Is there a moment in your life that completely changed the way you live?

[ToucanSpam]

A turn around point.....a point where your life went from being spontaneous to finally a life with direction? Or maybe you had one career path and changed it to another? Who knows?!?!?!? Maybe it was meeting a special someone....either way, I would like to hear from you all.


Mine happened a few months ago, around May or so. It was a combination of working, and figuring out things going on in my personal life. With a side order of meeting someone who changed my life.


GO!

[paul jones]

When I went to Australia for the first time.

All the times I've been back there I realise that to live there would be better than staying in the UK

[DipDipDive]

My trip to the Bahamas senior year changed something in me. I look back at who I was before that trip and who I was after, and I realize that I lightened up a lot, became a lot more social and a little less uptight. I also met some friends for life there.

[SobaViolence]

the first day of studies in my last year in high school. my first and favourite class was philosophy.

changed my life.

then after class, i'd go smoke pot on the soccer field. (!) (y)

[TurdBerglar]

i've been basically the same person since ten

[Rich Cheney]

The morning I woke up in a puddle of my own shit after a 1/5th of tequila and an 8-ball.

[Lindsey_1535]

When my parents got divorced. When I graduated. When I fell for a dude. All clumped into one.

[Kid Presentable]

When I worked out I didn't like banana on toast.

That, and my dad passing. I try (read: try, not always succeeding) to lead a more positive life, doing better by others. That event was the catalyst.

[beastieangel01]

I'm still trying to figure myself out.

[TurdBerglar]

i figure myself out every night

[yeahwho]

A total stranger at an AA meeting screaming at the top of her lungs "you can't drink anymore dumbfuck" "you have to get a job" "your going to be dead in a month", she made more sense than 2 treatment centers 4 judges and several other attempts at laying off the booze.

So now I'm Clean and Slobber.

[avignon]

when my parents split up
when my mother tried to hide me fom my father by moving far away and changing my name
when my pop came and got me
when my mom married my second step-dad
when my second step-dad died
when my best childhood friend moved across the country
when I graduated high school and moved out
when I moved in with my first boyfriend and when I moved out
when I moved in with my second boyfriend and when he beat the shit out of me and when I moved out
meeting Walter and falling for him like a ton of bricks

[wavin_goodbye]

seeing family in south asia for the first time ever
changing programs in college

[Ferdinand_2]

Discover The modculture change my life.Really (lb)

[Tone Capone]

There were a BUNCH of moments in my life that changed the way I live.

[Humiliation]

My first drinking party. I'm a lot more confident now especially around girls. And i'm addicted to alcohol i guess...

[Trimm Trabb]

I got a job. My life has changed so that I can't sit at home all day watching sitcoms anymore. And I've lost a bit of weight, which is a bonus.
Emotionally, I'm pretty much the same as I've always been. Except for being crazily in love.

[ms.peachy]

Every moment is a choice that has the potential to carry your life in one direction or another.

In terms of big stuff though, I suppose the decision to move to England was quite a change. Lifestyle wise, on a day-to-day basis I don't think that living in London has been radically different to living in NY in a lot of ways, but certainly I have had a whole range of experiences in travel and meeting people that I wouldn't have had otherwise, and had my horizons broadened.

[enree erzweglle]

Deciding to conceive and then the resulting child
are events that took me along a completely different
path and I've stayed the course. I'm now seeing
diverging and intersecting paths along the way now
that the original one is veering off in its own direction, so to speak.

[Mr_Complex]

Facial hair and the many disguises I can now take.

[scotty]

Surfing gave me a love of the earth we walk on and allowed me to explore my spirituality,
The meeting with my lovely and ultra-hot wife put me back on the straight and narrow,
Becoming a father has made my life complete.

I'm pretty fuckin' lucky.

[guerillaGardner]

I had a period in my life that has changed me considerably. Some of it was stupid stuff I did that I should have been smarter than. Some of it was major life stuff that just happens out of the blue.

But whatever, I didn't think about it enough to deal with it until it all kinded of exploded on me. Over a period of time I digested it all and I came away from it with a different point of view on life - more misanthropic, more nihilistic. In other words I woke up and smelled the coffee a bit more. I learned a lot about myself, about people and the world.