What’s the hardest thing you have done?

[Mr. Ed]

For me the most thing I have done in life was emptying myself of all preformed notions of life and trusting in myself to live each moment as it comes to me. Sometimes I lose patience or get upset over trivial nonsense I put myself in a context from people from whom I feel wronged until I realize my error and recenter myself.

Overcoming mental illness was not easy, but highly productive.

 

[Aunt Marg]

Believing in myself and exuding confidence.

As most people know, we are our own worst critics, but being able to overcome ones weaknesses can prove to be the biggest challenge of all.

 

[RadishRose]

Divorced.

 

[Keesha]

Caring for my parents while knowing they disinherited me . It was brutal.
Deleted. The worst is too horrible to write about.

 

[Aunt Marg]

Caring for my parents while knowing they disinherited me . It was brutal.

Boy, now there's a test.

Kudos to you, Keesha, for remaining steadfast.

If that doesn't test ones strengths/weaknesses, I don't know what does.

 

[Sassycakes]

I have had a few very hard things to deal with,but the hardest thing was my Older brothers and his wife's hatred of me and my sister. Years ago at my last attempt to change the way things were between us was when I heard his wife was ill. I called everyday to speak to her and tried to heal the hate they both had for us. It didn't work and until he passed away a few years ago his hatred for us remaind.

 

[JustBonee]

Say good-bye to my husband at the hospital, as I waited for the ambulance to take him to the funeral home.
... always with me

 

[win231]

Quitting smoking 38 years ago. I learned the true meaning of the word: Addiction.

 

[macgeek]

the passing of my mom and grandmother one month apart. hard to believe it was 20 years ago.

 

[Aneeda72]

Hmm, so many hard times in my life so many hard things I had to do. The hardest, looking back, leaving, just picking up my disabled 2 year old son, one suitcase, and leaving my first husband. With only a high school education, no job, no prospects, no money, and a long hard road ahead.

I begged my mother to let me/us live with her for a short while. She agreed because I “had the baby”. got a job at a company within walking distance of her apartment making copies on an old ink machine. You put ink in a roller, and hand cranked the paper through. Second shift.

Got a one bedroom run down apartment, food stamps which you paid for in those day, welfare for medical coverage, took my son to a sleep over babysitter, and, finally, a 200 dollar car, and a divorce. Never looked back-till now.

 

[Sassycakes]

Realizing todays date in September of 1965,my Mom's 85yr old Dad was at a feastday with his oldest daughter and he wondered off. We went on search parties after search parties until a month to the day he went missing a young boy found my Grandfathers body. They were horrible days.

 

[drifter]

Quitting smoking I think was the hardest thing I've done.

 

[FastTrax]

I always thought that dishonesty, disloyalty and betrayal were the worst crimes in ones life until I read some of the personal horrors described here.

Man, just Man. Stay blessed.

 

[hollydolly]

I have a lot of hard things to deal with in life, but one that springs to mind is similar to Macgeek... losing my mum and grandfather (both suddenly)... exactly 7 days apart... it was a terrible shock..

 

[Gaer]

It's not that I can't go there, I refuse to go there! A negative thought and a positive thought cannot occupy the mind at the same time. I'm training myself to NOT bring up bad memories and wallow in the past. Thoughts are very powerful and preceed what happens in your life.

 

[Aneeda72]

It's not that I can't go there, I refuse to go there! A negative thought and a positive thought cannot occupy the mind at the same time. I'm training myself to NOT bring up bad memories and wallow in the past. Thoughts are very powerful and preceed what happens in your life.

Alrighty then

 

[Keesha]

Caring for my parents while knowing they disinherited me . It was brutal.
Deleted. The worst is too horrible to write about.

Today I made an appointment for counselling. Something I have needed for quite some time now.
I have a huge chip on my shoulder, am snapping at others and getting emotional far too often. I’m SUPER intense and it’s not getting better. I’d even consider medication. There are traumas I haven’t dealt with which I really need to; they’re eating me alive: The way the world has suddenly changed forever doesn’t help much either.

 

[Pepper]

@Keesha
I thought something was up. I ♥ you, you are a good friend. Want the best for you ALWAYS. Hugs.

 

[Pepper]

The hardest thing for me is the deaths of loved ones. There are 7 so far. We're built to take it and carry on but it hurts so much.

 

[FastTrax]

Today I made an appointment for counselling. Something I have needed for quite some time now.
I have a huge chip on my shoulder, am snapping at others and getting emotional far too often. I’m SUPER intense and it’s not getting better. I’d even consider medication. There are traumas I haven’t dealt with which I really need to; they’re eating me alive: The way the world has suddenly changed forever doesn’t help much either.

You possess a delicate heart. You're in my prayers.

 

[officerripley]

Watching my mom draw her last breath (from cancer). I was alone in the house with her when she died.

 

[Keesha]

@Keesha
I thought something was up. I ♥ you, you are a good friend. Want the best for you ALWAYS. Hugs.

Yeah. Somethings up. Thank you. I love you too.

You possess a delicate heart. You're in my prayers.

Thank you.

 

[PamfromTx]

The hardest thing for me was watching my mother suffer so much prior to passing away. Taking her last breath literally made me go into shock. I can never forget all she suffered.

Photo is of Mom at age, 18.

 

[Pink Biz]

Leading up to, during and after experiencing life-altering financial ruin a long time ago, I made terrible choices and had to deal with the consequences of my mistakes for many years. No one to blame but myself.

 

[Pappy]

Quitting smoking was so easy for me. It only took me 40 years to do it....easy--peasy.
But one of the hardest things for me to do, and still is, getting up in front of people and talking to a group. In school, on book review day, I literally got sick to my stomach.