travel, some have a short trip others long trip and somewhere along the way they stop from one station to the other, experiencing joy, pain, suffering, challenge, problems, meet people, say hello and goodbye, even death at an early stage of life. Some live longer , some shorter the train we ride depends on us where we would want to go, different places, different choices/experiences, different circumstances could be bad or good weather , you may stayin a station where you just want to be dropped or you go further ahead and explore more things in life. You may fail sometimes and take a rest , the stations could be resting , recovery, rebirth period or a start of a new life as you go on with the journey taking one trip to another. But above all, in this life we were given the opportunity to experience good and bad things in life along the way, yet at the far end awaits our final destination.....Success, Fulfillment , Happiness and Death.

You're not alone Chubbyjhen I'm going 44 but I'm not worried about staying single. Whatever life brings me, my heart will always be grateful for everything that I had , have and will have just keep on smiling and stay happy always, you will never feel getting old

I like listening to mellow or jazz music, piano, flute , guitar and violin instrumental music. It calms my spirit especially when I am depressed. Singing is my therapy when i'm alone and feeling lonely. I can sing like i have a concert for many hours Swimming one of my favorite sports, best exercise and my stress reliever. I may look so feminine most of my friends think I'm so prim and proper , well they get a surprise when they know that I am athletic I can play many sports I love swimming, chess, basketball, volleyball, badminton, jet skiing and would be willing to take an adventure on sky diving and water rafting if given the chance. I love nature so much especially beaches and mountains. Love to go camping and mountain climbing being near with the nature let's my spirit feel free , independent and strengthen my inner self. I love poetry, I used to write poems but depends on my mood. If I am inspired writing poems is so easy for me words just come in my mind so easily. I love art, I used to draw land scapes and sea scapes , and different colors of skies with the use of pastel or colored gel ballpens for abstract.

It depends on my partner, if he is the jealous type and wouldn't want me to be here in mingle anymore then I would respect that. But first I would tell him why I want to stay here it's because I just like the forum and I would always inform him that I'm logging in mingle. If he trust me it wouldn't bother him at all. If it would make any problems in my relationship with my partner, then I have to leave whether I like it or not, I don't want it to be the reason of our misunderstanding.

Just remembered a topic about train journey which explains my understanding of "life is like a train" you may read my answer here

https://m.mingle2.com/topic/show/497092

I haven't experienced meeting someone from online in person yet, so I don't really quite know the exact feeling. But I do believe that if you have established a good and spontaneous conversation online and have developed emotional attachment,sonehow it could help your meeting more easy and comfortable . What is important is you have a good connection coz if not the first meeting would be awkward and difficult to establish footing on your conversation. Also, I wouldn't like to meet someone if I am not ready emotionally for I don't want someone to waste his time seeing me if there's no feelings even just a little from the start. Especially meeting someone from another country, but if you are just near each other it would be okay to meet and greet and see how it would go but with caution of course as you cannot just see someone so soon without knowing full well about him or her. If it is secure to see someone then go so you will know the real feeling. I wouldn't say that it would often improve or change something if you see each other so soon where the vib online isn't great from the beginning . If it does it could be due to physical attraction but then beware for it usually doesn't last longer. Mental and emotional connection last longer than physical connection.

I believe that we all have responsibility to ourselves as well as the others around us. As a citizen you should know your rights to protect yourself and do your social responsibilities as necessary. We are all an integral part of a society/community/nation/world/universe/habitat/ecosystem , and each one of us have our individual roles, functions and duties to perform. We are all interconnected where the actions of an individual affects the other. If we are not sensitive or concern of how our actions will affect the others then there will be no balance where we live in, thus there will be chaos. Having good sense of responsibility in our interactions with everyone and everything around us will have a big impact on the development as a whole nation in terms of socially, economically, culturally and environmentally. Mind your own, mind the others and the universe with extra care and sensitivity.....that is what a responsible citizen/human being/Christian would do to protect his or her habitat. Be responsible for others not just your own life. We all need each other in many different ways.

I believe that if a man is truly serious and interested with you , he would give his focus, attention and time , only to you. But if you are just plainly dating and getting to know each other, he has the right to go out with whoever he wants. Everybody has the right to choose who they want to go out with, get to know, evaluate and if the right one comes along then he has to decide with whom he should focus his attention to. A woman doesn't need to compete with any girl just to get a guy's attention. We girls shouldn't assume too much if a guy is showing interest to you. If he says the magic words and really serious about you then that's the time you check if he's really into you. Know if he is still fishing in the sea after the declaration. You cannot own someone or limit him to see some girls if he hasn't even made a love declaration. What if he just wanted friendship with you and nothing more? Don't assume or expect too much. Let the person prove his love in time and deeds. It's not all about words only, time, attention , words and actions altogether would show one's true intentions. From there, a girl will discern.

I love you = MAHAL KITA (Tagalog)

Thank you G, lol yes definitely we are all not perfect but God made us all unique in our own ways.....perfect with our imperfections born naturally as sinners but have a chance to convert , a renewal of the soul always happen when we realize our mistakes. Better late than never. We are all a work in progress. Be true to yourself, to everyone and to God.....no pretensions for the truth always prevail. Don't live in lies, live the life you want it to be lived, be free , be happy but don't step on other people's toes. Live life accordingly and strive to be a better person everyday

Some people are here for the forum, some are truly busy and they can't attend to all the messages they receive. They will just answer at their own convenient time. We all have the right to reply or not. It doesn't mean that someone is ignoring you in a negative way if he or she doesn't reply. Can you imagine if you receive a lot of messages and you feel the need to answer all of them, do you think you can entertain all? No of course, even in real life... We filter the messages, we just reply to those we feel like worth replying to depending on your preferences and qualifications. I believe that not replying is a subtle way of saying he or she is not interested, it's perfectly understandable, don't wait for someone to tell it directly to you or wait to get insulted when he or she stops replying anymore:) just appreciate whoever replies to your messages and friendship could start from there

sorry double posting

Hmmmnnnn.....this could mean.... fantasizing, hallucinating, assuming or maybe just plain imagination or illusions:) peace brother:)

If you're young and in love you tend to imagine a lot of things:) but if you wanna know the truth if she liked you or not , there's no better way than to properly approach the girl and make friends with her and see if she's interested too

Thinking of having another cup of hot chocolate before I go.... And a few minutes here.....

I think I'm gonna be late for work if I will not move my *** now....lol....this forum is a bad habit in the morning...lol!

I don't need any proofs to Believe in God's existence. I have been born and raised by my parents with faith and have grown up in a society where people mostly have faith in our Creator. I believe that God sees everything even right through our hearts and minds. We don't need to pretend or change who we are. God loves us for who we are and what we are. God is forgiving. We are only humans and born to make mistakes yet we shouldn't abuse the life given to us to do whatever we want to do even if it's wrong. Live your life accordingly. We may commit mistakes as we are not perfect, but being conscientious we could somehow walk with the ways of God.

If a guy decently approach me, I have no problem at all to entertain anyone who would treat me with respect but it doesn't mean entertaining someone who is interested with you means you feel the same way too. You give a chance to all the possibilities. You'll never know he or she could become your boyfriend or very good friend. People come and go in our lives, some just acquaintances, some stay as as friends or may become your boyfriend or girlfriend, others would just pass by and leave a mark in our hearts and someone could hurt you. But whatever it could be, it's a life's lesson, an experience in our day to day living. I just try to open my heart and mind to all the possibilities in life with positivity. Having inhibitions or fears could limit your experiences in life, I have been there before, I let good opportunities slip away ..life is boring and lonely.....take life as it is , embrace all the good and bad, learn from it and appreciate them all even the ones who have hurt you

Feeling great after a long good sleep and the sounds of the chirping birds are like music to my ears what a wonderful morning......hmmmnnnn....hot cadbury chocolate drink smells good and taste so yummy

Have an awesome day everyone! Cheers!