Was there an incident that changed you?

[mebby]

Yep. Lost my grandma. She lived with me my whole life. 18 years before I left for college. She had cancer, and I flew back to be with her the last few days. She slowly lost heath. She was in a bed in our house, just losing strength until one night, my mom called me downstairs and she was gone.

It was f*cking crazy to see a person who you had lived with for 18 years to all of a sudden become a motionless body on a bed. F*cking insane. I cried my eyes out. I spent the next few weeks just smoking weed, in a depressed funk, just thinking about life. And through every bad experience, you can Always, ALWAYS learn something from it. I really truly learned that life is short.

We are given one shot. One chance in life, and you HAVE to make the most of it. You CANT let days, hours, even ****ing MINUTES pass you by where you arent getting the most out of your life, because this is it. This is your one shot to become somebody. This is your one chance to make your dreams come true.

I snapped. I looked at life in a whole new way, and ever since then, I've been happy with a lot of things. I've accepted a lot of the things. The things that used to bother me, give me anxiety, worry me, never seemed to bad once I was able to look at the grand picture of what life really is. And honestly, the most beautiful gift ever given to you is not a hot chick, not a nice car, not a nice house, but the gift of just living life.

So Inspiring

[jackjonez]

I think being cheated on by my "first love" changed me the most. I'd never been lied to on such a big scale. I lost faith in people. Most of my 5 year relationship was just a lie. I decided nobody has the right to take your happiness from you. Sometimes you have to fight for it, but life is short, and the only thing that matters is happiness. Doesn't matter what you own, how much is in the bank, what car you drive. Just being able to genuinely smile and being content with who you are is all that matters.

[Sh1f7]

Seeing my hs crush get double teamed by two dudes made me realize all girls are dirty sluts. Life changing srs.

Did you actually witness that bro??

[ebtek]

Usto be a goofy, attention whoring ******* when i was 13, read a book on napoleon. Since then i have amazing work ethic and dont give a **** bout other peoples feeling towards me, it happened prwtty ****in fast

intradesting. what book?

[cracktheskye]

Taking shrooms changed me. Fully believe my life is now a "trip" and a beautiful experience that I have been given from a higher power that I should cherish entirely. A couple of stand out experiences on MDMA also helped me realise similar things
Re-making friends with a load of brahs from school after almost 3 years of not talking over an absolute non-issue, we are the kind of group that will now be friends for life, falling out and un-falling out has only made us realise that more as well as realise how important the relationship with everyone you know is and how you treat them
Breaking up with my girlfriend
Going through an abortion with said girlfriend

[pvpaymon]

I hit rock bottom in 2nd year college.

Decided to do Mushrooms hoping for some insight. I killed my ego and became a better person (100% serious). No regrets.

[Ancient Olympia]

My story was removed and I am not pleased. Mods, what is the problem? I get no pm, no negs for it, where is my ****?

[proatsbrah]

ITT: Shroom born Epiphanies, lol i've never considered but it can't be too bad right?

[pvpaymon]

ITT: Shroom born Epiphanies, lol i've never considered but it can't be too bad right?

People who are stuck to things like heroine go out and take good doses of psychedelics like ayawaska (most likely with a shaman..) to help them get through an addiction. In the process, you come out with a entire diff outlook and rewire your brain at the same time :P

Shrooms are a beautiful and great thing.

[wickedman]

I guess mushrooms are a life changer as they are making another appearance in this thread:

Cliffs:
-Started off good
-Ended up in a car with some other "friends" I was with
-Potentially set-up to be murdered by a hitcher
-Held psuedo hostage and exposed to all the things one would want to see on mushrooms (Alice in Wonderland, TLC special - babies with genetic disorders)
-Get a ride back to my other friends... in a car with booze, weed making left turns onto the busiest road in the area in a large city

Haven't touched a drug since, and helped me understand how some people you think are your friends are really fake ****s and you need to really consider who you trust in this world.

I suppose they are "beautiful and great" in that they can make you realize some ****ed up ****, but other than that - pretty horrific potential.

[Mr.ILL]

Bob Marley's music.

[MrSKIN]

The realisation that I can never again let someone think they are in some way better than me.
The realisation that I never want sympathy from anyone again.

[Fernizzle]

had my first real STI scare in 2009. decided to reign in the manwhore practices severely.


re: shrooms...i don't really get how they can completely shift one's paradigm. i ingested quite a bit of psilocybin in high school and while i felt fan-fuking-tastic on them and colors were the most vivid i've ever seen, after i came down i had a stomach ache and life went on.

good on you guys that they did more for, though

[weak704]

2 tours in Nam turn a boy into a man

[fantasticoo]

Highschool friend dragging me out of the rutt i was in and expecting nothing in return

i hate to think what would have happened if i had been left to dwell in my life of world of warcraft and fapping...

[DavidBrent]

Having to hear the girl in the room next door in my dorm who i was seriously infatuated with have sex with various different guys on a regular basis. was soul-crushing srs. had to put headphones in most nights and play loud music to try and drown out the noise. couldn't sleep.

[IVEverLow]

Can't claim that one experience directly influenced me to be where I am today. I am the result of a lot of of separate circumstances.

[Qrome]

Some guy at my school that bullied me was trying to be sarcasticly nice, bagged him out he was like

" Don`t bite the hand that feeds you"

Now i think to myself, i will eat the hand that feeds me and learn to ****ing feed myself !.

just shows how much gym changes you!

[411hounddog]

Seeing my hs crush get double teamed by two dudes made me realize all girls are dirty sluts. Life changing srs.

YOU Say THis. I'd be luck Phuck it!

[Razgreeze]

First rescue truck on a vehicle accident, drunk driver hit a young girl head on resulting in an evisceration. We of course lost her. Kinda felt how fragile life was then.

[studentt]

few things have shaped my life. First was my best friend of years committed suicide. Second was a horrible car crash if I was wearing seat belt would have died. Third and most contributing was when I went to jail.

[tdavidson48]

hopped on the scale one day and it read 203. ill never forget looking down at that and wondering what the **** happened, growing up i ways always the skinny kid that could never gain weight or anything. i know this is a bodybuilding web site and thus me being fat kinda fits but that was when things changed for me, i was close to 30% body fat at 5'11" and decided that it was time for a change. i am not down to about 185 and now im just trying to get the diet in checkmore so i can drop some bf% and keep kickin ass

[captainspoon]

involved in a murder case when i was 16. completely changed who i was and how i related to other people. will provide cliffs if people are interested

Fukking-A right i would

[Kaduceus]

When my dad got laid off back in 2001-2002 during the post 9/11 recession

He was out of work for almost a year, he kept his chin up for most of it but there was one part I will never forget.

He got an interview with some company in Sarasota FL. He came back the next day and told us about it. Every executive he met with was like "Yeah, awesome! Well we will get in the office on Monday and wrap this whole thing up!" or "Great! Can't wait to have you part of our team" Basically like the job was locked up.

I was in my dad's home office on Tuesday (a day after that Monday) and the phone rings. I pick it up, caller ID is Sarasota FL. I answer, some man asks for my dad. I hand him the phone and give him some privacy.

I come back about 30 minutes later and my dad is just stone silent on the computer clearly on job hunting websites.

I sit on the couch in the living room and my dad comes in. And tells me he didn't get that job. Sits down next to me. With his eyes closed and breathing slowly, clearly I could tell he was on the verge of tears and trying to hold them back. He said "I just REALLY thought I had this one". I said "Dad, can I have a hug?" because I was about to cry too. My dad wraps his arms around me and clasps my right shoulder and puts his giant head on top of mine and we just sit there for a few minutes with my dad hugging me.

I was only 12 or 13 at the time. It really shattered my childhood vision that your parents are invincible, or your dad is Superman. I thought about how cruel this world is and how this could happen to someone so deserving of everything.

I mark this definite instant as the exact moment my childhood died.

[NSwrestler]

i thought of that already.. i just dont want to cause more issues than there are already, im probably gonna have to without telling my parents and sht
i deleted my post because i thought i shouldnt say these things but ill repost it here

when my mom got shizophrenia (srs)
and other bad things(family arguing, gettin my ass beat for a lot of sht i did) as kid that had a massive effect on me

i stopped giving a sht about anything.... i kinda couldnt care if i live or die.. (only thing that would bother me is my family that would be sad about it)
and i became a worse person.. judging everyone and caring a lot less about others and sometimes i have a massive outbreak of just anger and gotta let it out on something pointless, from all that sht inside me

my mind is fuked

repped for having damn near same life as me

[vabyss]

Was in a car accident where I hydroplaned at 70 mph and the car was totally destroyed. Cops couldn't believe anything alive came out of the car, but my girlfriend and I were bothed unharmed besides some minor aches for a few days.

Got setup by cops when I was 18 for delivery of a controlled substance. It was so unforgivably slimy how they did it. I realized then that the police are nothing but theives with a license to steal, extorting money from anyone that has it by turning ordinary citizens into criminals through bullsh!t laws that have NOTHING to do with protecting the public.


When I was 27 I really started paying attention to politics for the first time. I realized in a very short time that everything I had believed all my life was complete and utter bullsh!t. This goes for everyone reading this. If you hold the exact same beliefs as your parents and you always have...you are not your own person.

[tigrewoooods]

Every incident in your life makes you who you are.

But for me, there are several.

My first GF in senior year of HS gave me hope that I could get girls, haha!

Going gluten free first gave me a feeling of empowerment that I could have energy, no stomach problems, and be at peace with my body.

Experimenting with drugs opened my mind, and in particular MDMA increased my empathy levels and also my ability to see beauty in all things.

DWI a year and a half ago was the hard lesson I needed to quit partying. Seeing my therapist thereafter increased my brains ability to recognize anxiety causes, thought patterns, etc.

A re-birth conference got me back to being me and living from my heart. After that I could finally resonate and follow through with all the changes I've been trying to make.

All of these things make me what I am today, but if it weren't for the conference I would still be in neutral. A ferrari with a lot of upgrades, but in neutral nonetheless.

-Jake

[DontDisturb]

Got cancer 4 years ago. They found a tumor by dumb luck, was told I would have been dead in 2 years. Had a few surgeries and 6 months of treatment. Now I am 4 years cancer free and a totally different person.

[bilaba70]

Seeing my hs crush get double teamed by two dudes made me realize all girls are dirty sluts. Life changing srs.

That's fuarking hard man. Shiet sucks.

[bilaba70]

involved in a murder case when i was 16. completely changed who i was and how i related to other people. will provide cliffs if people are interested

Cliffs?