Most Significant Event(s) in Your Life

PeppermintPatty said:
Most significant?
Im not trying to be difficult but what do you mean by ‘most significant?
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Hi PeppermintPatty--well that's pretty much self-defined. I gave some examples, such as seeing the Grand Canyon for the first time, adopting a child after many years of marriage, starting a small business. It's whatever you want it to be.
 

Well, here it goes:

3.5 years Wondering why the women were sobbing (Nov 1963)
4.5 pictures of me at Dads grave. (1964 Dec)
1976 dropping out of high school
1996 Adopting two dogs
2006, Mom passes away (Oct 16th)
2008 putting them down.
2021 catching covid
2022 making it to August receiving SS.
 

spectratg said:
But they don't have to be. I mentioned a number of events in my life that had a major impact on me (like seeing the Grand Canyon for the first time). But, by far, the single most significant event in my life was the death of my wife at age 69, nine years ago.
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Thank you. Im very sorry for your loss. That’s a tragedy. 💔

My most significant events in my life are painful losses also which I don’t wish to share so I’ll go with:

1/. Seeing the Grand Canyon
2/. Traveling with my parents out east for a road trip while camping
3/. Trip in school across the country to see the mountains
4/. Skiing in Quebec with university students
5/. Caring for our dogs and sharing our life with them is pure joy 🤩

But by far my most significant event of my life has been sharing my life with my husband. We enjoy each others company and I can’t imagine my life without him. It’s a long term event of the nicest kind.
 
A Holy Angel of God appearing to me in my most aware and most wakeful state;
in a brilliant light and love radiating from her, speaking to me, touching my forehead
and giving me a sacred message of a task I had promised to fulfill.
This changed my life! This changed everything!

The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, considered the "Vedanta Incarnate" walking
off the stage deep into a crowd of several hundred people, to give a
long stemmed red rose to ME, and my two children, who were not
even visible to him from the stage. I was astounded!

The spiritual experiences of unexplainable BLISSFULNESS, and light
encompassing the entire room, sustained, surrounding me, IN ME.
It's impossible to describe. a refinement, a glorification, no, unutterable joy
I feel during and after the experiencing a delving into my own silence.
in the technique of Transcendental deep meditation.

Seems my most significant experiences were/are all spiritual, and
no one can relate to them unless they have experienced this.
Then there is the birth of my two children. Two magical creatures!
 
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Besides the usual ones of marriages, births, deaths obtaining 4 college degrees and obtaining my first professional position. Going to Europe 5xs was thrilling and going to Auschwitz was sad beyond belief. You could literally feel people’s souls and pain.
 
Since adoption is on the list, I can say the adoption of both my children were The most significant events of my life. My husband and I married late and were unable to have children. After a few years of infertility treatment, we decided to try and adopt.
We started with an agency in Pennsylvania and after a couple of years on a wait list we were chosen by a birth mother who wanted to place her baby with us. We had a semi open adoption. We were able to meet the birth mother and exchange communications with her throughout the life of our son while still remaining private. All communications to and from the birth mother were done through the agency. I’m very glad that we did it that way.
The second adoption took place through The Department of Social Services. We applied with them and were told that we were wasting our time…. they hadn’t placed a healthy infant in 20 years.
A year after applying and when my son was 3, I got a call from our social worker saying that a baby had been abandoned at birth in our county and were we interested. If so, we had to pick her up from the hospital tomorrow!
We were VERY interested and were prepared and at the hospital the next morning.
It all worked out well. My kids are wonderful, smart, good looking, personable and the joy of my life.
The infertility that was once so devastating to me is something that I now see as a blessing. I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way and I’m blessed to have been able to be their mother.
 
Too many "significant" events highlight my life...it would take a year and a day....however, one my husband and I were talking about only yesterday, occurred during our honeymoon, many moons ago.
We decided to go on a world tour and he wanted to start off with Egypt to show me his wonderful country.
On the third day, he said had a surprise for me and this was it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjXpO3a0Xuo

Nothing could have prepared me for this wondrous sight. The Milky Wy over the Sahara...
Watching that in awe and in the arms of my new husband made me realise, he was sent just for me. I was right!
 

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