These inspirational stories will remind you why life’s worth living.
These inspirational stories will tug at your heartstrings and give you the dose of hope you oughta move forward.
These inspirational stories will remind you that its worth holding onto hope.
Because as bad as things are right this second, theyre bound to turn around.
1.Eight months ago I quit drinking and smoking weed.
I still go out with my friends but I dont miss getting blackout.
I feel like a totally different person now.
Andrea, 24
2.At the end of 2013, Id just gotten dumped and I was a total mess.
I spent New Years Eve bawling my eyes out in my best friends basement.
Less than a month later, I met the love of my life.
On New Years Eve of 2014, he took me out for dinner and proposed to me.
If my ex hadnt dumped me the year before I never would have gotten together with my fiancee.
I went freelance with my work and moved to LA, which is where Ive always wanted to live.
In the span of one year, my life went from a monotonous nightmare to an exciting adventure.
Sherry, 46
4.A year ago I believed I was incapable of having children.
Now theres a beautiful, healthy baby girl sleeping in the room next to me.
So I had eight months to figure out what I was going to do.
He asked me to move in with him after only five months and I said yes!
Now we live in an amazing apartment and just adopted a kitten together.
Ive never had a relationship move this fast but Ive also never been happier.
A year ago today, I couldnt have dreamed up the life I have now!
Jenny, 25
6.It took me until I was twenty-two to finally come out as gay.
Even though it was a tough year to get through, I was so happy I finally did it.
Turning twenty-three, I felt like myself for the first time in my life.
Peter, 27
7.Ive always had really bad anxiety but I never really wanted to acknowledge it.
In my last year of college, I hit an all-time low.
I decided I finally needed to get help, so I went to a psychiatrist.
I started taking anti-anxiety meds and doing cognitive behavioral therapy.
A year later, I feel like a totally different person.
Im even holding down a full-time job now!
Theres now way I would have been able to manage that even six months ago.
Our bodies really arent meant to stay cooped up indoors all day.
Dan, 34
9.This past year, my Mom got diagnosed with heart disease.
There was always tension between myself and my siblings because theyre very religious and I am not.
But we have a new appreciation for each other after this past year.
No matter what happens next, I know well get through it as a family.
Joanne, 31
10.Two years ago I was working the WORST office job imaginable.
My boss was a total maniac who made us work twelve-hour days without overtime pay.
Even on the bad days, Ive never been happier with my choice.
Jessica, 27
11.In the past year, Ive lost almost sixty pounds.
Ive never felt physically or mentally better!
Im running my first half marathon this fall, which I never thought Id be able to do.
I ended up moving to South Korea to teach English and LOVING it.
I have a whole community here the way I never did back home.
I only wish Id worked up the courage to do something like this sooner!
Jayden, 24
13.A year ago my best friend was undergoing extensive radiation and chemo therapy for skin cancer.
Things were looking really bad and we werent sure if he was going to make it.
A year later, hes in remission!
Ive never been happier to see things turn around for someone so quickly.
Krisann, 20
14.For the past seven months Ive been keeping a gratitude journal.
Lisa, 25
15.I graduated college with no idea what to do next.
Less than six months later, I landed a full-time gig as a plus-sized model.
Now I get to inspire women from around the world to celebrate their bodies!
Ive never felt happier or more confident.
I actually cant believe how little time it took for me to land my dream job!
Erin, 25
16.Last year was the most monotonous year of my life.
I booked my flights this past weekend and I cant believe its all actually happening!
The anticipation is indescribably sweet.
To hold onto the dream that our romantic ideal is within reach.
For some people, it is.
Some people really do fall in love in a storybook fashion.
Some people really do find The One.
Just read these inspirational stories about love and see for yourself.
1.I fell madly in love with the new girl in my junior year stats class.
She had a boyfriend and we were best friends for three years.
She dumped him but still wouldnt go on a date with me.
Then one night, while watching Spider-Man (the Tobey McGuire one) I kissed her.
But now weve been together over a year and I couldnt be happier.
2.I met P in a class at university.
We began as casual friends, and he started saving a seat for me in the back every day.
I was dating someone else at the time, but Ill get to that in a minute.
Then one weekend everything changed.
That was the end of that relationship.
The following Monday, I dragged myself to class, still numb.
P sat down next to me, took one look at my face, and asked what happened.
I told him the short version and tried to laugh it off.
P and I became closer friends after that.
It was weeks before I was comfortable enough to hang out with him after class to study.
P and I became more than friends gradually out of mutual flirtation.
Weve been together for a few years now, and I love him more every day.
He is my best friend, my knight in shining armor, my superhero and also my sidekick.
When we argue, he always puts my happiness and our relationship before being right or winning.
Neither of us is perfect, but I love his flaws as much as I love his strengths.
I am a better person for having known him.
Even years later his eyes still smile whenever he sees me.
I was traveling through a Canada.
I ended up in Montreal.
I met a beautiful Quebec girl.
I couldnt speak French and she couldnt speak English.
After 1 week I asked her to move to Australia with me.
We had a sad break up when we realized the tyranny of distance…
I flew to Mexico and surfed for a month to heal the heartache.
My only classic romance.
4.She was popular in high school and had various boyfriends.
Well, one day I took a different route to class.
As the halls emptied of kids I kept walking the long way around to my last class.
I happened to bump into her walking down the same hall way.
As luck would have it our last class of the day was literally right next door to each other.
It eventually got to the point where we would chat with each other.
We would sometimes even just stand outside the closed class room door chatting before finally going in.
We eventually exchanged number and began to text all the time.
I finally got my first kiss.
A week later I lost my virginity to her right before graduation.
(I thought I was going to make it all the way through high school without ever having sex.
I almost made it lol).
We just celebrated our two years recently.
We have now been dating for 2 years and are both in college.
Life works in weird ways.
5.I think it was fate.
I went home to SoCal for Thanksgiving weekend.
That Saturday after Thanksgiving, my two friends and I went out to a downtown cafe/bar.
It was pretty early, around 9 pm, but people gradually started to fill the space.
The atmosphere of the place was very festive and happy.
Also, a lot of people (e.g.
It was a great, loving, and fun atmosphere.
There were guys that did came up to talk with me, but I just wasnt interested.
Around 11 or 11:30 pm, it was starting to get packed.
My friends and I found a cozy spot by the bar.
I managed to find a place to sit, while my friends chatted with a bunch of guys.
By now, Im two drinks down and working on my third one.
I was scanning the noisy room and thinking how there were SO many people here.
Hes smiling at me and I can feel a really big smile forming on my face.
It was so big that it even sobered me up a little.
It was a sweet moment.
For a good 10 seconds, the noise surrounding me was silenced by the gaze that we shared.
At that moment, I knew he was something special.
He continued walking through the crowd but I couldnt see where he was going.
Eventually, he disappeared into the crowd.
They were talking dirty to each other, so I decided to eavesdrop in another conversation.
What is your name?
Lets see if you know who this is.
=)'
6.We met in high school, at the tender age of 16.
So we went on this trip, and I couldnt take my eyes off A. I decided I had to get to know him.
I started hip-checking him at every opportunity, and asking questions a million of them.
He was patient and kind, where many others probably would have been annoyed.
We hit it off really well, and when we got back from Japan, we were inseparable.
That was 10 years ago, and we married 4 years ago.
Weve grown up and built this beautiful life together.
He is still the best man Ive ever met.
7.We had homeroom together in high school but that is just how we were introduced.
Junior year was more interesting.
Senior year we finally made more moves (actually she did).
She was there every day volunteering and helping me get Eagle on time.
Will you go out with me?
I love her to bits and I cant wait to see her again.
I thought he was cute, cocky, we flirted but I had a boyfriend.
And then after that one I had another boyfriend.
We fell hard and spent the whole summer together, we were 20.
He told me one day, this is our life!
This is the beginning of our life.
And I knew he was right.
We just broke up last month because it had all gone to shit.
Our relationship since we broke up and I moved out has healed a lot.
I still think that we belong together, but only time will tell.
We always said it was fate that we found each other.
It was fate that we are not together now, so we can grow as people.
I only hope that fate brings us together again.
And try not to call and text in the meantime.
He still says I love you at the end of a phone call.
9.Flashback about 7 years ago.
I was 14 years old, and a huge weeaboo.
Listened to a lot of J-pop.
I dont wanna talk about it.
So naturally, I join (www.interpals.net) and start making a bunch of penpals and online friends.
Lets call him Jun.
Hes kinda weird, but hey!
Hes cute and teaches me all sorts of Japanese slang, so why not!
We flirt a bit on MSN, but that was pretty much as far as it went.
Around this time, my freshman year of high school, I started dating my very first irl boyfriend.
Typical 14/15 year old relationship.
!LUV U BUNNY XOXOXOXO status updates, and started messaging some of the friends I had been ignoring.
Start talking to Jun, but still nothing special.
Dont fall asleep without logging out kids.)
We still messaged on and off though, mostly when I was bored.
I rarely got attention from boys at school, so I was loving it.
This pretty much continued until I graduated high school.
I would sometimes think of Jun, but only of how much of a weirdo he was.
Flash forward to June 2011.
I think long and hard, and make the decision that I would rather attend a real Japanese university.
So before this could happen, Id have to attend some pretty rigorous language courses in Japan.
So I started a job, along with a serious LDR with my now ex-bf.
Cut to November, Jun finally makes a Facebook, and sends me a request.
I hadnt talked to him in at least a year!
Of course, I accept.
We catch up a bit, but again, nothing serious.
However, he was older than me (by 6 years) and therefor already had a secure job.
Anybody who knows anything about Japanese office hours knows how incrediblylongthey are.
Long story short, I got lonely.
I started hanging out with all my old pen-pal friends to make up for the loneliness.
The relationship sucked, but I felt a little better.
About a month and a half later I get a message on Facebook.
Hey…are you still in Tokyo?
From…you guessed it…Jun.
I say what the hell, why not.
We agree to meet in a busy part of town.
It was a mixture of good/bad.
I was late by 30 minutes.
The karaoke bar we went to had a faulty machine.
We almost missed the last train home…it was quite an awkward first date.
But we did do a lot of talking, and learned a lot about each other.
The day after said date, he confessed and told me that he couldnt believe how beautiful I was.
He wasnt that hurt, because we met asfriends.
A few months later, boyfriend tells me that I need to get out of his placequick.
He pretty much forced me out, but reassured me, This doesnt mean we are breaking up!
I still love you!
At this point, he was my emotional rock.
I sobbed like a baby that night, but Jun stayed with me.
Im not Japanese, whos going to want to rent a room to me?
I felt so much relief.
I thanked him for everything he had done for me.
For a very long time.
For an even longer time.
And…you could see where this went…
The next day we found a nice cheap room, and all problems were gone.
We just started going everywhere together and acting like a couple should act.
Nowadays, we still joke around about how long ago we knew each other.
and he will get all nostalgic about his old childhood home that he grew up in.
He also teases me and says, Who was that bunny guy?
I was so jealous of that lucky bastard when we were 14!
Itll be one year in a few weeks.
10.I moved into the apartment across the hall from his.
He helped me move my couch.
At first, I wasnt interested in him…he was just some guy who lived in the building.
I went, and it became the first of many times.
I started to see him as the sweet, funny, intelligent man he is and the attraction grew.
We dated for eight years, and got married six months ago.
11.We met on our first day of work.
I wasnt into him until he left his notes at work one night.
I was a manager so I had to drive him up there and unlock the doors.
Ive been falling for him more and more everyday since.
I recently found out that he left his notes up there on purpose.
12.We met in high school in Virginia while my Dad was stationed there.
My freshman year, his junior.
He played Magic cards on lunch, I would come and watch him until he quit.
We also participated in Drama and acted in plays together.
I moved after my sophomore year from Virginia to Los Angeles because my Dad got re-stationed.
We decided it was time for him to come see my amazing state!
And thats when the magic started happening.
We went hiking and ate around town.
We spent Monday night going back to the Lego store, eating In&Out, and watching movies.
He let me organize the Legos in the weird way I do and that made me damn happy!
He left the next morning, I still hadnt spoken up.
Then I finally got the ovaries to ask him.
13.I had gotten online to delete my POF profile.
On the Are you sure you want to delete your account?
page, I saw his picture.
My god, he was cute!
Tall, skinny, green eyes, great smile.
I sent him a message saying Hey!
You like baseball, we should be friends!
I still wish I wasnt such light sleeper, but cest la vie.
Turns out his town was 5 hours away.
We werent even supposed to show up in each others searches.
We had limited to like a 20 mile radius.
We talked on the phone and texted for about 3 weeks before we ever met.
He waited until I agreed to be his girlfriend to kiss me for the first time.
And when he did, my heart jumped into my throat.
I really liked him.
4 years later, were happily married with a beautiful 6 month baby boy.
Its been a hell of a roller coaster but I cant imagine spending my life with anyone else.
14.I was waiting tables part-time as a 2nd job (wanted fun money).
Had the day off but late afternoon someone offered me the shift.
Said no at first but since it was just cocktail around the bar I changed my mind.
Met a girl who was there with two college friends; she was visiting from out of town.
She had a really great smile.
Did the usual greetings and noticed they sat near the bar.
The night continues with a lot of flirtation, laughs and cheesy jokes.
For some insane unknown reason, I had no thought of asking for a number.
They left at closing and I made sure to say bye.
She moved to town about a year later.
That was 14 years ago, now with 10 years of marriage and two kids into the mix.
15.I met him as a child.
He was a few years older than me and I just thought he was super cool.
I followed him everywhere.
He was your typical kid, he would tell me I was annoying and to go away.
When I finally did go away, he hated it and sought me out.
For the next bunch of years, we were best friends.
The day I turned 13, he made me his girlfriend officially.
He wrote me a note that asked me, will you be my girlfriend?
Check yes or no.
With hand drawn boxes.
We were that cute, nauseating couple.
He was my whole world, my rock, my heart, everything.
He graduated high school and joined the Army while he waited for me.
I was his rock during deployments, during all the up sand downs.
When I turned 20 he proposed.
He wrote me a note that asked me, will you be my wife?
Check yes or no.
Again, with little hand drawn boxes.
He was on bended knee and the note was in the ring box.
Oh gosh, it melted my heart.
He melted my heart.
All those years and it still felt like the first day.
He left for another deployment shortly after.
He came home for mid deployment leave and I wound up pregnant.
We decided the wedding would be after he came home during his post deployment leave.
That leave would be around 30 days.
He went back overseas.
My whole world flipped upside down.
Our wedding was only a few months away.
This was a terrible nightmare.
A few weeks later, I miscarried from all the stress and depression.
I lost my best friend, my life, my love, and my hero.
Even though it will always hurt, even so many years later, it was still a wonderful love.
The story goes on and always will.
Ended up talking to him all night.
He offered me a ride home which I accepted, and let him stay the night.
Woke up the next morning to him stroking my face and asking if I were an angel.
He took me to dinner and a movie that night, and asked me out then and there.
I held out for 3 weeks before deciding he was worth it .
Moved in together after 6 months.
Our 3 year anniversary will be in September this year.
I keep thinking, if I hadnt gone to that party, I would never have met him.
So glad I stepped out of my comfort zone that night.
17.She was a close friend for years but nothing romantic had ever really happened.
I hadnt seen her in a while and caught up with her at a friends birthday.
I stayed up talking to her for the entire night and we eventually kissed.
For a very happy period of my life I got to call her my girlfriend.
Not exactly a happy ending but thats my love story.
18.I was drunkenly pushed into a spa and landed on his head, knocking him out cold.
For about 3 months I was convinced I would never find anyone to love and cherish.
His best friend and I hit it off perfectly, and we started working on his boat together.
It took a month to realize I love him more than I could ever imagine.
I couldnt be happier and more excited about the future.
Im going to spend the rest of my life with my best friend.
20.I had come out of a relationship that lasted for a few months but was very intense and emotional.
There was drama in my family because of our age difference and some religious issues.
Turned out she had just ended a relationship too and we were both in an emotional mess.
She only agreed to meet with me to get her mom off her back.
We both only talked about how lonesome we felt after someone had walked out on us both.
What we did goes against common sense, but we dont regret it.
I suggested we should both text back it went so well we eloped.
That Devilish smile I got back said it all.
Both of our moms were hysterical we could do that after meeting once.
Our mothers have conferred between them, and after our prank our moms have decided we belong together.
Were official now, but my sister says were really partners in crime.
I have a thousand different stories of the antics weve shared.
Lays in a coma for almost a month with her prom corsage on her IV.
Miraculously starts to come around…has to near to walk and talk again.
Doesnt remember us ever dating.
The next part of the story makes me mad as to my own actions.
This fell at a bad time as she was going onto a placement year for her degree.
Our contact resumed as I now attempted to claw back and undo the damage I had done.
It was at this point I found out that she had a boyfriend.
I thought she had forgotten about me, whilst my mind could never forget her.
Due to the distance issue between us I had to now keep an appearance through social media and texting/msn.
We had so many brilliant conversations over the course of that year.
I would plan my evenings so as to free up time so that talk to her.
I wanted to be there for her to make up for my previous mistake.
Through this time our friendship grew ever stronger and this wonderful woman knew me better than I knew myself.
She finally returned from her gap year and I was able to see her face to face again.
We met up a lot and shared some lovely evenings talking and going for walks.
I received a text asking me over to talk a few days later which I was relieved to receive.
23.Senior year of high school we were both seniors.
Up until then, though, she and I had pretty much just coexisted.
We werent particularly good friends or anything like that.
But in the fall of that year we went on a group weekend retreat for a peer counseling program.
I was in charge of catching people along with one other person.
Dont worry, we had a copious amount of mats at the bottom to ensure no accidents would happen.
Her best turned out to be flailing immediately and nearly breaking my nose with her elbow.
I wasnt hurt badly at all, and I was laughing the whole way.
By then I had cleaned up and informed her I was fine.
That night she ate with me and we were together for most of the rest of the retreat.
Afterwards we hung out quite frequently.
Long distance just wasnt for us.
To this day it remains my best and favorite story, though.
