What is a significant moment in your life...?

Question

Is there a moment in your life that has changed you, made you look or live life differently, and molded you into who you are today?

Answer 1

...alcohol and cocaine rehab...

...post traumatic stress disorder counseling and therapy for aggressive participation during the VIETNAM CONFLICT...that affects my thinking now and tomorrow...

Answer 2

when i slept with two girls at the same time

Answer 3

One time I was called a loser and told I would never be anything but a loser.  It was a vivid afternoon, the sun was shining, the kid was playing basketball and I was tired, walking home from a long day at school.  I really half believed him and won't ever forget it.

Later on in life, I met his dad and family at a pancake house.  I had a job, husband and children.  I was not a loser and can remember making sure that he told his son about my life...which was sort of lame because maybe losers do that type of thing.  Moments like this can be defining.

Answer 4

When I was about 9 years old and I was caught shoplifting at the grocery store.

Awoke as an individual and realized that I was mortal, and that there were consequences.

Answer 5

Death. What is a more significant moment whilst your living life to come across death (not your own of course)? It is like a beam of light entering a dimly light room, you just see things that weren't there before. I just hope it changes me for the better, but at the moment my mind doesn't want to change who I am becoming; like everybody else!

Answer 6

shd be tomorrow and i hope it will continue coming........lol

Answer 7

Yes.

Back in britain,up in an obscure welsh-valley-public library,i happened to "come across" a philsophical multi-editored book.

Right at the back-the very last essay/piece,was a beautiful and striking short chapter,by a person called karl Popper.

I got the book and soon realised that that chapter was head-and-shoulders above all the others.

It "blew-me-away"then and after all these years still rates with me as one of the finest pieces of writing i've ever had the pleasure to read(30 years ago).

That chapter has since been published in another book solely by the one author.The book is called,In search of a better world.The piece i refer to is chapter 10-if i'm not mistaken-and the title is a definite one(!)....Emancipation through Knowledge.

(And for what its worth, its such a fine short essay,from a now departed guy,that it seriously deserves to be concidered as essential reading for all schoolchildren-its that important in my mind)  

Answer 8

Me and my boyfriend were very broke we were just out of high school and working full time + hours.  We had NO food and little money but we went to the grocery store and our card got declined.  As we were very embarassed and trying to pick things to put back the lady behind us said she would buy our groceries "as long as we return the favor to someone one day."

Answer 9

The birth of my son made me a lot more selfless.  Apparently, it made me a better driver too.  A friend once observed that I drove differently when my son was in the car.