The Moment That Defined Your Life

IrishGeordie

You know the one. That one unequivocal moment where your life was summed up, whether it be that midnight snack you lunched on in 2006, that wild beast you valiantly battled in the spring of 08 or perhaps that one time you punched your boss in the face.

Which moment truly defined your life?

Biggins

Whats your's OP?

mackg

Don't think that kind of thing exists, there is no "moral of the story". What happened to you to make you think different? I'm constantly changing as a person so any moment is only a snapshot in time and not reflective of where I've been or where I'm going.

Archeron

The time I farted in religion class and it sounded like a round of applause by an octopus. That moment made me.

I'll get back to you when I'm 90 or so

mickrock

It was the midnight snack I lunched on in 2006.

dr.bollocko

I once washed away my poop, puke and piss all in one flush.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Turned down a glorious opportunity of relative wealth and world travel combined in a job I would have loved. Now I'm saddled with heavy regret that will eat away at me forever, I'm destined to be the bitter fool at the bar who rages against modern society and anyone else's personal fulfillment cause deep down I know I had the chance to live the life I wanted and I threw it away, remember that boy I hope your drink is worth it.

dr.bollocko

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Turned down a glorious opportunity of relative wealth and world travel combined in a job I would have loved. Now I'm saddled with heavy regret that will eat away at me forever, I'm destined to be the bitter fool at the bar who rages against modern society and anyone else's personal fulfillment cause deep down I know I had the chance to live the life I wanted and I threw it away, remember that boy I hope your drink is worth it.

OK You win this thread.

Born to Die

The day my daughter was born and I realised that my life was good.

pragmatic1

The first time I smoked a joint. It was a slippery slope from there on.

MickySticks

Born to Die wrote: »

The day my daughter was born and I realised that my life was good.

Same here :pac:

Born to Die

MickySticks wrote: »

Same here :pac:

She is 8

Darkginger

1976 - when I realised you didn't have to live a 'normal' life in order to be happy. It involved a vegetable garden, a well, and a donkey Gave me something to aspire to, and all these years later, here I am, living the dream! (That was not ironic, I AM living my 1976 dream!).

IM0

Darkginger wrote: »

1976 - when I realised you didn't have to live a 'normal' life in order to be happy. It involved a vegetable garden, a well, and a donkey Gave me something to aspire to, and all these years later, here I am, living the dream! (That was not ironic, I AM living my 1976 dream!).

gerard depardieu is that you?

marty1985

I haven't had my moment yet but I'm really looking forward to it whatever it is.

Sinfonia

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Turned down a glorious opportunity of relative wealth and world travel combined in a job I would have loved. Now I'm saddled with heavy regret that will eat away at me forever, I'm destined to be the bitter fool at the bar who rages against modern society and anyone else's personal fulfillment cause deep down I know I had the chance to live the life I wanted and I threw it away, remember that boy I hope your drink is worth it.

Who was she? :P

Where To

fIgURing hoW to use The CapS lock BUTton

Babybuff

I don't know, mostly bad shit that made me realise how fcuking awful people can really be and demonstrate how absolutely insignificant your life is. Then you wake up and with nothing left to lose you start doing what you want with your life.

John Doe1

2005-Touched my first real life boob:)

themandan6611

John Doe1 wrote: »

2005-Touched my first real life boob:)

your ma's ?

Darkginger

Oui, c'est moi - busted encore

Lippy C

Went to pilates with friend she let rip (anal) with channel no.5 ...class number 2 her mobile rang (ring tone was big girls you are beautiful)...we were asked sorry TOLD not to return to class...kinda a defining moment ...pilates is not for us:rolleyes:

Sunnyisland

John Doe1 wrote: »

2005-Touched my first real life boob:)

Male or female

marty1985

I was once in the middle of the conjugal act when the playlist on shuffle played that Big Girls You Are Beautiful and ruined everything.

Sunnyisland

One of them for me is the time I gave up drinking alcohol,One of the best decisions I have ever made for myself,pity I didn't do it earlier.

grindle

realies wrote: »

Male or female

He's after admitting it was his. What was it John, a freak hormonal imbalance or something glandular? Has the other one sprouted yet?

Earthhorse

The moment I made it into the OED.

holystungun9

That first taste of vagina.

wonderfulname

Thus far, having an epiphany soon after hitting rock bottom last year and replacing everything in my life I was doing because I "should" with things I actually wanted to do, and equipping myself with a fun new Carpe Diem attitude, I actually hope it remains my defining moment because that would mean a life well lived in my book.

Although as is the way with defining moments we could just go back further to any of the multitude of moments that lead to that one and pick them, but it's good to have something for the "About the Author" section of the self help book I evidently must write reading back on this post...

44leto

No single moment really, there were moments that put me on a pathway to other moments that put me on a path to other moments and on it goes.

I read something in a book today about New York, E B White ( Don't know either) wrote if you want to live in New York you should be willing to be lucky. I understand that, he meant not just "lucky" but "willing" to be lucky. The same for anywhere really.

My regrets are I should have said yes a lot more often.

saa

I had this moment where I changed as a person even though those changes took more than a year to become truly apparent to myself. I was rejected by someone that meant everything to me it was outside Connolly they were playing the same old head games they said something really stupid and was thinking about themsevles only and I walked away and had this intense moment where there was no turning back I decided not to be on their long finger but it was when I was walking away on that cool dry night all I could think to myself was you have to stop being an eejit and it was that moment that I stopped putting all my energy into pleasing others and fixing things that I couldn't, it was an intense epiphany and so simple but I've never been the same since, that night I had one of the worst feelings in the pit of my stomach but it was defiantly an oh yeah? moment, which is strange because there are more significant moments and worse events in my life but nothing effected me like the night I decided to stop being such a dope and take control of my own life rather than being a victim of it or a wandering relying on others for validation.

Gloomtastic!

In my 28th year of life I realised I was nothing special and had to knuckle down and get on with it like everyone else.

Always said if I had money, my kids won't see a cent before their 28th birthday.

Kivaro

This may sound corny but:

I was coming home from work on the subway (New York), and covered in dirt and sweat (working construction). There were no seats available so I had to stand for an hour hanging onto a strap, utterly exhausted. And then I looked up at an advertisement, which proclaimed "It's never too late to be what you might have been."

And that was the defining moment for me, because I made an immediate decision. I started going to night classes at College, gave up drink, and after graduating with a degree, worked on becoming financially stable for the first time in my life. Everything domino-ed (in a positive way) after that, and now "life is good", with an excellent standard of living and great hope for the future.