What was a life changing moment for you?

Question

I'm doing a project for speech on moments that have changed peoples lives. It can be major or simple. Just give a little story about what happened and what it changed. Thanks.

Answer 1

Two & a half years ago my dear wife had a brain aneurysm rupture without warning. We were unaware that it existed. She survived thankfully, (not many do) but because of the location of the aneurysm she now has severe short term memory loss as a result. Her long term memory is phenominal.The right frontal lobe of the brain controls memory as well as organizational skills. Her memory span is apprx. 10 minutes then everything goes away. She went from being a very active person who just couldn't sit for more than 5 min. without having to be doing something & now she does very little because she cannot organize her thoughts or her efforts long enough to accomplish all the things a women does in her daily routine. Housework is a definite challenge. Her main hobby or pasttime was reading & baking. She read a book a week on average & everyday we were treated to some of her delicious goodies from the oven. Now she doesn't read at all & following recipes is almost impossible for her. If you,ve seen the movie "Fifty First Dates" you've seen my life as it is today. I keep diaries, take lots of photos etc. to help keep her focused. Even T.V. programs are a challenge. All it will take is a commercial break & then everything goes away. The saddest part of all was when she was at her worst immediately after her surgery her Mom & some of her siblings who she had not seen for 9 yrs. ( they live out of province) rushed to be with her & she has no recollection of them being here at all. However we have the photos & the internet for them to keep in touch. To add to this sad situation 6 mons. ago she was diagnosed with another aneurysm on the other side her brain. It is now being monitored very closely until she is well enough to endure another major surgery. So far so good. I've taken an early retirement to be her full time caregiver. I pretty well do everything now; the housekeeping, the banking, the shopping & like most men never appreciated the many things our wives do for us in order for us to be successful. I have a whole new perspective now!!!!! This lovely young lady is only 49 yrs. of age. She cared for me for 32 yrs. & raised 2 terrific children plus a granddaughter & now it's my turn to care for her. My advice to anyone is to cherish the time you have together both family & friends. Life can take a traumatic irreversible change in the blink of an eye. My special advise for all the men folk is to stop & realize the very treasure that supports you cares for you & loves you unconditionally is far too often is greatly unappreciated or rewarded for the sacrifices they make to ensure your success & happiness. I'm fortunate to still have my little treasure with me & hope the next surgery won't change that. Until then we'll continue on with no regrets, a little sadness perhaps, because there are lots of folks worse off than we are. We still have each other & that's what love, marriage & commitment have given us.

I wish you luck on your project young lady. I hope you do well. If you would like any more background or info fell free to e-mail me.

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So for now I'll wish you & yours an early Merry Christmas & a Happy Healthy New Year......

Answer 2

Life Changing Moments

Answer 3

Reading the book " Healing with Angels" by Doreen Virtue. ( I think Doreen is the first name) It isn't all about angels by the way. Anyway, in reading that I found out that it is very likely that I am a star child/ indigo kid. (read the book if you wanna know what that is) For quite some time prior to reading that book, I really felt like although I enjoy my job, I wasn't really contributing to society in that job and that really bothered me. I wanted to be interested in a job where I could make the world a better place but so far I don't really have one. Anyway, the book says that Star Children often don't have a meaningful job, but a job in which they come in contact with many people. Their contribution to society is how they are role models and affect the people that surround them. Reading that made me feel so much better about myself and my life, knowing that its the people in my life that matter, not what I'm doing for a job. Since then I've been even more positive and caring and try to set a good example every day. That is also partly why I come on here answering peoples questions, to help them through difficult or puzzling situations and give them hope. I also just find it very rewarding.

Answer 4

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 5

I had just got my divorce finalized, had two young daughters (4yrs old, 13 months old) to look after, was on my way to the doctor's because they found cancerous cells, and about quarter of the way there I lost control of my car on black ice and crashed into a snowbank that was at the bottom of the hill. My car did 360s from the top all the way to the bottom. As soon as I finally got it pushed off to the side of the road, 3 transport trucks almost hit me as they lost control of their trucks. It was only by mere inches that each of them missed my car, and me.

How did that change my life? Made me more protective of my children, made me happy to be alive (almost 4 times in about 15 minutes I could have been killed, so I am extremely lucky), happy that my divorce went through, and made it so that this rat race we run to get money / money / then more money just doesn't matter as much to me anymore. Money is nice yes, but my family and friends, and now my current fiance is more important to me. I'm thankful everyday that I am still here.

Oh, and I've been cancer free ever since.

Answer 6

As a roofer, I worked for an employer who cared about nothing but money. He pleased customers as much as he needed to get what he wanted. As an employee, I didn't care a lot either, but I was thinking only of my employer. I began to roof an addition to a house during a rainy period. It was tarped. I checked the weather and if the chance of rain was too great I wouldn't go. After the owner asked me to try harder to get something done, I was still lackadaisical. The owner told me that the house was leaking and that it was damaging the finished part of the house. This was the type of guy I naturally respected, the type who would try just about anything and do well at it. It seemed like he was about to cry, and I have rarely felt so badly about my own behaviour than I did then. Every day after that I went to work regardless of the forecast. Once a wind came up and blew the tarp right over top of me. The rain came, but I was between 2 dormitories so I had room to work beneath the tarp. I kept roofing. I got the roof done in a short time. The owner passed shingles to me on an awkward part. When I was done, both the owner and his wife said bye to me. That taught me to take personal responsibility for my own behaviour regardless of the attitude of those with authority over me.

Answer 7

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In all seriousness, when i realized that there were actually people "out there" who truly believed that the Earth was flat -- when i became acquainted with the mentality that allowed for no other outlook but their own -- when I began (as a child) to notice that there were very highly irrational people in the world whom you could NOT reason with, who, during an argument, would change the context, change the subject, resort to insults, who would begin shouting so as not to have to listen to your comments, and who would become so emotionally charged, that not only would they actually lose track of what we were talking about to begin with, but would begin tossing things around the room -- when these things hap'n'd to me, they did, in fact, change my outlook rather drastically, and made me more cautious; i learned how to approach people more carefully and without so much presumptuousness. I did not want to be wasting my time, energy, and emotions on people like that anymore. Even now I still find myself hugely dismayed when i encounter such types. It was a very disappointing experience for me bcuz I (as a child) had thought that if you spoke to people rationally that they would respond similarly, i thought that they would be open to and even curious about other ideas. I was quite wrong. Very much. So those experiences did open my eyes to another aspect of life among the humans ...

Answer 8

I have had some, as far as I remember
1- When I got my college degree
2.- When I got married
3.- When my first child born
4.- When my Wife died
5- When my children took their own road
I pray for no more changes, must of them good or bad rotate your thinking 180 degrees, and most of the times you have to restart your life to a different manner, sometimes that is traumatic considering that you feel like you have wasted part of your life. I have observed that the consistence in the life guide you to satisfactions and success, Consolation is that many beautiful memories arise in your soul and make you to love more the life.

Answer 9

When I told the Naval recruiter that I did not want to enlist. Up to that point in my life I had been following everyone's advice. That was my first major decision, albeit a bad one upon reflection, but my decision none the less. After that I started being more independent and making my own choices for good or bad. In other words I started living my life instead of letting others live it for me.

Answer 10

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What was a life changing moment for you?
I'm doing a project for speech on moments that have changed peoples lives. It can be major or simple. Just give a little story about what happened and what it changed. Thanks.