What has changed your life (for better or worse)?

Answer 1

Accepting whatever happens to me and being grateful for what I have and not what I don't have.

Answer 2

During the last few years, I've grown to have a deeper relationship with God, which has shown me dimensions of God I had never experienced before, so that has definitely changed my life for the better.

Also, I was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism about 18 months ago. Because I still felt fine, I just blew the diagnosis off for almost a year. Big mistake. My entire physical health fell apart, which was all attributed to my thyroid problem. On almost 85% of my body, my skin became very, very dry and itchy. At one point, I thought the itching alone would literally drive me crazy. Thyroid problems can also cause you to lose your concentration - it just makes you feel like you're not on top of things. I noticed the concentration problem the most when I was driving. It also got to the place where I couldn't even remember what a good nights sleep felt like. I would be exhausted, but I couldn't fall asleep. When I got up the next morning, I would feel totally exhausted. The scariest symptom though was what my thyroid problem did to my heart. I not only developed an accelerated heart rate (which was regularly over 120 beats per minute RESTING), my heart also beat very, very hard. I would be laying in bed at night and it would just be POUNDING!

After dragging myself to an Endocrinologist and trying medication, which wasn't effective (probably because I had let the problem go on for so long), I ended up having surgery to remove my thyroid gland, which my surgeon said was one of the largest glands she had ever removed. Within DAYS of the surgery, my heart rate went back to normal, I've gone back to thinking clearly again and, after almost 8 months of not getting a good nights sleep, I'm sleeping like a baby again. My skin, which I literally tortured with scratching, is recovering.

So, I guess my advice to everyone is don't just blow off a medical diagnosis because you feel fine. My surgeon said if I hadn't had the surgery, I would have most likely eventually gone into heart failure.

After what I've been through, when I get up in the morning, I'm even more thankful for another day of health.

Answer 3

Developing a chronic disease that is not curable. Some ways life is better (I know that sounds paradoxical) and obviously in some ways life has got worse. But things tend to reach a balance eventually.

Answer 4

the sudden, unexpected, and far too early death of my precious precious father has changed my life for the worst. thankfully, i had many years of happiness before then. now, not only have i lost my best friend, but when i think of my poor mom...she's far too young for this, faces decades alone after travelling this earth 46 years with that incredible man...

most of my rage has passed, i think. i no longer want to 'kill god' - whatever the hell that thought that kept roaring through my brain meant - but I wonder if I will ever again watch my kids do something and not ache because poppop isn't hear to see it or to tell about it. I wonder if I will ever again see beautiful scenery and not cry because dad is gone.

My dad lost his mom at the same age I was when I lost him - and I try try try to remember that he really blossomed in those years he had left after her death, he embraced life so fully, gave love and time so generously, developed his interests as best he could. I know he could rarely talk about his mom, tho, without breaking down crying, and so i guess he was as bereft as I feel.

Answer 5

Islam has changed my life for the better.
it gives me the feeling of warmth and makes me welcome all the time, even after i make mistakes
God says in the Quran (koran):' tell my servants that have done bad against themselves, do not despair of God's mercy. Surely God forgives all the sins, he is the most merciful, most compassionate. '
Islam taught me love, pacience, mercy, kindness and everything else i needed 2 know, and it also answered so many questions i did not know...
give islam a try- it could change your life..

Answer 6

Chronic pain, it qualifies as both better and worse, I look at life differently now.

Answer 7

the right woman can change your life for the better. and, I suppose the wrong one can change it as well, but not in a good way.

Answer 8

Definitely, my wife. I'm a very emotional person and I run hot and cold. She's a rock, she rarely gets excited either way. At times its frustrating to see her being such a rock, but she's the ying to my yang. She reminds me through actions that over-reacting isn't constructive.

Answer 9

The Urantia Book. Check it out.

Answer 10

Graduating from university (for better)