How many truly significant moments have you had in your life so far?

[mickill]

I can only think of five. I guess I would define "truly significant" as something that actually altered the course of my life thereafter. Not just a really good/bad day, but something that changed me as a person from that point on.

1. Breaking up with my first long term girlfriend (It took about two years for it to finally stick)
2. Meeting my future wife (Thanks Chris, wherever you are. I know I was supposed to be playing Goose to your Maverick, but......thanks again)
3. The birth of my daughter (Of course, the birth of my son was equally special to me, but the girl's the one that got the whole family ball rolling first)
4. 1986, hearing Raising Hell and Licensed To Ill for the first time. (This changed EVERYTHING for me)
5. A close friend dying last year. (I've had a lot of friends and family pass, but this was exceptionally rough)

And I guess...

6. Quitting my job and taking a big risk with starting my own business a couple of years ago....kinda.

[paul jones]

1.Discovering Porn on the net

[Dorothy Wood]

Mine are pretty depressing. I don't know if I should say. Hmm, I guess I could just gloss over them.

1. My mom and I leaving my dad when I was 7.

2. My mom's second husband's suicide when I was 17.

3. Becoming estranged from my best friend of 10 years on account of reasons pertaining to #2.

4. Moving out on my own when I was 19.

5. Breaking my foot and needing surgery, 2 weeks after I had moved to Chicago with $300 in my bank account and no job. I was 23 and stupid.

6. Cort leaving me for a man after living together for 7 years off and on. (no homo)

7. Getting dumped unexpectedly last year by someone I thought loved me.

8. My grandmother passing away a couple months ago. That one was very sad, but also made me appreciate my family a lot more. It was just me, my mom and her sister and 3 brothers, hanging out like when I was a little little kid. Even though none of us live near each other (besides my mom and her youngest brother), we all got along pretty well. my uncles and I have such similar personalities, it's eerie. it's like I'm a combo of all of them.


anyway, I believe that #7 and #8 have actually made me into a better/happier person. which is weird, but I guess it just means I'm growing up.

[Helvete]

So yeah, there was this one time, when I did this thing, but got away with it, and that was pretty fucking significant. That's all I have to say on that matter.

[ericlee]

1. My my and dad divorced

2. I almost died as a kid by having scarlet fever and chicken pox at the same time.

3. A friend of mine died by huffing butane.

4. I had rough sex with some girl that liked me in front of 5 friends- one was a girl

5. I joined the army

6. My pops passed away

7. My daughter was born

8. Got out of the army

9. Did a three year tour in the mid east

10. Got remarried

11. Moved to NY

12. I just finished some chicken over rice

[DipDipDive]

- Hearing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band for the first time circa 1992.
- Pops drama circa 1996. Not going into that here.
- Moving from Chicago to West Virginia circa 2002.
- Having my heart broken by serious boyfriend #1 circa 2004.
- Moving from West Virginia to Minneapolis circa 2006.
- The fall of 2008. Also not going into that here.

[mikizee]

I could go into my significant moments but it would hurt my brain too much, and I've only just finished my morning coffee.

[Randetica]

i saw a pigeon eat a fry

[instigator7022]

1. My entire Senior year of high school
2. The entire year of 2008

[Adam]

i started to write some things. but the things i can remember was putting me on a downer, so i'd rather not make others feel that way.

I did the same, but I didn't care about others feelings and putting them on a downer.

But I'm guessing its been documented here anyway. I will say though, its evident for me (and some others it seems) that it is the sad stuff in life that makes you stronger and happier, makes you a better person to know how bad something hurts, more tolerant also.

[Guy Incognito]

1 - mum and dad divorcing when i was two
2 - changing my surname when my mum remarried ( my friends all use my nickname which is based on my new surname, i amrarely called by my first name)
3 - going to college where i did fuck all work and a lot of drugs
4 - meeting my wife
5 - my mum and stepdad separating
6 - learning to DJ
7 - passing my driving test at the age of 32
8 - my daughter being born
9- my step dad dying
10 - meeting my real dad
11 - coping with my wife having a psychiatric illness after our second child was born.

moments 7-10 all happened within the space of 2 months!

[RobMoney$]

- Hearing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band for the first time circa 1992.
- Pops drama circa 1996. Not going into that here.
- Moving from Chicago to West Virginia circa 2002.
- Having my heart broken by serious boyfriend #1 circa 2004.
- Moving from West Virginia to Minneapolis circa 2006.
- The fall of 2008. Also not going into that here.


Damn, you've got more skeletons than the graveyard.

[ericlee]

i saw a pigeon eat a fry

that skyrat better have had the decency to dip it in mayo before he ate it.

[camo]

that skyrat better have had the decency to dip it in mayo before he ate it.

C'mon Eric that's totally absurd.

[fucktopgirl]

right NOW is a significant moment...

[paul jones]

right NOW is a significant moment...

why?

[TAL]

Moving to Finland when I was 9, that changed me completely.
I'm a totally different person now than if I had grown up in Stockholm.

[fucktopgirl]

why?

Because, ever heard that the present moment is the most important one in your life ? :D

[paul jones]

Because, you not ever heard that the present moment is the most important one in your life...:D

that makes zense(y)

[fucktopgirl]

^ make more sense when the ''you not'' is taking off the sentence...

[paul jones]

^ make more sense when the ''you not'' is taking off the sentence...

yeah.I wonder what TAL would have been like if he had stayed in Sweden?

[beastieangel01]

I had some significant things happen, but nothing that complete altered the course of my life (until relatively recently). Things just kept going in cycles.

I'd say:

1. An event that made me finally realize that my Father is not to be trusted/should not be relied on AS a Father.

2. Being without a place to live and having to sell everything, which was very little to begin with. I had no choice, but in some ways I am grateful because I now avoid having too many material things. I think it's better for me. It also makes me grateful to have a roof over my head.

2. The moment I realized that my closest friend, someone I considered to be blood, turned in to a lying, manipulative, leach that became a cancer to me and needed to be cut out of my life completely.

3. Starting over and moving away thanks to the helping hand of a friend, letting me live with him until I could get life back together again. Even though everything hurt like hell and still hurts from time to time, it was the best thing that ever happened to me.

[Nuzzolese]

I guess it's hard to decide which moments are the most significant because the changes that ocurr in us, that we notice, are a result of a chain of moments, not one of which would have been possible without the moment that caused it. So I could say that birth of my little brother was one of the most significant moments in my life, but what about his conception? Isn't that the moment that set it all in motion?

Anyway, he was born, and I admire him for that.

My family moved when I was an infant but I don't remember it. Do you have to remember it for it to be significant?

We moved again when I was 10, and my parents moved again when I was 20. And I followed them two years later. They tried to get away from me but they couldn't!

[Nuzzolese]

yeah.I wonder what TAL would have been like if he had stayed in Sweden?

He would have married Tina Nordstrom and would be fat and jolly instead of wasting away in a Sauna somewhere.

[Echewta]

Probably like 17 or so.

[b i o n i c]

TINA NORDSTROM IS MINE!

[DipDipDive]

Damn, you've got more skeletons than the graveyard.

If you consider the details about my personal history I have yet to reveal to strangers on the Beastie Boys message board on the internet "skeletons," then yeah, I guess I do.

[mickill]

I didn't even think about all the depressing things from my childhood until I read some of the other comments. I guess that my parents separating for a few years had some impact on me, but I don't feel like it made a significant difference to me in the end. I mean, it probably did, but no more than the presupposed impressions that any good or bad experience will leave on you in life. I suppose it's like how my son being born didn't make me anything more than a father still. I just had to start dividing the fatherly obligations between two kids.

I guess it's hard to decide which moments are the most significant because the changes that ocurr in us, that we notice, are a result of a chain of moments, not one of which would have been possible without the moment that caused it. So I could say that birth of my little brother was one of the most significant moments in my life, but what about his conception? Isn't that the moment that set it all in motion?

Anyway, he was born, and I admire him for that.

My family moved when I was an infant but I don't remember it. Do you have to remember it for it to be significant?


Why you breaking my balls? You don't have to be all Doc Brown about it, but yes, I suppose the moment that your ma and pa humped and your brother successfully became an actual zygote did set every other little brother-related moment into motion. And I guess if the moments you don't really remember seem significant to you, they are still significant. I mean, look at Echewta, he's got 17 or so significant moments, and I'm sure that he probably only remembers 3 or so.

[paul jones]

He would have married Tina Nordstrom and would be fat and jolly instead of wasting away in a Sauna somewhere.


I haven't sauna-d in 20 years.I didn't like it much anyway.The best way to sweat off the flab is to drop some pills in a club and dance your tits off

[mickill]

Just to add to my last comment, I don't know if isolating the exact moment that "set it all in motion" was my intention when I initially thought about this. I almost didn't go to the video store where I ended up meeting my wife. I also almost didn't hang out with the friend who dragged me to the video store that day. I was also supposed to work that day. I don't remember any other details, but naturally, a lot of seemingly insignificant moments have led to more substantial things.

Like when I was younger, I stole a gun. The gun actually belonged to a cop. It could have just been one other dumb thing I've done in life. I even thought about getting rid of it. But I didn't. And my younger brother ended up finding the gun in my room and, without me knowing, he and a friend used the gun to kidnap and rob people at gunpoint, on two separate occasions. This wasn't something I would have at all thought he was capable of at the time. He was eventually arrested, and, because he had just turned 18, convicted as an adult and sentenced to 3 years in a maximum security prison. I in turn had to drop out of college to help keep the family business afloat, on a full time basis. I never actually returned to school after that, apart from taking a few classes whenever I've been able to over the years.

While in prison, my brother became addicted to heroin. When he was released from prison, he introduced his best friend to the drug. His friend, who was going through some problems with the mother of his child at the time, became instantly hooked. Some months later, he was found dead in a parked car with a needle still in his arm. So, you could say, none of these things would have actually taken place had I not taken the gun to begin with. And that the one isolated bad judgment call initiated a seemingly never ending chain of unfortunate events.

Maybe the moment that I made that initial mistake did alter my life, and a few others. Or maybe, the people it in one way or another affected, including myself, would have made equally or more destructive choices in life, regardless. I have no idea. But the moments I do recognize as significant seemed to have an immediate effect on me and I knew they would change things from that moment on. I think that the fact that none of this other stuff even came to mind until just now lets me know that I probably think of these things more as depressing experiences and regrets than life-shaping events.

[Helvete]

That's some pretty heavy shit, but life has it's weird ways and you can trace everything bad (or good) that happens to 1 moment. I would pretend that shit happens for a reason and there is some purpose, but that's clearly not true. It's just life.

[mickill]

That's what I mean. I'm glad you get what I'm saying.

[DandyFop]

1. Moving to Salt Lake City from Sacramento when I was in second grade.

2. Doing the Ulster Project, then going to Ireland the next year.

3. Completing my short documentary and being proud of it.

4. My friend committing suicide...and ending a friendship of 10 or so years as a result.

5. Intervention with my sister, where I told her all the things my parents couldn't bring themselves to say. She eventually got clean.

6. One moment during a camping trip with my boyfriend, just...ugh. It's too hard to think about.

7. Moving to Los Angeles from Salt Lake, which involved ending a relationship with said boyfriend. (goodbye sex ftw)

8. Starting improv classes at UCB three weeks into LA. I would not have half the friends out here if I didn't, nor would I have gotten my amazing internship.

9. When the guy/fuck buddy I had fallen for got a girlfriend. After I got over him it was the first time I'd ever been truly okay just being single.

10. Doing my first open mic in a little coffee shop.

11. A few sets, since I have started, that have gone so well that I realized I was doing the right thing.


I have been blessed with a lot of beautiful moments...I guess these are just the ones that stand out in my mind.

[TAL]

This year it's 20 years since I had a sauna the last time.

[mickill]

While I can't really determine how momentous my decision to do so was, or how many lives I may have impacted as a result, it's been 8 months since I've had a sauna, myself.

[mickill]

Brabs, it's strange how many of those moments of yours I can recall.

[Randetica]

i never been in a sauna, it doesnt look fun being near sweaty naked people

[mickill]

Yeah, well, it wasn't a Turkish bathhouse. It was private. I wasn't around naked sweaty dudes.

[Nuzzolese]

I mean, look at Echewta, he's got 17 or so significant moments, and I'm sure that he probably only remembers 3 or so.

I wonder how many are pancake-related.

[mickill]

Yes, I was wondering the same thing.

I also glanced at the thread title and wondered if I should have said "thus far". I wonder how that would have impacted the thread.

[Nuzzolese]

Mickill you have amazing stories in your past! That's terrible, to think that one moment could be responsible for all the bad things that happened. Of course that can't be true because of how you said, other people were involved and worse things could have happened to different people, sooner or later. I'm amazed that you could recall all those details and the order in which they happened, and their related relevance. Have you thought about this before?



Nothing has ever happened to me. I was just thinking about the things that I believe shaped me into who I am, and they sound so silly, just things that happened to me, or around me.

Three family relocations, getting a baby brother (I'd add my older brother but his birth didn't take place in my lifetime,) maybe the moment I met left my first serious boyfriend, then the moment I met my current bf, then when he dumped me and took me back. Yawn!

I can think of some others but they're too personal and I don't like most of you that much to share.

[Nuzzolese]

Yes, I was wondering the same thing.

I also glanced at the thread title and wondered if I should have said "thus far". I wonder how that would have impacted the thread.


"thus far" seems like it should refer to things that have been a constant up to the present moment. "They have been sleeping in separate beds thus far."

[b i o n i c]

that story is heavy.. how did you get it?

[mickill]

I stoled it.


I can recall most of these details because I tend to constantly analyze things. I'm perceptive without noticing.

I can also recall a lot of other troubling and pleasant personal experiences in vivid detail, but they don't really serve any purpose in this thread. They're just things that either were awesome or sucked.

[Nuzzolese]

Once my mom threw away my favorite pillow. I went outside and punched a tree. Then I found five dollars on my way back into the house.

[Nuzzolese]

Once I saw a hawk catch a snake out of the water in Florida. The snake got away.

[mickill]

That's like Karmic debt. It was probably your mom's five.

[Nuzzolese]

Once I got bit by a dead bee.

[marsdaddy]

I've had a few:

my dad took me to Hawaii
my mom found me in Hawaii
my dad died
I went to sleep away summer camp at age 8
whatever I did with my high school girlfriend
so many with the wife, starting with that first date
1st kid's birth
2nd kid's birth
1st emergency surgery
2nd emergency surgery
buying a house in the crazy SF housing market
buying my first automatic transmission car

[Nuzzolese]

My babysitter, Angel, once threatened to beat me if I didn't dance for her. This is very true. I know you might doubt me after that dead bee business but this you can depend on.

[mickill]

What kind of stripper/hookers did your parents have watching over their children?

Okay, whatever. I'm adding my second kid to the list now.

[RobMoney$]

If you consider the details about my personal history I have yet to reveal to strangers on the Beastie Boys message board on the internet "skeletons," then yeah, I guess I do.


A room of complete strangers is a perfect place to reveal "secrets"
It can actually be quite a cathartic excersize.
12 step programs like AA & NA are good examples of it.

[mickill]

that story is heavy.. how did you get it?

Okay, I just remembered the details of how I got it exactly. I was working at UPS one summer, loading trucks. I'd found a parcel that wasn't going on one of my trucks, but it came down the line to the end of the conveyor. I was the last loader on the line, so I was bringing it back, but I noticed it was addressed to officer so and so at the local police station. Something told me it was a gun, so I kicked it out the bay door and picked it up later. When I opened it later, just as I'd suspected, it was a gun. A brand new .357 Smith & Wesson. That's pretty much it.

[marsdaddy]

Okay, whatever. I'm adding my second kid to the list now.2nd kids always get Jan Brady'd

A room of complete strangers is a perfect place to reveal "secrets"
It can actually be quite a cathartic excersize.
12 step programs like AA & NA are good examples of it.You like those 12 step programs? What about spin class?!

[ms.peachy]

I've been thinking about this question. I dunno. I'm finding it hard to put it in terms of 'moments'. Like, on the one hand, I could surely say something like the birth of my daughter was one of those sorts of moments; but when I think about it, that moment was really just a the final stage of the overall experience of pregnancy, if that makes sense? Or when my mom died, it wasn't actually her dying that was transfromative, it was the whole experience around it of her illness, rapid decline, and then subsequently dealing with the aftermath. And I couldn't really tell you about the first time I met mr.p; he was just another half-drunk hormone-addled guy at my bar on a Friday (maybe) night - but he kept turning up, being nice, being funny, being a sweet guy, and eventually, when his liver just couldn't take it anymore, asked me out.

But then, there are some fairly clear lines - like moving to London. I mean that's easy, right? One day I lived in the US, then next I lived in England. But is that a 'moment'? when I move to Shanghai (in less than a fucking month, holy shit), will that be a 'moment'?

[b i o n i c]

in general travel is/has always been life changing... id say life pivoting. just learning more about the world and people always has had a pretty big effect on my general psyche/outlook.

i was visiting in s america when i was about nine, my uncle took me to someone's ranch for the week, waaaaay out in the woods by the mountains. it was all these dudes and their sons, my uncle only had daughters. we drove a truck with three huge boars in the back, which were of course slaughtered when we got there. i will never ever forget the sound of them squeeling as they bled to death. it was shocking but i wasnt gross or scary, its weird

we helped how we could with the butchering, rather they wanted us to see how its done. we all helped to make sausages and things out of them and when things got boring, the kids went out into the woods on our own. we each had a slingshot and a knife on a holster. the older one, he was 12, had a shotgun for hunting. we tried to walk to the mountain of course, but they never got closer. it was the end of winter and i remember having to cross this freeezing stream, so we took off our shoes and carried the smaller ones over on our backs. at one point we came to this clearing that i remember like a cloudy dream.. there were these really big animals milling about, i dont know what they were but they looked like oxen or something like that. on the way home we stopped to watch a rally race and barbeque along the trail. amazing time, mindblowing for a nine year old.

i could tell a million stories about this one. oh oh, the coolest but maybe grossest thing... when we were out exploring on own we came across one o those giant cylinder containers that they store dry grains in and went 'swimming' in it, all scrooge mcducklike

there are/have been others, but this is the earliest one i can think of now

im not sure how, but this trip HAD to have altered my path in some way. at the very least it gave me a completely new appreciation for nature, but more than that i think that trip sort of woke me to the idea of not being a kid anymore

[marsdaddy]

in general travel is/has always been life changing... Definitely! I forgot to add my first trip to Europe -- 9 days in Paris.

[Echewta]

I'm looking forward to my next truly significant moment eating pancakes off of the stomach of my next girlfriend.

[mickill]

That'd bring you to record 18 or so special moments!


Traveling to and living in far off places is pretty big. There you go, Nuzz.

I can remember everything about flying over NY for the first time, just before landing. It was night, the city looked incredible, and I knew for certain that whatever experiences were to follow would be pretty meaningful to me. And they were. I don't think the experiences altered the course of my life from that point on, but I definitely felt like a different person after.

But going to Disneyland as a child, despite being a huge huge deal to me at the time, probably wasn't the character building momentous event I made it out to be to my friends.

I've been thinking about this question. I dunno. I'm finding it hard to put it in terms of 'moments'. Like, on the one hand, I could surely say something like the birth of my daughter was one of those sorts of moments; but when I think about it, that moment was really just a the final stage of the overall experience of pregnancy, if that makes sense? Or when my mom died, it wasn't actually her dying that was transfromative, it was the whole experience around it of her illness, rapid decline, and then subsequently dealing with the aftermath. And I couldn't really tell you about the first time I met mr.p; he was just another half-drunk hormone-addled guy at my bar on a Friday (maybe) night - but he kept turning up, being nice, being funny, being a sweet guy, and eventually, when his liver just couldn't take it anymore, asked me out.

But then, there are some fairly clear lines - like moving to London. I mean that's easy, right? One day I lived in the US, then next I lived in England. But is that a 'moment'? when I move to Shanghai (in less than a fucking month, holy shit), will that be a 'moment'?

Well, you could say that between finding out that you were having the baby in the first place, and then the joy that follows once everything's gone according to plan and you've officially become a mother, you have two isolated moments of relative significance, no? Finding out about your mom's illness, and being forced to confront whatever you felt at that point is probably another.

Perhaps, also, when mr. p actually asked you out. Even if it was well after you'd met him. Wouldn't that be the precise 'moment' you're looking for? I guess that, personally, I'd determine the significance of the moment by what immediately transpired from it. Like if I'd met my future wife, but then didn't see her again until some months later, and then asked her out, that initial encounter probably wasn't really the moment that sealed the deal, since she could have just as easily begun seeing someone else in that time.

[mickill]

It just occurred to me that nobody seems to have thought of losing their virginity as anything significant, myself included. Unless I just missed it somewhere.

But it was probably included among Echewta's numerous moments, I'm sure. Possibly more than once.

[ericlee]

Of course I don't go into details of the overseas duties but I remember my 2nd day in country. We saw just a pair of legs on the side of the road with no torso to be found. We named it crazy legs. After seeing crazy legs, it opened my mind to what can be expected.

Pretty much during the whole tour, everyday was significant. I'll leave it at that.

Back to other things..

-walking in to find my mom covered in puke, eyes rolled into the back of her head and blood coming from her nose. She od'd on cocaine and lived through it.
-the time her house got raided for drugs cause she was selling
-the time she finally got clean and has been for 15 years

[paul jones]

We named it crazy legs.


after the excellent breakdancer from the Rocksteady Crew ?:)

[ericlee]

after the excellent breakdancer from the Rocksteady Crew ?:)

Not sure how it came about. My 2 friends and I looked at each other and said Crazylegs.

Nice sig. It's a Mr. Show quote.

[Helvete]

Eric is probably the only person I look up to on this board.

[ericlee]

Eric is probably the only person I look up to on this board.

Nah, your taller than me. I'll tell you what though, I've rolled with some British RF before and also got to party with them a bit. I kinda wish some of our troops followed their standards.

Also, once at a party at my pad in Q8, one of them got so drunk and dived into my pool head first. Into the shallow end.

Then him and his crew had to drive to Camp Doha where vehicles get searched and he's bleeding profusley from his head and reeking of alcohol and there isn't supposed to be any alcohol at all in the country, especially on base but he pulled it off somehow and got med attention. Fucking 14 staples on his forehead.

[Helvete]

I've been to Doha, it was pretty cool there. Much better than the fucking Basrah I'd just spent a good few months at. Anywhere you Americans are at, I like. Brits only, then it sucks.

[ericlee]

I've been to Doha, it was pretty cool there. Much better than the fucking Basrah I'd just spent a good few months at. Anywhere you Americans are at, I like. Brits only, then it sucks.

Camp Doha in Kuwait? It closed down in '05, I was actually one of the last of the people there till everything transferred to Arifjan.

Sucks if we just missed each other.

[Helvete]

Ah no, I mean Doha in Qatar. I've been to Buehring which opened after Camp Doha closed and also Al Udeid in Qatar. That was USAF though, still a cool base. And another in Kuwait which I can't remember the name of when we all left Iraq.

I think my Army career was just starting as you finished up yours.

[ericlee]

your taller than me

goddammit, I'm a spelling nazi hypocrite.

[ericlee]

Ah no, I mean Doha in Qatar. I've been to Buehring which opened after Camp Doha closed and also Al Udeid in Qatar. That was USAF though, still a cool base. And another in Kuwait which I can't remember the name of when we all left Iraq.

I think my Army career was just starting as you finished up yours.

Man, freakin' Buehring was just an open area with a few porta johns and some construction going on when I first got there. It's advancing, quite a bit actually, you've probably seen it all finished.

I just don't know how to feel about us just moving in and building shit but, it's either that or just desolate land where the lizards and sheepherders roam.

Hopefully it serves a purpose but if they keep decking the damn places out with the greatest dfacs around and pools and such... Bleh. I'm just tired of it all.

I've never been to the actual Doha, I heard it's about as nice as Bahrain.

[hitmonlee]

1. sexual assault at home when i was 17. to this day i can't bear being home alone at night.
2. my first hit.
3. when i was young and i realised how very unimportant human beings and life are.

[ericlee]

I suppose mr kill can add himself a few cool notches on his belt.

He made a thread in which everyone seems to be telling some horrific stories but yet, they're there telling about it.

A group of folks just telling who they are and not being ashamed from it, but learning and being stronger from it.

Now, capt. Obvious is tapping me on the shoulder and asking me why did I eat that chili burrito for dinner.

Gotta go..

[camo]

I shot a sparrow in the eye and out of the other with an airgun once by simply shooting blindly in a tree.

[ericlee]

I used to dip and spit tobacco on a fly while it was on the ground. Fuckin' killed the thing.

[russhie]

Realising that my mum (and by extension all other adults) is fallible.
The first time my ex boyfriend told me he loved me.
My grandfather's death.
The sudden end of my first and only serious relationship.
Being the object of another person's adoration, capturing their undivided attention for a short period of time...amazing.

[jackrock]

Realising that my mum (and by extension all other adults) is fallible.


When I realized my parents (and everyone in a similar generation) are BATSHIT INSANE and always will be.

[roosta]

i thought about this and tried to compile a list but i can't really do it. all the things in life which are significant to me are things like friends and family, but i can't boil it down to "one" moment in any case. Like Nuzzoleze, the more i think of it I just keep tracing it back..and often the "trigger" moment wasn't really a significant moment.

Then I think about big things in my life (deaths of friends/family) etc. and they didn't really change me, or if they did I can't put my finger on what exactly they changed. Changes happen over time and are the result of different things all piling up.

Or maybe just nothing significant has ever happened to me. But that's ok, i'm a happy man.

[russhie]

It just occurred to me that nobody seems to have thought of losing their virginity as anything significant, myself included. Unless I just missed it somewhere.


I was thinking the same thing, actually.
Personally, losing mine was pretty pleasant experience, but it wasn't a defining moment in my life - more rite of passage than anything else.

[yeahwho]

4

[b-grrrlie]

Standing on the sofa, watching through the living room window two squirrels running round and round up a pine tree, I was about 1½-2 yrs
Moving to southern Finland when I was 9
Hearing Bowie the first time
Moving to north when I was 13
Seeing Bowie the first time
Moving to Sweden when I was 20
All the gigs in London 83-86
Meeting my Irish boyfirend, love at first sight
Crashing with a cyclist after I was informed I had cancer
Breaking my neck
Hearing bluetits sing outside my balcony
Smelling my white paeony the first time
Seeing my tree paeony to bloom the first time six years after I planted it, three flowers blooming for two days, can't wait to this summer!

[Randetica]

Breaking my neck




gangsta

[Fern]

2

[Freebasser]

Almost one.

[DIGI]

So Mike, I've been meaning to ask, what biz have you gotten into? Good for you, by the way.

[mickill]

Investor relations. That's over and done with, though. Maybe we'll start up again once the market/economy picks up again in 2013 or whenever.

I just trade stocks from home right now.

[funk63]

Childhood was the best, going to disney, shit like that. Then sex, drugs, getting my license. Then highschool.

[rirv]

My mum and dad dying when I was 4 and 9 respectively.
I often wonder what I would be like now if I had been brought up for longer by them.