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Experience That Changed Your Life
Posted on 2/24/13 at 5:37 am
Posted on 2/24/13 at 5:37 am
What was the single experience that changed your life up to this point?
Mine was sitting with my Dad for twelve hours watching my grandfather pass away after we unhooked him from life support due to a massive stroke. I was 23 years old and it was that time that made me realize how I'd made a mockery of my life up to that point and changed it for the better.
I'm sitting here now, 12 years later, watching my newborn son wishing he was around to see him born. I'd give anything to have one more meal with my grandpa.
Mine was sitting with my Dad for twelve hours watching my grandfather pass away after we unhooked him from life support due to a massive stroke. I was 23 years old and it was that time that made me realize how I'd made a mockery of my life up to that point and changed it for the better.
I'm sitting here now, 12 years later, watching my newborn son wishing he was around to see him born. I'd give anything to have one more meal with my grandpa.
This post was edited on 2/24/13 at 7:26 am
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Posted on 2/24/13 at 6:07 am to 4LSU2
Waking up with foot drop then going to have emergency back surgery to try to repair it. Then having 2 more immediate back surgeries to try and repair the screw up of the first one. All of this required me to spend 6 weeks in the hospital then basically learn to walk again through Physical Therapy.
I realized through all of that that I was not as invincible as I thought.
Even though I still have permanent foot drop and other lingering issues, I came out of the ordeal a much better person.
I realized through all of that that I was not as invincible as I thought.
Even though I still have permanent foot drop and other lingering issues, I came out of the ordeal a much better person.
This post was edited on 2/24/13 at 6:09 am
Posted on 2/24/13 at 7:16 am to 4LSU2
Nov. 24 1995. Headed to go hunt and saw my first cousin(best friend) and another friend die in a crash right next to me. Never dreamed my life would change that much at 17. I sure never thought we'd rode horses,roped,played football, or hunted together for the last time. It was years later that it dawned on me that had they ran into my lane instead of off the other side of the road, then I'd be laying right there with them. Moral of the story guys is don't drink and drive
Posted on 2/24/13 at 7:19 am to 4LSU2
Saw you just had a kid, congrats. I have a six week old boy as well. Never really bothered me until seeing my son, but I lost my father when I was 8. I remember my mom sitting me down and telling me, 6 days before Christmas, 1985. She told me she was going to need me to become a man a little sooner than other kids would, but it would make me a better person. She was right. From that point on, I was an independent kid and never asked for anything else without me first trying to get it the old fashioned way. My father was never around during my first 8 years so this father's day will be the first one I have celebrated at the young age of 35. Not sure how I will take it. Wouldn't change my mom or situation for anything though.
Posted on 2/24/13 at 7:20 am to lv2bowhntAU
Hate to hear that...
Mine was my parents divorce. I know that doesn't sound like much these days but it rattled me to the core. It's fricker up my perception of love and marriage.
Mine was my parents divorce. I know that doesn't sound like much these days but it rattled me to the core. It's fricker up my perception of love and marriage.
Posted on 2/24/13 at 7:28 am to I Love Bama
Understand completely Bama. I've been lucky that my parents are still together after 35 years. But I know going through my divorce sure fricked up my perception of women and relationships in general.
Posted on 2/24/13 at 7:52 am to 4LSU2
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Posted on 2/24/13 at 7:52 am to lv2bowhntAU
Ive had friends and relatives die at early ages of cancer, spinal meningitis, car wrecks etc. And while all of those deaths changed me and molded me, the experience that changed my life was the birth of my little girl.
Until that point, I only lived for myself. Admittedly, I didnt even really live for her mother. But when she came along, I straightened up and became a man for both of them. I was thinking about it the other day, everything I do, I do it for them. I can even justify my crazy gun puchases: protection
But I attribute my transformation to my strong father figure and upbringing. I was lost for awhile, but always knew which way was up. I strive to be a strong father to my kid(s), and I just hope I can be half the dad my dad was. We as a country are going to miss the generations of men before us
Until that point, I only lived for myself. Admittedly, I didnt even really live for her mother. But when she came along, I straightened up and became a man for both of them. I was thinking about it the other day, everything I do, I do it for them. I can even justify my crazy gun puchases: protection
But I attribute my transformation to my strong father figure and upbringing. I was lost for awhile, but always knew which way was up. I strive to be a strong father to my kid(s), and I just hope I can be half the dad my dad was. We as a country are going to miss the generations of men before us
Posted on 2/24/13 at 7:55 am to 4LSU2
The morning my little girl was born... Tuesday will have been four years ago.
Only thing that rivaled it was when my son was born 3 yr later.
How people abuse and neglect their own children is something I cant comphrehend... It sickens me.
Nothing in life is more precious and innocent than a kid.
Only thing that rivaled it was when my son was born 3 yr later.
How people abuse and neglect their own children is something I cant comphrehend... It sickens me.
Nothing in life is more precious and innocent than a kid.
This post was edited on 2/24/13 at 7:59 am
Posted on 2/24/13 at 7:57 am to TIGRLEE
quote:
Nothing in life is more precious and innocent than a kid.
Here here!
Posted on 2/24/13 at 7:58 am to TIGRLEE
quote:
Nothing in life is more precious and innocent than a kid.
:kige:
Posted on 2/24/13 at 8:06 am to 4LSU2
My sisters' birth, graduating from college, my first solo in an airplane and helicopter, the death of my father, Afghanistan, watching my 32 year old sister get sick and die in an 8 day span in front my family and a team of confused looking doctors, my wife. Point is, the thread is somewhat misleading. Everything changes your life. The only question is to what degree. We've all experienced different things, but that's why we're all different. Just my two cents.
Posted on 2/24/13 at 8:13 am to TIGRLEE
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Nothing in life is more precious and innocent than a kid.
I think someone already said how this made him grow up & become a man. This is exactly what changed myself.
Then they grow up & give you grey hairs
But all in all you don't want to frick with my kids.
Posted on 2/24/13 at 8:14 am to El Josey Wales
Probably the most life altering event in my life was getting married, I was 28 yrs old when I got married. It led to the kids I have now. The relationship I have with my kids is second to none. Everything I plan like hunting and fish is planned around them.
And not to mention I married a beautiful woman who is a great mother. Today is 12 yrs she has put up with me.
And not to mention I married a beautiful woman who is a great mother. Today is 12 yrs she has put up with me.
Posted on 2/24/13 at 8:17 am to offshoretrash
Happy Anniversary!
Posted on 2/24/13 at 8:20 am to offshoretrash
Happy Anniversary!
Posted on 2/24/13 at 8:27 am to 4LSU2
3 years ago, dude I hunted with who is mid 40's, hunting all his life, was cleaning a deer. He was opening up the chest cavity on a doe that was hanging in the shed. He put his buck knife into his leg and hit an artery. We were in Red Lick, MS. So we drove him 45 min. to a hospital where he got airlifted to Jackson.
Thought he was gone. We prayed. He held that artery all the way there, and somehow was able to get sewn back up.
If he had been hunting alone, he would have died that weekend.
Posted on 2/24/13 at 8:32 am to 4LSU2
Wow. Many life changing events in my life but I think the biggest was my dad having a bad industrial accident at Olin Matheson in Lake Charles around 1972. Dad was a bricklayer and he and a couple of others were laying brick in a kiln when someone lost attention to some air movers. They were all overcome with CO and went down in lime. My uncle notified us that it had happened and we rushed to the hospital to find him in ICU with chemical burns over his arms, face and eyes. Oh and broken ribs from guys punching him to get him breathing again. As I saw him lying there I thought I had lost my coach, mentor and hunting and fishing partner. He survived and went on to live a normal life and I cherished every moment we had from then on. Guys, spend time with the influencing people in your lives, you never know.....
Posted on 2/24/13 at 8:33 am to offshoretrash
Happy Anniversary man.
Posted on 2/24/13 at 8:35 am to offshoretrash
Yes, happy anniversary!
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