Pushed to your limits

[k9-Girl]

Have you ever experienced anything in your life that had pushed you to your mental or physical limits. Working in a factory on an assembly line for three months between semesters is doing that for me, I never knew I could shut my brain off due to so much boredome and physical fatigue. I never knew what true depresion and hopelessness was until this summer.

What's your story?

[Doukeshi]

Maybe you should get a new job hmm?

I don't really recal any time where I have been pushed to such exertion. Maybe that's telling about my character, I don't know.

[Balmon]

You know - no offense - while I'm sure your job is exhausting, that's not what I would consider being pushed to your limits. I mean, trying to escape from being buried alive under an avalanche, or doing the Tour de France, those things I would consider being pushed to your limits... while your job is tiring, and probably extremely draining, it's not quite the same thing.

Yeah... and get a new job.

[Guest Vash331]

Can't say i have...Band Camp my freshman year was a ***** though physically. Uh....let me think.....Hiking Ramsey Cascades was pretty tough, if anybody knows what i'm talking about, it's a 8 mile hike in the smokey mountains, it's also rated strenuous, the worst rating. Those may not have been my limits, but they were closer than anything else.

[Japan]

[COLOR=Navy]When I was 14, I joined this survival competion one weekand. It was in the middle of January and we had to camp in the woods. I remember I was shivering in my sleeping bag those two nights. Not only that, on Saturday, we had to hike all over the woods. I remember walking 21 miles that day. Not only that, I and four other people had to do certain things like, pull a HumV 15 feet up a hill, and make our own arrows out of resources from nature and shoot them at a target. We also did some climbing and other physically draining activities. It was tiring, but fun all the same[/COLOR].

[Inuyasha311]

[font=Arial Black][size=2]I'm not sure if this would be considered pushed to my limit but, if anyone would of crossed my path that night I don't know what I would have done. To start I stopped at this gas station in the middle of nowhere going see my b/f. Time I got back in the car it would not start.:flaming: No pay phone in site and my cell didn't work out there. So I walked I did't think about it at the time about the path I had to go. I had to go on empty unlit streets no lights at all. And on top of that my b/f was leaveing town the next day and tonight was last night to see him for awhile. Anyway to make a long story short I walked for 5hours in the dark before I even came close to his house.The walk wasn't bad but, by the time I got there he was asleep. So I took his car and went home and he didn't leave the next day anyway. His train was delayed!! But the next day I bit his head for not coming to look for me. I was very upset for a couple of days. Plus, the next day I went to check on my car at that station and guess what?? It started right up!! Thats when I had reached my limit I couldn't take anymore. But, thats life!:D [/size][/font]

[eh luu]

[FONT=Tahoma] well on contrary to what everyone else is saying, i think that i can say, that everyone has there own definations to be pushed to the limit, so therefore to her that can be something to be pushed to the limits of boredom, per say. also you guys have to realize finding a job these days isnt the easiest thing to do, i mean to say its really easy..but to actually find a job when thousands of other kids are searching for a summer one too, and with some buisnesses getting mad because they want full time people not people who are gonna quit at the end of the summer.
myself? my limits were pushed in school, when i had finals that i needed to get A's on in order to pass, and then i had pressure from home saying that if i didnt things would get taken away..privelages etc.
so therefore..everything started going rough on me and i barely made it through but with the help of my loveing friends there to support me ^^ but yeah i cant really say i've been that pushed to my limits. [/FONT]

[Gavin]

[SIZE=1]An interesting topic...

One of the main times I've been pushed to my mental limit was in preparation for my Junior Certificate, I remember getting all worked up for the tests (a major test on every subject in the curriculum) trying to remember everything I'd learned in the previous three years so I'd be ready for it. Afterwards I realised it wasn't a huge deal but it was the most memorable time I was pushed to my limit.

In terms of physical limit I can say safely was the time my year went to a "Adventure Camp" in Mayo, we had 20 mile hiking, absailing, rock-climbing, and kayaking, it was so exhausting a few of the guys nearly had to be sent for medical attention due to over-exertion. Each person has a different definition of Mental or Physical limit, for example a champion weight lifter would be easily able to lift well beyond a normal person's weight limit.[/SIZE]

[Akieen Cloud]

My grandfathers death pushed me to every limit I had in me, physical. I wouldn;t eat ANYHTING. Mental. I couldn't think about anything other than the fact that I had not been able to say good bye. Every thing was tested for me for about 6 months, faith, knowlage, sanity. My mother almost sent me to a shrink. but the thing that brought me back was my brother pushing mr through those limits and now I think that I have limits far beyond what I had before. He just pounded at me with every thing that he thought would hurt me till I just broke and than he put me back together agian...kinda like humpty dumpty i geuss. LOL

[Overlord_Ray]

1: assemly line work isnt challenging in the slightest lmao
2: here is something mentally draining imagin you are me my mum is slowly detiriorating interms of physical body, her muscles are eating themselves and her bons break really easily now imagine being me i do everything i can to help her to avail, that is mentally challenging because i can do nothing, i am helpless.

[k9-Girl]

I'm willing to wager that most of the people here belittling the severity of assembly line work have never worked on one furthermore fail to understand the that no two assembly lines are the same. Oh yeah, get a new job, novel idea, with only three weeks till school starts again that would be a worthwhile and practical endeavor. And considering this is the only job I can get for this money, which I need for college, I'm not exactly in a position to be choosey. Don't downplay what I've been through, I've worked summers in factories drilling die and cast parts for cars while being sprayed by a carcinagenic mist they say they can't harm you. Working in a cookie factory which If you knew anything about the Macomb Cookie factory that would be enough said. Working in fast food restauraunts coming home smelling like oil and greese, working at a rubber factory coming home smelling like rubber... "Oh get a different job or stop getting those crappy jobs", well I would if I could, you don't think I haven't tried, sorry kiddies but 5.85 and hour at a cozy job doesn't pay for college. Working 8 hours a day doing something either boring, physically tolling or both as my job now is, takes it out of me and is literally physical and mental torture. Oh doing that same kind of work doesn't bother you? Well if only everyone else in the world was as blessed as you. Congratulations, you are amongst the ranks of the lower working force announcing you're too simple minded to be bothered by inane work, great, thanks for your understanding. I wasn't asking for your pity I was merely stating my own experience. Everyone's personal tolerances are different, we are all different by genetic and conditional predisposition so not every breaks at the same point under the same circumstances... Sigh... Men... they're so insensitive...

[Krycifer]

That last part insulted me!Not all men are insensitive.
The only way I'm pushed to my limits is if I'm in a fight with someone.Or if I'm stuck in a game.I've been in three fights total already.One of them I had something in my hand that people keep saying I used.

[k9-Girl]

[quote name='Dragonia']That last part insulted me!Not all men are insensitive.[/quote]

No just the the strait ones, lol (just kidding, kidding, kidding... ehehe) Sorry, I didn't expect anyone to take such a casual generalization so seriously... it was not my intent to offend...

[Fall]

I've been pushed to the limit alot of times in my life, half the time I've crossed the line and done something stupid as a result.

Though I suppose the time that really dints my memory, is when I went through a depression period. I was drepressed to put it simply. The little things that anyone could just scratch off pushed me over the top. Atleast once a week something was too much for me, and I snapped. My family, friends, girlfriends, all felt the impact.

When I think about it, depression was the one thing that pushed me to the limit and over, and that limit is the one thing I don't want to cross again.

[Eli]

[SIZE=1]I was another victim of depression, which worsened to the point in which I had become suicidal. I believe that all started when I was nine, and it had definitely pushed me to my mental limit. The worst thing, in my opinion, was keeping my despression to a low point (so that no one would notice). But it ate me up inside for seven years, leading me to snap one night when I was left alone in the house. Yeah, I did some pretty crazy things then, I must say. All in all, I'm thankful I was able to get out of it all before...yeah...[/SIZE]

[Mitch]

[size=1][color=red] Coming to Otaku Lounge every day and realizing how lame the threads are has brought me to a breaking point.

I just don't think I can handle it anymore! I need psychiatric help![/size][/color]

[k9-Girl]

[QUOTE=Mitch][size=1][color=red] Coming to Otaku Lounge every day and realizing how lame the threads are has brought me to a breaking point.

I just don't think I can handle it anymore! I need psychiatric help![/size][/color][/QUOTE]

A-MEN! Seriously if anyone knows of anyother forums to check out, please post a link... God this place is like a Kindergarten housed inside a College University.

[Panda]

For those concerned about the OL: Why not be pro-active and start an interesting, thought provoking thread in this forum. People complain about the forum yet won't do anything to change it. Start a great thread and make a difference in the forum. :)

Now back on topic I think the only time I have been pushed to my limits has been when I was injured in a farming accident. It truly was a matter of life or death and I am lucky that I got the help I needed before it got worse. Only lost a finger in the accident but it was both mentally and physically hard on me.

All in all I am a stronger person since I lived through that trial in my life. What doesn't kill us only makes us stronger. :D

[Roxie Faye]

[color=#9933ff]K9: Working on an assembly line sounds like total boredom. *_*; Sorry you've had such a bad summer. :/

To tell you the truth, I've never been pushed to my limits in anything. I guess if you want to be rude, you could call me a sheltered child. But I know [b]no one[/b] on OB is rude. :P

The closest I've ever been was probably at the end of last year. Usually the last week of the end of each marking period is stressful, because almost every teacher gives you a projects. (I mean, some tell you ahead of time, but others tell you on tuesday, and expect it to be done by friday!) But the end of the year was just a fiasco for me.

I had an english term paper ("research project") one week, which wasn't so bad - but I really thought the World Civ. term paper was bad. The thing was, my teacher got lazy at the end ofthe year, and the week I thought the paper was due, she also assigned a paper for our model UN.

The term paper was so long, I broke it up in sections that week, because I figured I'd do the entire UN thing on Thurs, and a little of the term paper then. She told [b]none of us[/b] that she decided to make the term paper due on the next monday. The only way I knew, was because everyone [i]thought[/i] she had moved it, and because I asked her. Thank goodness, though.

The UN paper was grueling, since I had to come up with ideas, find sources, and write the whole thing in one night. AJ can tell you how I was complaining, and bouncing ideas off him. It took me until one thirty in the morning, and i had to get up at six thirty the same day (I got an A on iy, anyway). ><

That weekend, the term paper wasn't as bad (since I had already completed 1/3 of it), but it was still long, and I started freaking out about stuff. I swear, I must have been dreaming about Soviet-Nazi pacts that night, I was so wired. *_*;

...yeah. that's my lame experience.[/color]

[Mitch]

[QUOTE=Panda]For those concerned about the OL: Why not be pro-active and start an interesting, thought provoking thread in this forum. People complain about the forum yet won't do anything to change it. Start a great thread and make a difference in the forum. :)
[/QUOTE]

[size=1][color=red] Been there, done that.

I actually used to mod Otaku Lounge, if you want to know. So I do have some clue of what I'm talking about.

Usually, I make different, eccentric threads, and usually only the people who I force to post post in them. Either that are the discussion digresses to some pithy war over some other thing.

Search around. I've made my batches of posts in this forum before.

Most recently, I remember making one where I typed up this whole article on the American funeral industry, and only a few people replied, mostly either saying what I said was against their opinion, or with a small blurb.

Anyway.[/size][/color]

[eh luu]

I don't know mitch.
how have you been there and done that?
if it was so interesting and thought provokeing, wouldnt more people of replied?
according to reading some of these threads people posts, we do have some intellects, according to themselves that is.
so if it isnt that interesting... and only a few post, how is that changeing it, and how would you of been there and done that?

I dont know if you understand my mindless babble. but eh.
we've got to remember to stay on topic, and when does this have to do with being pushed to your limits?
unless this is pushing your to your limits, of course?

[pardon me, i didnt actually see it was pushing you to your limits, but maybe it means you should put more effort into changeing it and comeing up with things that are .. interesting and better than what you see, instead of complaining about it in a lot of threads, do something. k?kthx.]
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me, on the other hand, posted earlier about what pushed me to my limits but I forgot something.I think my family sometimes pushes me to the limits with how judgemental they are, how they want me to be like someone else, when only I can be myself.
Every day, they find something that is a flaw, and they poke at it, even how much I change for them, I only get more flaws for them to poke.
It pushed me to mental limits when I was younger, because i was so sick of trying to be so perfect for them, and so sick of them not being able to accept me how I am.
Sometimes though, just sometimes it still pushes me to my limits of trying to get them to accept me as..just basically Me.

[keisuke shuuken]

Dudes, all my life my parents expected me at all subjects and sports to be at least a A-rated. And guess what? I had C's and D's in 5th grade and made it into A's the next year! I'm like, those excuses for parents actually did something to change my life pychologically! Pretty weird...

[G/S/B Master]

[COLOR=SlateGray][SIZE=1][FONT=Century Gothic][quote name='k9-Girl']A-MEN! Seriously if anyone knows of anyother forums to check out, please post a link... God this place is like a Kindergarten housed inside a College University.[/quote]

Then leave if you have a problem. No one is forcing you to post.

In my swimming lessons, the test required to pass level 7 is to swim 500 yards. Which is too hard... murderous... But thats what I thought. I started my first 25 yards. Easy. But then when I got to my 4th lap, I was starting to get tired. 200, I can barely move my legs, 300, I'm straining my body to keep up the pace, 400 I was REALLY exausted, when I got to 500 I felt like my shoulders came apart.

After that we got a 3-5 minute break. Woo....[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[paco3]

I got picked on every single day when I was in elemtary school. I don't mean just by one kid either, I mean the entire grade. People said that I picked my nose, that I was a girl, was gay, was retarded, couldn't play soccer, was a wimp, and was a cry baby.

None of these were true. I got beat up at recess. I would fake sick just not to go to school. I hated it!

[Engel]

[Color=Darkred][size=1] Here's one that happened to me last night: I was taking a walk in the park, thinking about my girlfriend who broke up with me just the day before. She went to my best friend, who had been her boyfriend before. Well, he had been abusing her before, but she went back anyway. (This really worries me.) I see them sitting the park bench, and I ignore it, but Eric stopped me and told me to get out of the park. I refused, and so he got mad, so she left before things got ugly. Which they did. He literally beat the hell out of me. He used a nice, thick, long piece of wood, and the fact he's bigger doesn't help. He pounds away at me, and I lose two teeth, and most of the skin in my left side of my mouth. I drag my self home and treat my wounds accordingly. I feel like crap. -_- I can barely move without pain cousing through my body. :/[/color][/size]