What has been your greatest experience? Did you learn anything from it?

Question

Did it involve a significant amount of emotion? Is that why you still remember?

Answer 1

How can it be a "greatest experience" if nothing was learned from it? Some of the greatest experiences I've had I did not realize as such until later, when the lesson made itself known.

Experience and wisdom don't always go hand in hand, but it's hard to have one without the other. Significant emotion is precisely the mechanism that etches those experiences in our mind. It often takes time for the lesson to be recognized as such, which is unfortunate, because it is often too late to make the changes the lesson dictates.

Ultimately, it is the totality of one's lifetime that proves it to be a great experience or not. One cannot appreciate the book until the last chapter has been read. Until then it is only dialog, stage play or screen play, often with a disjointed story line, as is the human experience.

Answer 2

you know what? being in rehab was a huge learning monent for me. i learned that all kinds of people can get together and we're all a lot alike when you shed everthing we are holding back away from us. Say for instance. do you ever think you'd be friends (coming from like me a middle class family who owns 2 vehicles and a house etc.) with a person who had felonys and was/is addicted to heroin to a point that he almost lost his legs as a result of the over dosing. well, i didn't ever think i would ever even meet someone like that, but put in the situation i was in where i had to get to know this person, i realized he was a great guy, he just had some issues that he was facing head on. I am still today happy about going to rehab. it changed me a lot. about how i judge oterhs and how i like people to percieve me, cause at first they thought i was some snobby little girl coming cause she thought she was an alcoholic. well, i guess i was at the time, now i know i needed that help and support form people.....

Answer 3

When I was able to adopt my foster children after 4 years in "the system". I learned how to persevere, how to learn about courts and systems and social workers and judges and guardian ad ligums, and now to teach my children how to handle going from foster to adopted to divorced in 3 years. I remember the fear that we could still be "section 45'ed" - the clause that has unravelled many a closed adoption, and yet was more worried on the impact it would have on my children than on myself - that is the greatest experience, to put others first in everything you say and do to get them to adulthood.

Answer 4

Giving birth to my children. It really is a miracle.

Answer 5

Saying 'I love You' to her. I can't forget that moment. In that moment I lived my whole life.