Have you ever had an epiphany about your life that was like a slap in the face?
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yeah i did today too! (honestly and coincidentally!) i was dating this guy for a year and the only thing that made me stick with him is the fact that i believe that he is a trustworthy, honest and sincere person. Just today, after all the many i love yous and sweet nothings, i asked him, when's my bday? and he does not know! he knows how this thing is important to me as i've reminded him a lot of times but still he did not even have the effort to remember! most of my friends and family think i deserve someone better but i refused to listen...until now that i am fully appraised of my significane in his life. Then i realized...i shouldnt allow myself to be treated so low! So i'm just gonna give up on that guy...and i believe that there is a guy who would value and appreciate me more and treat me as i should be treated - as a person with value and worth! If he doesn't he's just not the guy for me. Good riddance. It's not my loss.
390912
yes a very long time ago and i have regretted it / it was not worth the guilt i felt or the hurt i brought to my wife
797549
Oh YAAAAAA, I had a friend for a long time and I dumped her yesterday. It was decision that took a lot of thought, but she finally pushed the envelope and I did it. \nWOW..... does it ever feel good! A big weight off my shoulders.\nGet rid of the negative people in your life, even if it means having a lot less so called "Friends"
912057
yes i have that happen to me so many times and become shocked when I get quoted as the selfish one after the things I have done for someone that never seemed good enough.
1039447
I woke my wife up one morning with a shrug on her shoulder as we both lay  in bed.  She asked me if I was going to speak to her that morning.  She was referring to my ability to shut down from angst and misery, both what I consider a byproduct of poor choices, and my inability to admit It wasn't for me.  She was right.  Snide, but right.  It was a long time since we spoke.  You'd think we had been asleep for years.\nBut I did answer her.  \nI said, yes I am, I'm leaving. \nI said, I'm miserable can't you tell.  Do I even remotely resemble the man you first met?  You deserve to be wanted, not just a compromise.  \nThat was Eight years ago and we are very close friends.  Oh, she is still a bitch, just somebody elses.  I am happy.  She is too.\n\nI hope this answer just changed a life.  Peace.
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Yes, many.  Just recently I realized that I need to start living my own life and stop worry about (and for) everyone else, meaning my mom, boyfriend, etc.  I know that doesn't sound like a huge epiphany but it is for me.  I have a new outlook on life now and I am much happier.
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Thankfully no.\n\nI HAVE been berated by a family "friend" for being a godless heathen... but that was years ago.  He has since abandoned his vituperation for civility and I've not faced any serious problems since.\n\nI'm one of the LUCKY ones, though.
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Yes, I have read it, in fact if you look at my bio you'll see it listed.  Reading "don't take things personally" made me cry.  To think I had lived so long and set myself up for so much pain, when I read these words, it had a PROFOUND change on my thinking.  \n\nGreat read, and I work hard to make the agreements a way of life.  \n\nPeace.
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I never lost the "former" me. \n\nI have one big regret in my life but it's a constant regret about myself as a person. When i am in the heat of the moment, i forget about everything else except how i feel. I don't think. I don't question. I just take the leap.\n\nI did it then, i do it now.\n\nI've just learned not to put myself in situations where i'll have to take the leap.\n\nI've accepted that this is my greatest weakness. I'm trying to reform it into becoming my greatest strength.
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I was in an auto accident once where the car went off the road and flipped in the air.  Once I was airborn I thought that 'This is IT'.  I didn't feel my life go before my eyes or anything like that.  I felt cool and calm.  When I did clime back up to the road a passerby had stopped and was shocked to find out I was not hurt.\nI've allso tried suicide, and when I woke up the next day, I was really mad at not being successful, but life goes on.
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When i accidentally hit my bf while flicking my hair.  Yes i was really sorry.\nWhen i spilled coffee on the counter.  Yes i was really sorry.\nWhen i have a car accident and it's my fault..yes i am really sorry.\nWhen i flipped through slides too fast for other people to follow.  I said i was sorry as i went back to let them catch up (i am a teacher and use power points)\nWhen i had to cancel a date with a friend because my bf's car was in the shop.  Not really sorry then, i really don't like that friend that much and was just as happy to skip the activity.  More of a social nicety to say it.\n\nAlso in my emotional life i do not conduct myself in a way that i have to apologise for.  I don't yell or belittle people or get drunk and throw up on people's carpet.  Most of the things i apologise for are somewhat inadvertent.
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i was really overwight a few years back. i wasn't ashamed, but some people, espeacially guys, kept on giving me craps.(i kicked their asses when i lost all those fat btw) i was more uncomfortable than ashamed...\nno, i wasn't any nicer than i am now... i think i just looked jolly like santa clause, that doesn't mean i wouldn't snap back when annoyed. i share the same philosophy with garfield the fat kitty...
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Last year, during thanksgiving, my brother and I were sitting in our parents living room.  His 3 year old son was hitting a wiffle ball with a bat across the room, and it was hit directly at me, where I caught it.  At that moment my brother declared, "That's my retirement".\nNot 2 seconds passed, my 2 year old son came out of the next room, and tackled my nephew - full force - to the ground like a defensive lineman.  My son then pointed to my nephew and said, "ahaa" and then ran back to the other room.\n\nI looked at my older brother and smiled and said, "that's my retirement."\n\nIt was a moment of pride...and I soaked up every minute.
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Yes we all do i think. mine feels so huge right now. What is your burden? Maybe you should talk about it so you can overcome it.
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I've stubbed my toes on a lot of things, but the worst was when I stubbed my PINKY TOE (the weakest of them all) on our foot-stool leg. I went to say god-dam*ed mother f-er, but my mom was in the room and i ended up saying something more along the lines of "god-dan mmmmmmmmfffffer" She just stared at me.\n\nThe best was when in a really random moment I cried out "flibber-me-jibblets". It was so funny I kept it with me and I still use it every now and then. Although around the time it first happened I would say it without thinking about it.
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I was in a restaurant having dinner with my family, when a Lady that I know came to great me, I looked at her and said in a very loud voice “congratulations, you are pregnant” and touched her tummy (as we usually do with pregnant ladies). To what she answer (after looking around realizing everybody has heard what I said), after a minute or two (trying to recovered from the shock and the shame), “THANK you, but I’m not pregnant, I just added some extra kilos”.\nMy God, I will never forget that day, everybody was looking at me and her. \nFrom that day till today I never congratulate any pregnant woman unless she is telling me first that she is.
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Oh My God! \n\nWhen I was young I ALWAYS swore I would never say or do the same things that my mum done and said to me. This morning I heard myself shouting the same words to my kids that I heard my mother shout to me 20 years ago and I got really scared. LoL