Life Changing Events!
Wilgrove
15-10-2006, 08:48
Tell us some of your life changing events!
Mine happened the last spring semester. See, for the past 4 years of college I've been studying to become a secondary school history teacher. However, once I actually going to the classroom, I realize that it was basically feeding the lambs to the lion in there. However, I decided to stick it out. Last spring semester I applied for the student teaching program. However, I was not accepted because I had a speech impedment (still do even after 6 months of speech theraphy) and some saliva problems. Well at first I was distraught, and thought my life was over. But then I started getting into history more deeply than I have when I was learning to be a teacher and I love it! I am now on a path to be an archivist, and looking back now, I am glad that I got kicked out of the teaching program. Archivial work may be dull, but at least my blood pressure will be low! :D
ChuChuChuChu
15-10-2006, 08:51
I'm hoping today will be a life changing one since i'm going for my first ever parachute jump. Add to that my fear of heights and its gonna be one hell of a day.
Apparently I have to climb out and hang from the wing strut before i'm allowed to jump. To me that sounds worse than just falling out
Wilgrove
15-10-2006, 08:52
I'm hoping today will be a life changing one since i'm going for my first ever parachute jump. Add to that my fear of heights and its gonna be one hell of a day.
Apparently I have to climb out and hang from the wing strut before i'm allowed to jump. To me that sounds worse than just falling out
Hmm I don't know why anyone would want to jump out of a perfectly fine aircraft. Then again I'm a private pilot, so, take my words for what it's worth. lol.
Apollynia
15-10-2006, 08:55
My converstion to atheism.
It changed my life, and saved me from intellectual annihilation. It saved me, and it can save you, too.
Potarius
15-10-2006, 08:56
My converstion to atheism.
It changed my life, and saved me from intellectual annihilation. It saved me, and it can save you, too.
Hmm...
Todsboro
15-10-2006, 08:57
Finding out that I'm going to be a dad. Only been a few weeks; I already find myself thinking "I've gotta plug those electric sockets".
Wilgrove
15-10-2006, 08:57
My converstion to atheism.
It changed my life, and saved me from intellectual annihilation. It saved me, and it can save you, too.
Nah I'm good.
Cabra West
15-10-2006, 10:05
I've had so many life-changing events in my past, I'd just bore you listing them all.
The latest is probably my decision to have a family, possibly even to get married.
My converstion to atheism.
It changed my life, and saved me from intellectual annihilation. It saved me, and it can save you, too.
No thanks.
LazyOtaku
15-10-2006, 13:07
My converstion to atheism.
It changed my life, and saved me from intellectual annihilation. It saved me, and it can save you, too.
Don't worry, my friend. In the end, everyone will be saved by Athe.
Babelistan
15-10-2006, 13:09
being born 3 and a half months early and having doctors screw me over, pretty much downhill from there
Smunkeeville
15-10-2006, 13:33
uh... everyday changes my life. Most of the time I hope it changes for the better, but it's hard to tell until about 10 years down the road.
IL Ruffino
15-10-2006, 18:05
Nothing good has changed my life.
Soviestan
15-10-2006, 18:40
My time in China changed me a lot. Some for the better, some not so much.
I V Stalin
15-10-2006, 18:48
Never actually had a properly life changing event (unless you count being born, I suppose), but I know I kind of drift through life.
The existential crisis I've had over the past week and a half or so is definitely a life changing event. I dealt with it and learned that I do have a purpose in life, and that purpose is co-created between me and something higher that we are all representative of. I wouldn't call it "God" in the strictest sense, but more of an underlying consciousness that gave birth to our existence.
I've learned that things happen (shit happens more accurately), and it is important to learn from it even though its causes are utterly random in nature. I've also learned that everything is a learning experience, and I should try to constantly improve myself and seek what I'm interested in.
And lastly, if I'm wrong all I can say is "well, fuck me" and there's nothing I can do about it...it's really comforting.
Ny Nordland
15-10-2006, 18:55
Hmm...
*drops to floor* :D
Killinginthename
15-10-2006, 19:13
Good
The day I met my wife.
The days that my children were born.
Bad
The day my wife left me.
Darknovae
15-10-2006, 21:41
Starting high school made my life better. If I were in middle school now I would have been sent to the counselor and failed all my classes.
Clanbrassil Street
15-10-2006, 22:15
The latest is probably my decision to have a family, possibly even to get married.
What about all your prior nihilistic reasons about the futility of it all?
Liberal Yetis
15-10-2006, 22:17
This one time I squeezed out a mud monkey on this chicks chest. Totally changed the relationship, especially considering she was my mother.
New Xero Seven
15-10-2006, 22:18
I have yet to encounter an event that would change my life...
Sarkhaan
15-10-2006, 22:30
I've had so many life-changing events in my past, I'd just bore you listing them all.
The latest is probably my decision to have a family, possibly even to get married.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. You shall make a spectacular mother.
Cabra West
15-10-2006, 22:37
What about all your prior nihilistic reasons about the futility of it all?
Life changing events, remember? ;)
I haven't sorted it out yet, but the mere fact that I'm toying with the idea itself is pretty lifechnaging for me.
Cabra West
15-10-2006, 22:40
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. You shall make a spectacular mother.
Thanks :)
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Twizzlers Rule
15-10-2006, 22:47
the day i sold my novel. Well, it wasn't so much that i sold it, but more that i was done with it. no more lazy days.
husband: dear, what are you doing?
me: writing my novel
husband: why is the TV on?
me: im getting inspiration
husband: well im inspired to turn off the cable until u get that thing done
me: *cranks up sound*
Babelistan
15-10-2006, 22:56
the day i sold my novel. Well, it wasn't so much that i sold it, but more that i was done with it. no more lazy days.
husband: dear, what are you doing?
me: writing my novel
husband: why is the TV on?
me: im getting inspiration
husband: well im inspired to turn off the cable until u get that thing done
me: *cranks up sound*
congratulations I hope I can do that some day.
Sarkhaan
15-10-2006, 22:56
Thanks :)
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welcome:fluffle:
I forget...you said you have a boyfriend now? If so, I'm quite curious...did he have a little somethin' to do with the change?
Desperate Measures
15-10-2006, 23:05
A couple of years ago I asked God if He existed. He didn't answer either way and so I became an agnostic.
Liberal Yetis
15-10-2006, 23:10
A couple of years ago I asked God if He existed. He didn't answer either way and so I became an agnostic.
He's a prick like that.
Cabra West
15-10-2006, 23:11
welcome:fluffle:
I forget...you said you have a boyfriend now? If so, I'm quite curious...did he have a little somethin' to do with the change?
He did, to some extend. But only in as much as to help me getting clear about the idea.
I actually started considering it when I was scared for a week that I might be pregnant and was wondering what I could do. I suddenly found that I would want to keep it...
Sarkhaan
15-10-2006, 23:20
He did, to some extend. But only in as much as to help me getting clear about the idea.
I actually started considering it when I was scared for a week that I might be pregnant and was wondering what I could do. I suddenly found that I would want to keep it...
ahh...I think I remember that. Always good when "bad" things turn out well.
anyway, I think I like this boy.
Cabra West
15-10-2006, 23:45
ahh...I think I remember that. Always good when "bad" things turn out well.
anyway, I think I like this boy.
Just because he encourages me to think about having a family? ;)
Sericoyote
16-10-2006, 02:46
When I was 13 years old I was a passenger in a car that was involved in an accident (due to negligence on the part of the driver - a friend of mine). The vehicle was sent airborne and flipped in the air, then landed on the road and rolled 3 more times. Somewhere in there I was thrown out of the suburban and when it came to rest it was on top of my knee. During the accident I was knocked in the head (to the point of concussion) twice, was unconscious for most of the accident, and had a near death experience (I will elaborate upon request about this event). When the fire crew/ambulance got there, nobody could figure out how I had manged to get in the position I was in. All logic said that the vehicle should have rolled OVER me to get to where it was. Also the emergency crews said they had never seen the doors of a suburban fly open and get folded back to absorb the majority of the weight of the vehicle, thus saving my leg. I was starflighted to the nearest hospital (starflight is the name of the helicopter system where I live), had to stay overnight, and had my front top teeth wired together.
As a result of the accident I have a fake tooth (took about 5 surgeries to get the implant in), a broken tooth with a veneer, I had Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and a knee injury that will haunt me for the rest of my life (I had surgery once, almost again, and had to quit playing nearly all of the sports I used to play in addition to not being able to walk/run like I used to).
The one good thing that this accident did for me was that it provided an impetus for me to meet my patron goddess, Brighid.