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From: Quora Digest <I To: Subject: Will I ever be happy again after the loss of my only child? - Quora Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 02:32:19 +0000 JQuora Top Stories from Your Feed Your Quora Digest Will I ever be happy again after the loss of my only child? Igbiu I Lucy Wightman, photographer cy 247.6k views I lost my only child suddenly one weekday morning. She was i6 years and 53 days old. May i6, 2006 was the worst day of my life, and will remain so. I have had happy limes since then. 'Happy,' I realize now, is a choice, albeit an impossible choice to make at times. There is indeed a magnet in that reliving, trying to make sense of the senseless, PTSD... So much advice and yet the challeng... Read More » How did CEO Marissa Mayer pull all nighters and 130-hour work weeks while at Google? stt Charlotte Jacob lharloI 210.4k views There are lot of people who claim to work 12+ upto i8 hour days. And none of them do. If you have a look at the American Time Study, you will find that most people who claim to work 55 hours a week, actually work around 40 hours. People who claim to work around 70+ hours actually work around 45- 50 hours. I've spent time with people who claim to work around 15 hours a day. And I've never seen ... Read More » Is it actually possible to have an accidental discharge while cleaning a gun? ifri,i Al Nelson, Fun Factory Foreman AKA Game Producer Nels 84.2k views EFTA00640298 See that SKS bolt, with a nearly spherical thing on the end and shallow checkering? That contributed to my only accidental discharge and it still gives me a shiver. We had taken some of our liberal friends shooting to introduce them to evil guns in a safe, left-wing only outing on a ranch. We brought a variety of things - an SKS like the one pictured, a black powder rifle, a few handguns in ... Read More » What are the biggest misconceptions about Japan and Japanese culture? Elliott Chen, Top Writer 2015, 2014 and author of Alone Wolf iott 184.4k views 1:4 Having a Japanese girlfriend, learning Japanese, and spending considerable time in Japan (I'm writing from there now) I thought I would give my interpretation as I have been actively going through the shock of having my misconceptions blown apart. Japan is a country where flaws are hidden under layers of beautiful wrapping and most foreigners enjoy the wrapping too much to begin to open the pack... Read More Why are so many people protesting the referendum when Leave clearly won? Nit Nitin Bhamvani, Keeping it balanced. in 25.2k views Remember that final scene from the animated movie `Finding Nemo' where, after having hatched and executed this elaborate plan to escape from the fish tank, these fish are ultimately left bobbing up and down at sea, not knowing what comes next, as they hadn't thought that far enough ahead? In case you don't know what I'm on about, let me remind you — it's the scene below: Well, it's this lack of ... Read More » EFTA00640299 Why was the ability to create fire so important to human evolution? s .,ID Dan Holliday, I read. an 40.3k views Damn. There was a documentary in which a man followed a troop of apes (or was it orangutans?) for a few weeks. He attempted to eat the way they ate. He discovered that to do so, would mean that be chewing on a piece of carcass for an insufferably long time. be gnawing away at raw vegetables for longer than his jaw could handle. Cooking did something amazing for us -- humans -- ... Read More » Who will win the 2016 U.S. presidential election and why? Mi Mike Davis ke 226.8k views UPDATE: Hillary Clinton's choice to pick the former governor and current senator from Virginia affirms how important electoral math is in this election and why Virginia is such a pivotal factor in the Democrats getting to 270 votes. She didn't pick a progressive to unify the party, she didn't pick a minority to more fully represent the country, she didn't pick a westerner for geographic balance... Read More » How do animals tolerate pain when being eaten alive? _::D Donna Fernstrom, Psion, Reptile breeder. Author. Therian onna 224.2k views They don't tolerate it. They go into shock. Shock is a last-ditch effort by the animals's body to preserve vital organs by reducing blood flow and energy consumption. The high adrenalin levels and endorphins associated with shock can act as pain killers. This is true of humans as well - a human traumatically injured in an accident may not feel pain until the shock wears off later. So, the animal... Read More » What is quantum mechanics? Richard Muller, Prof Physics, UC Berkeley, author "Now, The i Physics of lime" (Norton, 2016)• c - r 79.9k views Quantum mechanics, at its heart, is simply the recognition that there are no particles and no waves, only something that has properties of both. Sometimes this is called a wave function, but that term typically applies to the wave aspects, not to the particle ones. For this post, let me refer to them as wavicles EFTA00640300 (combination of wave and particle). When we see a classical wave, what we are seein... Read More » What is wrong with keeping illegal immigrants out? 'rt.:Le Lee Ballentine, Poet, engineer, four time Top Writer on Quora. e 74.6k views Most people who subscribe to the Trump myth of the border have evidently never been here to look around. I live very near the US—Mexico international border; from my front door I can see houses in Mexico. I can tell you that in my experience the cliches about legal and illegal immigrants and the border are wrong. Many Mexican people come across the border daily with visas that allow them to bypas... Read More * Read More in Your Feed Follow Quora on: PAT Get the App for iOS and Android ICI This email was sent by Quora (650 Castro Street #450. Mountain View. CA 94041). Choose which emails we send you through Email Settings or Unsubscribe. EFTA00640301