Id say having the privilege of knowing my grandmother. I will never meet someone as wonderful as she was. She was the strongest human being Ive ever met. She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. The cancer had spread so my mom took care of her. No way was she going to let my grandma go through it alone at a nursing home. I have never witnessed such strength and vulnerability. Yet she was still my grandma, strong and ready to take this cancer and kick its butt. A very proud woman who seemed to almost fade away right in front of me. Its hard, especially when you love someone so much. You never want to see them suffer like that.
But I did and the feeling of helplessness when she would be in pain and knowing that there was no way to help her. It got to the point where she was saying to just let her go. She couldn't walk anymore, breath without her machine and eat anything. I wondered why her. Why this wonderful lady was the one dying and not some sorry crack head. It made me an angry person.
I still don't understand, but witnessing someone so pure and so good go through this. I don't know, it just changes you and tests your patience. My mom and my grandmother have made my life meaningful and knowing strong women like them has made such a huge difference on my life.
Writing this also made a difference. I got it all out and feel suprisingly calm. It wasnt easy because it brought back something that I never wanted to relive again. But I did it. Thanx.
2007-07-17 11:01:28
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answered by *Veronica* 4
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Having children and losing my daughter. Being a mother gave me a direction my life did not have. It gave me purpose and something to get up in the morning for.
When my daughter was diagnosed with cancer at ten years old life changed dramatically. Any complacency or apathy I had developed over the years disappeared and a new purpose replaced the old. She died one year after diagnosis and it was the best and worst year of my life. I learned how ephemeral life was in an emotional way rather than simply intellectually. I live more for her now that I ever did when she was alive. All the things she had yet to do I have done. Her brothers live the same way. Honoring her spirit ,expanding her ten years and giving her a voice she had yet to explore.. I am still me but fuller and richer and extremely happy.
2007-07-22 13:41:35
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answered by pat 4
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This is a very short summery, there are many details I have left out in the name of being brief.
Having been given (by God) the gift of insight to myself. One day realizing I was conscious and conscientious of this, coming to the understanding that I had the ability to piece together who ever I wanted to be, one piece at a time. This has been monumental for me, I was very unhappy at one point in my early life and was facing a situation where I needed to make changes or I was not going to live a full life, Peace by Peace I concisely assembled who I needed to be --- who I am today. This has been something that I use on a regular bases to continue being a better person and keep moving on in life.
Have a great day your self! I hope you find the answers you were looking for.
2007-07-17 12:14:38
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answered by Lee light 2
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Having children, having a gifted child, having a blue baby, having a "regular" child (if you can define anything as regular) have all taught me to be a better person. My husband's death has taught me that you never know how long anyone is in this world and you have to be understanding of all problems. Every day I learn something and that thing is the biggest difference in my life that day. So, it changes...but having children is not like anything else in the world.
2007-07-17 10:39:07
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answered by Anonymous
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Finding Christ through Him I'm able to see the beauty in all the things around me.
I've been blessed with a loving husband and three children.
I'm surrounded by family that loves me and the love that I receive just makes me want to reach out to a dying world and show all that is in it that there is still good in it and it is a joy worth living. So I suppose I would like to say I love you with all the love that God gives to love and I pray blessings over you and all who read this lives.
2007-07-24 14:14:42
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answered by misunderstood 4
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Two things.
1. When I was young, I really, really wanted to know what I wanted to do with my life. My hero, Arnold Schwarznegger, taught me, in books and magazine articles, how to write down, and achieve goals. I got everything I ever wanted in life by writing it down!!
2. I started weightlifting, at age 35. Again, because of what I read in books and magazines about Arnold Schwarznegger and weightlifting. Now I am 55 and I am in amazing shape!!
I SEE what guys my age look like. I am stronger, bigger and healthier than most people on this planet!!
Thank you Governor.
2007-07-17 11:52:06
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answered by Anonymous
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my parents. Unfortunately it isnt the most positive of answers. Im gay, my parents outed me, and they are highly religious. I had 2 exorcisms to cast out the demons, and they wanted to send me to "straight camp". Since then, i have struggled to have any form of relationship with them, accept myself, trust anyone, and am constantly seeking approval from people, because its something ive never been able to get from my parents. This has had the biggest impact, and made the biggest difference in my life, and something that emotionally, physically, and financially impacts me all the time, and something that ive had to work through, and will have to continue to work through, and struggle with for many years to come. But on the positive side, it has made me a fighter, and made me strong enough to stand up for what i want, and what i believe in. I dont let people hold me back from doing the things that will make my life happy, and what i want it to be, and since i know i will never get the approval from my parents that most kids want, i can act without care of whether they are going to accept my actions or not.
2007-07-17 10:45:33
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answered by Anonymous
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The biggest difference in my life is ever meeting my bestfriend shay she made the biggest difference because true friendship can change anything you think of and want in life because not only wanting to make yourself happy you want to make her happy....I would do something and think it was so cool but when she is like look what could happen to you for being stupid i look back like damn that's was dumb....We have our ups and downs but I'm guaranteed to be happy in the end because true friendship never ends..
2007-07-17 10:40:04
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answered by Sam 2
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OMG, you're naive. it isn't the shaving--that's the concept that ladies individuals are in straightforward terms as powerful as they are attractive. that's that for the duration of a patriarchy, women individuals are considered as sexual playthings and not human beings. it isn't the bra--that's the symbolism of the bra. The bra symbolized the patriarchy taking what makes them female/women individuals, and oppressing/binding them. Making them adjust to what they, the patriarchy, prefer women individuals to be. Porn is the objectification of ladies individuals incarnate. not something is misguided with intercourse, yet using woman-substitutes to get your patriarchal rocks off on the rate of different human beings is atrocious, yet you're so into the patriarchy you may not even SEE how egocentric this is. and how a lot it exploits women individuals and undermines women individuals's vanity. no person cares approximately toys, that's how they are utilized. Breaking down gender roles. girls and boys get methods of their gender enslavement: GI Joe (boys would desire to be undesirable azz) ladies get EasyBake Ovens (ladies would desire to do the cooking at domicile). Feminism is precisely what you're saying you prefer: that's the way we get around the message that issues female could be purely as repsected as issues masculine. yet daily, right here and elsehwere, you spot that "male" features are issues like "management and action" and "woman" features are issues like "submissiveness and passivity". And guess which ones sound "better" to human beings? while and how did it replace into "undesirable" to be "passive"?
2016-09-30 05:17:23
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answered by ? 4
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Knowing God. When i see the hurt others and myself are going through i know that i don't go through it alone. and when people blame God for that hurt it really bothers me because he didn't put us on earth to torture us, he put us on earth to get ready to spend eternity with him in heaven - which we should be rejoicing in that fact! He made us so we could spend eternity with him. Having a purpose for my life makes everything calmer and satisfactory. God is the difference between a joyful and joyless life!
2007-07-17 12:55:48
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answered by Anonymous
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