Thread: The Greatest Thing

This question, quite simple, is sure to illicit *great* responses.

What is the greatest thing you have ever done?

What is the greatest thing you could possibly do?


So, questionS, answer the questions, if it pleases you, you might find the desire to define "greatest."

Define "great"

Define "great"

That is for you to decide, I cannot declare a great for, you must give it your own meaning, but make sure it means something.

Give all people the choice for prosperity.

Heh, everyone will probably find this a lame response, but I can't say I've had any one peak experience so much as I've come to experience peak more and more of the time.

The greatest thing I could hope to do is become a living embodiment of compassionate clarity, such that people around me are able to live with greater ease.

I save my Grandma's life...course now she is dead.

I could do nothing.

accepted Christ

Gave up my pride

Well ive probably completely misjudged the purpose of the thread but the "greatest" thing i ever did was work in Gambia on the east coast of Africa, we took over 34 crates of school supplys which we had collected through donations and dished them between 6 of the poorest schools. We then worked in two of the schools for 3 months as teaching assistants, this job could mean anything from actually leading a class to scrubbing the toilets. The school i worked in had 64 children between 2 classrooms, they had no teaching aids, barely any paper or pens, most of the kids had tatty, dirty hand me down clothes and the ones i spoke to confirmed that they live in shacks made from corrogated irion, and lined with bin liners in rainy season, but those kids were the most cheerful, polite and well behaved that I have ever come across. I learnt more from that trip than I could ever have taught them.
We are going back next january for a vacation this time but i intend to take supplys with me.


The greatest thing anyone could ever do is lay down their life for someone worthy.

I think that you are the only who got the purpose of this thread right. I commend you for your noble actions and wish you luck in your future endeavors. My hat is off to you.

greatest thing i've done?
completed the pokemon yellow pokedex when i was 8.

Well, this question is quite hard to answer, and it may seem a little selfish, but the greatest thing I've ever done is lived on this planet, been around to experience things, and had other people share my ideas. You only get one chance, so why not make the most of it? I live with my focus purely on setting myself up for a great life, and enjoying it along the way. I'm lucky to be alive, so why not make the most of it?

that is a good point heumy, but that isn't something you, yourself accomplished

I resent that, Jonathan. Before I gave up my pride I wasn't able to do great things because my need to be praised got in the way. It wasn't until I let go of my ego and realized the benefit is truly for the greater good that I was ever able to accomplish anything. It is still the greatest thing I've ever done because everything else is just a bunch of little things. I've done a billion meaningless good deeds, but they never meant anything until I changed my attitude about life.

It's true. Having a pure intention will change all your deeds into great things. Even if you do things wrong. If your intention and inspiration is pure whatever effort you put in it's still considered worth a great deal. If you have feelings of pride and a wrong attitude. That just contaminates everything. No amount of effort or saving someones life is going to make it a great thing in essence. Imagine finding out your life was not saved because they loved you at all. I would rather die knowing they tried with love. Then have them succeeded without it.

The greatest thing I ever did. I can't remember and my mind is not in enough clarity to know what that might be. I just can't know for sure every effect I had on people and what it did to them. Only then could I know with clarity what my best deed was.

I am sorry I overlooked your post. I only did so because I was looking for acts of greatness, not necessarily things that enabled it. While it is true that one must have a proper attitude in order to do great things, I could not know if what you said was a great thing. This is because it is important to you, while in other comments the action was more visibly great. I did not mean to imply that 'giving up your pride' is anything but great, I only could not know if it truly was, if it truly was done, and maintained. I could not judge such a thing as great or not great without an explanation, so I choose silence, for how could I truly know if it really was beneficial to your self, and to those around you?

I apologize for perhaps belittling your accomplishment, a certain act that is necessary for everyone, but in a short message I could not accurately measure the depth of your action, as it has a nature different than one whose action and its effects are clear and have immediate benefit.