Life Changing Experience
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- kona0
dec 16th 1995. i was driving a truck that hit a tree almost head on. it's true what they say about your life flashing before you. it was in that instant that my life changed.
epill. wow.
- sputnik20
having a child is an immediate life-changing experience, even if you thought you were prepared. once he/she is actually here, all bets are off...in a good way of course.
- gramme0
I've had many:
Moving from the south to the mid-atlantic
Riding my first wave at age 14
Being sent to inpatient drug rehab by my parents @ age 16
Getting a DWI and going to jail (for 10 minutes) at age 22
Accepting Christ as my savior
Surfing frosty pointbreaks in Rhode Island
Getting fired for no clear reason at age 25
Meeting the woman who is now my wife
Our wedding day
the birth of my son
- Nairn0
Someone dying when I didn't believe they would. Only when they were gone did I realise how close I was to them and how much I loved them. Quite a wake up call for an ignorant little teen.
The look of pain on X's face as she saw me for the first time after I did her a wrong. As well, leaving someone else, crouching in the street - in the rain, crying.
Something bad, which I can't even hint at here. Not exactly my fault, but not exactly not either. Another wake up call which came too late.
I'm not exactly the most decent human, sometimes.
I wish I were.- - -
Laterally - thinking I was going to die after taking too much of a drug (silly, now in hindsight - but it did impact). A couple of psychedelic trips - both positive and negative. A hugely paranoid comedown, which disrupted my reality for months afterwards, and still aches now when I think of it.So many times have I seen things in nature which have made me cry. Made me rejoice in beauty.
These are the things I hold on to.
- mg330
My only sister died in 1995 when i was 17. She was 27. First person in any of my families to die. Going through that shaped me more than anything in my life. I came out a stronger person and a better person, because really, that's what you've got to try and do. I learned some great things about the world and myself and I try to keep those close to me all the time. Ever since then, it's important to me that I walk away from people knowing that I tried to show them the best person that I can be, that I listened to them and that I cared about the friendship or encounter.
I also do everything I can to wake up and be glad to be alive another day. So many people never appreciate that. Our lives can be taken from us, and the lives of people we love can be taken from us so quickly.
- kelpie0
ok, I suppose taking charge when my dad had cancer and the doctors wouldn't tell him cos he'd had 2 heart attacks the previous year, and having to go and interrogate the surgeon on his behalf, then tell my mum, and all his family really did change me quite a lot I think. child > grown up in one night. (he pulled through, I went and got completely fucked for a week :D )
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:DNairn - Hmm, not intending to belittle your post with fucking emoticons. I just appreciate (a wee bit) what you went thruNairn
- My dad had to do the same thing when all of his siblings got all the doctors to not give him any info about his dying fatherJaline
- father. Ironically, my dad's father passed away while my dad was the only one of his children in the hospital...thatJaline
- one day.Jaline
- We were coming back from visiting my grandpa in the hospital. To Ottawa from Toronto. He had a gut instinct that something was wrong.Jaline
- that something was wrong. Turned back to Toronto, and his father died the next morning, while he was there.Jaline
- I saw my parents (especially my mom) being forced into yelling at the doctors.Jaline
- to get infoJaline
- :(
- kelpie0
yo dude, no belittling felt - not a patch on others stories. felt weirdly empowering, tell the truth, I'm sure this is a classic part of masculinity and probably something people like to not admit, but there was something deep inside switched on in a tribal, baton passing instinct. Don't mean to sound heartless or cold as I love my father very much (and we are far closer after this experience) but I think your reptilian brain kicks in in these circumstances and you begin, naturally, to assume a mantle of responsibility, in case it doesn't work out rosy. And part of you wants it.
- chew on that, QBNkelpie
- It's not cold at all, it's actually kind of beautiful - I've got to respect people who've been through this kind of thing earlyNairn
- on. You're right - it is an integral part of growing up - in your case, you get all the 'advantages'. The rite & hope.Nairn
- er.. I mean - you get the right of passage and you get to hold on to your dad. I guess you love him all the more forNairn
- it too? I'm very close to my Dad for slightly similar reasons. I wouldn't let go of the pain that brought me here.Nairn
- yeah, you're pretty bang on there matekelpie
- chossy0
climbing my dad saved my life.
I fell towards him he just put his hands out and plucked me from thin air. He is my hero and always will be.
- boobs0
Kissing a girl for the first time changed my life.
So did spending nearly six months in the hospital with surgical complications.
- _salisae_0
Yes. Oddly enough it was a simple dream. I had been blundering my way through life – having too much fun being free from responsibility and relying on my parents to keep me afloat until this stupid dream swam its way into my head.
dream:
I was working at a restaurant and so was my Mom. Except she was doing a much better job than I was and my co-worker friends came up and asked me 'how can you let your Mom work harder than you?'. After I woke up with this realization I no longer accepted or asked for any money from her and proceeded to put myself through design school.
- nadnerb0
killing a goat on a survival trip in argentina
being massively and repeatedly fucked over by a girl in high school
a few insane acid and mushroom tripsWow, I really haven't had too many. Probably means I'm due for one.
- Crouwl8cY0
discovering art
- Llyod0
A friend and I got a flat tire at 2 am driving a geo metro. We had to walk 8 miles down a deserted road to find a store that sold that chemical inflater crap. By the time we walked back we discovered that if we had walked in the other direction we would've hit a 7 eleven four blocks away.
- cls0
crahshed my skull open when diving on a rock. Yeah i did the the thing everybody tell's you not to do, dive in the water from 2 mtrs high not knowing what is underneath. Could have killed me, it's five years ago and it still flashes through my mind once and a while.
- digdre0
grandpa who died in the month my dad was in africa.. few weeks before my exams...
hard time
- grunttt0
that first sip of beer oh so many years ago. now i'm a drunkard.
- fyoucher10
When I was like 14 and discovered vaseline and fapping. It has changed my life ever since.
- Llyod0
I discovered fapping at age 10. I did it 5 times that day.
- monkeyshine0
My mom died unexpectedly at age 54. I was 23 and felt like a 5 year old orphan. It wrecked me for a long time but I see life so differently now. I try to be present and engaged; I feel like I owe it to my mom.