Category: Let's talk
I wanted to add a twist to moments one would want to relive.
I wanted to ask, are there moments that one may not want to go back and relive, but because of them, you are a better person?
plenty, rape, termination, finding out that my sister was abused... sounds like a true soap oppra hey, but I'm truely a different person because of them. I don't mean to sound so flippent, it's just the way I deal
Hmm that's easy 16 years ago I suffered a colossal breakdown I attempted, and nearly committed, suicide. I would not return to that nightmare if I was offered a cure as recompence, being so frightened that the mearest sound has you shaking convulsively, is pure hell.
As for making me a better person?..hmm it's definately made me stronger, and far more determined to grab life by the scruff, and give it a good seeing to. smile
Agreed goblin, I have several moments that I'd rather soon forget, but I am stronger as a result.
My family has been plegged by addiction, being brutaly asalted, more then once, and the deaths of my father, aunt, uncle and my brother.
It is through this, that I have found my life's passion, and that is to be a chemical dependency counselor, and help others in need in any way I possibly can.
Okay. I don't care if anyone knows anyway. The moments I never ever want to relive were when I got abused sexually for 6 years at my former school.
No, by the way, it didn't make me better. It made me worse, more scared, less self-confident.
when there's any of my relative passaway. its make me more firm, and strong, and appreciate my life better
CGG you can get counselling to help with that but it has to be your decision.
Hmmm, i think all those times I saw my parents on drugs or the times I saw them fighting...i still have nightmayers about it sometimes and i'm still frightened by violence, but i think it's made me a better person because it scared me into leaving home and making something of myself rather than becoming another statistic.
totally agreed.
I have seen, and saw my parents on drugs, fight, and saw horrors, that would make the average person run screaming. However, I knew as stated in the previous post, I didn't want to be another statistic.
Goblin I have been to six councellers and lost all trust in these people. Sorry.
i had a huge surgery, and was in excruciating pain, but am a much stronger person because of it.
I wouldn't want to relive the time I was in hospital for a week, just for a fairly simple skin graft on my lip. They kept my oxygen mask on for over two days after the surgery, and when the graft failed, I knew it was time for me to go home and quit taking up a much-needed NHS hospital bed, but the surgeons didn't agree. Another time in Sixthform, my cousin was expecting her baby in late September. Mum rang me on the 21st of September and told me Emily had been delivered by C section at six o'clock the previous evening and was in a very bad way in SCBU, not able to move anything at all, not being able to breath on her own and not even able to cry. I thought about almost nothing else other than Penny and Emily for the next month, till they came home from hospital, then it was Penny's turn to get seriously depressed and just spend all her time loafing around at home with the baby who was more or less fine, but still couldn't move. That's all behind us now thankfully, Emily's sixth Birthday's on the 20th of September this year, and she's taken after me. Doesn't like school and worik, but she's a huge Harry Potter fan like me.
The day I broke up with someone I thought I'd marry....we were engaged. He treated em so horribly, but I stuck around, no self-confidence. I found teh courage I was looking for finally and left him. Then, the time I switched schools, I don't really wanna go back, but I'm a better person now. Umm....various little things like that.
gosh there's several things. having my eye removed had to be the most painful, i was on strong painkillers that made me so unaware of things and not able to do anything, then the day after, mum told me dad's girlfriend was pregnant. i stood there in my room and nearly took my whole bottle of painkillers, at the time i couldn't cope. Also, my uncle dying of a heart attack the day after my 18th birthday party, that was horrible. last year, i lost one of my best friends. i'd had another 2 friends that died, but this hit me worse. when i went to her grave, i just sat there, on the floor, i knew where her ashes were, the grave was fairly knew. i was with her for one last time. all these experiences have made me stronger and i take one day at a time.
Lol and I would not want to relive the moment I was in hospital and that old confused woman peed into my bed. Ewww. Haha
euwwwwwwww ines, gross. i don't think i'd want to relive that either, euwwwwwwwwww.
Lol Kay, and she put her teeth on my bed side table. Haven't you read my hospital story?
The terrible day we lost a close and trusted friend who was climbing in Pakistan, that was just hellish
wow, this is all sad, but I'm glad to see that we are all stronger because of it.
i certainly wouldn't want to relive the many times I ended up in the hospital as a young child, the abuse I endured at the hands of various family members, and well...... the many days of watching my brother injected with needles, and his various trips to the hospital as well.
I'd have gladly traded places with him, in a heartbeat.
If only I could have taken on all his pain and suffering....... all well.... *sigh*
enough of my moments for now.
Hmmm, ines, the time the old lady came over to my bed while i was asleep and pulled out my drip,...god that hurt, oh, yeah, and that time i walked into the right hotel room in the wrong hotel and came upon the cupple making out in bed...that's in the embarressing moments board topic, but i'd give anything for that not to have happened, every time i play at that music festival, they always remind me about it.
The day i woke up in the youth refuge i was staying at and the kid in the next room had hung himself was really trormatic for me and i really wouldn't like to relive that, but it made me want to help others so they didn't feel that way. Also the time i was on a train that a young man jumped in front of because he was depressed. all these things make me who i am, but wouldn't relive them if you paid me.
I remember a close friend in graduate school. He had several kidney transplants and rejected them all. He was in my wedding. I got a call the week after we got back from our honeymoon. He has a twisted sense of humor like I do, and offered me a late wedding gift of a gallon of urine. We promised we'd get together soon. Next phone call I got was from his wife's brother. He went into rejection and died soon thereafter. I never got to tell him how important his friendship was to me, and how valuable he was. I try hard as a result to never never miss opportunities todo so. I guess, being human, I still take people for granted, although after that, I try harder not to.
The night my dad died when I was 13, abuse when I was young and giving up on myself completely for over a year.
Oo gosh! The last time I visited my great grandfather in his flat in Eastbourne before he died shortly after when I was at school. I was six, but I knew he was very ill with some kind of Cancer and it was his 85th Birthday and I gave him, er, I think it was a bottle of bath foam or something, from the look of the box, which was his present.