What Is The Bravest Thing You've Ever Done?

Canada
January 4, 2007 2:51pm CST
You know, it's no damn wonder I'm afraid of very little, and don't have much tolerence for people who aren't willing to stand up for what they believe in. Here are a list of the few things I've done in the past year. -Prevented my neighbour's murder (ran over to his apt. pounded on the door, and when he opened it I pulled him into my apt. and locked us in, cops caught the guy with the knife) -Calmly and rationally acted to stop my grandfather, when we were out driving, and he lost control of his mind, turning u-turns on the 401 highway, and doing all kinds of other erratic things. I opened the door and threatened to release my seatbelt and JUMP if he didn't stop. HE STOPPED!! I was on the phone with Mom who was on with a 911 dispatcher, and they sent someone out to bring us back in. -Countless trips to Toronto on my own (Mom thinks I'm nuts, but what the hey!! I'm not scared!)
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@selina0625 (1379)
• Philippines
5 Jan 07
For I think the bravest thing I've ever done in my life is giving birth to my child. I have risked my own life for my son.
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• Canada
5 Jan 07
What a wonderful response!!
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@Ravenladyj (22904)
• United States
4 Jan 07
Well I've survived life. LOL..but I've also - gotten into fight to protect someone - I used to thumb to Toronto - lived on the streets down in Niagara and Toronto thats really all I can think of that would remote resemble brave...I dont think they are mind you but thats all I got LOL
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• Canada
4 Jan 07
Good for you!! Bravery is bravery. I've always had a roof over my head, so I admire someone who has learned how to live without one. Good for you!!!
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@Shaun72 (15959)
• Palatka, Florida
5 Jan 07
I drove all the way home one day with a burnt arm scared to go to the hospitail. Them my roomates told me that I better go to the hospital to get it looked at. I ended up having to have burnt skin taken off of my arm
• Canada
5 Jan 07
Ouch!!! That must have hurt like hell!!! You obviously have a high tolerence for pain. That may come in handy one day, but don't let it prevent you from getting help when you need it.
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@rash219 (808)
• United States
5 Jan 07
eeeOUCH....the thought of how it would have looked itself make s me sick...but why were u scared from goin to the hospital.....
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@nuffsed (1271)
5 Jan 07
I don't do brave, it's more like spontaneous combustion!! lol
@nuffsed (1271)
5 Jan 07
And I don't do boasts!
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@coldmoon (1088)
• France
4 Jan 07
Here is the list of the bravest thing I've done : When I was ten, I admmitted in front of a farmer that I've stolen her apples.
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• Canada
5 Jan 07
For a 10 year oldm that is truly a brave act. Good for you!!!!
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@rash219 (808)
• United States
5 Jan 07
hehehe tat reminds me i still havent told my dads frnd tat i plucked around 10 apples from his tree....i wonder wat he would do whn i tell him......well beter not take the risk....what he doesnt know wont hurt him....
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• Hong Kong
5 Jan 07
So far, i think i caught the hand of a girl to show my love is the most bravest thing i have done
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• Canada
6 Jan 07
Very nice!
@missyann73 (1454)
• United States
5 Jan 07
The bravest and hardest thing I have done, and doing it right now, is to take care of my terminally ill mother who is dying of lung cancer. To watch someone you love with all your heart, wilther away to nothing is very hard.
@medooley (1873)
• United States
5 Jan 07
The only thing that I have done, and it was not really that brave. But when I was in high school I was on vacation with my family, and we were swimming at a pool. We were around the pool and someone yelled, "He's not coming up!" I looked into the pool and there was a boy at the bottom of the pool. I looked over to the lifeguard (a high school girl) and she slowly got out of the chair. Well I didn't wait anymore and I jumped into the pool and pulled the kid out of the water. Nothing brave about it.
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• Canada
5 Jan 07
Don't be so modest. The fact that you acted at all.... believe it or not, there are people in this world who would have left him there.
@sahergul (774)
• Pakistan
5 Jan 07
ahan thats great buddy... :) what i did mmmmm lemme think... lol... lemme recall those ... aaaa....
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@Bee1955 (3882)
• United States
5 Jan 07
Gave CPR to a non-breathing woman in a grocery store until the paramedics arrived. (She lived). Kept an epileptic lady from hurting herself during a violent seizure in the middle of a Mall. Saved a kitty from a burning garden shed. Drove by myself straight thru in a blizzard from Philadelphia to North Carolina on my way back to college in Alabama after Christmas break without windshield wipers (they broke apart in Virginia).
• Canada
5 Jan 07
WOW!!!!!! Good for you for saving a few lives, and doing what you had to do.
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@aelyus (634)
• Romania
5 Jan 07
All the things that I do are made in order to make me and the others happy.I can say that I consider that the bravest thing that I do every single day is to help the others,to make them happy,even that means a sacriffice.
• Canada
5 Jan 07
Wonderful!
• United States
5 Jan 07
Learning to wipe my butt is probably the bravest thing I've done. Seriously, considering what comes out of there sometimes. Man!
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• Canada
5 Jan 07
lol
• United States
5 Jan 07
Thanks for sharing! ewwww
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• Philippines
4 Jan 07
the bravest thing i've ever done is to be with somebody whom my parents doesn't wanted me to be with..it's just that i really do love him and no one can ever stop me from seeing him..i love him and and i definitely want to be with him for the rest of my life..
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• Canada
5 Jan 07
Good for you!!! As long as he doesn't hurt you, and you don't hurt him, and you love eachother, the rest shoudln't matter. It's going to be one brave act on my part when I finally introduce my Sweetheart to my parents!! YIKES!!!
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@lelabrown (217)
• United States
5 Jan 07
Awsome! I'm proud of you man! The bravest thing I ever did,was stand up to my ex husband 11 years ago. He decided to go after my 6 month old child after getting tired of abusing me for the evening. It took alot to stop him,but somehow I did it and I'm grateful to the lord that I did. I'm positive that i saved our lives that night. Lela
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5 Jan 07
Its amazing what we can put up with sometimes, but when it involves our kids a real inner strength comes out. I admire your bravery.
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• Canada
5 Jan 07
I admire you too. BRAVO!!!!!
@areeb124 (243)
• Pakistan
5 Jan 07
Bravest thing I've ever done? That's a tough one, because whatever's felt brave or not so brave at the time often feels different, later. But if i had to choose: (Aside from falling in love) Selling all our things on a whim and hopping a one-way bus from Rhode Island to California one day, with a 3 year old son and 7 months pregnant with another. About $1000 to our name. And no idea where we would get off the bus, where we'd live, how we'd make a living.
• Canada
5 Jan 07
WOW, that's awsome!!! Good for you for being so spontanious.
• India
5 Jan 07
The bravest thing i have done in my life . I had an accident with a gangster in my city, i was at fault, and i didnt get any beating..
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• Canada
5 Jan 07
WOW!!!!!! Good for you!!!
@suny1946 (275)
• China
5 Jan 07
I don't remember.
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• Canada
5 Jan 07
Perhaps you'll do something brave tomorrow.
@Reviver (339)
• Romania
5 Jan 07
lol :)
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@Wanderlaugh (1622)
• Australia
5 Jan 07
Dunno if this is brave, but it's one of the weirdest things I've ever done: In a shopping mall, literally in the middle of Sydney, trying to fill out my Lotto form. Some guy, built like about three fridges, has a headlock on an old lady. She's asking "What are you doing?", which seemed like a pretty reasonable question to me. Granny would be about 4 foot 11 tall, and the guy's about 6 foot eight. She'd weigh about 3 pounds dripping wet, he'd weigh well over 200. Granny would be well over 70, this guy's in his twenties. Talk about an odd couple. Now, the guy's big, but he doesn't look fast, and he's got one arm busy with Granny. So I go over and say, "OK mate, break it up." It turns out he's a bit brighter than he looks. He can't do anything about me with Granny on his arm, and if he drops her she gets away. So he lets her go and backs off. Just as well, because I'd have had to do him some real damage to stop him, break a knee at least. Granny asks me what all that was about, which I didn't know. I just told her he was a cretin. Then from somewhere, appears Granny's friend, who's even smaller than Granny. It was like an ancient garden gnome reunion. The payoff was on TV a bit later. An identikit picture of someone who looked very like the guy, known as the Granny Rapist. So maybe I did some good after all.
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• Canada
5 Jan 07
Very brave!!! You did a wonderful thing for that woman. The guy who attacked her was SICK!!! Thanks for sharing that experience.
• Malaysia
5 Jan 07
you're such a great man..mmmm i think i dont hv that bravest thing in my life. and even i dont have one. i just an ordinary person live in an ordinary way of life. but in certain part of it, i think im quite brave but time has not allow me to show it yet. may be nextime..
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• Canada
5 Jan 07
We're all ordinary people, and we all do brave things.
@Vladilyich1 (1454)
• Canada
16 Jul 08
This may not sound brave, but while in Vietnam, I made a conscious decision NOT to shoot a combatant I ran across in the jungle. No, not a Vietcong, but a Russian Advisor. We actually became friends and ended up sharing lunches together for almost a year. This was when I became intimately aware of the futility of this type of conflict. So did he.
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• Canada
16 Jul 08
That is the bravest thing I could eer imagine!! You didn't know who you were dealing wih and he didn't know who he was dealing with, yet in he end you two were of one mind. Good or you!!!