Life Changing Experience
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- epete220
I love the feeling of giving people money who are in true need. The feeling is awesome.
- gramme0
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Finding out 10 years ago that my mom has a chronic illness that will eventually kill her, then seeing her have a bad flare that seemed at times like her time on earth would end soon. She's better now, it's in remission; but she will eventually die from this disease. No if, just when.
That being said, she has grown tremendously in her faith since then. Everyone who meets her, Christian and non-Christian alike, remarks on her joyful demeanor. Not happy-go-lucky mind you, but her sheer presence radiates a deep peace, and her smile can light up a room.
- turk_1820
This thread just changed my life.
- non0
Surviving this with my girlfriend.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,2…
- 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.
- Llyod0
I discovered fapping at age 10. I did it 5 times that day.
- fyoucher10
When I was like 14 and discovered vaseline and fapping. It has changed my life ever since.
- grunttt0
that first sip of beer oh so many years ago. now i'm a drunkard.
- digdre0
grandpa who died in the month my dad was in africa.. few weeks before my exams...
hard time
- 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.
- 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.
- Crouwl8cY0
discovering art
- 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.
- _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.
- boobs0
Kissing a girl for the first time changed my life.
So did spending nearly six months in the hospital with surgical complications.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
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