What is the largest adversity you have faced?
 

Had a big life challenge you had to go up against?

Probably being born.

i died once ...

Being made a widow at 27.

im back though ...

Ya that is a doozy there. Sorry to hear that Sarah. Going to bed. Night.

wow, you really care huh ... :1orglaugh

isn't that good news in a way? You aren't widowed at 57 ?horrible but you're still young and start things again ? ...

Wouldnt even know where to start and paralyzed before 13 would not even be my biggest.

sure didn't feel like good news in any possible way...anyway, sorry for a real answer

i know it didn't. I don't know what else to tell you other then something positive. You have to find that so you can keep going

I have or I wouldn't still be here at 31.

wow your old:)

George Bush + the falling US $ really hurts my biz

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

What an asshole... jesus.

Tell me about it. I have started doing that 'getting up really early' thing I always saw my grandmothers do. Don't get me started on my joints..lol

lol, thats when you know your getting old I guess. I think you might be getting old when it takes you as long as them to get up( as in standing up ) they just woke up early from wisdom:1orglaugh its good to get up early

Well I could tell you one adversity that I never faced.....Making money for my affiliates:winkwink:

As an adult, it would be the deaths of my ex's sister, step-father, father, brother-in-law and my grandfather in a 3 month period while we were on the road touring with Marilyn Manson. We didn't have time to deal with any of it properly because of the pace of the tour. That wouldn't be the worse in my life but just adulthood.

surviving childhood was a bitch.
being disabled at 45, losing everything was a bitch too :)

Having my father die under my hands while doing CPR was a tough one. But I have had worse. Survived them all, and the story goes on.

Jesus Christ. That's a rough one man.

OK .. hmm .. 22 years ago i hit a telephone pole at 90 mph on a motocycle at the top of my bicycle racing career .. 3 years later .. I have ahead on collision instantly killing my best friend.. leaving me in a coma for 2 months and prety much crushing every bone in my body .. .. moving along .. couple years in jail for the "dangerous driving" charge .. marry a totaly fuck up and have to have her taken away by the police and doctors because she is a nut job .. lose a business over her .. moving along ..stabbed by gang fuckers .. couple days hosptialization .. couple months recovery .. then the final straw here to ..my son is diagnosed with a terminal brain disease .. and has been on chemo and other retarded medications for the last 2 years .. but he is still here .. so I am good ... and if anything i have more to work for that I ever have in my whole life ..
nice mess huh ..but it certainly gives me something to get up in the morning for .. so smile . take every day as the beginning of the rest of your life..

Mine as always been facing my fears, and living my dreams.

The biggest adversity last year for me was fighting MMA. My first fight, I had the living shit beat out of me. My second, I beat the shit out my opponent.

This year I got to confront my fear of heights, while having some semblance of enjoyment.

I don't worry about money, because I always do well in that regards.

i was homeless when i was 21 or so.

One time I was on the subway and I really had to take a shit. As luck would have it they stopped the train between stations because of another train being broken down in the station. I thought I was going to die holding it in.

It was a photo finish, but thankfully I made it to the bathroom just in time.

Mine was around 26, heavy partying, we've talked about it some. Parties started on wednesday, ended tueaday, just to start all over again.

What doesn't kill you...

been in an "indefinite relationship", I actually don't know if "relationship" is the right term to used. worst thing i fell in love to that guy who had a gf (serious :() well, i know that from the start that he'll never feel the same way as i do. that's why im taking all the consequences right now. i always saw them together, waiting for each other and they look so happy. I really feel broken but i need to accept that these things will happen. im still in the process of "moving on". :( :( :(

hope i can get through....

You will..and I think a lot of us have an idea how that sort of thing feels.

However, one thing to take from this thread is how even though people have been through some really crappy things they may not forget them but they do make it through.

One thing that I have learned from my situation is that when it really comes down to it the only person you can't live without is yourself.

Now THAT gives us something new to discuss next time I am down. Mine was during 91 recession but not related. I'll be down soon I am sure. ;-)

Man, that just happened to me too. No subway but two problems. Had to go and almost out of gas. I had less than an eighth of a tank of gas and my GPS was giving me over 26 miles to the nearest gas station going forward. I could turn around and there was one only 5 miles back. I decided to go forward and survived. Thanks to Wendy's. Gas station second.

I figured I better get as far from the crime scene Anthony and I commited in Miami as fast as possible.

How am I an asshole for saying Sorry to hear that? That in no way makes sense. So then I saw I am heading to bed. Ya know some peoples kids. Stop drinking all that coffee, using macs, and sniffing your own farts and get over your own pretentiousness. God.. :uhoh

You did a lot better than Dana did on the zips Anthony. ;)

Marines!

Wow Aria that is a rough stretch there :( Sorry you didnt make it to Costa this year wanted to introduce you to Dana.

Damn man very rough.



The tough get touger man!

Wow just wow man. Im getting close to you on some of that, but never on the hospital type stuff. So far so healthy no big hospital stays or illness knock on wood.

Hooking up with a Southern Belle.

Reading some of the responses here make my own trials seem so trivial. They aren't even worth mentioning. The strength of the human spirit is incredible.

Hmmm well when I was 11 yrs old, my biological mom died of cancer, then 3 months later my biological dad died of a heart attack. My bro who was 19 at the time took care of me from that point on and I became a ward of the state.

Ya, that was the worst chapter in my life thus far.

I remember your posts a few years ago ... they were very ... in french we say " boulversant " , meaning that they were ... no english word for it ....

I felt for you, and am happy to see that you have not forgotten but overcomed this tragic event ....

My adversities in life have always paled in comparison to my wife's ongoing battle against rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.

Despite a degenerative and crippling disease that would bring most people to their knees, she somehow manages to deal with it and carries on each day in constant pain I can only imagine.

no kidding, men walking on the moon, the bottom of the ocean etc... it's very amazing the range of human experience, from rock star to bum, from saints to whores, all people.

Reminds me of a lyric...

And the same sun is shining
On the old and the young
On the saints and the sinners
On the weak and the strong
And there's a burning and freezing
And a cross for a kiss
So she learns to stop dreaming
And you know how it is
With these fragments of love
And this splintering heart

Marillion's Splintering Heart. Great song.

wow im sorry to hear that

Thanks. It is still something I think about everyday but it used to be every minute. I am getting married again in July which feels very strange but right at the same time. I am finally feeling like I am ready for the rest of my life to happen.

i was shot in a car jacking
i was stabbed in a bar fight
i was hit with a bat/blunt object walking down the street
and this was the good stuff