1. While out with friends at a bar in London during 3rd year of Uni i met a person that changed my life. At that time i really didn't know what i wanted to do with myself and one conversation with this guy landed me a work placement in the company he worked for which helped me meet others in the media industry and that lead to the job i'm doing now since i found with the contacts i'd met it was easy to call people up to ask for work. Through that one chance talk in a bar i've been able to make a living and have experiences some people would give their right teeth for.
2. Again in Uni and also a chance meeting i'll be a soppy git for a while for this. This is a bit earlier on than the 1st one. I'd been invited to see a movie with a friend i knew from my dorm building and another of her friends was coming along with us that i'd met a couple of times but i'd not really spoken to her properly. Anyways i get to where i'm meeting them and her friend is there but she isn't and i'm told she's not well and isn't coming out now (We think really she was just being a **** and wanted to get laid with a guy she liked but anyways) I kinda wanted to see the movie anyway and didn't want to go alone and look like a loser so i asked if she wanted to go with me and she went along. We had some time before the movie so went to get food and we actually sat down and talked and realised how much we have in common. After the movie was done she was telling me about her collection of swords on the way home and asked if i wanted to see them so i did and we ended up staying up all night talking.
And well that friend of a friend is my life partner.
So those two experiences i'd say changed my life dramaticly.
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Posté 13 octobre 2011 - 04:17
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Hmm...being adopted by one of the most giving and selfless women in the Universe. Without her, I'd be in a bad place.
About 5 years ago, I decided to stop praying to God for all my "sins" committed during the day. I thought to myself, why must I put myself over so much torment over little things or even bigger things that could send me to hell. I can relax now. : )
About 5 years ago, I decided to stop praying to God for all my "sins" committed during the day. I thought to myself, why must I put myself over so much torment over little things or even bigger things that could send me to hell. I can relax now. : )
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Posté 13 octobre 2011 - 04:39
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One that springs to mind is when I read a book about Michelangelo when I was a teenager. It made me realize that even though everyone around me kept telling me I was "so talented", I was really quite unspectacular in the drawing department. I was inspired to actually try to be better. And even though I'm still no Michelangelo, I am a lot more critical of my own work and less likely to buy into empty praise from others. Just from reading that one book. It also gave me a lifelong love of the Renaissance, and I even had the chance to go to Florence and Rome to see in person Michelangelo's works that I knew so well from pictures. That was life-changing too, that was my big "bucket list" item. 
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Posté 13 octobre 2011 - 04:54
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It's a very empowering thing in the long run to challenge yourself to do better, in the face of similar talent - both past and present. Cool story, sis. :3
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Posté 13 octobre 2011 - 04:54
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4 years in a strict Christian school.
If it wasn't for that I doubt I'd be the same cynical, hateful, contrarian that I am today.
Plus I probably wouldn't have discovered black-metal. So it's win/win really.
If it wasn't for that I doubt I'd be the same cynical, hateful, contrarian that I am today.
Plus I probably wouldn't have discovered black-metal. So it's win/win really.
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Posté 13 octobre 2011 - 07:52
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Hm.. Don't know about any "life changing" events that has happened to me right off back.
But when I was younger, I had to deal with about 6 years of a christian school/church, that was horror.
But when I was younger, I had to deal with about 6 years of a christian school/church, that was horror.
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Posté 13 octobre 2011 - 08:01
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The 1st time I tried a McRib. I was such a happy joyful person before that turning point.
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Posté 13 octobre 2011 - 08:24
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Sex
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Posté 13 octobre 2011 - 09:32
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1. Losing my religion after discovering the genius of Christopher Hitchens and his peers
2. Losing my father four and a half years ago
2. Losing my father four and a half years ago
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Posté 13 octobre 2011 - 09:40
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Edit: Yeah, apparently still too soon to talk about that. Delete me.
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- being assaulted by two classmates in secondary school
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- my father's death
- being assaulted by two classmates in secondary school
- playing a minor role in a school play and realising that this is actually what I want to be doing
- my father's death
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Posté 13 octobre 2011 - 09:58
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- Not taking the bus after a summer festival and walking home instead four years ago
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- 18th of August 2011
- Joining BSN over 7 month ago
- 18th of August 2011
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Posté 13 octobre 2011 - 10:00
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collaring my first slave
many years later removing it
years after that telling her not to call me anymore
many years later removing it
years after that telling her not to call me anymore
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Posté 13 octobre 2011 - 10:15
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the love of my life Leila who sadly for me has passed on. But we had almost 30 years together.
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Posté 13 octobre 2011 - 10:19
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Siansonea II wrote...
One that springs to mind is when I read a book about Michelangelo when I was a teenager. It made me realize that even though everyone around me kept telling me I was "so talented", I was really quite unspectacular in the drawing department. I was inspired to actually try to be better. And even though I'm still no Michelangelo, I am a lot more critical of my own work and less likely to buy into empty praise from others. Just from reading that one book. It also gave me a lifelong love of the Renaissance, and I even had the chance to go to Florence and Rome to see in person Michelangelo's works that I knew so well from pictures. That was life-changing too, that was my big "bucket list" item.
I've seen his Sistine sketches in person, and they're so good it's almost surreal. Rubens and Michelangelo were always my artistic heros.
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Posté 13 octobre 2011 - 10:37
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Life was good. The sun setting on a sweet summers day, the smell of freshly mowed lawns, the sounds of children playing. A house across the river, on the jersey side. A beautiful wife and a baby girl, the american dream come true. But dreams have a nasty habit of going bad when you're not looking, I lost it all in a new york minute.
Too many variables exist, I cannot isolate the ones that made me delude myself into thinking I had changed. I'm the same as I always was and god help those who made me awaken from my hallucinations of love, hope and happiness.
Too many variables exist, I cannot isolate the ones that made me delude myself into thinking I had changed. I'm the same as I always was and god help those who made me awaken from my hallucinations of love, hope and happiness.
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Posté 13 octobre 2011 - 10:56
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My therapist. She was the first person ever to tell me that it's okay to like people of my gender. It had been nothing but hiding and shame until that point.
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Posté 13 octobre 2011 - 11:03
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Russalka wrote...
My therapist. She was the first person ever to tell me that it's okay to like people of my gender. It had been nothing but hiding and shame until that point.
Similar story, but it was my sister. Who changed my life, not whom I wanted to have sex with. I had such a hard time talking to anyone about it, and I kind of built it up in my head and to her, and then she said "Oh, is that all? I thought you were going to tell me you'd killed a cat or something." Then I cried.
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That one time I read Fuco's Pendulum. Now I know everything is lies and propaganda.
Also the day ish and I decided to get married
Also the day ish and I decided to get married
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Posté 13 octobre 2011 - 11:25
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Hrmmm.
My friends-of-a-few-years-past, for universally failing to be there whenever I needed them. And ultimately my mother, for believing in me long after I'd stopped myself.
Oh yeah, and that time I decided to try out that new 'world of warcraft' thing. Ho boy. I haven't yet decided if, in retrospect, that was a good or bad idea.
My friends-of-a-few-years-past, for universally failing to be there whenever I needed them. And ultimately my mother, for believing in me long after I'd stopped myself.
Oh yeah, and that time I decided to try out that new 'world of warcraft' thing. Ho boy. I haven't yet decided if, in retrospect, that was a good or bad idea.
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Reconstructive surgery changed my life. Most people take advantage of the ability of being able to walk around. I had to start from the ground up over a 9 month period back in 2005. Made me appreciate the little things.
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Posté 14 octobre 2011 - 01:39
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On the bad side:
That rat bastard who not only cheated on me... a lot... but also raped me.
Not that I'm bitter or nothing... Not that I don't have every right to be.
16 was not a good age for me...
On the good side.... Said bastard is apparently still madly obsessed with me.
To quote Jordan from Scrubs: "You see, a lesser person would mock your inability to move on. I'm going to consider it an homage."
I seriously enjoy the fact that his current boyfriend is a LOT taller than me, at least 2x fatter than me, has hair that is a great deal longer than mine ever was/is... all things he constantly berated me for, he finds someone who has all of them in spades! XD
And he actually IS a "bastard"... so that's funny too.
On the queer side:
Apparently Blackarachnia had a VERY profound effect on my young mind... it wasn't until I rewatched Beast Wars a couple years ago that I realized that my entire taste in men was defined by her.
"Uhg... You KNOW I like 'em big and stupid... But you're REALLY pushing it." (said to Silverbolt)
That rat bastard who not only cheated on me... a lot... but also raped me.
Not that I'm bitter or nothing... Not that I don't have every right to be.
16 was not a good age for me...
On the good side.... Said bastard is apparently still madly obsessed with me.
To quote Jordan from Scrubs: "You see, a lesser person would mock your inability to move on. I'm going to consider it an homage."
I seriously enjoy the fact that his current boyfriend is a LOT taller than me, at least 2x fatter than me, has hair that is a great deal longer than mine ever was/is... all things he constantly berated me for, he finds someone who has all of them in spades! XD
And he actually IS a "bastard"... so that's funny too.
On the queer side:
Apparently Blackarachnia had a VERY profound effect on my young mind... it wasn't until I rewatched Beast Wars a couple years ago that I realized that my entire taste in men was defined by her.
"Uhg... You KNOW I like 'em big and stupid... But you're REALLY pushing it." (said to Silverbolt)
