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re: Has an event in your life ever truly changed you?
Posted on 8/6/15 at 12:21 am to AZTarheeel
Posted on 8/6/15 at 12:21 am to AZTarheeel
20 yrs old, wandering through life with no direction, no ambition, a college drop out with no future. Working a full time job for $8 an hour. Spent all my time working on my best friends race car and all my money going to the races.
He was killed in an ATV accident and it changed everything about me. Lost about 100 lbs, went back to school and completed my bachelors and masters degree. Making that change has given me the opportunity to see parts of the world I never even dreamed of seeing.
I can't even imagine what my life would be had that one event that was filled with so much pain not happened.
He was killed in an ATV accident and it changed everything about me. Lost about 100 lbs, went back to school and completed my bachelors and masters degree. Making that change has given me the opportunity to see parts of the world I never even dreamed of seeing.
I can't even imagine what my life would be had that one event that was filled with so much pain not happened.
This post was edited on 8/6/15 at 12:22 am
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Posted on 8/6/15 at 12:35 am to mpar98
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Has an event in your life ever truly changed you?
Absolutely. I was kidnapped and held hostage for 72 hours and beaten to within an inch of my life when I was 7. Found in the attic shirtless and duct taped. Fortunately, our regular babysitter just happened to be riding by the house I was in and saw "a kid" in the window screaming. Firemen and those "evil" policemen ax'ed the door down and rescued me.
So yea, pretty much a life altering event and not much has scared me since.
I noticed you didn't share one - what was yours, if any?
Posted on 8/6/15 at 2:42 am to mpar98
Positive event...I met Jesus 'face to face'.
Negative event...loss of mother, father and sister.
Negative event...loss of mother, father and sister.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 2:45 am to beejon
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Positive event...I met Jesus 'face to face'.
Oh i've gotta hear this one
Posted on 8/6/15 at 2:55 am to Mullet Flap
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Positive event...I met Jesus 'face to face'.
Happened almost 30 years while driving down the road one night. It's hard to put into words for words cannot convey the reality of Him 'sitting' in the automobile and being present. Not visually (folks always ask what He looked like), but His presence made Him actually more real than if He had been there visually. I went home that night, told my wife what had occurred (through tears) and I've never been the same since. If one were to ask my wife about me before the encounter and after the encounter, she would tell you that night completely changed me.
It's still changing me after almost 30 years.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 2:59 am to idlewatcher
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idlewatcher
Hole E. shite. Glad you got out of that alive. Did you know the abductors?
Curious bc someone tried to kidnap me from a grocery store when I was about 5 or so and it has always stuck with me. I've always wonder what crazy shite he planned.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 3:03 am to mpar98
Friend died in college after striking a pole driving drunk. Never driven under the influence from that day on
Posted on 8/6/15 at 3:48 am to mpar98
sitting in the backseat of a friends car the summer after high school when someone shot 5 rounds into the drivers side of the truck, it's true when they say you move in slow motion on adrenaline
Posted on 8/6/15 at 6:12 am to mpar98
Got robbed at work at 15 years old and mugged at a payphone at 16, both by good little didntdonuffins. Definitely changed my outlook on the world.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 7:51 am to mpar98
2005 was a big year. I definitely grew up that year. My older brother went to Iraq and we get nailed by Rita and Katrina. That was a tough year for everyone.
I'm a lucky man. I hope it stays that way. I can't imagine losing a child or parent like some of you have.
I'm a lucky man. I hope it stays that way. I can't imagine losing a child or parent like some of you have.
This post was edited on 8/6/15 at 8:01 am
Posted on 8/6/15 at 8:00 am to dewster
In 2008 I had an anurism and survived it. After that I got laid off from my job and my wife left me a month later. I was a very bitter person until I met my current wife and had my first kid. People that knew me before and know me now say I'm a completely different person. I feel different.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 8:11 am to mpar98
Sure
1. Death of my mom (grandmother)
2. Joining the army
3. Becoming a father
1. Death of my mom (grandmother)
2. Joining the army
3. Becoming a father
Posted on 8/6/15 at 8:22 am to mpar98
1. When my parents divorced. I developed real anger issues as a teenager. It was great for sports. It made me more aggressive, but the rest of the time it sucked
2. When I became a Christian. I used to not even believe in God. One of my friends invited me to go on a mission trip. The love I saw displayed by God's people for their fellow man made me realize that He was real.
3. When my son was born. I went from being quick to anger to being very passive. I finally had something to lose.
4. When I divorced my wife. It's a rough place to be not knowing if you can live with or without someone. It also changes someone forever when their spouse cheats on them. Whether they stay together or not, a part of the one betrayed died inside. My friends and family tell me I'm not the same happy-go-lucky person I was. The worst part is, I know they're right. But there's nothing I can do about, no matter how bad I want to.
2. When I became a Christian. I used to not even believe in God. One of my friends invited me to go on a mission trip. The love I saw displayed by God's people for their fellow man made me realize that He was real.
3. When my son was born. I went from being quick to anger to being very passive. I finally had something to lose.
4. When I divorced my wife. It's a rough place to be not knowing if you can live with or without someone. It also changes someone forever when their spouse cheats on them. Whether they stay together or not, a part of the one betrayed died inside. My friends and family tell me I'm not the same happy-go-lucky person I was. The worst part is, I know they're right. But there's nothing I can do about, no matter how bad I want to.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 8:55 am to LSU1NSEC
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encounter with a manifestation
Full story please.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 9:06 am to Rouge
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Birth Death Love Loss The rest just fills in the gaps
Pretty much pick one of those things and you will find a pivot point in your life.
Mine was Love/Loss, so Divorce. Changed me profoundly in how I view women and what attributes to look for in the right woman, which I eventually found, and she's great. Also, forced me to grow up to the real world around me. I feel like before doing that I had my head in the clouds about how the world actually worked. I know longer trouble myself about worrying over trivial and material things. I don't worry about money anymore, things work out, and they have. I don't worry about politics anymore, I'm not going to change anybody's mind, and I am powerless to change the process so I don't concern myself with those things any longer. I am not as stubborn, I try to look at the other person's point of view and how they view a situation. Basically, I have more of a live & let live attitude and don't worry about other people's problems or what other people think about me.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 9:07 am to jvilletiger25
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When I divorced my wife. It's a rough place to be not knowing if you can live with or without someone. It also changes someone forever when their spouse cheats on them. Whether they stay together or not, a part of the one betrayed died inside. My friends and family tell me I'm not the same happy-go-lucky person I was. The worst part is, I know they're right. But there's nothing I can do about, no matter how bad I want to.
I can relate to this all too well. I dealt with this same issue. That feeling of betrayal & subsequent divorce put me in a deep dark place. It completely fricked me up to the point of feeling I couldn't trust anyone. Made me very cold.
Luckily a few years later I met an amazing woman who pulled me from the depths of depression. She truly showed me what it means to love. I am happier now than I've ever been in my entire life. I'm a better person because of her. I also know if I didn't go through the hell of my divorce I wouldn't appreciate her the way I do.
This post was edited on 8/6/15 at 9:08 am
Posted on 8/6/15 at 9:17 am to boddagetta
My father passed away when I was 19. I'm 24 now, and although I am not depressed about it, nothing has ever been the same since.
It wasn't a freak accident, luckily, and I count my blessings that I was able to tell him "goodbye" and mentally prepare for it. That being said, it is impossible to prepare for something like that.
I've distanced my self from most of my family, because death is all too real to me now. It's an awful thing to do, and I hate myself for it at time, but I cant help it. I hate going to my hometown, and for a while after it I drank entirely too much. Now that I've graduated college things have changed, but it never goes back to "the way it was", you just learn to develop a new normal.
It wasn't a freak accident, luckily, and I count my blessings that I was able to tell him "goodbye" and mentally prepare for it. That being said, it is impossible to prepare for something like that.
I've distanced my self from most of my family, because death is all too real to me now. It's an awful thing to do, and I hate myself for it at time, but I cant help it. I hate going to my hometown, and for a while after it I drank entirely too much. Now that I've graduated college things have changed, but it never goes back to "the way it was", you just learn to develop a new normal.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 9:19 am to boddagetta
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When I divorced my wife. It's a rough place to be not knowing if you can live with or without someone. It also changes someone forever when their spouse cheats on them. Whether they stay together or not, a part of the one betrayed died inside. My friends and family tell me I'm not the same happy-go-lucky person I was. The worst part is, I know they're right. But there's nothing I can do about, no matter how bad I want to.
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I can relate to this all too well. I dealt with this same issue. That feeling of betrayal & subsequent divorce put me in a deep dark place. It completely fricked me up to the point of feeling I couldn't trust anyone. Made me very cold. Luckily a few years later I met an amazing woman who pulled me from the depths of depression. She truly showed me what it means to love. I am happier now than I've ever been in my entire life. I'm a better person because of her. I also know if I didn't go through the hell of my divorce I wouldn't appreciate her the way I do.
Yep, I am combination of both of these things. Sounds like we've all had similar experiences.
I was reading the prior post from the woman who lost her soulmate and likened it to the earth losing the sun and just floating around in space. Now imagine the person you thought was your "soulmate" betrays you in such a way. It's a different kind of death, especially when you still have to deal with that person.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 10:14 am to mpar98
seeing my baby girl (no pics, and I don't think you want those) being born.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 10:24 am to mpar98
The day I buried my little brother. I put a piece of my soul in the ground that day. Nothing fills the hole he left. And every day it hurts.
It doesn't get any better. It just gets different.
It doesn't get any better. It just gets different.
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