What's the hardest thing you've ever done?

[rach2jlc]

I climbed the mountain that thousands of warring samurai couldn't climb to topple Oda Nobunaga. I climbed it alone, in a pair of sneakers, with a Ferragamo Manpurse in tow.

 

[Huntsman]

Being honest when it was facially to my detriment about something I felt I could lie about without challenge or cost to another.

 

[sho'nuff]

im about to embark on the hardest thing i may have ever will do up to this point. (grammar?)

will let you all know in a few months. no, not a child.

 

[acidboy]

Originally Posted by sho'nuff

im about to embark on the hardest thing i may have ever will do up to this point. (grammar?)

will let you all know in a few months. no, not a child.

good luck brother. you know I got your back (in a long distance, symbolic kinda way

)

 

[unjung]

I have not done anything particularly difficult.

 

[Synthese]

Parenting my parents after the death of my younger brother (spring of my senior year in undergrad) and being the only person who could deal with all the wonderful logistical bits and pieces that have to go along with that. Took a month off from school, and returned to finish two majors in two languages (oral defenses, weeks of cumulative exams, etc.) at my fancy-pants college.

Everything else seems pretty easy now, except for dealing with the constant, niggling fear that the world is ending/everyone I know is about to die. Oh, and now I hate birthdays.

 

[ektaylor]

Originally Posted by epb

Physically: my 2nd marathon. I took a spill during the first, injured my knee, DNF. I started training as soon as the knee had healed up and completed my next. Socially: moving away from home at 22 to Chicago, where I knew nobody. I got a job offer on Thursday, packed on Saturday, drove up on Sunday and started work on Monday. I'd never been away for longer than a weekend before that.
How are you adjusting? I find the anticipation of social isolation the worst aspect of uprooting. In my experiences, the mind has a reassuring ability to adapt and find -- and in some cases transfer -- meaning in new and foreign conditions. For instance, I'm about to move 2.5 thousand miles away from my family tomorrow. I am anxious, but it's the same anxiousness I felt when I moved 300 miles away to college, when I moved 1 thousand miles away to start my first job, and oddly when I moved back to my hometown between my first and second job. Mobility is the one of the greatest happinesses. It's second only to commitment.

 

[mm84321]

You decided on Connecticut?

If you need help getting acclimated, let me know.

 

[ektaylor]

Originally Posted by mm84321

You decided on Connecticut?

If you need help getting acclimated, let me know.

Appleton, Wisconsin.

 

[mm84321]

Ah, good luck!

 

[APK]

- The aftermath of my mother's brain aneurysm. Even though I was 21, the situation forced me to do a lot of growing up on the fly. In the span of three months, I had to deal with selling the house; clearing out said house filled with thousands (and THOUSANDS) of things in a matter of weeks after we found a buyer quickly; finding a new place to live; adjusting to living on my own for the first time in my life; not failing out of school, and finding time to visit my mom each day wherever she was (she got moved around to different facilities during her recovery). On top of that, I was fresh out of a multi-year relationship and still trying to work through that.

- Being 10 and having my mom's live-in boyfriend have a heart attack and die in our house. He had been more of a dad than my biological pops, so it hit me hard. It was also my, "Holy crap, people I know are going to die some day" moment.

 

[cimabue]

Trying to repair a popped chain on my bike when I was a small kid. I knew what I needed to do but couldn't because my little hands weren't strong enough to do the job and tools were only vaguely understood. That's about as frustrated as I've ever been, I think.

 

[ektaylor]

Originally Posted by cimabue

Trying to repair a popped chain on my bike when I was a small kid. I knew what I needed to do but couldn't because my little hands weren't strong enough to do the job and tools were only vaguely understood. That's about as frustrated as I've ever been, I think.

Lol. You must be what we call a "plebe" here at SF. Man, if I keep this up, I'm never going to be elected to public office.

 

[MiloX]

Deciding to take my firstborn off her ventilator.

 

[globetrotter]

Originally Posted by MiloX

Deciding to take my firstborn off her ventilator.

that puts everything in proportion. sorry.