Life Changing events?!?

Being hit by a car when I was 18 was quite dramatic. As well as falling off a cliff down a 2500 foot ravine only to be saved by landing on a shelf of rock 11ft below - had I been 2 feet further I'd have been done for. Also spending time in the middle east and having shells flying over my head as well as seeing some militants being gunned down within visible distance wasn't all that pleasant. Every experience you have makes you who you are and develops your character. All experience is good in the long run.
 
I thought when you come to uni, you found what women are REALLY there for ben? ;) Myself? Life changing event would be my girlfriend, without her in my life, I would have been much different...
 
Freefaller said:
Every experience you have makes you who you are and develops your character. All experience is good in the long run.
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Too true, I try to remember that even when at the time it feels like I'd rather not have had the experience.

Personally, although perhaps not as dramatic as others, it would be since a good friend of mine was killed. It felt like it woke me up in a way, it's made me decide to do things I was always telling him I'd like to do but never had the nerve to try. He had a lot of opportunities which he never took, always saying he'd do it at some point in the future. He didn't get that future but I have so guess it made me decide to not always go for the safe or easiest option but to go for what I really want to do. Guess part of the reason why I'm doing it is so I could prove to him I got off my ass and got on with it instead of just talked about. I'd have much preferred if I'd decided that for myself without anyone dying though.

I've not reached the culmination of my plans so I can't guarantee it's 'life changing', mainly because it's an ongoing thing, but if nothing else it's certainly changed my perception on things. Give me a year and hopefully I can say it was ;)
 
When I was 14, I went on a school trip and got bullied pretty bad. On the journey home I got talking to the teacher who came with us. After that, things changed quite a lot. I made new friends, I started to knuckle down in lessons, music tastes became better and i started to learn guitar :D Thanks to the new friends I made after the weekend, my life changed dramatically. I dare say that i wouldn't be here at uni doing a degree if I didn't do something drastic at the time.
 
Brynn said:
Going out with my ex was a real life changing situation for me, made me realise how bad i was living my life before.
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I can relate to that. Not going out with YOUR ex that is. I had an ex who makes me reflect on my past like you probably do.
 
Nathan said:
I thought when you come to uni, you found what women are REALLY there for ben? ;) Myself? Life changing event would be my girlfriend, without her in my life, I would have been much different...
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knew what they were there for before but enjoyed the bachelor life!

Freefaller said:
very experience you have makes you who you are and develops your character. All experience is good in the long run.
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So true and thats what i was thinking when i started the thread
 
I nearly died of hypothermia in Finland. I stumbled into a farmer (who was fixing a fence) and he pointed me towards a small hut. I got there, he lit a fire inside and all was OK (eventually). He also gave me some food, but I don't want to know what it was...

I've become a lot more chilled (punage) since. I used to stress about everything but now I'm calm and better off for it.

Finlandish farmer > *
 
Probably losing my mum when I was 18. I'd just started uni, was in Wales without anybody I knew (people I lived with I had known for 4 weeks at this point). I can honestly say in the time since that day I've been through all sorts of emotions and been in the darkness. I really know what pain is..and at one point I was really lost and didn't know what to do.

I bottled my pain up, and all my anger over what had happened and not saying goodbye. It made me very bitter, and also potentially very dangerous. I did a few bad things like getting involved in fights and going over the top with it but nobody really made me snap. I'm sure if I had I could have really hurt somebody.

Over time I've discovered that although nothing has changed carrying the pain won't do anything except eat away at me and push more people away from me.
 
One night when I was 14 I was with a mate and we were bored. You might guess where this is going, but you'd be very, very wrong :eek:. So we decided to go to the park nearby. When we got there it turned out there were loads of kids from school hanging around there drinking. So we joined in :D From that point on I made loads of new friends and just generally started finding it easier to socialise.
 
Going to an OcUK meet in Wakefield/Leeds about 4 years ago was pretty life changing.

I ended up taking up an offer of floor space in a house belonging to a couple of forum members I didn't know. It led to regular house parties and good laughs followed by gaining a girlfriend a couple of years later who's now living down here with me :D

On a more dramatic note, getting a phone call at uni from my mum's best mate telling me that my mum was hiding at hers and my dad had been arrested for trying to kill her had quite an impact on things as well.
 
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It happened late last year - I was discussing finances with my parents, and my plans for the future. I could suddenly see my career laid out in front of me - I'm at my happiest when I'm doing creative things, be it on the computer or with a camera. Before that night I was drifting about with no real aim or ambition, but now I've decided to take a degree that will help me become a visual effects artist. It was an epiphanous moment, sat there in my parent's lounge.
 
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