What is the most significant event of YOUR life?

[WhiskeyPapa]

Just a tangent to nickel's thread...

What would you say is the most significant event that you have personally participated in?

For the sake of clarity, I'm going to disallow nebulous things like "went to college", as well as religious conversions (not because I deny their veracity, but because they tend to derail threads.)

So, what event changed your life, defined your life, or perhaps ruined your life?

[ray]

Working as a teacher's assistant with hearing-impaired and special education students aged 3-5.

[whitak24]

running for office and losing in the summer of 2000.

[DarkFury]

Indiana Black Expo 1993...

The day the madness began... :eek:

[Jenny]

The birth of my son.

[nickel]

well, everyone has to be thinking their own journey down the birth canal was the most significant.

[BrewMaster]

this a tough one. probably either meeting my fiancee or visiting Turkey this year (with my fiancee).

[gear02]

running for office and losing in the summer of 2000.

really? which office?


well, everyone has to be thinking their own journey down the birth canal was the most significant.

especially if you do so at any age above 1 day ;)

[Cantacuzene]

Getting a good SAT score. If I had gotten say, a 900, my life would be radically different now.

[brainsmile]

Waking up each day

[BrewMaster]

Waking up each day
so on the day you die, does your life become insignificant?

[Kevster]

For me it would be when I saved two people's lives thanks to knowing CPR.

I know they are two seperate events, but there's no way I can value one over the other.

[faither]

The birth of my children.

[Gothic Girl]

The day I moved to New Mexico. That was when I met my husband.

[Yossarian]

the divorce of my parents

[bachviet]

Our wedding day

[welfareloser]

we have control over the little things in life. it's the huge things, the big damn forks in the road, that are out of our hands.




(and i doubt that someone's personal conversion story would have derailed this thread.)

[caribiner23]

Each of my daughter's births.

[oblongmelon]

While it's obvious that the birth of all my children-it's a given.

Having to identify my 19 year old nieces body when she was killed by a drunk driver. I had to identify her before the family told my sister. (Very unstable medical history, and my brother in law was a parapalegic and legally blind so he couldn't do it)..it changed me forever.

[hoey222]

ya - the baby thing........so far :D

[nickel]

ya - the baby thing........so far :D
you had a baby? :gle:

[kimchicowboy]

attending UCLA. cuz definitely wouldn't be the person i am now.

[ialsohaveadream]

(and i doubt that someone's personal conversion story would have derailed this thread.)

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think he was trying to get us all to say which historically relevant event was the most significant of our life. Not birth of children, going to college, meeting your wife, etc.

Am I right, WWP?

[Nija]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think he was trying to get us all to say which historically relevant event was the most significant of our life. Not birth of children, going to college, meeting your wife, etc.

Am I right, WWP?
I think you're wrong.

[ialsohaveadream]

Well you can think in one hand and **** in the other....

[welfareloser]

:lmfao:

it's the mixed metaphors that are so grandly, decadently funny...

[Nija]

Well you can think in one hand and **** in the other....
I can think in one hand and threw a nijism (http://www.gotapex.com/forums/showpost.php?p=775299&postcount=61) at you with the other ;)

[gwilks98]

This is the only thing that comes to mind: I would probably say when I gave a homeless man some food in Atlanta. I got a little misty when I realized that he hadn't been offered food, randomly, in quite some time.

[WhiskeyPapa]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think he was trying to get us all to say which historically relevant event was the most significant of our life.Actually, I meant what event has changed your life. It could be as grand as an historical event, or as common as having a baby.

For me, I'd have to say it was the day my girlfriend told me she was pregnant. I immediately knew my life would never be the same. The first words out of my mouth were "I guess we should get married then..." Yes, that's as close as I got to a real proposal. We're still married 20 years later, and while I am not proud of the circumstances, I am not at all ashamed of the results.

[Nija]

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

mowded, IAHAD

TAKE THAT!

:P

[ialsohaveadream]

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

mowded, IAHAD

TAKE THAT!

:P

Oooooooh, burn! I stand corrected. :neartears

[ShawnLee]

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
mowded, IAHADHmm, I always thought it was " 'moted " as in demoted.

Anyhow, barring religious thing?
College is too broad, so I guess Army would be as well. Combine the two? Joining Army ROTC. Yes! I met some of my closest friends through there, learned to defend myself practically and theoretically, learned leadership dynamics, learned to deal with people from different situations and backgrounds, and learned that I don't always want what I think I want and sometimes need what I think I don't.