The Day Your Life Changed!

[Sojiro47]

I was meditating earlier today, and came across the day that I changed! Naturally, I wondered if any of the Otaku-kun's lives had been changed! If you respond to this thread, please tell about the day and how it changed you or your life!

Well, I've had several life changing experiances in my life, but I'll tell you about the most recent!

It was on June 14th, 2006! It was a Wednesday evening, and I was at a youth group of a friends that I have been attending!One of my friends was speaking that night, and I was exited for her! When she started talking, I became [I]very[/I] serious! She was talking about pasts' and how they can hold us back from God! She then told about her past, stuff that I never knew! I was unusaully unnumb(?) to her story, and then started thinking about my past! I felt like something had been lifted from my chest, and it felt weird! I haven't ever talked to anyone about my past, but it felt like I had just told my life story to God himself! I then did something I hadn't done since I was 7; I stared to cry! I silently cried for about 15 to 30 minutes, but my friends, who can read me like a first-graders book, noticed and came to check on me!

So here I am, siting in the front row, crying with people on both sides of me, trying to see if I'm dying or something! But then the Friend who was speaking came up to pray for me, and she knew! I could just tell that she knew why I was crying! Then she just started praying, hitting nail after nail of all the thing I had done!

Since then, I've changed in so many ways, but I'll tell just one! I've changed the way I am about my past! I haven't forgotten it, but instead I'm using it to help others. I've also shared it with people I thought were starting down the same path I had!

[2010DigitalBoy]

well, your story is interesting! I've always wished I could have one of those crying in public moments! But for the future, could you make it not seem like you're shouting everything!

Anywho. I'm not sure if this day itself counts, although I think it's this particular event which decided where my life would go.

Not this coming monday, but next monday, it would be exactly 1 year ago.

You see, I was a HUGE gamer. All I really did was play games, research games, and watch game TV (I know I've essentially told this story in a different thread, so I'll tell a different part of it this time.)

The PS2 I owned was one I'd bought from my little brother's annoying friend for 15 bucks. Since I had bought it from him I had bought 220 dollars worth of games for it, and my birthday was in a week, so I planned to get more. Well, I went to a friends house for the weekend and when I got back the kid had 'reposesed' my PS2!

Apparently he told his parents he had let me 'rent' it and to my face told me thats what he'd said!

I almost just killed him (thinking about it makes me want to >:)

Anyway, over the course of the next week (seeing as ho Id get a new PS2 on my bday) I got addicted to a game called Tales of Symphonia and became obsessed, went onto the TOS message boards and made some friends who would later change my life entirely.

[Dragon Warrior]

[size=1]Despite the conversation is clearly about the [b]day I changed[/b], I'd have to say I don't think I've hit such a day in my life as of yet. I feel I am the same guy as I've always been, with a few minor changes as life goes (which is natural). There hasn't been anything extreme in my life to cause a drastic new me, so I can't accurately say it'll come.

I assume it may arrive when an acting opportunity presents itself. Since I want to be a film/television actor, I'd say my first real big gig is what's going to start the new life of Gavin Brown (AKA Me). I know deaths can be tragic, but I don't think it'll make me a new person. When someone close does die, I'm sure I'll be depressed. But all in all, I will try to be my same self for as long as I can.[/size]

[Horendithas]

[COLOR=DeepSkyBlue]The day I changed is the day my brother was killed by a drive by shooting. I was right there when it happened and there was nothing I could do. I say it changed my life because it made me realize just how fleeting life is and how you can?t afford to let arguments or other things hold you down. You think to yourself, I can apologize tomorrow, or I can do this tomorrow, but the reality is that for you or someone else, there is no tomorrow. So though the whole experience was horrible, and I still have the occasional nightmare, it made me appreciate the other things in my life more instead of taking them for granted. It also made me realize that the idea that bad things happen to others is just an illusion. It can happen to anyone at anytime, which is why appreciating what you do have is so important. [/COLOR]

[Shi no Tenshi]

When I moved continents, from North America (Texas) to Europe (England). My entire life would have been different if my dad hadn't been promoted to a position that required him to work within the UK.

Truthfully, I think my quality of life has increased dramatically. My chronic asthma has gone from a bi-yearly visit to intensive care to a yearly visit to the asthma nurse. I've had excellent results with the education here, and I've made more friends than I ever did back home. And of course I met my boyfriend here (which is a no-brainer seeing as I live here, but he really is one in a million).

[Mewprincess]

[COLOR=RoyalBlue]6 years ago, around wintertime, a fairy came into my bedroom in my sleep and sprinked me with fairy dust, turning me into a princess with riches, jewels, and beautiful clothes and dress...

Just kiddin. My life changed when my cousin sent me a letter with a anime girl drawn on the bottom (of course, by her). I became drawn towards anime that day since!! :catgirl: [/COLOR]

[Ol' Fighter]

[COLOR=Blue]My life really changed without me noticing...I mean I think about all the things I used to do and my original outook on life has just completly changed I thought it was just because I'm getting older but I personally am too damn self-rightous to let me getting older have any effect on my life and I'm always reminecing(spelling) about my past and things for example: I used to kill bugs for the fun of it y'know just squash 'em but now when I think about what I did to those bugs(mainly ants) I say I'm sorry,why, because they are living organisms just like us yes some are terribly ugly and some are freaking annoying but their lives has value too...and I used to think the world was a completly ugly place just terrible but now I know it's not the world that's ugly it's some of the people in it and that's just some of the things I noticed[/COLOR] :animesigh .