I don't mean the obvious gaining of carnal knowledge. How old were you? Was it a certain life event?
2006-09-12 09:22:29 · 26 answers · asked by Go! 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
i didn't know lost innocence would be so associated with such bad events. i cannot choose in this case
2006-09-15 04:27:11 · update #1
Might have had something to do with a trip to Amsterdam when I was 14.
2006-09-12 09:23:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
There was the time when I realized my parents didn't love each other and a divorce was to soon take place (age 7).
There was the time when I witnessed a car/motorcycle fatal accident (age 9)
There was the time when I heard the live report on the radio about a mass murderer shooting people from the University of Texas tower (age 11)
There was the time when my Mormon girlfriend turned out to be a sex-starved girl instead of the virgin-in-white I'd dreamed about (age 18)
There was the time I toured the World War One battle-scarred grounds of Verdun and visited the World War Two Dachau gas chambers (age 19)
There was the time when it was just me, two state troopers and seven bodies under raincoats alongside a remote Texas county road, following a two car head-on collision...two of the bodies were of small children (age 26)
Each of those events played a major role in shaping me, my character and my career choices.
2006-09-12 16:35:16 · answer #2 · answered by docscholl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was the summer of '97, in which my older sister married and divorced the father of her 1 year old child (blame the guy for beating her up though), in which my own father brought a girlfriend home resulting in a very nasty breakup between my parents, and myself having to take care of my mother. And that same summer I finished secondary school and HAD to chose a college afterwards though I was still unsure what to do, and leaving school meant coming to terms with losing the girl I'd been in love with for over 5 years. Then when I went to Greece to meet a close friend, we went to Kos together where we had a very nasty physical fight. So in all respects, it took me but 2 months or so to shed off any innocence I had left.
2006-09-12 16:46:14 · answer #3 · answered by McAtterie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I realised how futile relying on adults to believe you was at around four or five years old. I was told not to tell but I did anyway and got a slap, so I learnt to scream and bite instead. (it's not as bad as you think but it would have been worse if I wasn't such a fighter, I hated the Methodist Church with a passion from that day)...
WTF? Why have I got a thumbs down for fighting off a Methodist jackass who would have abused me given half the chance???
2006-09-12 16:28:07 · answer #4 · answered by CC...x 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Lost innocence?? I guess it still hasn't happened! I get accused of being naive because I still believe in and try to find the good in people!
@ 45 it is a way of life, not lost innocence
2006-09-12 16:31:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anarchy99 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I woke up one morning to find my deceased father lying in bed. His skin was cold to the touch, and his eyes were rolled back. I tried to wake him for what seemed an eternity, without success. I stood beside his lifeless body wailing and moaning from the sharp emotional pain of loss, with my head on his chest seeking for his comfort. I was only six years of age when I felt that pain. That is the moment I think I lost my innocence. God rest his soul.
2006-09-12 16:27:22 · answer #6 · answered by Suz E. Home BAKER 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I was 22 and I found out my bf cheated on me.
Even when my dad left my mom and I for another woman, I always thought that would never happen to me, I had the idea that I was too strong, too "perfect" for my bf to lie to me.
I know now that I was dead wrong and that my innocence about relationships took me to where I am today. Fighting with his infidelity, rebuilding my self esteem and considering if i want him back or not
2006-09-12 16:25:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
When I was six, my father left and my mother died. Obviously the loss of innocence is accumulative over a lifetime, but those events are what instigated it.
2006-09-12 16:24:38 · answer #8 · answered by anonymous 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The idea of 'losing one's innocence' all at once in a reveletory flash is poetic, romantic nonsense. If one does lose one's innocence at all, it is a process that takes years or decades. A single event might instigate the process, but that's all it does.
2006-09-12 16:24:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
High School. This place changes everyone! The pressure of school work, the crowds of people you hang out with, the feeling of independence (driving, dating, growing up) will change everyone and all lose their innocence in high school.
2006-09-12 16:25:26 · answer #10 · answered by Keith Perry 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I was 19 years old. A non-normative event, yes.
2006-09-12 16:25:14 · answer #11 · answered by Encyclopedia Allie 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋