What changed your life?

[aLivingPheonix]

Probably becoming a Martial Artist, which has definitely changed my life. It's changed my perspective on life, and the way I think.

Although, it has turned me into a paranoid, introverted ass hole... Other than that though, it's definitely been for the better.

Also, that is one seriously fucked up fourth grade. I didn't know what rape meant until I was eleven. Is that what schools are like in your country?

 

[Oilerfan92]

On the flip side.

A couple months before the other post (a couple months before i joined the church, not the group). I was surfing the internet reading about a gmae i was waiting for (NHL 10 i believe) and for whatever reason i ended up reading about how a black hole was going to be created by a machine on earth and we were all going to die (This machine was later revieled to be the Large Hadron Collider, which WILL NOT CREATE A BLACK HOLE, dont listen to people who say it will. Its proven that it is extreamly unlikely it will). Anyways, for whatever reason this one post stuck with me, i had read doomsday posts before and laughed them off. But this one (which was no different than the other ones) stuck with me. Then the next day in my Automotives class i heard a group of classmates taking about... the same thing. i overheard a bit of it and was freaked. I spent the next 3 days at home pretending to be sick, then "the day" came and went and i "got better" and went back to school. I got over that incident, but for whatever reason i just never got away from the feeling of dread i had. I tried ignoring it and pretty much everything your NOT supposed to do. and eventually i just gave up on everything and just pretty much became a "zombie".

Eventually though, as stated above, i found the group and while it didnt fix me. It definitly gave me something to look forward to, a group of friends, a couple people whom i consider big father figures in my life, which i lack because my parents split and in the limited time i have with my dad, its more friends than father-son (even though theyre only like 6 years older than me), and other things.

 

[InnerRebellion]

I'm exactly the same, 17 6'2 90kg but when it comes to a guy threatening a chick, especially one of my girls i couldn't care less, they wanna feel tough picking on someone they no cant fight back, make them know how it fucking feels like

Hell, I was ten. I worshiped the kid, cuz he gave me free stuff. I wasn't gonna slug him in the face. But, last year, at the gun club in town, we had a paintball game and I unloaded a few rounds into his entire body, and screamed, "That's for fourth and fifth grade, ************!"

 

[blue_lame93@hotmail.com]

hahaha i guess, its a wierd set of circumstances, cause i know for a fact if it happened now i'd kill the prick but when i was 10 i was soooo docile compared to now. meh. so what ended up happening with the school finding out bout him threatening your girl??

 

[Raikov]

I think it was then I had to let the person I loved the most go. I learned what real pain is, but also learned that I'm one of the most unselfish persons I know. I took a long, hard look inside of myself and just... changed. Took away petty feelings of worthlessness and self-pity, and emerged a real man.

Now I can do almost anything, just because I know that whatever happens I can take it. And now I also truly care about others, since I don't need jealousy anymore.

Funny, after losing love I found that I can give it in an infinite amount...

EDIT: A lot of guy around me, IRL and here as well, feel as though they need someone else to help them change for the better. Not gonna happen. You want to be a better person, change yourself. It will be hard, and you may have to ditch some old friends that holds you back along the way.

So guys: getting a girlfriend won't help you to become a less pathetic being, but becoming a better person may help you to get a girlfriend!

 

[Oilerfan92]

I feel so weird posting stuff like this. These are things that i wouldnt tell people i know, yet ill easily post it on the internet, because im assuming none of you are in my church group (which is extreamly likley, i dont think any of them like games enough to join a website like this). And if they did, theyd take about 2 seconds to figure out that its me, and boom, everyone knows what i think of them and all that.

 

[blue_lame93@hotmail.com]

I feel so weird posting stuff like this. These are things that i wouldnt tell people i know, yet ill easily post it on the internet, because im assuming none of you are in my church group (which is extreamly likley, i dont think any of them like games enough to join a website like this). And if they did, theyd take about 2 seconds to figure out that its me, and boom, everyone knows what i think of them and all that.

I believe the phrase is who gives a shit=]

 

[Oilerfan92]

I feel so weird posting stuff like this. These are things that i wouldnt tell people i know, yet ill easily post it on the internet, because im assuming none of you are in my church group (which is extreamly likley, i dont think any of them like games enough to join a website like this). And if they did, theyd take about 2 seconds to figure out that its me, and boom, everyone knows what i think of them and all that.

I believe the phrase is who gives a shit=]

your right. ITs a one in a million shot anone who would give a shit about what i say here is on the site. Besides, pretty much all ive said here ive probably unknowingly told someone in real life anyways. I guess its just in my nature to stress about my how i look.

 

[Lem0nade Inlay]

Ummm this is cheesy but falling in love changed my life + getting my first nuke in the same day

CONGRATS MAN!
Getting your first nuke is an amazing achievement!

OT:

Ummm, nothing has really "defined" my life in anyway. Although when I first saw Donnie Darko it gave me a different perspective of the World.
Now, I hate people who say things like "oh mannnn that movie like totally got to me!" but well...I really felt like I could relate to Donnie Darko (I don't have any emotional problems though...), and I feel that it's changed me as a person. That might sound gay, but screw you!

Also, probably more relevant, a few weeks ago one of my friends told me I spend all my time playing video games, and I never went out. He played more then me and I have more friends then him, but whatever. So since then I've cut back on the amount of time playing video games and have become more sociable. Which is a good thing.

Although, a few hours ago I wouldn't play with him and he said "you never play games anymore!"

 

[Oilerfan92]

Also, finding music i finally identity with. I used to listen to Country, but i eventually drifted to rock and liked it, but i dont identify with the sex,drugs, rock and roll additude. Then i heard System of a Down. Now, im not some fan boy who thinks theyre God literally. Your free to not like them. But i liked the mix of anger at the system thats supposed to help us, yet abandons us when we need it, and just the general feel of some of their songs. Has it changed my outwards physical life ? No, but now i can finally sit back and listen to a song that i feel.

 

[darkknight9]

Divorced after getting sick enough to become disabled just after my son was born. Being told she didn't want to take care of two people. Losing my house, getting visitation with my son and spending two years living in the only place I could afford on disability pay: an attic of a garbage house with holes in the walls, mice, bugs, rats, etc.

Two years of honestly not knowing if my kidneys and/or liver were going to give out before my heart and/or will. 26 pills a day, six shots and enough visits to various doctors on a weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly basis that I considered living in the hospital basement.

Fast forward until now, I'm a year and a half from finishing my degree in applied science with dual concentrations. My son wants to grow up to attend the same University like his dad. Life is good... gets better everyday that I can look back and say thank the heavens I didn't cave to the depression and jump off a bridge. It's a haul.... but I keep on pushing.

 

[InnerRebellion]

Probably becoming a Martial Artist, which has definitely changed my life. It's changed my perspective on life, and the way I think.

Although, it has turned me into a paranoid, introverted ass hole... Other than that though, it's definitely been for the better.

Also, that is one seriously fucked up fourth grade. I didn't know what rape meant until I was eleven. Is that what schools are like in your country?

Gotta love America. Only here do we produce 9 year old rapists.

hahaha i guess, its a wierd set of circumstances, cause i know for a fact if it happened now i'd kill the prick but when i was 10 i was soooo docile compared to now. meh. so what ended up happening with the school finding out bout him threatening your girl??

School didn't believe it. But, the principal, two teachers and the counselor stood against me when the website was brought to court, and they all got fired.

 

[Shock and Awe]

The closest thing I have had to a life changing event is joining JROTC, helped me in a lot of ways. Made a lot of great friends, both Freshman and Upperclassman, started getting into good enough shape for the military, started getting involved in community service, and all kinds of stuff like that. Got Freshman cadet of the year so I guess I am doing something right.

 

[-Samurai-]

The day I picked up a guitar for the first time. Damn that was an awesome day.

Oh, and also the time I caught my girlfriend fucking some dude in our bed. I got home from work early. She didn't expect me to be home early....Yep. I'll never trust another person like I trusted her. I'll surely never make the mistake of dating again.

 

[Mrhenners12]

cancer Im afraid

 

[Sampler]

My old boss that my company stupidly cut to save money when the guy was worth triple what they paid him - but where I work are a bunch of asshats anyway.

Anyway he's one top guy, really is, never met someone so caring and giving - my girlfriend even jokes I've got a "man-crush" on him. The guy in his free time works with a charity for dis-advantaged kids trying to make their lives that little bit less crappier. Doesn't even mention it, known him a year before I found out and he'd told no one else at work.

Some advice he came out with was in the form of an observation; apparently some social scientist gave a bunch of people $20 to buy themselves a present and then graded people on how happy they felt then gave another bunch of people $20 to buy somebody else a present and graded how happy they were - turns out the people buying the gift for others were considerable happier than those buying for themselves.

Another one was to "not buy things but buy experiences".

Both bits of advice have changed my life - at first I kinda shrugged them off but one day I was feeling a bit low and tried them out and you know what, he was right.

We ended up doing a coast to coast bike ride raising money for a charity, another friend of mines kids have duchennes muscular dystrophy and one has spinabifida aswell so we did it for two of those charities, it was the best experience of my life even though I nearly died when my rear wheel locked up doing forty mile an hour coming up to a sharp bend - wrote the bike off and had to buy a new one. I will not forget that weekend nor the kindness and generosity of this man.

He's touched my life and made me better for it and now I feel obliged to pass that on to someone else.

I used to be very introverted and down but you know what, there's other fucking people on this planet with far worse problems then you've made for yourself, go help them and you'll find you help yourself - hey, what you got to lose?

 

[Oilerfan92]

Realizing i wasnt the only person who goes through shit in life, and that im not the only one who is crazy.

 

[Mechsoap]

for your story: school sucks and people are generally idiots

for something that changed my life: when i was given a gift from my parents, an n64. it was awesome day and i loved it

 

[Edavies696]

my sex change, i think changed my life a bit 0_O.