What was the hardest thing you've ever done, Physical or mental?
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D-mongreen
ANSWERS: 55
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A Science Test.
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Deal with the loss of a child.
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i escaped, mostly.
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while i was living with my girlfriend, she cheated on me with her ex, i felt obviously uncomfortable so i was forced to move back home, 1000 miles away (no other options), while still in love with her...2 weeks that I barely left my bed, couldn't eat...that was by far the a very low point in my life...
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Military service. Hot, wet, long days and nights, little sleep. It was very demanding and very difficult physically and emotionally.
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I let the vet put my little poodle dog to sleep. That broke my heart.
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the death of my grandson
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Stayed on a damn diet for more than a month.
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Beat out a depression that lasted over 6 months. A word of advise - Antidepressants just prolong the problem!! You really need to confront your own problems and get yourself to realize that there is more to life than being miserable.
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Bury the man I love and was going to marry.
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learn how to re walk proprerly, after haveing krutches for four months
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leaving my abusive ex after 5 years.
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Let go :)
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losing my daughter.
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Burying my parents along with taking my 3 children & leaving my abusive husband a close second.
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seeing my father with severe alzheimers.
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Allow the vet to put my old/sick dog to sleep ten (10) years ago, still feel guilty about it, I buried him at a pet cemetery calls "Pet Heaven" at Gardena, Southern California.
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Tell my 20 yo son he had to leave the house. Thankfully, that's all resolved now. Closely followed by putting my kitty Furry to sleep. He was 19, but it was so hard to do.
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sending my baby girl off to college today was very very hard our relationship will never be the same she is now officially all grwon and tonight she called and she wanted us to go to her school and eat dinner with her because all her suite mates had their parents with them and she was all alone!!!!!!
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Quit Smoking!
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lie to my parents, attempting suicide, PE, school...
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Losing Jay and having to try to live this life and raise our children without him.
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to watch friends die
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The hardest thing I've ever done was to rise above losing two children in two separate events. The plethora of 'challenges' that have risen to this once 'just an ordinary girl,' has brought me to the point of LIVING 'in honor' of these losses rather than 'in spite' of them! More of these personal epiphanies that arose from this experience and the very real sense of empathy and respect for each and every human being occurs elsewhere in other of my answers here on AB. In my view, each individual is a precious, a one-of-a-kind human being, never, ever to be replaced. With that kept in mind, along with the very real 'you just never know' [when a loss of a loved one] will occur, it has become virtually 'easy' for me to cherish every entity, regardless of view, circumstance, background or position. The only 'status' one gains is an undeniable ability to live with oneself, to care for oneself, to share whatever we have and are able to share with 'everyone' by a certain kind of intelligent cooperative personal choice to do so. For indeed, 'the moment' is never to be taken for granted.
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Telling my daughter, when she was 11, that her father died in a car accident. I never fathomed that two years later that I'd be telling my other daugher, when she was 5, that her father died. I was married to the younger's father and at the same time I was trying to cope with my own grief of losing a husband to suicide. I have learned so much of life with the experience of those two losses. Second to that is watching my father die of cancer when I was 18. Having survived that loss helped me to be able to help my own two daughters with the loss of their fathers. We never go a day without saying that we love each other so much!
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Having my two daughters die in my arms soon after they were born.
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saying good by to to many friends that have died over the years ...good people and far to young
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Living.
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letting go of someone i loved.
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Carry another person on my back/shoulders while retreating under fire, after taking a bullet in the lag, and shrapnel in the side. That really sucked.
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Get myself out of bed after my 21st birthday party !!
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Natural child birth.
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Carrying a friend down off a mountain after he broke both legs years ago before cell phones worked almost everywhere...When we made it to safety I was in worse shape then him...
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Giving permission for the hospital to remove my mom's life support. I knew it was what she would have wanted, but I wasn't ready to say goodbye. We never are, I suppose.
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Preparing for the comprehensive exams for my master's. I had to read an average of two ENTIRE TEXTBOOKS everyday for one month.
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the hardest thing i ever done was to let go of some one who was every thing, kiss them on the forehead and close the casket. the end of the life as i knew it. and here i'am a life time has passed and i still feel it. soon as i responded to this, funny all these years
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I helped run cable and fiber optic lines for a networking company during college. They would tell me to crawl through the crawlspace with cable in my mouth, the length of a building (a very old building without AC in the Georgia summer) on my back. I crawled through rats nests, cockroach dens puddles of stuff that i hope was water - all for $8 an hour.
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I used to work in a lumber yard years ago, loading giant planks of wood outside in the heat and snow onto a conveyor belt soaking wet for them to be graded. I also worked in a plastic factory, 12 hour shifts in lots of heat with plastic filiments collecting inside your nose and lungs I also worked in a snack cake factory once and was in charge of cleaning a room they called the "swimmin hole" they called it that because they had giant tanks fo chocolate and to keep the chocolate soft the room was kept super hot and super humid. to work in there you had to work in 15 minute intervals and wear all of this safety gear and ice-pack vests luckily for me those days are over!
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Wal-mart.
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Try working in a hot factory were they made bullets.
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I worked on oil well pumping units. I had to knock bearings out with a twenty-pound sledge hammer while standing on a crank that is about a foot wide and is around ten feet in the air. I also hand to climb to the top of the beam and connect a 1 1/8 steel cable from the truck to the pumping unit. I had to climb the units carrying heavy bearings and sheaves. Oh and it was over 100°F.
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Army, Infantry, Vietnam
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I worked as an aminal control officer. Eight hours a day cleaning cages in Florida's summer heat. When I wasn't doing that, I was tagging animals for disposal, removing heads for rabies testing or watching kittens and dogs die because their owners didn't give them tags or there was no one to adopt them. I didn't last long.
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Worked at Home Deport for two years in the wall and carpet section. I did not realize how heavy boxes of ceramic tile are, until i had to unload a whole pallet full. almost broke my back. Also, those big rolls of continuous carpet. they weigh at least 5 to 600 lbs. each. Try lifting one of those babies by yourself. Is there a doctor in the house??
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Trying to accept Christ as my peronal savoir and dying to myself to never return again to my wants and desires.
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let my mom go , so she could rest in peace....
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My uncle Malcolm and I went Sheep Hunting and we both had our packs our rifles and we had a small blanket each we started to acsend and we got up to about 5,000 and it started to get dark the next morning we got up left our camp at 5:30am and we got up to the sheep by 7am we got two and the problems started but before we started down we had something to eat we started down by 9am and we had to fight to keep from falling down see we had two sheep and we de boned the sheep as much and possible and after finally getting down it was 9:30pm we got back to Chapagne and I told my uncle that my pack was heavier than his and we weighed our selves and our packs with our guns and bedrolls and sheep meat came to 136lb and that was the toughest trip I have ever been on since. And my uncle was 38 at the time and he made it
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Forfeit my carreer for the benefit of my family. I'd do it again, on a heartbeat, but I really did love where I was going!
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clean dishes and do chores for 4 hours and at the same time being bothered by my little sister and my name being called 24/7 and me having a test the next day and i have to study and i have to do a project and all that.
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The hardest thing I have ever done was have a child. We planned him, thought we knew what we were doing, then he came. We had no idea. My patience has been tested, my physical limits have been tested, and yet I get through it all without blinking because of the love for my child. I am more proud of myself for this "action" attitude that I now possess, than for any other trial I have ever been through, and trust me, there have been many.
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childbirth, although it must not have been that bad, seeing as how I did it (by choice) 3 times. :)
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Take over and manage my Mother's estate while she is in Hospice.
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i got back on a motorbike after it killed me
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Run a half marathon, many many years ago while was still able.
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working with cattle
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