What Was Your Hardest Choice in Life?

[Sincerity]

What was the most difficult decision that you had to make in life? How do you feel about it now?

Let's bring some more genuineness to the forum with this thread. I'd love to hear your serious answers.

For me, it's breaking up with my first girlfriend after 2 years. We've lived together for 1,5 years and both grew a ton through the relationship. We love each other and had a good time together, but there have also been frustrations and arguments, often about the same things. I realized we're fundamentally unaligned in some important ways and it's time to let go and try something different. It's been very emotionally difficult, but I have faith in the decision.

What about you?

[XXXXXX]

1. Leaving 3 girlfriends (I lived with 2 of them, and with one of them we were planning to have kids within the next 2 years)

     --> Hurt so much but I have zero regrets about the breakups. Countless things I could have done better, relationships teaches you so much.

 

2. Quitting alcohol and junk food completely. (I also quit nicotine, caffeine, drugs, video games, porn and gambling, but alcohol and junk food was a harder choice because there is a social pressure to do those things, and quitting alcohol meant that my relationships with my friends and social life change.)

    --> I feel good about it, best decision in my life.

 

3. 5 years ago leaving the company I founded with a co-founder.

    --> Sometimes I think that it would be interesting to see what would have happened if I stayed, but I have never regretted it.

 

 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

Deciding to sit by my Grandfathers side in hospice, until he passed on.

I was a moment away from leaving. I thought I couldn't face seeing that.

I leant over him, and whispered 'Bye, Papa' and he semi-rose up and said 'NO'.

So, I stayed and watched him pass. It took 3 hours.

I saw him come into a complete state of being as his brain shut down, his self left. I feel I witnessed a form of no-self at the moment of death; as the overlay of all his conditioning melted away as the brain switched off. His body was putting off so much energy. His last words were 'Beautiful girls' and he looked around like it was the first time he saw anything in his life. He repeated 'The light, the light' many times.

Pure being, everything else erased.

Horror & beauty all at once.

[Sincerity]

@XXXXXX @Natasha Tori Maru That’s powerful. Thanks for sharing guys.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

11 minutes ago, Sincerity said:

@XXXXXX @Natasha Tori Maru That’s powerful. Thanks for sharing guys.

Thank you for your topic - and expressing your choice. Those sorts of breakups are up there for me. The emotional turmoil is gut wrenching. Respect.

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