I spent my life
trying to please my family

It didn't work

I spent my life trying to
Please others


I spent my life......

nancy-e-tracy

Old Age Insight

Jun 6, 2026

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chris-g

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This feeling is greatly experienced by you only. Nobody can imagine! God bless, ma'am.

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sage advice indeed.....live your life!!!!!!!

Very soft and simple one, so it's very beautiful.

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Truly words I needed to read today. Thank you for sharing this. :)

david-mungoshi

I have begun to feel this way sometimes, Nancy. A well written poem.

jasoncole

rebecca-askew

Best advice, ever!  Congratulations on the Daily!

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joe-adomavicia

dreamerforever

I know exactly how this feels... and over time I just learned how to live for myself...

ElizabethSquires

musfiq-us-shaleheen

As I grew older with the time and reality.....
Congrats on the daily, Nancy:)

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madhu-ramakrishnan

it invokes us to think....
inspiring lines for youngsters

martin

Ask for a refund Nancy :)
Congrats on poem of the day

mandie-sanders

I'm going to print this out and hang it on my bedroom wall so I can read it everyday.

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thelma-hunt

So insightful. Going by this my life only really started from the age of 45.

deovrat

Bitter truth of every one life.. even though every one wish and try to please other whole life...

don-bouchard

Sacrifice comes from being a parent, I think. Has the life you've spent been a waste? I hope you find joy in this day and week.

mike-essig

So now it's your time to please yourself. I spent 20 years doing jobs I hated to make money for my family. That's over and on I go. So will you.

tracy-malloy

hoosit-stein

Thought provoking.....very clever Nancy! :)

Sadacus

There is much truth in your poem...hopefully another verse would find us all spending our lives on our own dreams.

carolyn-bayne

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Brotherjimmy

This poem struck me as sad and beautiful.  I don't know if it's in your own voice, or the voice of another... But if it's the former: well, you're still alive!  Seize the remainder!   Keep up the good work with your alabaster words.

david-alexander-walker

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friendships can seem complicated once u realize that personal happiness depends on 1 individual. yourself. i've dedicated the majority of my life trying to appease others. i think i made a major mistake. sighs.

pradip-chattopadhyay

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Fred

The swan song of the people pleaser.  

I like it. 

I have seen that you do not like dark poetry. This is dark. Very dark, but good. And you don't beat people over the head with it.

I like that it is simple and calm and the words are almost emotionless; except it really isn't simple calm or emotionless. 

Nicely crafted and effective.

i try to follow the herd but it doesn't satisfy me anymore. i don't submit my poems to literary journals. i question my words a lot. i should be able to walk through the fire but i am not as insulated for protection. i won't give up though, just go underground for awhile. Hello Poetry offers me a platform to express myself in ways that open readings do not. i do wish i was more confident. it's been the long, sad story of my life.

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sally-a-bayan

You are so right, dear Nancy, so right!
Congratulations! If only your poem could be poem of the week, or poem of the month....it deserves more!
Sally

robert-blankenship

Nancy
I agree
We should each and every one just be ourself ,after all that is who God made us to be.
Great work!

w-l-winter

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magicpoet01

Very wise observation. We only have ONE LIFE and it is precious. It belongs to each of us - alone. We can never please everyone, we can only ever be ourselves - live & soar

d-thomas

Wow... I can feel the pain that etched these words.
Great poem...