08-25-2016, 08:46 PM
(08-25-2016, 07:13 PM)Big Boss Wrote:(08-25-2016, 05:05 PM)Shannon Wrote:Appreciate the response(08-25-2016, 03:12 PM)Big Boss Wrote: Shannon I have a question for you. What is the last, toughest, thing that you've been through?
Last toughest? Having my trust and heart demolished repeatedly and pretty much completely by a particular woman I was so in love with that I could not bring myself to leave her until I was destroyed by not doing so, and forced to outgrow the beliefs that allowed that destruction to happen.
Overall toughest? Cancer. Hands down. I don't know how people do that more than once. Seriously.
If that was recent, sorry, but I could not tell at all through these forum discussions. I'm sorry to hear that happened. It gives some hope that even Shannons human heart can be broken and things still turn out ok
I was told by my advisor, concerning the experience with the woman, "It takes a diamond to polish a diamond. Nothing else will do. How else did you think you were going to be able to outgrow that, given how strong you are? Now you're that much closer to being what you have the potential to be. Something truly spectacular."
When I saw it from that point of view, I realized, he was right. It was a necessary experience. I could not have outgrown those things otherwise, and now I am much stronger as a result. And when I realized that also, I was able to forgive her, let go and move on with my life. Now I don't have to worry about being treated like that anymore as a result of that growth. So she may not have been a pleasant instructor, but she was definitely a valuable one.
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!