Think long; think deep. (We usually "sugar coat" our reasons for making major changes in our lives.) So, what was your real reason?
(I plan to use this input in my next book "Why do people do what they do?") - For example: Christoffer Columbus had a really strange reason for trying to discover the Americas.
2007-05-28 15:24:43 · 18 answers · asked by MrsOcultyThomas 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Dear "jesusm" - we always tend to say that, but what was your underlying reason?
2007-05-28 15:30:18 · update #1
Dear open, I should have said "why he requested to go on the mission?"
2007-05-28 15:32:35 · update #2
Most of you have illustrated a major reason for change: Can you guess that overall phenomenon that is more powerful than simply "climbing the success ladder of life". - so to say.
2007-05-28 15:37:42 · update #3
I have made several major changes in my life and had several different reasons to do so...
Child abuse cuases people to make changes... it did me.
Religion can and most often does change a person...
Loosing faith in ones religion tends to make even more changes...
Finding balance in your spirituality... makes more changes
PAIN, LOSS, DEVISTION... hard times makes changes in lives... miscarriage... birth, death, love... all helped me make changes in my life.
Abuse was a biggy as a child and as an adult that caused me to make changes...
Education... is a major thing that makes changes in lives... especially mine.
2007-05-28 15:30:23 · answer #1 · answered by Shewolf Silver Shadows/Author 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm not sure this is a riddle but the reason I decided to make a major change in my life is a sleep in his bed now. I know its sounds like a tired old cliche but its true. Before he was born and even during the pregnancy I was immature and cared about me only. I was in the delivery room when he was born and when I held him even before he was cleaned I don't know what happened but a sense came over me(only way I can describe it) and I felt for the first time in my life that I was involved in something worthy. I vowed to stop all my stupidity and get my life together. I quit drinking and partying and that was 8 years ago. Me and his mom split up after a year and I wasn't able to see him for almost 5 years and in that time his sister my 2nd born was also away. now we are together with my new baby girl by my wife and we are adopting another little girl so I think that although I went through hell for a while it all turned out just fine. Do you know why it turned out fine?
2007-05-29 00:51:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before my car accident I was just starting to study buddhism. I had just found a group to pratice with and I was going to meetings almost every week. After the accident I saw how precious this life is that we are given and how easily it can be taken away. I do believe if I had not made it that I would have been born again, but there were many things in this life that I had yet to learn.
Since the accident I have been happier and more at peace within myself and I strive to make others happy.
2007-05-28 22:54:49 · answer #3 · answered by gaia3441 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The real reason I made the change from Christianity to agnosticism is that I began to think. I reflected upon everything in my life. I saw how society, culture, and my parents had created me to be a specific thing, and I rejected it all. I let everything go as best as I could, then made my OWN decisions about what to believe.
2007-05-28 22:34:06 · answer #4 · answered by Skye 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Since Chris wasn't trying to discover the Americas, I take it the book will be a lark. He was trying to find a faster way to India so Spain could clean up on the tea trade.
Anyway. I got bored, and decided life was too long to live it the way I was doing. That was my reason.
2007-05-28 22:29:22 · answer #5 · answered by open4one 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Heh. Those things are usually pretty personal, right? I mean, that's why we sugar coat them in the first place.
Still, I'll try to bare my soul: The real reason I left my first husband was not because I got tired of him hitting me, but because I got tired of supporting him financially while he went through his eternal "rough patch". I finally felt that if I was going to be earning all the money by myself, I should be spending all the money by myself too.
I think it was easier for me to focus on that "little issue" than to confront the bigger issue of why I was letting him hit me in the first place (that would open up serious questions about self-esteem, what I'd been taught about relationships and divorce and marriage, and so much more).
2007-05-28 22:29:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I lost 100 pounds after seeing many fat people who couldn't flee from the World Trade Center Towers die in the stair wells along with the people trying to help them get out.
2007-05-28 22:28:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I either had to change or die...
Doing great deal of drugs, making lifelong choices without thought. Lost my home, lost my family.
So was that my real reason...no, I was empty without Christ.
2007-05-28 22:33:29 · answer #8 · answered by 2ndchhapteracts 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Towers got hit. Buddhism interested me. Boethius showed me the light, and I found an angel named anne.
2007-05-28 22:29:38 · answer #9 · answered by Julian 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
because I was a cold hearted person who didnt love people the way i should do
and if i didnt change , i would be a lonely old lady
2007-05-28 22:28:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋