Giggle.

Candice- With those remarkable home brew dogs of yours and you don’t know? How can this be?

Yep. I’m with Candice. And besides, I probably wouldn’t agree with a marketeering definition of it anyway.

Or as the wise woman once said, “I wanted a career. What I got was work”!

Reasonable response. Seems “all” would be different for each person … and likely different for each person at various times of life (and maybe even the day!;P)

Perhaps “having it all” is simply attaining your personal goals.

Gosh, I really, really hope my granddaughters’ generation realize that having it all is not what my generation thought it was. My friends have not faired well. Divorces, children with too many issues and problems, and our feelings of guilt for the things left undone. Most of the women of my generation in the area of the country I live have had a hard time. I know I sound negative but we really have not faired well. We are so tired. All I really want is a rocking chair, a little garden with flowers and vegetables and a loving partner. Having good health is more important to me than I ever thought.

I think having it all in any century is about having what you need the most: good health, enough food to eat, a roof over you head, enough clothes to keep out the cold, and more than anything the love and support of friends and family. Throw in enough savings for a decent retirement and occasional vacations, and what more does one need in life?

Being satisfied with one’s life? Feeling you’re taken opportunities and feeling gratification? Liking (quite different from loving) one’s own family? Experiencing joy at friends’ happiness?

It certainly looks like whatever anyone else does have and I don’t yet I want to obtain.

I am trying to understand how this site works. Is there a new article or articles every day? And how are these selected? Or are they all written by the ‘women at the top’ of the page?

To me having it all is always knowing that all I have is what I have at this very moment. I do not have the future, it may never happen. I do not have the past, it is over. I can choose to make this moment what I want, however. So, I can be upset, angry, hostile, or happy, grateful, and content. I have stopped letting outside circumstances dictate to my inner self what I should feel or how I should act. It is my now. It is all I have.