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Hi everyone. I thought it would be fun if we all told our all time most altering moment, that one moment that changed your life forever, that is, if it isn't too personal of course. Mine would have to be, without question, when wildebrew walked through the door and took my hand and said, "don't be so nervous." I felt so happy and still do whenever i'm with him. He has brought so much magic into my life, and i know he will continue to do that, and it will last forever.
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Hmm well my life changing moment.It would have to be when a big lad from Edinburgh called Alistair MacFarlane walked into my life and saved it he absolutely refused to leave as I slid in to a complete breakdown and became insane.
Ally stayed by my side and acted as confidant bodyguard jester and the kind of brother I'd always wanted he selflessly put himself through hell and kept us together because without his courage humour and belief we could not have survived....I still suffer relapses from the breakdown and Ally knows the warning signs he will drop everything and help me to cope with the fear, irrational thought, and guide me back to normality....My life has been enriched in countless ways by his presence we have climbed some of Scotland's biggest and most challenging hills side by side and i have never once heard him say "ye cannae dae this yin Al gie it a by" Which means simply "You cant!" When Ally developed RP he told me before anyone else and my brother realised after coming to terms with his fear, that going blind could be a blessing as well as a curse,he's chosen to see it as another artistic opportunity to view the world in a different way,which is typical of his positive outlook.
well, I had to take some time to think about this post. I knew when I saw it, I was going to write, but I didn't know what to write., I don't think I had an actually life altering moment. I have probably had several. I think that there are many moments in one's life that helps them to grow and change. I think some of my big ones would be dealing with my uncle's death from drugs. I swore from that moment I wouldn't put myself threw doing drugs. An other huge one was when I met Radio man, he changed me in a lot of ways. Also when UI met Anjira-sama. They both helped me threw a really bad time in my life. My move to university also helped me to grow and change as a person. I can't think of anything else, but I will be sure to write more if I think of any. This was a really good idea for a post!
I'm not sure I've had a single life altering moment yet, but there's lots of moments I really treasure. Meeting some of my bestist pals, who know who they are lol, when I began to get on the Net and meet blind people like most all of you guys and to share stuff with them and learn. Lots and lots of stuff. Being with family and friends ... teh lsit goes on.
Caitlin
these are some good moments, guys.
Some of my life altering moments. Hmm.
My biggest life altering moment was when I had my daughter Chyanna at age 20. i had to grow up very quickly from the nmoment i found out I was pregnant. At the time I was with her dad and making some pretty foolish decisions in my life but as soon as I found out I was having her, things changed, and I settled down, a lot.
Now I am a single mom and have been since she was six months old.
I have lost a lot of loved ones in life which has also changed my life drastically, and just lost another to cancer. i have made a lot of friends in life, and a lot here on zone,, and on the net. I came out here in May, and have made tons of friends. SOme really close, and who I talk to on a regular basis, and others who I talk to not quite as much but who still mean a lot to me.
My friends outside the net are awesome to. Some almost like family, as some of my net friends who I have become very close to are as well.
Also, I met my bf, now fiance, here on zone. We were close as friends for about 2 months before hooking up, but although that's not a lot of time, a lot can happen between two kindred spirits in just a short time. We have been dating for four months now,, but I have loved and lost enough to know that, he is the one, and he is the one who I will, and want to, share my life with. So, yeah! I've had quite a few life altering moments.
I think, so far, my most life altering moment came about 7 years ago.
I had graduated from high school in Iceland and was sort of wondering what to do with my life, I was going to take computer science at a local university and just party, work on my swimming career that, was really coming to an end at the time, and after that I wasn't sure what to do.
I had been hanging out on irc (essentially the same as freedom chat, for those who don't know what it is) in the fan channels for #pulp and #blur, two bands I was a huge fan of then. On one of them I started chatting with a girl (no, it's not romantic if you guys think that) who went to a certain very well respected American University (some of you know which one it is, but I don't want to just blurt it out) and she was talking about how cool that school was and started joking that I should apply. I didn't want to leave home and I was positive I'd never get into a school like that.
Anyways, she kept bugging me to apply, as a joke, I think and eventually sent me the application forms as a Christmas present. I decided just to mess around, took the SATs and scored very well on them + I had my swimming career and very good high school recommendations and, as it turned out, tons of luck. I applied to the school and got in, then also got some financial aid and lots of loans. So in 1998, in September I found myself flying to New York and driving up there and all of a sudden I was alone in a foreign country, not knowing the language completely and wondering what the heck I had done.
This turns out to have been an awesome decission, I graduated, got a job and still live here, have friends and career here, a girl, a band that, I hve to say, writes awesome music (I don't write many of the songs, so I can say that) and I just absolutely love it. If she had never done this I would never be here.
I met her once, she was graduated and was leaving for Pakistan, her home country, she wished me well, we sang a Pulp song together and then she left. I've never talked to her, I have no idea where she is but I think her role in my life was to bring me over here and it's been really amazing. :)
cheers
-B