What is the hardest thing you've ever had to do in your life?

Answer 1

2 things actually---the hardest one was when my son was 12 and I was having SERIOUS problems with him (severely bad attitude)...I had to turn him over to the State in order to get the help he NEEDED to straighten up... Luckily it was only 6 months that he was actually AWAY but he was in their program for 18 MONTHS... it wasn't like he was TAKEN from me--it was MY choice and it turned out that the place AND my decision were the two TURNING POINT DECISIONS in HIS life because he straightened right up and is now a WONDERFUL 29 year old man and the best son and person anyone could know... so sometimes the hardest things in your life turn out to be the BEST things.... the second was a bit more personal... I had to lay in a hospital bed and listen to two specialists tell me I have a terminal illness...BUT, believe it or not, even THAT turned out somewhat good. Since I was told, life has taken on SUCH a wonderful new meaning----things that bothered me before NO LONGER do.... I appreciate everything so much more then I EVER did before----I wake up in the morning now and LOVE that fact that the sun is out or even that it's raining... still can't like the COLD and snow all that much but somethings Can't change. but birds singing sounds sweeter, a zillion frogs mating in the swamp in my back yard every spring USED to drive me NUTS with the noises they made---but this year, I grabbed my coat and sat on my back deck for HOURS listening to them and they never sounded sweeter.. and my friends and MOST of my family have drawn closer to me...it's been amazing it's just too bad it got this good so late but I'm ENJOYING every minute of it...

Answer 2

You know what, sometimes just getting through the day seems like the hardest thing I've ever had to do. However, if I had to pick a moment in time, I think running away from home when I was a kid was the hardest/bravest thing I have ever done.

Answer 3

Be a single mom and work full time, go to school to get a degree and raise a really really good kid that is productive, smart and way not screwed up like most kids of divorce. I worked on being the best mom I could and took really careful steps to keep her in my loop and me in hers. She is 18 now and truely amazing to know. It was the hardest thing to do, but I did it and I am glad that we did so much together and we both are fantastic. The last 10 years have been a very very hard time, but at the same time we have so many great memories and we both are proud of each other!

Answer 4

After my Mom had multiple strokes I would go and visit her daily in the end she would just lie there screaming and she didn't know who I was. This went on for over 2 years ! Christmas was always the worst ! They would have a piano player playing Christmas music and I would take her in her wheelchair down to the little party and I would sing to her but she would start screaming and disrupting the wonderful singing and I would have to take her away so other people could enjoy the moment . I would ask her to stop but it was impossible!! I watch her go from a loving mother to this thing that would never be able to talk to me again!! She has gone onto a better place now and I hate to say it but I am so glad!! Not only for her but for me too!!

Answer 5

Too many to mention, but probably one of the hardest was leaving my son's father. I had no family at the time & few friends. No-one in the world knew I was leaving him that day, only me. The only people who 'knew' were the people who I was renting the 'new' house off. He went to work in the morning & I raced round grabbing my things & went. I knew I was breaking his heart, taking his son from him, but he was unbearable to live with & had hurt me so much.

Answer 6

I gave up getting married to a guy I "re-met" 25 years after we broke-up . (it was in 1976 and the summer after 9th grade).

I had become a live-in nanny to a little boy whose mother just "left" him and she no longer wanted him in her life.
He was only five. The guy I was going to marry could not understand why I could not just "up and leave" to another state
and leave life as I knew it, all behind me!!

I made the right (self-less) decision to stay and concentrate on raising this little boy, instead of (selfishly) getting married to my childhood sweetheart.

That "little boy" is 15 now, and the sweetest young man in the world. (he tells me that I changed his life and he will never forget all that I've done for him over the past 10 years!!

I believe people should "add" what they can to life;
not just "take" whatever they can get from it.

Answer 7

I spent 6 years on nuclear submarines as an electrician. That was hard, but the hardest thing was when we spent 89 day straight under water without surfacing.


g-day!

Answer 8

Its now....facing the fact that my husband has got cancer...that his face has been spoilt by surgery...that he cant speak properly any more and that he is in pain................he is such a lovely person it should never have happened to him. Despite all this he is always courteous and kind. How can God be so cruel? Also doing probate for my brother after he passed away and realising that he had had a terribly sad life......and now wondering whether life is worth the effort.

Answer 9

Believe it or not the hardest thing any of us have ever had to do was to be born. It is so stressful it is truly amazing that any of us survive the experience.

Answer 10

Wow.... Tony, thats some statement there!!!!
Would be interesting to find out why you have that view, cos its a strong one..... none the less, admire the guts you had for writing it.
Hardest thing was knowing when someone doesn't love you anymore and you cant do anything to change that..... you have to just go thru the pain