Proudest and Worst Moment? Moments? in Your Life

Proudest moments in my life were getting married and having my three munchkins.  

Depression and addiction have been the worst things I have had to endure, but I am taking it in stride and turned them into a wonderful character trait: adversity.  

That adversity showed itself when I ran a half marathon for the first time a year ago after setting that goal, and I haven't looked back since!  

My proudest moment was when my kids were born.

My worst moment was dealing with the a separation from my ex  (lowest part of my life) but by the time the divorce came around I was proud with how I dealt with the whole divorce experience.

Best - wife and kids

Worst - eating leftovers....everything else pales in comparison...I HATE leftovers.

Proudest - Marrying the love of my life almost 20 years ago (finishing IMTX last year is second)

Worst - Losing MIL (cancer) and my Dad (car accident) within 3 weeks of each other in June 2005

proudest: I can't really rate one proud moment over another because I feel just as elated each time, but it's when my family accomplishes something that THEY are truly proud of.  When my daughter scored her first goal in soccer I was all over the place and almost ran on to the field to celebrate with her.  When my middle son finished his first lego set ALL BY HIMSELF.  He was 4 and it was for an 8 yr old and no one helped him and he did it perfect.  I thought he was going to explode he was so excited, I almost cried.  Each time my wife finishes a mural she is beside herself and I am too.  My youngest is about to start sports so I'm sure he'll be blowing me away soon.  These are the ones who give me my sense of meaning and identity of the person I am called to be.

Worst:  those moments just taught me what not to do.

Proudest:  Getting married and the birth of my two daughters.

Worst: Losing my father to a massive sudden heart attack.

Reading the words of Buddha. It made such plain, simple sense to me. We are everything we need to be; we just need to stop trying to construct/destruct ourselves.

In the past, I found myself using positive self-talk quite a bit. I needed to counter-balance all the negative self-talk that I wasn't even aware I had running in the background. I have learned to 1) be aware of the negative talk and 2) let it go. I no longer need positive self-talk because I'm no longer out of balance with myself.

My worst moments were when I lashed out at my former husband. Those were the days I was swallowing all kinds of emotional pain, trying to suppress the pain and rage I was experiencing during those years, and being very, very critical of myself.  Now that I no longer suppress, my default position is (usually) equanimity.

I don't look for meaning or identity. I just am. Someday I will no longer be. In the meantime, I work, enjoy my friends and family, and enjoy simple pleasures.

Worst moment in my life was when I decided it was time to pull the trigger.

The best moment of my life was when I discoved I couldn't do it and it was time for a different course of action.

I can't say it is something I'm "proud" of, but it is what got me to where I am today and I'm good with that. If it wasn't for the bad, I would never know how good I have it.

Nice! That is kind of where I was going with my worst moment.

Good thoughts to you and your boy.

Proudest: I can't pinpoint it to a moment ... but every moment that I live genuinely and generously. That it seems to be more often than not makes me all warm and fuzzy inside and it sure makes other people feel better, too.

Worst: (not as in what I went through, but worst as in when I was at my worst) I truly can't publish the very worst on an Internet forum. I think the worst I can write about was when I was a drunkard, I ran my car over a kid while under the influence, and the first thought in my head was not "OMG I RAN OVER A KID" but "WTF is gonna happen to ME?" At the time, I was a pretty sorry excuse for a human being.

Best - birth of my son and the day we finalized the adoption of my daughter. They are now 2 (daughter) and 4 (son), and it seems like every other day they do something that is a new "best" moment.

Worst - by a huge margin - The 48 hrs when my twin girls were born at 24 weeks and didn't survive. One made it 12 hrs and the other made almost 48. This was before the birth of my son.

My Pema Chodron quote of the week said it much better than I did:

Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That’s the ground, that’s what we study, that’s what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest.

Thanks for the sharing everybody... 

I am in awe of some of the things that have been posted from the depths of darkness to peaks of joy. It seems that the darkest has not swallowed us up and urged us to move toward the better. 

Thanks again!

As many have already said,  my marriage to my wife and the birth of my two kids are the proudest moments of my life. 

The worst moments are when I let life interrupt the precious time we spend together. 

Proudest moments- soonest to latest. Birth of my daughter (9 months now) getting married to my wife (2.5 years now) Getting out of the Army (3.5 years) Making it through an 18 month deployment (5 years).

Worst moments- Well the loss of every friend I served with in Iraq was about as bad as it could get. 4 extremely close friends and 9 other friends. The worst part was how I dealt with it when I came back. There was about 7 months that I could call the longest worst moment of my life. Oh yeah and the time my sister pushed me out of a two story window when I was five and I broke my leg.

Wow. I winced just from reading that. That must have been a brutal, emotional beating. Who wouldn't experience that as their worst time?

I'm so sorry for your pain and for the lost lives. Thank you for serving our country. I'm sorry it came at such a high and terrible cost.

Best - My wife. She has given me 3 wonderful children, one more on the way. she's an amazing, strong, supportive and dedicated individual/mom/wife. 

Proudest - the 3 kids every day, they make me proud with who they are and who they are becoming.

Worst moment - We had premature twins at 26 weeks, Elliot and Neave.  Neither survived past 48 hours, Neave past in our arms.