What memory will stick with you for the rest of your life?

Question

And did it change you in any way?

How did it change you?

Answer 1

Finding out a previous partner had been having an affair while I was in hospital, with complications, after having his baby. I came home from hospital unexpectedly, found the house empty, but a letter open on the bed from a woman I didn't know, addressed to him. It was a love letter, in which she poured out her heart to him. It was also obvious she knew nothing about me.

I still remember the feeling of having been kicked in the stomach; my knees literally went weak with shock; I ended the relationship - we had been together for three years - and tried to get on with my life.

It made me very cynical about men in general; I also learned what grieving was about, as I had loved him very much and missed him terribly

Answer 2

My Teen age years, it changed because everyone went there own way after high school and pretty much the memories are the only ones left. I will always cherish those moments, first kiss, first date, night out with my buddies, parties and all those fun times

Answer 3

getting a call early one morning saying my boyfriend has committed suicide. It changed me a lot. It was the main reason I took up studying psych in college, and made me want to be a psychologist- I couldn't help him, but maybe I can help someone else this way. It also made me a happier person as ironic as that seems. Before I was always moody and didn't think much of life and soon after the phonecall I became depressed and HATED life..I kept thinking he's somewhere better now but in the back of my mind I kept hearing "he committed suicide. he's probably in hell not heaven"...not a comforting thought. Thinking that way made me hate God himself. But then I reached a moment of awareness where I realized that if God was truly as good as I have always beleived- then he wouldn't send an overly good person to hell because of one action. If someone suffered on earth, why would God make them suffer in the afterlife as well? And THAT"S when I gave up religion and became completely spiritual- just beleiving in God and not manmade illogical books. I then became a happier person, who no longer takes things for granted, and appreciates every second of her life on earth.

That was long- but you asked :-)

Hope your Sunday's going well!

Answer 4

Being arrested, having never been charged with anything and being imprisoned for six months, still not been charged with anything and enduring life in a country where the system is led by ignorance .......Of course it changed me, its made me far more cynical of authorities, distrusting of lawyers, courts and my country's consulate and embassy

Answer 5

my first memory for now on is how i got pregnt the reason why is because now you look at it you think i just work and take care of a baby and some people tell me the truth about having kids. i just now change my mind on having one but i still love her

Answer 6

As a 5 year outdated newborn, hiding from the sheriffs at my mom's domicile. They have been there to implement the visitation rights of my father. I even have in no way felt so ate up by means of concern and don't think of I ever can lower back. My dad and mom vehemently hated one yet another (they'll proceed to realize this till they die) and my mom became prepared to defy the regulation to maintain my sister and that i from seeing him. as a results of fact she had majority custody, I observed her in a extra effective gentle and became as a result sympathetic to her interior the propaganda strife wide-unfold as a civil custody conflict. As a 5 year outdated, i ought to do little else besides have faith who i became maximum regularly uncovered to. i've got faith that concern is empirically derived from a loss of know-how (or conversely, the bleak expertise of know-how in extra, if it relatively is sensible to all of us besides my ideas at 3:30 a.m.). on the time of that incident, I even have in no way been extra bereft of know-how and as a result extra ate up with terror. My very own excessive water mark for psychologically scarring events.

Answer 7

yes, the day they called my mom to the hospital because some "punks" had beat down my elderly/blind father for his whole two dollars he got every day.
(he was 55 when I was born)
I was at an age where I got my first good look at what life outside the protection of childhood was really all about.

Answer 8

Being in a phone booth with my dad at age 3, calling the grandparents and telling them I had a new baby brother.

Answer 9

Spending six weeks every summer living in rural village with no electricity, no running water, no stove, no bathroom where people did not see themselves as poor and neither did I.
Cultural differences.

Answer 10

Getting the phone call that my 11 year old sister was killed... yes it has made me a little bit paranoid,about losing people in my life. And we ALWAYS say I love you to each other even if we're mad.