the toughest time of my life

@ddm610 (117)
Philippines
December 24, 2006 1:11am CST
i think everybody has gone through dark and difficult periods of his/her life. my toughest time was when we(my family) almost lost everything -- money, car, appliances because my mom got hooked up with gambling. i went to school with money only enough for my transportation expense. during those times i could not eat lunch in school even if i was very hungry because i did not have enough money (or if i did, i would think of the next day and decide to save the money instead for the expenses the next day). I hated my mom and blamed her for what happened to us. Fortunately with the help of relatives and friends, we were able to rise again and to make a living from a start-up business. Does anybody want to share his/her experience/success story as well? i love to hear those kinds of stories...very inspiring...
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44 responses
@varun23 (902)
• India
24 Dec 06
All the best ! Hope u prosper in ur business !
@ddm610 (117)
• Philippines
26 Dec 06
thanks! :)
• Philippines
25 Dec 06
when i lost my first child, i got miscarriage.. after 19 yrs, i adopted a baby boy,now we are happy.
@Aali311 (6112)
• United States
25 Dec 06
I've had some tough times but not that bad, I'm glad to hear that you are bad on your feet.
• United States
25 Dec 06
I've been through rough emotional and financial times but the worst time for me was about a week after my daughter was born. I had congestive heart failure and the doctors told me I had less then two hours to live. I asked if I could see my daughter, but the doctors told me no. I was asked if I wanted my last rights ready to me. I refused and at that moment I decided that I was going to see my daughter again. Being told I would never see my daughter again was the toughest time in my life. Here I am eight years later and I've had a second child as well! You make think what you are going through the toughest time in your life, but remember that experience will make you stronger.
@hermanica (390)
• Philippines
25 Dec 06
the darkest time in my life is when my mother was confined in the hospital due to apendicitis..and we havent got any money to pay for the hospital bills...
@00fear (3216)
• United States
25 Dec 06
me, is like i always say. i have trouble making friends. i started to try and make new friends but no one accepted me for who i am. i was 4 at the time and now 15 years later, i still have trouble making friends. no one accpeted me for who i am because the disease i had at 9 month old. now i get to nervous around people and stay quiet when they are around, especially the girls.
@not4me (1711)
• United States
25 Dec 06
As I wrote in another one of my discussions, my mom abused me physically, emotionally for years and also sexually abused me a couple of times but to be honest, I would rather have to go through that all over again than have to be brought up with no money, as in no food, can't pay the bills, etc. I can sorta imagine what it would be like and how hungry, embarrassed and pi$$ed you must have been. I'm really sorry you had to go through that!
@ballerx (18)
• Canada
25 Dec 06
when i lost friends due 2 something stupid
@babykay (2131)
• Ireland
24 Dec 06
Well done to you all as a family for pulling together in this way. You must feel now like a very strong unit, able to deal with anything that life throws at you. Very much credit is due to your Mom for giving up this habit, its supposed to be so hard to break. Wish you luck for the future also! I don[t have such an inspirational story I'm afraid, but I will say that at the moment I am hoping to turn my life around through big changes. I am so bored with it. Good luck to you for the future!
@missjackie (1358)
• Ypsilanti, Michigan
24 Dec 06
Thankfully your family was able to rebuild. My family is always having problems paying for bills, and yet my father keeps wanting to buy more and more stuff. It's starting to get ridiculous. My mom yells at him about it, but he does what he wants.
@tanaclark (570)
• United States
25 Dec 06
Ok I dont tell very many people this but I'll tell you cause you know how it feels. I grew up very poor. We lived in our car for periodsof time sometimes months. We lived in run down motels and there were times when we didnt know when the next time was that we would get to eat. My dad worked always sometimes 2 jobs. It was barely enough to keep the roof over our heads. It was very hard sometimes. But it wasnt always like that. We were doing good when I was younger my father worked for a great company for 16 years. Then one day with no notice they fired everyone and closed down. This devastated my family. We were forced to move from our home and leave the life my parents had worked so hard to give us. Then it was down hill from there. My parents are older now and things are better. But all the stress has caused my mom to have high blood pressure which led to congestive heart failure in march of 2006. But now things are better and we are all doing pretty good with the exception of my brother. So even though our life was rough for many years it is by far a lot better now.
• Pakistan
24 Dec 06
hmm well i have alot of bad experiec's and it will take so much time to explain here so its not possilble to write here all those things
• Malaysia
24 Dec 06
Myself being tough before i am going to get married. Sure there is a lot things i have to confront before the wed. But today, I have married with the girl I love and I have two lovely kids.
• Pakistan
24 Dec 06
the toughest time i had was a 5 years back when i was in 12th standard and father had 2nd heart attack and my elder brothers were out of country for job and studies purpose and i had to face all the rough and tough times my father was admitted in a hospital and the most tpugh time in those days was one day when i enterd the cardiologist room aand i asked him "sir my father is having shortness of breath" is there any permanent solution /treatment" he replied "son i have already told your father that your is not curable you can die in the next 2 sec or 2 min or 2months or 2 years or 20 years so pray to GOD" and when i came back from dr's room i fell down on my knees in the cardiology ward coridor and i screamed and shouted that is there any GOD and yes God heard my prayers he gave cure to my father my father has survived upto now and inshAllah he willl survive many years now i am a 4th year student MBBS and InahAllah one day i will be cardiologist pray 4 me -DRTF
@tammytwo (4298)
• United States
24 Dec 06
I would have to say the thoughest times in my life was being a teenage mother. Although I am still with the father of my children, we have gone through some tough times. We had to donate plasma every other day just to get by until the next pay day. I am so thankful that I made it through those times. I am doing much better now. I know God won't give us anything that we cannot handle and I am glad that I went through those times because it has made me a better person.
@lulylove (1560)
• Brazil
24 Dec 06
think that exactly that the problems are great, it never they seram bigger of the one than its force you always will be able to support its problems. And when a problem to arrive ahead of you faces it. It does not say for its God who you have a great problem, but says for the problem that you have a great GOD!
• India
24 Dec 06
I lost many Lacs 7 months ago. I was not d person responsible for d loss, but I was blamed and I have to pay d same. My Family gave everything, even a little penny to pay that loss. But thanx to my In-Laws who helped me at that time. Today I have lack of expenses but I dont have to beg before any1. Oh GOD! Dont show me those dayz again!
@moto47 (555)
• Indonesia
24 Dec 06
since I'm still a teenage, I guess the toughest one is when I've got a lot of assignment to do from my lecturer or teacher
@tutul0045 (2630)
• India
24 Dec 06
Well life is a challenge one has to accept it! There r going to be ups and downs in life and thats the time where true character comes into play! so dont give up easily and fight all the challenges with a smile on the face. Cheers, Tutul
@gkiran09 (29)
• India
24 Dec 06
it was when i was doin my junior college when i had to struggle to clear my papers even though i was a gud student..very bad tmi