Life Life Changing Experiences

[Babii-Boo]

How old did they look?
Honestly, some people do that to seek other's attention. They think by doing that, they look 'cool' -.-" Heh.

 

[erikrhys]

i would guess that he was in his early 20's, the asshole.

 

[Avalonblitz]

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i was hit by a car when i was in 6th grade, i was biking down a hill, then i saw a car following me. I moved to the other side of the road and so did he. He drives by and hits me with his side view mirror. It hits me in the back and i go tumbling down the hill. I gets cuts all over and start bleeding like hell, the guys looks back and laughs and i limp home. Which was like a mile away so it kinda sucked ass.

The thing is he looked as if he was trying to kill us.

 

[Runemage]

@boo, running over small children is not cool

all i can say there are a lot of unstable people

 

[erikrhys]

^
yea there are a large number of unstable people in this world. Look at terrorists, murderers, drup dealers, theifs, gangs, the list goes on! the only thing we can do is to remain stable and try to fix the problems the unstable ones make. XD

 

[Paper]

wow...is my life changing experience that unblieveable for people? well...here's another one:

when i was 8 i went into a heat stroke while riding my bike. i was going really fast and then poof! i fainted...all i could remember is that someone helped me walk to my house, and that my left leg was bleeding profusely. as a result i've never rode a bike since the accident... i also stopped wearing shorts out side of my house.

 

[miyi]

oh yeah, I forgot to mention another life changing experience...

I was on a swimming pool, I was 11 years old, and my younger brother about 6, we both can't swim. He was in a rubber duckie floating thingie, and he floated way in the middle of the pool where he was unable to grab onto anything. The middle of the pool gets kinda deep. He asks me for help, and being naive thinking I will be the hero, I did. I held onto one of the walls of the pool, and extended enough with my other arm to reach the rubber duckie, but I lost my handle on the wall. So by instinct, I brought my brother along with me, to drown. Luckily my uncle saw both of us, otherwise we both would have drowned.

It's not so much the drowning itself that affected me. It was the fact that I brought my brother along with me to drown. I felt really guilty for doing this.

I wouldn't say this is overall a life changing experience, but it did kept me away from swimming pools. Up to this day, I still can't swim, and I have a fear of swimming/drowning, and most of all, I avoid helping other people in fear that I will make their situation worse.

 

[PaperYomiko]

I almost drowned once too. I jumped into the deep end of a pool during adult swim without my water wings, because I felt like it. I sank like an anchor - think Luffy. The lifeguard had to haul me out. To this day I have never seen my mom so angry - that was the scariest part But I wasn't really bothered by the near-drowning. I probably just went off and built a sandcastle afterwards. I've always been a very confident swimmer, especially in the ocean.

Anyway, that's not important, what I wanted to say was that miyi, I can see that your situation has really affected you, and I think what you've said is very profound. But just know that even if you make a situation worse for someone, the fact that you tried to help still counts. Your intentions are really what's important. I think it's always better to try and help than to do nothing, no matter how things turn out. Which makes me feel really guilty that I didn't tell this dude I saw driving the other day that his tires were ridiculously low...I hope he figures that out soon...

 

[miyi]

PaperYomiko, thanks for the encouragement, I appreciate it.

Aside from the surgery and near drowning experience that I already mentioned above, for sharing purposes, I hope this is appropriate:

my mother lost her parents at only 12 years of age. Her parents were politicians. But they were assasinated, and made it appear like a robbery.

First they were kidnapped, then robbed, and then shot and killed. My mother witnessed the whole thing. How did this affect her? Well, she is very religious, superstitious, and she gets nervous easily.

 

[Babii-Boo]

Been working in a shop for the last couple of days, doing cleaning. Now I respect all cleaners and know what they go through. Their jobs are even more stressing than just people serving others.

 

[the_hellbringer]

My life kind of changed when I lived 3 months by myself in Spain, when I was working in a Marriott as a bellboy... very hard work, 40ºCin summer, I respect bellboys.
It was the first time I was all by my self, with no body to help me do anything. I have alway had a maid, so she cleaned, cooked and did all the chores. There Ihad to do averything. I helped me a lot. I feel that a grew a little as a peson because of that.

But that wasn't the real problem. The problem was that I'm south american, and well I had to experience some racism. I was called a "sudaca" which is a despective term for calling south americans. Also one time I was mugged only because I was a "sudaca", the thieve told me so and also he told me that I was stealing work from the europeans.

So I was living and working abroad in a harsh environment, with any of my friends near and nobody to help. I think this experience help me to mature a lot and to build some character.






I have other story.
Some weeks ago I went to Machu Picchu, that's in Cuzo, in Peru. There's a mountain behind Machu Picchu called Huaynapicchu. A lot of people climb that mountain. There's a narrow and extremly long path that leads to the top of the mountain, and it's kind of hard walking uphill that much at 8641 feet over sea level
Know I have to say that I'm not a sportist or anything like that, I have a very sedentary lifestyle... almost a couch potato... and I have suffer from asthma, although it's very under control. So that walk was specially hard for me, but I've never liked to surrender.

Huaynapichu is the mountain behind the Machu Picchu ruins.

Spoiler

I took me a long time but at the end I reached the top. I looked down and everything seemed so small ans it was a very beautifull sight. I looked up and I was very close to the sun. I calmed down, start breathing normally and sat down in a big stone in the top of the mountain for a while. And then I felt proud and in peace with myself. I was a very nice feeling. I think I'm gonna do taht at least once a year.

The view from the top of the mountain

Spoiler

I known that it's a very sissy story... but I wanted to tell it anyways.

 

[Lohnt]

Moving to the united states at 9
Visiting my sister in San Diego at 13
Spending a summer in Nice at 16
Spending a summer in Madrid at 18

The Springs of my 17th and 21st birthdays... in a bad way though.

Looking back they all kind of ended badly.. damn.

 

[redcometfm]

Fell in love.

 

[weixiaobao]

Run away from home at around age 5
wander for about two years
something really dark happen around the age of 6
Moving to the USA at age 12
Almost drown by jumping of the high dive without knowing how to swim at age 12
Introduced to the computer and porno and mangahelpers at age 15/16
Recently finished "the Stolen Child" and feel like my life suck really bad..

 

[Charlie]

[mod=Charlie]Threads re opened. Feel free to post in here again. [/mod]

 

[Roflkopt3r]

Gosh I must've had a boring life as I couldn't tell a single moment.
I noticed how my social environment changed me though: Earlier I definitly was something with a "everyone for himself" mindset, kinda capitalistic in a sense. But that changed due to my school class and teachers. There was a nice sense of loyality and to be nice to each other (not overly nice but without serious fights, returning to a nice relation quickly) all the time.

 

[Queenofmuffins]

Mother being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis when I was 12.
Going to Japan for the first time. Working 3 jobs while doing VCE to earn up enough to go back for a year.
Bungy jumping in Thailand this year.
Seeing the way of life for people in countries like Cambodia and Vietnam. Going without food to feed many, many stray kitties.
Getting my open water certification in Indonesia and realising my love for diving.


There's other stuff, but waaay too personal for me to disclose in a forum. ^^;

 

[TheMoa]

I learn how to ride a bike when i was 3 years old. When I was 5 I use to ride everyday with my friends of the neighborhood and I loved the felling. I lived in a new district out of town, so we have plenty of places to ride.
Than, one day, I was coming back home and lose control of the bike. I fell, hit my mouth on the handlebar and broke my tooth.
Shortly after that we moved to a bigger city and I couldn't ride anymore.
When I tried, I discovered that i lost my sense of equilibrium... I can't do anything that requires a lot of balance(surf, skateboard, snowboard).

I unlearn how to ride a Bike, how sad is that?
The thing is, I love motorcycles, but I can't even ride a bike... I'm not afraid or anything like that, I just lost it. I want learn to ride a bike again, I just need to make time and focus on it.

But it's very sad that a simple fell has affected a entire side of my life.

 

[peterbrowns]

I was well into my third case is burn out, when I retired. All things in my life that was the best choice I ever made. Recently, the doctor put me on a diet low in salt to help my lack of kidneys. I lost 40 kg. and feel 100% better. Things Just keep looking at me. Faith lifeblood. Mine is like a tumultuous adulthood and the lives of parents worry. So far, what has happened.

 

[steelwingcrash1]

Seeing how old horses were killed made me always lose my appetite whenever I see dark meat on top of the table. I really hate that dark color. It reminds me how that old horse was beaten up to death. >_<