Hi All :) .. What PERSONAL SETBACK has TAUGHT you the most? :D?

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As for me : "Imperfection".... If I were perfect, I wouldn't need to learn at all....
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So, how about you???

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Monarch Butterfly, Congratulations! :)What a will power and courage, you have!! .. ? Keep your spirit, alive!! .. And, now, you're probably enjoying the little things in life, much more!
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Answer 1

In January of 2002, I broke my left leg while hiking. I was 57 years old at that time and had never broken anything before (or since).
I made the STUPID mistake of forgetting there are TWO bones in the leg - and thinking that because I could still stand on it, nothing was broken. For a week, I hobbled around in INCREDIBLE pain, wondering all the time what was wrong with me. Surely, I wasn't THAT much of wimp! I normally handled pain and injury MUCH better than THAT!
Then (after 8 days) I finally DID realize that there was more wrong than I'd first thought and I went to the hospital. The moment the doctor put the x-ray up on the lightboard, I saw it! The smaller bone was diagonally broken clear through about 3 or 4 inches above the ankle!
I felt a remarkable mixture of horror and relief! Horror, at seeing how badly I really WAS damaged, and relief at realizing I had not been handling a minor injury badly, but a major one remarkable well!
When they put it in a cast that went from the bottom of my foot all the way to about 6 inches above my knee, the pain stopped, but that was when the setback - and challenge - began! I was told to NOT - under ANY circumstances - put that foot down and put any weight on it. I had NEVER experienced impaired mobility before, and (since I lived alone back then) it was scary as Hell at first. But with each step of recovery came a new milestone!

The first hurdle was holding onto my job. I had a sit-down office job so the work was no problem, but getting to and from it WAS! Driving was totally out of the question. Even if I'd had the foolhardy inclination to try it, the position in which that cast held my knee made it impossible to get into the front seat of my own vehicle! There was NO WAY I could walk half a block uphill on slippery winter sidewalks to get to the bus stop in the morning and cross one of the busiest major streets in Portland, Oregon - with no traffic light nearby - to get home in the evening!
So I offered a car-less friend the full-time use of my mini-van in return for ferrying me to and from work. (As it turned out, I never missed a single workday!)
Even so, I could not sit in a chair ALL the time. There were things that needed doing and SOME degree of mobility was clearly necessary. I quickly learned what a valuable transportation device an office chair on wheels can be. Fortunately, I had one at home at my computer table as well as the one at work. So I was covered either place.
I sent an e-mail to my daughter in Seattle entitled "OUCH" - telling her all about my accident, and got one back from her a few days later entitled "OUCH HERE, TOO" - describing how she had broken her left arm just a week to the day after I broke my left leg! So we kept sending e-mails back and forth about what we called our "small victories". She would write me about how happy she was to be able to hold a coffee cup in her left hand again, and I would write to her about how totally overjoyed it made me to have succeeded in getting to and from the grocery store by myself, rescuing a mouse from my cat, etc.
The greatest lesson to come out of it was that - under the right circumstances - one CAN feel great joy and even pure elation over accomplishing those simple little daily tasks we too often take for granted - even resent at times.

Had I not suffered the injury and the subsequent incapacitation, I would never have know the great joy and elation that came with each simple little step of recovery.. I now look at the world from a totally different perspective!

Answer 2

People can be deceiving. I got hurt by a girlfriend very badly and during the time I never believed she would do the things others told me about until they proved it officially. It's not that I'm distrustful of others but I learned that you can't rely on others to know themselves 100% either. You have to understand they can ****-up and you should always consider it a possibility that they can hurt you. Knowing so prepares you for the worse!

Answer 3

when i was 21 i broke my neck in a car accident, that was very life threatening, i was a single mom at the time with 2 small sons, they completely depended on me, i was told that i almost died and there was a big chance i wouldn't walk, my left arm was paralized, i was out of work for almost a year. my sister had to take my smallest son and keep him at her home for many months, i never saw him, i missed his first steps, my mom took care of me and my other son, and it was too hard to keep the baby as well. i had to learn to walk again, and do all the normal every day things again, a jar was put out at my place of work to collect money for me so i could pay bills, and feed my kids. i missed my baby terribly, couldn't do anything for my self, that was something i wasn't used to. i was always very independent, i slowly got feeling back in my arm and can now use it, but i still hurt allot til this day from time to time, it happened in june of 1999. and i still have problems, but i learned to get through it, and i learned who really cared about me, the ones who stood by my side and cared for me at my worst time. i had a friend who i didn't realize even cared the way she did, but when it happened, she was there every day helping, she would do small things like wash my hair, or get me food, what ever i needed. she checked on me every day. she's dead now, in a tragic car accident, she left 4 kids behind when she died, the sad part was we weren't speaking at the time and it was over petty little things, i couldn't hardly stand it when i found out she died, she was only 24 years old. i ran into her mom in the store later and all i could do was hold her and try to comfort her. don't ever take your true friends for granted, if there is an argument, try to work it out, you never know when it's going to be too late, and you can never get them back. but i have learned from this experience, i don't take friends, family, or life for granted, it has made me a much stronger person, and i learned that no matter how much you think you can do it all and your completely, when life knocks you down, you will see just how important these special people god has put in your life are to you and how much you need them, and you wouldn't be you with out them. God Bless, live, love , laugh.

Answer 4

The part of my brain responsible for learning has taught me the most; Setbacks are only a lack of it.

Answer 5

even after experiencing something and learning from it, a person will say they will not want it to happen again, it is not going to happen, I am going to change this, no matter how much we try we do not learn, and it is hard for us to accept that we have not learnt