moment that changed your life?

Question

what moment in your life completely changed things for you and made an impact?

Answer 1

having my little boy and knowing i am totaly responsible for someone else future it scary and exciting i love it

Answer 2

I thought I had everything I wanted -- great husband, lovely children, relative financial security, lovely house, etc. Then a few months ago I accidentally ran across my first love, which was surprising because we both now live in the same state pretty far from where we first knew each other and grew up. The moment that changed my life is when during a friendly, catch-up conversation I realized I had never stopped loving him from when we were 18 years old. There had been hints of it in my heart over these many years but I ignored them, writing it off to my being silly and nostalgic, after all, we were both kids when we dated and it was a long time ago. But the realization hit me like a punch to the stomach. We are both married to others with children and he does not feel the same say, but now my life is different and I am still learning how to cope with this. It makes me angry, actually, because it does not make any sense and I don't want to feel this way -- I had my life in perfect order! I want to move on and haven't been able to yet. Maybe this is His way of telling me I'm not in as much control as I thought?

Answer 3

When I was a teenager, and I decided-purposefully- to not believe in God and Jesus anymore. Mentally, I turned my head away. Two things happened in that moment, a Presence I hadn't noticed there before was suddenly gone- an empty spot left. Another is that I faced this sudden terrible darkness. I understood in that moment I was being allowed to see it. The emptiness filled me, and I *knew* that being separated from God was the worst thing that could ever happen, to me or everyone. Whether dead or not. Absolutely frightened, enlightened, and utterly lonely I turned back to God. I cried out, emotionally. The same Presence returned. It wasn't a lot, but it was enough. No matter how messed up my life, or what bad decisions I make, I know He is there.

Answer 4

In the passage of life there may be Not just one moment, but many moments which completely change things and makes an impact.

Abondonment, parental divorce, marriage, betrayal, divorce, bankruptcy, umemployment, business accomplishment, auto accident, job loss, new found love, financial struggle, penniless at point of aging.

Humans are continuosly and acting or re acting to lifes serving.

What is a person's outlook on life after such momentous fortunate or unfortunate changes?

Perhaps that is the biggest change of all.

Answer 5

I have had my share of epiphanic moments, thanks in no small part to my unhealthy habit of pondering things to death. And then force these beaten-to-death thoughts back to life, as zombie-thoughts. I'm off point. An example of an epiphany I had was when I had a sudden, frightening, visceral insight into the nature of thought and feeling, in that feeling not only preceded thought, but thought emerged from feeling, and is reliant on the former for its very existence. Another was my paradoxical certainty of the unknowability of reality, which shifts the onus of meaning away from some external source and onto yourself. I've also had various insights into the nature of identity, that are too varied to recount in detail here. Not all epiphanies are helpful. For instance, one presented to me the certainty of the importance of interdependent relationships, and yet I am a staunch loner. Some things simply must be lived with. Another epiphany.

Answer 6

Many things have changed my life and made an impact but the most recent one was a diagnosis of cervical cancer, although I have the all clear life has definitely taken a turn I wasn't expecting

Answer 7

AH. Ooh. Er.. In chronological order, though all a bit longer than 'moments' - when I discovered buddhism wasn't all about misery, when I had cancer, when I had a mid-life crisis and lastly (but not finally) when my son was discovered to have a fatal prenatal abnormality.

First gave me a handle on a means of coping with life, second helped me treasure life and what I have more, third made me get off my a*s and do something different with my life and fourth made my wife and I stronger and closer as a couple.

And having a daughter. :-)

Answer 8

The day events which had conspired over a long time led me, after a singular and decisive experience, to decide that I would dedicate the rest of my life to being the best human being I possibly can.

like many other people my deciding moment also came after a failed relationship did its thing to my head and I wondered how to move on...

Answer 9

When my first true best friend told me i was going to hell for not believing in god. Of course she is my ex bestfriend. But i learned to avoid people that are too hooked up on religion.

The other thing is finding out i had exema
and that i was at risk of having heart disease
and when i found out i had it because i was severly depressed.
When I learned that i am judged badly because of my skin.
But the one that really hcnaged me was when i never had a my heart just crushed and put through a shredder.
I learned that I pretty much irritated with life but became very smart.

Answer 10

My divorce 10 1/2 years ago and complete break 8 yrs ago. The best thing my ex-husband ever did for me, because of how it ended completely I had a chance to stay alive.

Answer 11

What had a profound effect on my life was the day that I learned about the electromagnetic spectrum. High and or low enough frequencies actually, in theory, threaten the boundary between wave and particle forms. (energy and matter). It made me see the world around me quite differently than I did previously.