What are the three most important moments that have impacted your life?
Mine would be...
1) Being hit by a car when I was a kid...it eventually led me to law school. 2) Picking up a guitar for the first time...music is an endless journey 3) When My dad passed away...it made my own mortality less hypothetical
I can't come up with any either Fuzzy. Well, I take that back, the moments I think of as moments are actually quite negative, and the only way they affected the person I am is that I overcame them.
This is really too deep for me right now. But one is:
taking this job. Not my current job position, but the job in the mental health field. I believe it made me a better person. Not that I was bad but it opened my eyes. I feel bad that I used to make fun of the special ed kids when I was a kid. (Never to their face) I wasn't real bad but it still bothers me. And yes I know I was a kid but it doesn't make me feel better. I know I am much better than that now. They have shown me what unconditional love is and it is the best feeling! 2nd reason- I met the love of my life. This definitely changed me. i wasn't EVER getting married! And now I am happily married- lol
So as much as I can hate this job- it gave me great things too
Anything else I can think of right now would be negative- like the drunk driver hitting and killing Earl and Grandma being murdered.
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I've been pondering on this question too. Definitely the births of my grandkids are in my top 3. I'd also have to say that the nasty car accident when I was 23 changed my mindset about my own life and death... i.e. taught me to have some value for my own life. As for #3, that is a tough one. Everything else I think of seems to be very negative.
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That which does not kill me postpones the inevitable.
I think I could come up with a thousand of these days, but the three that have popped to mind first are...
1) Interviewing with a boss at my old job and having him tell me that his approach to management is he never wants to hear someone complain unless they come prepared with three ideas on how to fix the situation. When I went on to be a supervisor and eventually own my own business this is an approach I took with me.
I think in general it's a good way to look at things. Anyone can bitch and moan, but can you step up and offer a realistic solution to fix the situation? They don't have to be good, there's no guarantee they're going to actually work, but at least it shows you've thought about the issue instead of just knee-jerk reacting to it.
2) September 11'th. For the first time in my life I felt fear that my safety was in jeapordy. There were moments there, when the towers were burning, along with the pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, that they thought there was one more plane somewhere up there and they didn't know where. That was scary.
I think 9/11 forever changed the way I view the world.
3) My father dying from lung cancer. I really learned how short life is and how you can be fine today and dying tomorrow, at ANY age. It gave me a much deeper appreciation for family and humans in general over material stuff.
I would really have to think about these...can't do it right now. But I'd have to agreee with Riggs about 911. I think it sort of woke me up from a complacancy I had at that time regarding world events...
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"And like Web, I enjoy throwing JR under the bus. Problem is, it's usually under the special bus that I ride every day". Ghostdancer 12-18-09
1991 Grandparents had passed away, I was my parent(s) this caused me to consider how every second passed by never to be re-lived. You could try to replicate it but, it would never be that exact moment again.
Its the year I quit smoking
Got serious about my relationship with the girl that would be Mrs. Squonk
Too a solid interest in my sons life. (two years later, I would have legal custody)
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There is a good case for 9/11 changing a lot of people's lives. I know it changed a lot of things about my life. For quite a while, I had to deviate my path into and out of my neighborhood because I lived very close to a back up air traffic control tower. As a human being and an American, it made me very angry and sad that there are people who would do such a thing to other people who really didn't deserve to be targeted. It also shaped my job in many ways. I worked on the network recovery team that was trying to restore service to lower Manhattan. It also put me (for a time) on the team that was responsible for designing disaster recovery plans for the network... some of which got used during Katrina which Pambo and I both worked on. Several people I know have done tours of duty in Iraq, including Pambo's sister (Navy Reserve).
Thanks for remembering Undead Day, Squonk. My celebrations are still alive and well.
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That which does not kill me postpones the inevitable.
