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The one thing that changed your life forever...

maflynn said:
By accepting Jesus as my savior.

I was on a downward spiraling path in my life when I repented and became a Christian. I'm not perfect now - far from it, but my life has been completely transformed thanks to Jesus.
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Same.

I've told people often before that Christianity is either absolutely true or the most compelling deception imaginable. Which of those is true is outside the scope of this thread :)

Either way, Christianity has by far been the single most influential thing on my life.
 
lewis82 said:
Same here. I didn't write it in my earlier post but it was an important part of my crisis. I was scared! At first I couldn't sleep, I kept thinking about it. And then I accepted it, and decided I needed to enjoy life more and not care about the future (to a certain point), live life day to day.
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Exactly what I did tbh. I had one or 2 panic attacks too.
 
Great responses guys! I wanted to liven up this thread again, perhaps since January when I started this maybe some of you experienced something in your recent lives that have changed the way you do things?
 
I couldn't name just one. But it's probably working with successful people. Being around really wealthy and rich people changes your prospective a lot. Also working around in the fashion industry...
 
Being diagnosed with a hemangioma in my brain stem last Christmas. I will be 28 in exactly one week, and it got me to really think about what I have done to date...and made me realize that I am not living up to my potential in my youth.

Since the diagnosis, everything including work has been more fun, and I never take anything for granted anymore.
 
For me personally,it was being told I had ADHD and dyspraxia,My teachers always said I had potential and I never tried,but after finding that out I try in my studies.
 
Can't really say it's just one thing...

  1. Kids (x2)
  2. The loss of my parents.
  3. Near-death experiences, when I learned to really, really appreciate oxygen (x2, but having nothing to do with the kids :p)
  4. The day I realized I could out-compete 90% of my high school class in spite of dyslexia.
  5. The day I first gazed on Jupiter and its moons through a decent telescope - like the near-death experiences, it puts things in perspective.
 
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I'm only 19, so I still have much life to live, but I think the one thing that has changed my life since is the summer before college. In a time that I considered to be limbo, I was so happy to be done with high school and to start off college, but so sad to leave the friends I had made. I don't know about you guys, but my high school experience was one of the best 4 years of my life. I heard so many horror stories of other people's high school experience when I came to college. People being so happy they're finally gone from the small town they're from or the big city that is overwhelming, but I hated leaving. That's why the summer was limbo.

Why did it change my life? Honestly, I don't know. I think it was realizing to take advantage of all the memories and times you spend with your loved ones and friends. This may be the last time you ever see them, so make sure you use every second of it to be happy with your friends. I used to be such a materialistic person, and I still can be, but there is no amount of money that can pay for all the memories I made with my friends that summer.

I know I still have much more life to live, but ever since I've come into college, I have definitely learned to appreciate the little things more, and to live and laugh, for it is short.
 
- Moving across the country from California to New York for college. At 18, from my calm part of the Bay Area to the hustle & bustle of New York was a culture change. Had to "toughen" up a bit but it's also when I first had a real sense of freedom.

- Spending over a year and a half overseas in Asia. Eye opening to see how fortunate I am to have what I have, how much of a struggle every day is for other people and how beautiful my "homeland" is. I appreciate what I have much more after that trip.
 
InvalidUserID said:
- Moving across the country from California to New York for college. At 18, from my calm part of the Bay Area to the hustle & bustle of New York was a culture change. Had to "toughen" up a bit but it's also when I first had a real sense of freedom.

- Spending over a year and a half overseas in Asia. Eye opening to see how fortunate I am to have what I have, how much of a struggle every day is for other people and how beautiful my "homeland" is. I appreciate what I have much more after that trip.
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Where in Asia were you?
 
This is a great thread to bring back.

Getting fired. Best day of my life (Though I didn't know it then.) Through this I lost a girlfriend, married my wife (not the same person), came back to my faith, got a better job, bought a house, and learned to cope with my depression - all in the matter of about 8 months....

Six years on, I still have the wife, the house, the job, and my church family. Still battle with depression, but it's not so overwhelming anymore. (Just knowing what it is is half the battle.)
 
InvalidUserID said:
I visited Vietnam, The Philippines, China, Japan and Korea.
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Awesome. I have been all over South Korea, and most of the country is beautiful, but there is still some extremely poor people there with nothing, Japan is similar though probably a little better from the few places I have been there (Tokyo, yokohama, Nagasaki,Osaka, Nala and Kitakyushu).

I have friends that have been to the other three countries and I am shocked by some of the filth, and some of the public bathrooms. At the same time, there are clean and beautiful areas right around these areas.

I've seen Chinese public bathrooms with just a large (shared) hole in the floor (watch your step), and Vietnamese bathrooms where your poo just floats out on top of the ground (I guess above ground open plumbing would be the phrase I'd use).


EDIT: I want to add, you're one lucky young person, I am jealous of your travels.
 
Stopping my alcoholic father's violent rampage and seeing him in prison where he belongs. It's amazing how confronting the worst in another person allows you to come to terms with the worst in yourself. Courage, strength, conviction… sometimes it's through hardship that you come to learn what these things really mean.
 
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