What was the experience that made you a stronger person?

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ohsheeT · Accepted Answer

You know I've been through so many different things and I always fight my way through it I always come out good and with each little thing.

Feel as if it is maybe who I am today and I think I'm a pretty good person but about a year and a half two years ago I got a phone call from my mother she was crying she wanted me to come pick her up blah blah blah blah blah blah. She's living with my sister and nephew my nephew was verbally abusing both of them and she wanted a way she wanted out of there she has dementia and I said you're not going anywhere you can come live with me which killed me to say that that I had to do it..

. And I'm at the breaking point right now LOL it is one of the hardest things I've ever had to do in my life it is so freaking hard to be patient to be kind to try to explain to take care of even she's getting to the point where she can't take care of herself I promise you I would not put her in a home I can't get any help from my sister I just got a hold of. Hospice.. and I feel like I'm venting right now..

But thank you for the question cuz I just needed to get that out of my system anyway yeah right now is the hardest part of my life I never thought that I would be in this position ever it has changed me I don't think for the better but maybe I don't know yet she doesn't have that much time left that I got to keep going forward and I needed this question I need to answer this question just to clear my mind and bring me back to where I was so that's the reason why I thank you

NathanDavis · Accepted Answer

my first 20 years of life... mostly...

Sonorous · Answer

Having strong friendships at early ages.

exitseven · Answer

I was in my 30s and I was working for a company that was going out of business. I was going to graduate school at night to train for a new career in IT. I had a wife and three kids to support. School was not going good. I had to maintain a 3.0 average and I was not there and was afraid I would be dropped from the program.

Then out of the blue my father died. He just went to work one day and died. There was a lot to deal with with his death and I was about to have mid term exams.

I was thinking about dropping out of school because I did not think I could do it. Then I sort of heard my father talking to me telling me not to be a pussy and study and pass the damn exams.

Somehow I managed to take all my exams and pull up my grades and do everything else i was supposed to do. Very soon after that I became unemployed and had some other challenges to finish school and find an entry level job while almost 40 and I never looked back.

DJB72 · Answer

Which one?

The defining experience was finding my Faith, but in terms of what has made me stronger through it the biggest would be the deaths of my brother, all four grandparents and my dad before I was 30. Since then I've married, faced the diagnosis of a terminal illness in two of my remaining family, losing my own leg and having technically been dead for four hours myself.

There's been other things, but I'd say those are the top few. Pick one. They all made me who I am today.

Bricealan · Answer

Moving to CA, on my own, and bouncing from several jobs here before landing on solid employment ground. Things being shaky for several months, but I learned to roll with the punches and come out on top. It was a very rewarding experience, and taught me to stand on my own two feet without the support of a wife or girlfriend

abc3643 · Answer

Broken heart.

It's the most important event after your birth and before your death that you can have because it turns you into a functional human complete with empathy.

Why do you think Trump is so fucked up? He's never had a broken heart in his life.

virtualwasp · Answer

I was hit round my head with a chain when i was 8, it changed my outlook of physical pain. People do things to you but its not about you, its about them.

Massageman · Answer

Having to explain to a foreman that something that he accused me of doing I hadn't done.

TonyMetal___86 · Answer

2 experiences, one when i was a teenager and i got bullied because i was calm and respectful and the other when i got a divorce from the cobra who made me believe that i'm her everything and the love of her life!

ab2shifty · Answer

There were many experiences, but one big thing is how bad of a person I was when I was younger

7Phoenix7 · Answer

My 14 year relationship and the way it ended. I learned so much and I'm a lot stronger now

Nikki1989 · Answer

Every bad experience has made me stronger. That is how it should be.

douride2 · Answer

Two near death experiences by the time I was 16 gave me a much broader out look on life.

Anonymous · Answer

Military life. Losing friends overseas. Seeing horrific things.

Dongie · Answer

Everything after and including that first smack on my bottom from the doctor.

Anonymous · Answer

Having schizophrenia.

laly520 · Answer

losing my mom

Anonymous · Answer

roids. taking roids made me a stronger person :D

jahaims · Answer

Being raised in a shit environment

Alex-Snow · Answer

My mother... she is fantastic

butterly248 · Answer

Not there yet

BoopBoopBeep · Answer

9 deployments

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