Is there anything that completely changed your life?

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Russian_Assassin

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I just read a topic about advices one would give if he traveled in time to meet himself when he was 14. So I immediately thought how my life would be different if I had not made or had made certain choices, or if I had not realized certain things.

So the question is is there anything or anyone that changed the course of your life? Be it a game (there is a thread about that), a trip, an epiphany, a book, a movie or anything else.

Mine was a 5day school trip to Venice. It really helped me change as a person. It literally transformed me from a shy, unwashed (not literally xD) nerd with nonexistent social life into a social butterfly that is loved by everyone [/sarcasm, or maybe not!] and spends most of it's time having fun with friends buying yachts and kissing ladies on the mouth :D

Note:(this post was exaggerated to be less boring, but you get the idea :p)

Post your stories bellow, would you kindly?
 

000Ronald

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Yes, there are things that changed my life. Most, perhaps all of them, are very sad. I don't like talking about them on public forums.

Apologies for the first post being such a downer.
 

Evilbunny

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Well, I think having cancer changed my life. It really made me look at the world differently and I think I'm a stronger person because of it. Well, not physically of course but emotionally I am.
 

_Janny_

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Russian_Assassin said:
would you kindly?
Can't...resist, must... post...

For me it was probably the day I saw a movie called "5 Centimeters Per Second". That little half an hour movie made me realize that the freakin world is a horrible sad place and that living is worthless. Cue a week of depression. It's been hard to see the world in a different way since then, but I suppose I had to realize that sooner or later.
 

Neesa

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Hmm. It was going out with a jerkoff of an ex who practically ruined most of my high school years (just 9th&10th grade to be exact). Depression set in, I became more cynical and skeptical, while maintaining a certain "Fuck Off, I'm Awesome" mentality. Scary how one person can make you change your cheery "I LOVE EVERYONE" disposition into something that seems to be greatly desired in our society. Someone who doesn't get a flying fuck about many people nor their feelings. But then again, even with all the drama, I like the person I am now. I look back on my past as something to NOT DO AGAIN. Hey, life is one's greatest teacher.

My lesson? Don't date fuckwits from Florida. Long distance/online relationships make my gag.
 

Valiance

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I'd probably get banned for the one I wanna tell, so suffice to say that there was a time where I witnessed something that continuously gives me a bad trust issue with people. Second guessing motives all the time and such.

(You didn't say "changed it for the better")
 

Neesa

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I know what you mean. Skepticism is pretty prevalent now a days. I wouldn't even trust Mother Teresa even if she handed me $1000. Well, I'd take the money, but I still couldn't trust her. She'd probably would be scheming up my demise. :[
 

KyoraSan

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I read a book called Touching Spirit Bear.
It made me realize that no one is truthfully evil. From there, everything changed. I lost my religion, and...yah. Made me who I am, and I'm very greatful for it. I understand the world so much better now for it too.

Everything else changed when, about 2 years ago, my lover raped me.
It was then that I realized that women can be just as bad as men, and I came down from my feminazi hatred for them, another huge change.
 

Vanilla Gorilla

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MaxTheReaper said:
And I'm so jaded, nothing can hurt me anymore, due to my entire life basically being a string of bad happenings broken up by the occasional okay happening.
Three cheers for being an emotional cripple?
I used to disagree with that kind of thinking, thought that things always balanced out, but then more crap just comes along, inexorably steamrolling its way over everything you hold dear.

Still... there is good stuff out there, life being a rollercoaster and all that, peaks and troughs. Having recently hit rock bottom (moved to new city to be with girl, relationship breaks down, have to leave job) im feeling kind of assured, the only way is up baby! Plus at the end of the day even bad experiences help you learn (although at nine it does seem unfair that you had to learn about death, I truly feel sorry for you) and become a more creative, interesting individual.

Oh yeah the topic... probably the above? It has certainly changed some of my outlooks on life (Im currently attempting to be a much less kind and tolerant individual, they have never gotten me anywhere! I'm finding letting go of certain principles to be difficult though, its hard enough trying to be chauvinistic but its the racism that is really proving to be a challenge)
 

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Well, there have been some issues with romances and my friends hitting on my girlfriends, which really made me question who I put my trust in, but actually I was stuck camping with about 50 people I didn't know, and I think that helped me to become a bit more social, if only so much.
 

willard3

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Being broken up with by a girlfriend. Showed me that I am not as emotionally tough as I thought I was, that I was not being truthful to myself religiously, and that I was something of a douchebag.
 

zirnitra

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Any one else notice that all the people with animé avatars in this thread have posted real depressing things happening to them?

Changing from private to state education was probably the biggest change for me, opened up whole new worlds that didn't exist to me before.
 

ioxles

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Well, everything you do, right down to breathing, drastically changes your life from moment to moment, everything becoming equal in its monumental impact on your life.

But, if I had to pinpoint a moment which geared my life in a completely unexpected direction it would have to have been a long term illness I still suffer which caused me to drop out of school at 17. I have basically not been able to do much at all since then and am sort of stuck in nothingness
 

Chiasm

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Friedrich Nietzsche, Taught me when I was young that everything bad that has happened to you is a blessing. So by being abused or raped or even coming down with a plague that sheds your skin from your bones. You are better then anyone who has never yet experienced those emotions.

MaxTheReaper said:
Still, I'm okay with death now. And I'm so jaded, nothing can hurt me anymore, due to my entire life basically being a string of bad happenings broken up by the occasional okay happening.
Three cheers for being an emotional cripple?
I would suggest reading Nietzsche, As I said your bad happenings are blessings that should be celebrated with joy daily as it has taught you new lessons and experiences everyone else should be envious of.
 

Yami Blade

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I guess the two big things are loosing my dad when I was 10 and having to grow stronger, and more recently meeting my girlfriend has made me somewhat more... happy