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

Made the decision to be honest with my family about drug and alcohol addiction four years ago, been sober since then. It’s daily work but so worth it. Living the life I always wanted.

i came out to my highly homophobic and transphobic father in the car while arguing (read: screaming) about lgbtq+ rights. i said that i was bi, and it didn’t mean anything if he didn’t support me because at that point his opinion didn’t matter to me bc he was being an ásshōle.

he has slowly come around, and i’m waiting to come out as non-binary until i’m 100% sure he’s ok with it or i have a place to move. i don’t want to be in an unsafe situation, but i’m glad i wasn’t kicked out for coming out

I had brain surgery for an unruptured Aneurysm, it was truly terrifying. Woke up in ICU with a large stapled scar and black eyes. It was a horrible experience, but I didn't want to run the risk of it rupturing.

I came out genderwise to practically everyone I know, save some of of my family. My teacher know, my classmates know, my friends know. That's probably not as brave as the things other people on here have done, but standing up there in history class, calling myself 'non-cisgender', with my voice and entire body shaking and everyone staring at me, that was everything to me. And yeah, everyone still calls me a she except for my closest friends, but it's there. I had to stop my homie from beating up a sub when he called me a she today. ❤

I honestly am not a brave person. But in third grade, I felt like everyone was against me. My teacher was a bully. My class mostly bullied me. The bravest thin ive ever done was tell my parents what I was going through.

Came out bisexual to my parents even tho in our culture its not aloud so yes u am going to marry the opposite sex but they allow me to date both sexes

Going to a grad party decades ago. Elderly couple, wife in front of her husband were trying to get on the escalator going down and were having difficulty. I was going up but decided to watch them to see if they were okay. Next thing I knew the husband started to lose his balance and I realized he was going to fall forward on his wife and they would both fall. I wrapped one arm around his waist and pulled him back from falling while I grabbed his wife on the shoulder. They thanked me profusely and I made sure they got down to the floor below safely. Have never told this to anyone. So glad I was there and hope they had many more years together.

I once argued with a police officer....once.

Being awesome

Haveing my foot sewn up with seven stitches while I was awake. And it only took 5-10 minutes.

I made the decision to get a liver transplant at 22 years old after just surviving life due to multiple life threatening chronic illnesses. My health had deteriorated so much that I had spent the Christmas previous to that in the ICU with sepsis. It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do, my recovery was not easy. I’m now 26 and no longer on the edge of death but still deal with chronic illness in my day to day life. My life has always been one medical thing after another but after the transplant it became so much easier. I have the ability to go to work and not have to worry about dying lol. My scar is massive and it’s physical proof of the biggest decision I ever had to make in my life.

I left my abusive husband

Roller coaster, oooog... I was sick after it. :

surgery

Learning to drive. I was 38.

I was facetiming a friend from a different state when a very drunk man crashed a stolen car into his yard, came into the house, and attacked his mother while he and his twin sister watched. His dad was on a walk and he wasn't supposed to be back for another thirty minutes. I got my mom and we called him so he could go beat up the guy and if we hadn't things would have been a lot worse(we were in a different state so we couldn't call emergency services). I don't feel like I did much that would be considered brave but it was really scary. I guess the crazy thing is that he and I would facetime to play Minecraft together and the last three times I had said I was busy because I didn't want to, but this time I just randomly decided to. Everybody involved believes it was some sort of universal intervention or something.

Pushing the peddle to the metal to avoid a head on collision with a fool who decided to overtake some trucks on a narrow road with century old oak trees on both sides.
I knew I could swerve into a driveway because I drove that road on a daily basis.
If I wouldn't have made it, I would have left this world in a blaze of fire and car parts scattered all around.
I guess the devil wasn't counting on me yet...

survived three desieses in a row, and covid

Running for student government. Greatly increased my confidence and public speaking ability. Running again this year!

Walked away from the bottle and reconnect with my son after 15 years and 3 weeks.