Life changing moments

[kingjustin]

Growing up on the streets of Cincinatti with absolutely no money.
Seeing my friend shoot himself in the face.
The first time I got high and then studied an ant hill for at least an hour and realized it's a lot better for everyone if you just do your work and shut up about it.
The first time I read Of Mice and Men.

[ThatTexasTip]

ill say losin my parents

[Dr.Hashman]

I forgot about all the other key moments in my life:

12- smoked pot for the first time at the Warp Tour in Boreal, California.

15- Best friend died of Heroin overdose.

17- Realizing that getting with a different girl every other night won't really make me happy

17- Finding out the Cannabis cures my Tourettes and muscle spasms.

more to come!

[crudemood]

i guess its my turn here
it all started at 16, i realized i was bisexual and i had all these bursts of anger .. uncontrollable hormone raging.
i got depressed, went to the hospital 5 times that year, all depression related.
all my friends left me.
i made some new friends.
one baited me out to their parents about smoking them up
another used me and manipulated me for my money and everything i had.

those are the most life changing moments that led me to how i am today.

[Dr.Hashman]

Crudemood, I had a experience like when you were 16, except that I was on some crazy laced marijuana and I thought I was gay but then I realized I could never be gay because that would involve touching a guy in a sexual way, that ended my 15 minutes of gayness where I sat stairing at a wall.

Raging anger- I got that from ignorant people. I got in trouble because a girl asked where Canada was (we live in the US), she was a sophomore in highschool too. I got in a bit of trouble for telling her that she was insulting her sex by being so stupid and blonde.

This site has really been a change in my life. Finally somewhere where I could be me and not have to shield my love of Cannabis! My best friend knows I smoke alot, and we can talk about it, shielding nothing, but then my other friends, I don't tell them about any of my smoking things. I am just really happy that I found a place where I can be who I truely am!

18 years old- The roadtrip I am going to take this summer across the USA. If it doesn't change my outlook on life, well, then something went very wrong, but that would probably change my life too... hmmm...

[MinusRyan]

Seeing my dog get injected with death-serum and dying before my eyes. She held her urine in and released it as she passed.

That moment was the most degrading moment so far.

[LuckyNiner]

My life has been pretty fucking tame as of yet, and especially compared to what I've read here and the things so many millions in the course of human history have gone through, and are still going through right now.

A few of those moments, though:

Watching my grandfather die peacefully. I remember my father picked me up and lifted me over his bed. I kissed his cold, white forehead as soon as his heart and breathing stopped. Seeing the men who came in the somber white van carry out his body between them, wrapped in the bedsheet. I could see and feel the weight of it. I was 9 years old.

Hearing that my older brother had nearly destroyed his liver binge-drinking before a suicide attempt. Watching him get his life together. Inspired.

The almost painfully tangible sense of growing self-awareness and depth of thought and feeling that slowly began building when I was 11. Not any particular occurence, and something that everyone goes through during that time in their lives, but there were shocking moments of revelation, if you will, that felt like a new pair of eyes had opened deep within me, and I was finally seeing a bit more of the world. I miss that feeling.

[Esmada]

Life changing momet?.......
Thats a though one.There are so many off them. Hmmm...
Mabye the day i realized that it's true what people say. Those you love will hurt you,Meaning the first time my EX- and soon to be f........ boyfriend almost beat me to death and every day thereafter that I continued to live with him.
And the day I discovered that those who say money can't give you happiness are liars..
The day I found truel ove and discovered that the love I hold for my familly exceeds everyting I have ever beliveed in and that life will fuck you over and over again.

[crystallinesheen]

My most influential moment would be the time some unidentified craft passed a hundred feet over my house one night. Talk about a major life-changing event! I had always been a fan of sci-fi and whatnot, but believe me, seeing a saucer 100 feet across skim right over your house makes one hell of a believer out of you.

Here's a link to my UFO report I filed on UFO Evidence.org for those who are interested:

UFO Sighting Report: Harrisonburg, Louisiana, United States - April, 11, 1994 - UFO Evidence

After this experience, my entire paradigm of existence had to be reconsidered. I went from wanting to be in the military, and being generally a crude, right-wing redneck (for a fourteen year old) to smoking weed, questioning authority and growing my hair long. Now I have gone to college and traveled the country living life as a questioning, rational, capable adult. Overall, I am very grateful for the experience, that craft was just so amazing to behold.

Oh yeah, the first time I did acid made an enormous impact on my life, as well as the first time I brewed and consumed ayahuasca. The experiences opened my mind and soul up to the universe and revealed a bit of the eternity beyond our mortal coil........

[Purple Banana]

Life changing moments:

-My first spinal tap
-Being diagnosed with juvenile leukemia
-House getting struck by lightning
-Living at the ocean for 9 years
-Going to college
-First time smoking
-Getting diagnosed with Schizophrenia
-Diagnosis of PCOS
-Fibromyalgia
-Learning that ganj could help chronic pain
-Seeing my first patient give birth
-Doing CPR for the first time... Not a pretty sight...
-Listening to Pink Floyd for the first time
-9/11 and The War On Terror
-First time doing acid
-Some unspeakable events that happened during my Sophomore year at uni