Have you ever had a life defining/changing moment? ?

Question

I'd just like to hear your story about life.

Answer 1

It wasn't a moment exactly, or maybe it was a moment...

I was a label. I was addicted to brand names, skateboards, and anything that had to do with extreme sports and really deep, from the soul, music. I was at that stage in life when kids start figuring themselves out. I became good friends with this girl who was a "skater/emo", she became my best friend and I was influenced by almost everything she said and did. The music came with the lifestyle, the emo, sad, depressing music, the screamo music. Then came the "wrong people" and the rebellion state of mind where me and my friends didn't want to do anything anyone told us. I didn't get into much trouble but I was headed down a very bad path.

I looked like sh*t, mostly meaning the clothes I wore and what I did to myself. I was depressed and everything seemed very wrong with my life, I cut myself, I cried nearly every day, I pulled my hair out, I felt sorry for myself, (and I had been arrested for suicide threats...even though I never was going to kill myself) I had it in my head that I was in real pain.

One night it snowed...heavily...for about a week we had about 2 feet of snow and thick ice, school was of course closed. Well, me and my best friend went on a long walk through the snow, through neighborhoods, and into town. We liked doing things that would get us into trouble so we decided to throw snowballs at cars. In doing this, we met these other kids from our school who we had never talked to (because they weren't our type of people) but it was a snow day so we thought "what the h**l". On that day I would meet my now, very best friend and soul mate. Two very different people brought togather for some life-changing reason that snowy night. He taught me many things, simple things, but very important things. I learned to be happy, happy with whom I was, and most importantly what true happiness was.

This was that moment...

I realized I was choosing to be unhappy. That person (me) that was damaging an incredible gift called life could change. And that’s exactly what I did. I stopped talking to the people that were encouraging the harmful behavior and found out who I really was. I look back on the choices I made and what I could have been and thank that boy, Thomas, for not letting me get lost and forget who I really am.

Want to know the sad part? My once friend is now a drug addict who still abuses her right to life, headed down a worse path than I ever could have imagined and it’s too bad that she couldn't see things the way I did.

To anyone who was like me...you don't have to be that way...its all in your heads kids...even if your life is sh*t you can still be happy. Life is too amazing and it’s such a privilege to live on this earth. There is a reason you are here, you could have been born in a different time or a different species or even on a different planet but you were born you on this earth and you’re here today for a special reason. Don’t ever question that privilege, please please please don’t abuse that right.