Looking back on your youth, what is the one defining moment that put you on your present path today?

Question

In some moments of life, there can be that little moment when it seems like it is illuminated, and causes change in ones' life. For me, as a jr. high kid, i was late for work and was giving some lame excuse, and my manager let me know that people don't want excuses, they want results and the truth, and reason.
It made me more responsible for my behavior toward others.

Answer 1

Probably becoming very close to my 7th grade English teacher. I developed a love of literature, and I ended up getting a master's degree in English and becoming an editor.

Answer 2

Defining moments? January 28, 1986, my 16th birthday and the day the of Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion.. I learned that the world can come crashing down around you in the time it takes to walk from one class to another.. I learned a lot about myself and where my priorities lay... Oct 30, 1987, the day my oldest daughter was born... I went from being a free wheeling teenager to a parent, I learned that I was not the most important person in the world.. It was both pleasant and exciting while at the same time being terrifying and overwhelming... Those 2 days for me stick out as the days that I learned the most in the shortest amount of time. Both days I learned something about myself as well as the world around me... Both days were filled with excitement as well as fear...

Answer 3

When I was 18 my Dad gave me a book called Genesis Revisited by Zecharia Sitchin. It took me months to finally crack it open because at that age I hated reading with the passion. But when I finally did open it, I was hooked from the first page and it led me on my path to learning more about spirituality, the universe, God, humans, how the mind works, dimensions, energy, etc. It molded me to be the person I am today which is a very deep thinker, emotionally loveable, unjudging, and kind human being who constantly craves more and more knowledge and wisdom.

Answer 4

When I killed a white kid for stepping on my stolen Nikes and a Black Lawyer took my case just because I was black and he slandered people who presented evidence as "Racists' and it worked and I got off free, that was the moment that i realised that playing the "race Card" was my birthright and now I use it all the time. Any time I'm denied anything, I blame it on racism. It's to the point where I get promotions at work simply to shut me up.
I love White guilt....

Answer 5

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

Answer 6

I know this sounds lame, but when my Mom taught me to sew. It's one of the only hobbies that's endured...And now I do it to relax and create. It's a skill that I am forever thankful for simply for the joy it gives me.

Answer 7

One night stand with my exhusband.

Answer 8

getting pregnant