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    What event has caused you to change your ways?

    It has to be some sort of life changing event. Please try to be detailed as well.

    It can be a positive or negative change

    Well?
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    Changed my ways? Three that changed my life...

    1) Living with my uncle.
    2) Basic Training.
    3) My back injury.

    Of the three, the third was both the worst and the best.
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    intercranial hemmorhage

    kinda long story....tho

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    Going to Haiti changed my life and perspective on it forever. The extreme poverty, the turmoil of the country and the violence I witnessed, and the children who ran out to meet our convoys to wave and get the occasional piece of candy were just some of the highlghts and lowlights that the experience gave me.
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    Having a child - now I have to be responsible for my girl's welfare for the next 18 years. I can't spend time with my friend during the weekend watching football anymore. I have to be employ to put food on the table.
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    Probably the most profound events of my life have happened when I lost a close friend or co-worker to a treatable disease/disorder if they went to the doctor more than once every 10 years.

    Next would be my first knee injury in high school - that has changed/affected everything I have done after that.

    Third would be when I saved a man's life (or two) and I never even got their name afterward.
    I think over again
    My small adventures, my fears.
    The small ones that seemed so big,
    For all the vital things I had to get and to reach.

    And yet there is only one great thing, the only thing:

    To live to see the great day that dawns,
    And the light that fills the world.


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    Having kids for me, too. Changes practically ALL of your priorities, but in a happier way. After you have kids you look back & wonder what the heck you did with all of your free time...

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    Come Here baby
    You know you drive me up a wall the way you make good on all the
    nasty tricks you pull
    Seems like we're makin' up more than we're makin' love
    And it always seems you got somn' on your mind other than me
    Girl, you got to change your crazy ways
    You hear me

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    Faith in Jesus Christ.

    While that was the single event that had the most impact on me, I can't say it was a huge outward change. Mostly because I had pretty much settled down by the time that happened (I was 27 and had a wife and three kids.) So I guess the event(s) that caused the biggest outward change were marriage and childbirth.

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    suddenly being forced to give up an ambition that was never really mine in the first place... dropping out of the rat race and suddenly being able to see clearly. i was all set to work hard, keep getting the top grades and top honors, which would have evolved into making top money and top respect/prestige and being called dr. ... and it was only after a very bad marriage forced me to quit that i was able to admit that it was never what i really wanted... i always knew that there were so many things that were so much more important than professional success, but i was embarrassed to say so because i didn't want to look lazy, didn't want ot be made fun of... i no longer feel the need to try to live up to the expectations of others. now all my friends are getting their degrees, everyone i know is being called dr. ... and i'm not the least bit envious. i cuddle with my kids all day instead of packing em off to daycare, i do all the cleaning and cooking so that when my husband comes home, instead of us both having jobs, getting home and having to dive in and do a bunch of housework, it's all done and we get to relax and enjoy each other... and i guess most of all, it's cleared my head from giving a damn what other people think. now, when some woman tells me she can't imagine "just" being a housewife, i can just shrug and i truly don't care... i just feel sorry for her and everything she's missing. i look at all of my friends that are dr-dr marriages, and how they maybe have sex once a month and never see each other because one is watching the kids while the other does some stupid stuff, then they trade places in their little tag-team marriage... and i'm just grateful that i got some sense knocked into me. and having an abusive husband has made me really appreciate how wonderful good people (like my husband) really are...

    having sick kids has made me really appreciate every moment that they're healthy. i'm just not capable of complaining about "the kids are driving me nuts today." i just laugh about it. a bad day is when someone dies. everything else is a good day.

    oh, and here's a big change in my behavior... i don't put up with lazy stupid people shirking their responsibilities, i howl at them until i get satisfaction... this stemming from having a kid in the NICU for three weeks as stupid lazy nurses and doctors tried to get away with giving him substandard care. i've learned that it's okay to be an ******* to get what you need, because being polite just gets the big dildo of laziness shoived further up your butt. and BOY can i be an ******* when the stakes are that high... and it sure does get results!
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    defended someone that was being bullied
    he was push to the floor outside the mall.... i knew his face from high school...so i went to kick the living ***t out of the bully

    basically we became best friend ever since

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    being exposed to the inside of a drug rehab when I was 12- 13 years old. My dad was going there and when he got out, he decided my behavior was that of someone who abused drugs. So, I was admitted for 30 days. My roommate attempted suicide, I learned about my dad's struggles with PTSD, I learned my mom had issues from abuse when she was a child. I grew up fast there. I never have done a drug, before then or since. heh, when I got out and went back to school, it was rumored that the janitor was my supplier and my new nick name was crazy chrissy. Not good for someone who had low self esteem in the first place. I hated school. I hated school so much that I jammed all the HS classes I could in the first three years and graduated early and hung out with people who graduated before I was in HS. I hate small towns.

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    ok, the death of my Father 2 1/2 yrs ago. it made me appreciate my Mother 100% more. it made me realize her strength and wonder how i was so blind to it before this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nickel
    Come Here baby
    You know you drive me up a wall the way you make good on all the
    nasty tricks you pull
    Seems like we're makin' up more than we're makin' love
    And it always seems you got somn' on your mind other than me
    Girl, you got to change your crazy ways
    You hear me

    Crazy??? are you crazy??????
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    Got into an accident while talking on a cellphone in my car.
    I'm now a strongly against people talking on their cellphones while driving.
    Whether you believe it or not, you're not completely concentrating on the road ahead of you. I see people do the dumbest things on their phones while driving.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Burzhui
    Crazy??? are you crazy??????
    I go crazy, crazy, baby, I go crazy
    You turn it on
    Then you're gone
    Yeah you drive me
    Crazy, crazy, crazy, for you baby
    What can I do, honey
    I feel like the color blue...

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