What is the most daring thing you've ever done?
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Most Courageous ? I'll let you guys decide if this was courageous.
Many years ago I was engaged to a wonderful woman . She developed cancer during our engagement. It was inoperable and incureable. Her and her Parents both said that if I needed to go that no one would find fault with me for doing it. I said there was no way in hell !!! Standing by someone in their time of need is what you do when you love someone. Many folks said later that it took great courage for me to stay. I said , no....thats what you do when you love someone...
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Yes, most courageous. In this day and time it is so easy to think only of ourselves but it takes special character to do what you did. Thanks for sharing.
Very courageous. THanks for sharing.
The post askes two different questions that will usually yield different answers. I'll keep my most daring thing I've done to myself.
The post askes two different questions that will usually yield different answers. I'll keep my most daring thing I've done to myself.
I've done extreme sports quite a bit. Rock climbing, caving (just last week), repelling, et. al.
I don't know if that's considered "daring" but I mentioned it since some of that stuff scares the heck out of alot of people.
I also played catcher in a little league game without a cup. Again, not sure you could consider that "daring" so much as it is extremely stupid. Just forgot...didn't realize it till about the 3rd. :eek2:
I don't know if that's considered "daring" but I mentioned it since some of that stuff scares the heck out of alot of people.
I also played catcher in a little league game without a cup. Again, not sure you could consider that "daring" so much as it is extremely stupid. Just forgot...didn't realize it till about the 3rd. :eek2:
I'm moving to Queenstown, New Zealand in June. I'm leaving my family, my dog, my friends, my precious college sports in HDTV... easily the most daring thing I've ever done in my 28 years on the planet.
Moving is one of the most stressful things that we do as human beings. We get comfortable and set in our routines so moving is indeed challenging. On the positive side...we grow and stretch ourselves when faced with change.
I think you're right. This has been a 3 month process so far and I'm barely 30% complete with the necessary arrangements. It's not like I haven't been doing anything, there is just so much involved!
I guess a career change 3 years ago could be daring.
So could jumping off the State dock at Ditto Landing, jumping off the cliffs at the Blue Hole near Brewer High School. Searching for an armed man on Grant Mountain with a group of armed buddies and co-workers. Those probably just qualify as "dumb".
So could jumping off the State dock at Ditto Landing, jumping off the cliffs at the Blue Hole near Brewer High School. Searching for an armed man on Grant Mountain with a group of armed buddies and co-workers. Those probably just qualify as "dumb".
Daring and courageous are two very different things. "Courageous" usually implies bravery of some sort, while "daring" can often involve stupidity.
I've done quite a few daring things, many of which were beyond stupid and won't be shared here.
As for courageous things, I guess leaving home at 17 with no financial support from family. Getting myself through college and medical school. Joining the military in order to get that medical degree. Then making that incredibly difficult choice to leave the service in order to relocate, to a town where we knew no one, and start my own private practice (with no previous experience in civilian medicine and all the business wierdness that goes with that).
Another courageous thing was the first time I stood up to my abusive mother who was armed with a loaded weapon at the time. I figured one of us was going to end up dead or injured anyway so I might as well make my stand and never be bullied again (hey, by hook or by crook, right?).
I won.
I've done quite a few daring things, many of which were beyond stupid and won't be shared here.
As for courageous things, I guess leaving home at 17 with no financial support from family. Getting myself through college and medical school. Joining the military in order to get that medical degree. Then making that incredibly difficult choice to leave the service in order to relocate, to a town where we knew no one, and start my own private practice (with no previous experience in civilian medicine and all the business wierdness that goes with that).
Another courageous thing was the first time I stood up to my abusive mother who was armed with a loaded weapon at the time. I figured one of us was going to end up dead or injured anyway so I might as well make my stand and never be bullied again (hey, by hook or by crook, right?).
I won.
Yes. Dec 3 will be 8 years this year. I was at her bedside holding her hand when she crossed over.
I guess moving here would be the most daring thing I have ever done. I didn't know anyone here, I knew nothing about Southern Poly in Marietta. I wasn't even sure I wanted to do architecture, but it all worked out so far.
Eh...adrenaline and fear go a long way in the bravery department.
still, that took some stones. The feminine kind, of course.
I agreed to perform in an Irish caeli dance in front of an audience at the Workplay.
In high school, I was as geeky I am now, spending a lot of time in the computer lab playing games. One day, one of the football players was hectoring me for no reason, making fun of my name, my mother, my friends, my computer game playing, saying all sorts of the degrading, insulting things that adolescent boys do. He would probably not have done this one on one, but since there were others in the computer lab, it was an environment ripe for bullying. I ignored it for a long time, but when he didn't stop, I told him to knock it off and/or to shut up, but he didn't. When he told me to make him stop, that's when the light came on. I walked over to him, and smashed his face into his monitor, knocking it onto the floor. The monitor was undamaged, but his nose and lip were bleeding all over the place. He grabbed me and got me in a headlock and reasserted his dominance, but he never bothered me again after that day.
In high school, I was as geeky I am now, spending a lot of time in the computer lab playing games. One day, one of the football players was hectoring me for no reason, making fun of my name, my mother, my friends, my computer game playing, saying all sorts of the degrading, insulting things that adolescent boys do. He would probably not have done this one on one, but since there were others in the computer lab, it was an environment ripe for bullying. I ignored it for a long time, but when he didn't stop, I told him to knock it off and/or to shut up, but he didn't. When he told me to make him stop, that's when the light came on. I walked over to him, and smashed his face into his monitor, knocking it onto the floor. The monitor was undamaged, but his nose and lip were bleeding all over the place. He grabbed me and got me in a headlock and reasserted his dominance, but he never bothered me again after that day.
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