What has been a big moment in your life?

Question

Tell me about something -good or bad- that changed your life... something that you'll always remember. What has happened to you?

Answer 1

*Graduations

**Undergrad

**Grad School

**Law school

**Military Basic Training

*Earning my Nidan in kendo.

*My second (sorry) divorce.

I learned that:

*Perseverance does pay off

*Honor, a sense of justice, and a commitment to one's ideals/obligations really DO entail success in a strong, foundational, long-term way

*I learned that love and happiness (and life, by fiat) are fleeting and should be cherished at every opportunity possible (I still praise God for every jog, sunrise/sunset/, my cat, my motorcycles, etc.).

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Answer 2

I was fired from my job after working their 5 years, then I had cardiac surgery, and was laid up for about 6 months in rehab. I was a very active vibrant person. Had a terrific sense of humor. But after that I fell into a depression, and because of all the meds that I take because of my surgeries, the meds have an effect on my emotions.

Since then all I do is stay home. And I am very very unhappy. Went to a psychiatrist, but nothing helps. I had the surgery in June 2000

Answer 3

The biggest moment in my life is not my marriage, nor the birth of my first child, or the first day I walked into my office with a brand new title and salary to match. The 'big moment' in my life was the day I realized that life is taken day by day, and every moment needs to be lived and enjoyed and thrilled in. Life isn't what happens on weekends or at parties. Life is what happens between these 'fun' moments. Once I learned that, then suddenly every other moment became big and every other moment became a wonderful journey and a treasured bit of life.

Answer 4

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

Answer 5

Getting married to Mr. Wrong

Answer 6

I will always remember the way people accepted me,and didnt.

Because either way,it makes me a stronger person.

Answer 7

8th grade graduation. by far my proudest. now i need to wait until my highschool graduation in like 3 years