your worst day
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Life stinks sometimes. It's not fair. Rotten, horrible things happen. Unfortunately, if something really rotten has happened to you, you are in fact in better company than if nothing horrible has ever happened to you.
It's not fashionable in this modern world preoccupied with shiny happy people to admit it - but truth is that at any moment, half the people around us are dragging some kind of pain along with them. Stangely, it's part of what bonds us as human beings - we all know pain. And being able to empathize is what brings out the compassion in humanity, 'cause we know what suffering is. And that's why life goes on. Not because individuals forget or learn not to care - but because we find meaning in carrying on as part of the family of humanity with whom we share this terrible bond.
Best of luck.
It's not fashionable in this modern world preoccupied with shiny happy people to admit it - but truth is that at any moment, half the people around us are dragging some kind of pain along with them. Stangely, it's part of what bonds us as human beings - we all know pain. And being able to empathize is what brings out the compassion in humanity, 'cause we know what suffering is. And that's why life goes on. Not because individuals forget or learn not to care - but because we find meaning in carrying on as part of the family of humanity with whom we share this terrible bond.
Best of luck.
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From: in the adirondack mts
i guess i can post mine now that others know what i meant by stating this. yesterday i had a appt. at my drs and my wife had an appt with her cancer dr. one of the only times i couldn't be there with her. well the dirty sob's told her that further treatment for her cancer is pointless. my wife hasen't wanted to talk about the prognosis yet and these freaks drop this on her when i'm in albany. imagine coming home to her after getting that news. she may have known deep down what was happening but she wasn't ready to hear it. with what shes' gone through this past yr she deserved better than that in her time left. a doctor butt (edited for the young) kicking is a good possibility. this was worse than the day we heard she was sick. i know i have a worse one coming soon, but what they did to her was unforgivable
to all of you above..God bless you and heal your hearts.
carl
to all of you above..God bless you and heal your hearts.
carl
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Some docs just have no consideration... My mother was a nurse for 45 years, and will tell you the same. It is sad that this has to happen, but the one good point is that you know it is coming, rather than being blindsided when it happens, doesn't make it feel any better, but you can choose to enjoy the time left, or feel bad for the time. I learned a long time ago to enjoy life as if it were your last day, because you may not have tomorrow... I plan for the future just like anyone, but I accept that there may not be any more time left for me or those around me. Having it right in your face just reinforces that kind of belief...
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January 31, 2006 when my grandfather died. It was around 1:30 a.m., I just went to sleep and then I heard phone ring. You know phone calls at 1:30 a.m. never bring good news.
August 4, 1995. During the war my mom, my at that time 4 year old brother and I had to leave place where we lived, but my dad had to stay. We spend 9 days on the road without knowing if my dad is alive because he had to stay to fight during the war.
August 4, 1995. During the war my mom, my at that time 4 year old brother and I had to leave place where we lived, but my dad had to stay. We spend 9 days on the road without knowing if my dad is alive because he had to stay to fight during the war.
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It was the best and worst all in one day I guess. Sept 28, 1995. My wife was pregnant with twins and we went to have an ultra sound done because when you have twins you have to go every week. Well they couldn't find the heart beat of the smallest baby (Kelsey Paige) we, my wife and I both get histerical and she ends up going into labor. Well the due date was still a month away. But by 2:48 My daughter Allyson was born and was in the NICU. It was the worst because I lost a child and the best because I had a child! We had to have the funeral while my other daughter was still in the NICU!
Everyone says stuff happens for a reason but sometimes I just don't understand!
Jason
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I can tell you that you never get over it just like everyone else says! You just deal with it.
Everyone says stuff happens for a reason but sometimes I just don't understand!
Jason
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I can tell you that you never get over it just like everyone else says! You just deal with it.
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When I encounter a person having their worst day I think of this:
...The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. One by one, as they march, our comrades vanish from our sight, seized by the silent orders of omnipotent Death. Very brief is the time in which we can help them, in which their happiness or misery is decided. Be it ours to shed sunshine on their path, to lighten their sorrows by the balm of sympathy, to give them the pure joy of a never-tiring affection, to strengthen failing courage, to instill faith in hours of despair. Let us not weigh in grudging scales their merits and demerits but let us think only of their need-of the sorrows, the difficulties, perhaps the blindnesses, that make the misery of their lives; let us remember that they are fellow-sufferers in the same darkness, actors in the same tragedy with ourselves. And so, when their day is over, when their good and their evil have become eternal by the immortality of the past, be it ours to feel that, where they suffered, where they failed, no deed of ours was the cause; but whenever a spark of the divine fire kindled in their hearts, we were ready with encouragement, with sympathy, with brave words in which high courage glowed.
Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent matter rolls on its relentless way; for Man, condemned today to lose his dearest, tomorrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his little day; disdaining the coward terrors of the slave of Fate, to worship at the shrine that his own hands have built; undismayed by the empire of chance, to preserve a mind free from the wanton tyranny that rules his outward life; proudly defiant of the irresistible forces that tolerate, for a moment, his knowledge and his condemnation, to sustain alone, a weary but unyielding Atlas, the world that his own ideals have fashioned despite the trampling march of unconscious power." -- Bertrand Russell
Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent matter rolls on its relentless way; for Man, condemned today to lose his dearest, tomorrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his little day; disdaining the coward terrors of the slave of Fate, to worship at the shrine that his own hands have built; undismayed by the empire of chance, to preserve a mind free from the wanton tyranny that rules his outward life; proudly defiant of the irresistible forces that tolerate, for a moment, his knowledge and his condemnation, to sustain alone, a weary but unyielding Atlas, the world that his own ideals have fashioned despite the trampling march of unconscious power." -- Bertrand Russell
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I always give myself a "Worse day of the year"
I've had a lot of things go wrong in my life. I would take back none of them. Loss of freids and family to deaths or diffrences, time can keep them. Mistakes I've made and suffered for, keep them. They all make me the person I am today.
I couldn't think about losing my wife and/or son, I shutter to think about it. I pray for anyone who has lost someone that close. No parent should out live their children.
I've had a lot of things go wrong in my life. I would take back none of them. Loss of freids and family to deaths or diffrences, time can keep them. Mistakes I've made and suffered for, keep them. They all make me the person I am today.
I couldn't think about losing my wife and/or son, I shutter to think about it. I pray for anyone who has lost someone that close. No parent should out live their children.
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my worst day was a few months ago when at 30 years old i got diagnosed with cancer, on chemo right now. but......it was also a good day because they said the cancer was easily treatable, a silver lining as you say.
but in the light side of things, i been reading alot and discovering what is important to my wife and me in life, focusing on what career i want and becomeing a better person all around.
but in the light side of things, i been reading alot and discovering what is important to my wife and me in life, focusing on what career i want and becomeing a better person all around.
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Originally Posted by jake00
What war was this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_...281991-1995.29
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From: in the adirondack mts
i did't mean to make this a downer thread. i just wondered if you all had a crap day like i just had. i see a bunch of you did, & i'm sorry for bringing back the bad thoughts. to you all with bad stuff, i pray for you alot, for those of you that haven't had a loss, i beg you never do. you will never know what a loss is.
God bless the dudes w/a loss. our praryes are w/you.
carl
God bless the dudes w/a loss. our praryes are w/you.
carl
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Reading all these makes me thankful for what I have. My worst day was a week long. On Christmas week of 2005 (my 1-year anniversary for being with my girlfriend), I found out I was getting laid off (from a job I absolutely loved-I couldn't wait to go to work some days!), my Toyota had an electrical issue and I was without a vehicle for a couple a weeks, and on top of that, my girlfriend gave me the news that she was moving...far away. Her father, in all his good heart, was chasing an even bigger salary than the one he had. Oddly though, the ever closer day of her move has brought me closer to her than I could ever imagine. I feel for you people on the loss of grandparents. Sucks. Whenever I have a bad day, I go in my room, close the door, and pull out my Jay Turser electric guitar. I will play as long and as much rock 'n' roll as needed to remove my mind from the day's hardships. Everyone has their escape from reality, mine is music.