Has anything happened to you that makes you see your world in different way?

Question

Has it made you see there must be changes in your life?

Angry kid,
I'm sorry about your mothers illness. I hope that medical science will come up with something very soon and that your mother's cancer will not return. My best wishes, Cassandra

Steven C,
just because your mother lied to you doesn't mean everyone you come in to contact with will do the same. Don't let anyone tread on your dreams, there are some good people in the world.

I hope one day you will understand why she lied to you and if not, try and think of the things you can love about her. Good luck.
Cassandra

Answer 1

The thought is just in the manner of speaking, but the truth of the question is everyday life. Things happen to people sometimes that if would happen to someone else some other time would make them think, feel and even act differently for good. There is always some-other-times and some one else or some other place for me. It is never fully me, not myself, at least not right now. I see it all; and I often feel the way I should feel. I even think and plan in a bid to change it all once and for all, but nothing ever happens, not in the world I see and that I should share … everyday is a new day. I always wait for the time to bring new opportunities, but in fact, and quite unknowingly, I want to forget it all under the pretexts of renewal, all the fruit of my deliberations and experience everyday. I want every new moment to reassure me for what I have been in the moment past; I want every day to present to me a slate wiped clean of all the ill scores and smudges made so far, a neat and clean bill of health despite all the excesses and transgressions of the past. What more then could happen to me when I am what is happened to me always, and all the things in comparison to this happening pale into insignificance, all in eye if not entirely useless but is most of the times ineffectual.

The fact of the matte is that my life is great, but do I see this? Do I appreciate my own courage, fortitude and ingenuity? Do I see that I am already making a progress? That I am doing so well in certain cases that hardly do I find anyone else doing the same? Only if I could see myself as another person, as a bystander, or as a spectator distanced from the makings of my own; just on day in my own company would be enough to change my life.

Answer 2

Hi,
Fundamentally I feel I am the same person I have always been but through life I have learned more and there are so many things that have happened that have changed my way of thinking and behaving. I was very religious, attending church every week, up until around 19 years when my sister a wonderful girl had an accident that left her paralysed. I went through around five years of soul searching, looking into different religions, questioning why? etc
This I feel helped strengthen my spiritual beliefs; it was something I had to go through. Although I still respect all the religious teachings of my youth I am now able to also see life and the mystical side of life from a different perspective. Having children changed me in that I was less selfish; my family’s needs come first. Dealing with deceitful people in business has made me less trusting and more shrewd in a business sense. I trust those who have earned my trust I am wary with those who haven’t. Having constant problems with in-laws led me to make the firm decision a long long time ago to move to another part of the country; it’s one of the best decisions I ever made. Change can be a good thing as it makes us more self-aware and more in control of our actions. Some changes however can shatter our lives; these are changes we have no control over and no doubt they will make us see the world in a different way. Hopefully not a bitter or resentful one.
Polly

Answer 3

I had this amazing experience of feeling the presence of Jesus, now I see the world totally differently. I made a few changes, but not because I was 'told' to, I just felt certain things I used to do were not right any more.

Answer 4

My life changed in May last year. I had an accident at work, and I had to have my right eye removed. This made me realise how hard every day life, is for blind and partially sighted people. Now I face the prospect of losing my other eye, due to diabetes. If that happens, I don't know what will happen to me, It puts your life in perspective, doesn't it.

Answer 5

For me, the invention of the internet.
The internet has made available to me answers to almost any question I have. I learn in one evening on the internet more things that I could ever learn in real life.

The people who made the internet, a company that works for the military, have been hired by the military to make "INTERNET 2!!" Will be better, faster, than what we are using now.

I cannot wait to try it out when it becomes available.

Answer 6

Yes, my Mum.. who is an absolute Angel, has never smoked, drank heavily or done anyone any harm, has been fighting cancer for 7 years and it keeps coming back.

It`s made me realise that Karma cannot really exist and our future is mapped out randomly. Otherwise the good wouldn`t suffer and Nazi War crimainals wouldn`t live into their 90`s!

So just live how you wanna live, if you wanna smoke, drink just bloody do it. Life is **** anyway!

Answer 7

yes, my mom died of cancer and it was life altering....so many things have happened to me since she died that I can't say it's coincidental...she's out there with her hand in my life.

when she was diagnosed with cancer I went off the deep end, drug use and homelessness....I ran from it. I didn't know she had died until a police office informed me there was a missing person's report out on me and my mom had passed away a month earlier. The next day I gave up the drugs, went to a shelter and started to get my life together...i see things differently now. I see what's important.

Answer 8

Persistently bad stuff has happened to me in the last few years. It has made me less upbeat about life than I used to be. But I know that some of the bad things happening in my life are a result of poor decision-making on my part. Even philosophers sometimes--maybe often--fail to act rationally in their practical lives.

Answer 9

definitely...........and i have changed. Less the happy to see you type, more the Hello whats this ere then. No not police...
A lot more of what is suitable to me,
because a lot of the stuff that is suitable to others who come into my life I will not find acceptable, as I found during a very long term marriage, to the wrong type who new the wrong types.
PHEWWWW

Answer 10

Yes, when me and my family moved from one town to another, my ENTIRE life changed. My parents didn't trust me as much, and they became much stricter. My father blames all problems on me. It's true, they are my fault, but, I didn't do anything. My family is fighting over me. I was proposed to two years ago, my parents disagreed (so did I) and my entire family began arguing over who I should and shouldn't marry.
My life is weird. . . I love one moment and the next, I am rotting in hell.Any advice?

And yes, I do see some changes that need to be made, but unfortunately, I can't change them!