what was the most memorable experience that happened to you, and did it give a lesson?

Answer 1

The experience I had that probably had the biggest impact on my in terms of a life lesson was moving from the U.S. to Iran when I was a little kid. My dad's company transferred him to a large project it was working on in Iran, and the entire family moved there for four years. During those four years we traveled extensively, saw many wonders, and met many incredible people.

The lesson I learned can be stated simply: the world is a big place made up of many different cultures and beliefs, each with their own positive and negative aspects.

Answer 2

I believed my home life was so bad, I wasn't given the independence I thought I had to have.
I left home amid a terrible fight with my Pa at seventeen years old, because I forged his name on the enlistment papers for the U.S. Army.

Eight months later I found my self in the North of 'Nam with the Hmong and a Ranger unit fighting for my life.
We spent two years up there, mostly going back and forth killing, it was like a nightmare, they came after you, you went after them.
I was wounded twice. I wrote home to my mom, she hardly answered due to my dad. When I got home, he wouldn't talk of what happen or recognize that I was a man. It was never the same again. I left again and began my life far away from him.
It was twenty years later that he hugged me and said he loved me, he passed away several years later. All those years lost to being stubborn.