Hey Pandas, What Was The Bravest Thing You Ever Did In Your Life? (Closed)

Back in January I was on my way to get my 2nd shot.(I work in Healthcare) I saw this girl walking with a van right next to her. I was in the left turn lane waiting. By her body language I thought oh crap. I flipped a u-turn. Beeped my horn. Pulled off the road and yelled girl OMG how are you doing hows your mom etc. She came up to my car tears in her eyes and said thank you. She didn't know him. He had been following her for about a block and kept trying to get her to come closer. I helped an absolute stranger out of a bad situation. I was shaking for almost 30 minutes after I dropped her at her home. We reported the van info to the police.
I had a picture of the plate and the van was stolen.

not killing my self :/

Came out to my parents.

Raising 3 small kids by myself and all of us surviving. Working Law Enforcement. Running into a burning building to rescue someone (off duty.) Giving CPR to my best guy friend who died anyway in my arms. Choosing to go on even the days that I am crippled by my own anxiety / depression.... Life.

Not to let the depression conquer me. I am proud that on that one day on the way to work,I made a decision NOT to crash the car into these trees.

Pulling myself out of depression and awful self thought multiple times

Holding my father's hand and telling him I would be okay and that he could go right before he died. It was a lie... it's been almost 8 years and I am still not okay but I had to put on a brave act to let him end his pain.

I survived getting stabbed in my right lung by a stranger.

When I was younger my brother drifted into the deep end and he started to panic. I was dearly afraid of bugs at the time and you know how ants surround the pools sometimes. Even so, I ran through the ants on the floor and some squished on my feet. Since I was small I couldn’t really pull him up. So I tried to push him back to the steps. After that, I just cried and cried because of all the ants squished on my feet!

Stood up to my abusive mother.

Her discipline involved smacking us around whenever her mood turned sour.

My parent's divorced when I was 17. My mother moved out. Meantime, I got married, had a son and moved out. My mother, in the meantime, was unemployed, broke and had moved back in with my Dad because he didn't want her living on the street.

So one day I came over to ask my Dad's help in moving to a town and hour and a half away to go to college. Before my Dad could render his decision, she blurts out with a list of why I was a free-loader, when was I going to get my life together...etc. I said "Why do you think I want to go to college?"

Her response "I never went to college!"

I said "And look where it got you. You're unemployed, living with your ex and you've alienated your kids so much, none of us are willing to help you. What makes you think I'd want to be anything like you?"

She lost it! Started screaming and cussing. Was trying to get out of her chair to come after me. My Dad said "you go home now. I'll call you later."

Long and short...I went to college and my mother finally went on disability and moved out. Win Win!

When I mustered up the courage to see my mom in the hospital when I was 10 cause she was in a four wheeler accident and had to be administered to emergency care. It was hard to do that but I’m glad I did cause I didn’t know if she was gonna make it but she did thankfully. The hardest part about it was to see her in pain and having all the tubes hooked up to her, it’s something that would be hard for most people to see someone you love like that.

Getting on to the 2nd plane after the 1st caught on fire and had to make an emergency landing. Many years ago,but my legs still turn into jelly whenever I board a plane...

Staying strong while people were running for their lives and helping my friend through a panic attack while running out of a mall that was in the middle of emergency closing down because of a shooter

A friend of mine was about to get hit by her (now ex-) boyfriend. Threw myself in the fist as meatshield and nearly lost two teeths. Kept the jerk busy till she had time to get away, luckily without further physical violence.

Probably having spine surgery because of my scoliosis.

When I was in pre-school I had to wear braces on my legs because I walked on tip toes all the time and my muscles tensed. Believe it or not preschoolers can be rather cruel.

1. Got out of an abusive relationship while raising a special needs child. It was 6 weeks later that I found out I was pregnant with our second child. He has never met his daughter and in 8 years hasn't even sent a bloody birthday card to his children. 2. Starting taking full-time care of my father who was on hospice but living at home (my mother had passed away while I was at work and she was babysitting my children). He made it one month and passed the morning after my mother's 'celebration of life' event. I guess I should add the reason my father was at home: he was able to spend time with his grandchildren and my mother, after working years in a nursing home as a CNA, absolutely refused to put him in a home and steal what time he had left with his grandchildren away from him.

Be my true self instead of what everybody else wanted me to be

Got up the courage on Twitter one day to ask my video game hero John Carmack (One of the creators of Doom/Quake) if he wanted to play VR sometime. Was totally shocked and beyond excited that he said yes. We each grabbed a couple people and started a gaming group, We play every week it’s awesome.

Moved to another country where I didn't know anybody