Life Changing Moments

[King Postwhore]

I don't feel like I've really had that moment quite yet. I could play my "metal-obsessed teenager" role and say that the first time I listened to Metallica was one of those moments, but nothing really changed, per se. I'm kind of hoping that something like that will happen this summer, maybe at graduation, or my first day at University.

Yeah, I think that first moment will probably being accepted into my college of choice, if it happens.

It's what you do in college that's momentous.

[73109]

...you learn shit and get fucked up?

[King Postwhore]

...you learn shit and get fucked up?

Well ya but you got to perform in more ways than one.

[kirbywelch92]

Mine seems kind of silly, but I really do consider it one of the most important things to ever happen to me.

We have a class dedicated to a Rock cover band (pretty cool if you ask me) at my high school and my freshmen year I sang Smoke on the Water. It was the first time I ever sang in front of people by myself, and it literally changed the way I approached talking to people. I was really quiet up to that point, and then everything changed. I became more friendly and realized the joy there is in communicating with people. It was kind of the first step into me becoming who I am today.

[Fuzzboy]

First time I did hallucinogenic drugs.


Also when I quit doing drugs.

[Implode]

Falling off a building was a life changing moment for me. The world literally turned upside down.

[icysk8r]

Probably quitting cutting.  I still struggle sometimes, but I'm a lot better off now.

[YtseBitsySpider]

Birth of my son.
Hands down.
I was living life, had a mortgage, car payments, job....in my mind..I was thinking "yup, this is life, I'm living it I know what's going on"......then I'm holding this life in my hands...and my first thought is..."holy fuck I don't know anything about ANYTHING"

Another big one..for me...though not quite that big..but it certainly defined me.

Being handed a Prince: Purple Rain tape...in 1989/90 with the Dream Theater's: When Dream And Day Unite recorded over top of Prince on it. Complete musical and life altering moment.......earth shattering.

[Chino]

Not purposely referencing Sacrifice Sons, but 9/11 was a pretty big life changing moment for me.

[D_Halco]

The moment I stepped off the bus at USAF boot camp. I was a loser with no real ambition and no direction before that moment. Then I stepped onto the concrete pad at Lackland AFB the night of July 4th (!!!), 2006 and began a 4 year journey into becoming the man I am today that I find it hard to even imagine the boy I used to be. The AF worked wonders for me on a personal and professional level that I would have to say it was the smartest thing I could have done at that point in my life.

(Now, I know this might sound like a pitch for the Air Force but I don't mean it to be. I hated alot about those four years and would not do it again for even a billion dollars and all the emergency pudding in China!)