1.   A calm body leads to a calm mind, and suddenly life seems brighter and worries less important.

2.   Life just seemed pointless to me.

3.   Life seems to have gone downhill since the younger one was born.

4.   On the surface, life seemed normal in Beirut at that time.

5.   Our lives seem to have become public property.

6.   Sometimes life seems unbearably cruel.

7.   As soon as my father retired, all the life seemed to go out of him.

8.   Life seemed joyless.

9.   Sometimes his life seemed to lack purpose or meaning.