Life Changing Experience
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- 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.
- Gucci0
better question:
HAVE you had one.
- zoiks0
my Macbook got stolen
- 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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- JSK0
Hard to say. Unlike the movies, things dont change your life all of sudden. It is a gradual process.
- e-pill0
i had overdosed and died once...
here is to living twice!!!
[raises blunt]
- 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
- Khurram0
this is a very subjective question. Oh that reminds me, Gucci belongs on my ignore list. BRB
- 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.
- melq0
It happened within the walls of my own head, so I guess it was more of a eureka moment.
- 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.
- Gucci0
Life can change in an instant. Some of the more obvious changes are: a loved one can die, you can suddenly get sick etc.
But then there are people who, for example, have an epiphany and are suddenly someone else.
On a superficial level (and I'm not sure I believe these people, but...) I've heard people say they've watched the Secret and it "changed their life". Meh, I don't buy it, but whatever floats the boat, know what I mean?
- JSK0
But does it change your life so that you are different person, different life, different everything.
Close thing to it is, one day i decided to move, packed up everything threw in to storage or threw out. Wrote a letter to landlord. Went to airport that night and left.
- boobs0
Kissing a girl for the first time changed my life.
So did spending nearly six months in the hospital with surgical complications.
- OSFA0
QBN
- This is probably true for me. Not sure I would have been as interested or as knowledgeable about design otherwise.Jaline
- Sad. A website was a life changing experience? WTF.dMullins
- It's a community. Also because I haven't had any "real" or socially acceptable "life-changing" experiences.Jaline
- I don't see a huge difference between saying this and saying what ukit said below about getting into design.Jaline
- Of course, this doesn't compare to anything most people have posted in this thread.Jaline
- mikotondria30
Heroic dose of hallucinogenic mushrooms in 1991, thought I had died, ended up in a white room with everyone I loved and had to explain to them all what life and death was about, how much I loved them and why it was alright to die. After the giant voice counted down the time I had left, I flew above the ground, into a hospital emergency room where I realised I couldn't alert anyone to my mortal peril as I had no body, at which point I rose above the planet to see it hanging in space and say goodbye, after which I spent subjectively several months away. After this time, during which I came to terms with the fact that my earth-life was over, I 'reanimated' into the body I had, and only about 1 hour had passed.
I greeted my friends with the joy suitable for such a magnificent occaision and for years they laughed at my 'I'm alive! I'm alive!" moments, lol..- I think you just had a bad trip.JSK
- that would be a very brief desription of it, yes.mikotondria3
- wow.Gucci
- Fucking LOL. I know a guy who had a trip like this once but he unfortunately took it as a divine message and is nowwaterhouse
- balls crazy for some kind of obscure eastern religion.waterhouse
- yeh, a guy I knew did over 100 hits of acid and became a fundamentalist preacher..mikotondria3
- I have had some strong LSD in my time, and you people are talking complete bolloxs.roundabout