RkyMtnHigh 0 #1 December 28, 2006 Have you had an experience that has changed your life or has been a turning point in your life? If so, feel free to share.... _________________________________________ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jtval 0 #2 December 28, 2006 I farted in church once. it didnt change my life but it summed up my feelings on this whole organized religion shit. (sorry, I have a felling this isgoing to SC)My photos My Videos Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adventurechick 0 #3 December 28, 2006 QuoteHave you had an experience that has changed your life or has been a turning point in your life? If so, feel free to share.... The day I did my first tandem... definitely changed my life! It took me down a crazy road that I did not expect, but I am having fun riding it! PMS #449 TPM #80 Muff Brother #3860 SCR #14705 Dirty Sanchez #233 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cocheese 0 #4 December 28, 2006 When i met you. I'll never be the same. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adventurechick 0 #5 December 28, 2006 QuoteWhen i met you. I'll never be the same. Aww, that's cute! PMS #449 TPM #80 Muff Brother #3860 SCR #14705 Dirty Sanchez #233 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hobojoe 0 #7 December 28, 2006 1. first pilot lesson 2. first skydive Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #8 December 28, 2006 In 1998 the work on the Texas A&M Bonfire from September to November, changed my life for the better. It was quite an experience. I learned more about myself and teamwork in those few months then I knew I could. On November 18th 1999 the Texas A&M Bonfire changed my life for the worst. Through that experience my life changed drastically, but looking at where I am now and what my life has become, things have turned out quite alright. Of course Scott's memory will continue on in my life and the lives of many others. Although now my life has continued and with each passing year the memories are a bit less painful. Due to a certain poster's lack of compasion on here, I haven't talked about Bonfire on the forums in a good while, but if you've been around for a while you know this story arleady. There have since been many positive life changing events in my life, but that definately stands out as the most major thusly resulting in the most amount of change.--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Opie 0 #9 December 28, 2006 YES and it's not so much an experience as it is meeting a person that is living their life as we all should, not dreaming of happiness but doing what it takes to make it happen and realizing that we have happiness when we achieve it, unreasonnable happiness is not a bad thing! Love you L! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #10 December 28, 2006 Getting married...oh...or did you mean for the better?My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gawain 0 #11 December 28, 2006 QuoteHave you had an experience that has changed your life or has been a turning point in your life? If so, feel free to share.... Um, yes. You get three guesses, the first two don't count. So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright 'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life Make light! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #12 December 28, 2006 QuoteHave you had an experience that has changed your life or has been a turning point in your life? If so, feel free to share.... Several, if you think you dont have them you're just not paying attention. One of the Major ones was August 10th 1990, the day I got Clean and Sober. But there have been many, the day I left home, when I left the NAVY, When moved states. they're just a couple of the bigger more obvious ones, but we all have turning points, often.You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stitch 0 #13 December 28, 2006 When I had sex with a porcupine. I've never gotten over that one."No cookies for you"- GFD "I don't think I like the sound of that" ~ MB65 Don't be a "Racer Hater" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sweetness 0 #14 December 28, 2006 I know it sounds cliché, but like adventurechick, I have to say: my first tandem ! "Ha ! I laugh at danger and drop ice cubes down the vest of fear ..." (Blackadder) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Skysurfer_Rob 0 #15 December 28, 2006 I have had a few, but one sticks out right now. This particular one took a little bit of time though. I was 15, had just moved to a new school, and was trying to find my place. I already had two friends in the area, both were potheads. I was starting to lean that way (of becoming a pothead)...then I joined high school ROTC. After a couple months in ROTC, and having the instructors to look up to, it made me realize what I wanted to do...join the Air Force. I couldn't smoke pot and join the Air Force, so I made my choice, and never did regret it. Now, ten years later, I am in the Air Force and doing pretty well for a single 25 yr old...compared to those friends that chose the other path that I could have taken."Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death, I Shall Fear No Evil...For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing." SR-71 hangar entrance sign at Kadena AFB, Japan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ToyMaker 0 #16 December 28, 2006 oh you silly... you have to turn them over! They dont have any spines on their tummy!! See? Practice Makes Perfect! _______________________________________ White cute poodle puppy found. Approximately six months of age. Blue collar but no tags. Very friendly. Tasted like chicken Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
d_squared431 0 #17 December 28, 2006 I have a few experiences that have changed my life. The first was when I dropped out of college and quit my job to move from the Bay Area to Tahoe and become a snow bum in 94', hurting both my knees around 00', the first tandem, and then the big one. Taking on the to roll of a parent to my little brother just over 18 months ago and going throu- the adoption process.TPM Sister#130ONTIG#1 I love vodka.I love vodka cause it rhymes with Tuaca~LisaH You having a clean thought is like billyvance having a clean post.iluvtofly Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wildfan75 1 #18 December 28, 2006 I'm going to have to go with when I did my first tandem also. It's crazy to think of where I would be, or rather, what I wouldn't have if I'd never jumped out of our beloved 76X-ray at Skydive Wissota. I wouldn't have a group of friends that I consider more family than my biological one. I wouldn't have the courage to face my fears, because who knows, it could turn into something really good. And I wouldn't have found this amazing guy that makes me smile everyday. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Icon134 0 #19 December 28, 2006 My Co-op in Japan definetely changed how I looked at the world...Livin' on the Edge... sleeping with my rigger's wife... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
weegegirl 2 #20 December 28, 2006 1. My first skydive. 2. The day the doctor told me my father wasn't going to make it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
willard 0 #21 December 28, 2006 Experience that changed my life - 1989, walked away from a racing accident that should have, and many thought, killed me. Turning point - Oct. 1999 when I quit smoking after 22 years, and April 2003 when I went back to school to get that degree I always wanted. Projected graduation Spring '09! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FlyingJ 0 #22 December 28, 2006 Yup, I made an overnight decision to leave my career and life in NYC to spend a year with AmeriCorps. Turned out to be two years and in the end had opened my eyes to a whole new career field. Now I'm working in wildland fire full time and have left the office life behind. I just wish I had found out about it sooner!Killing threads since 2004. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lawrocket 3 #23 December 28, 2006 Two of them along the same realm. May of 1993 - I had failed out of college a few months before and was working a couple of jobs - one in a movie theater and another for an electrical contractor. Depressed, the daily grind, etc. So that day, I reported to East LA at 6:00 a.m. for an electical installation job, driving the truck with all the cable and conduit. Awesome - a freking sheet metal fabrication plant - a damned corrugated tin building with a blast furnace in the middle - had to be 120 in there. Bending and hanging 5-inch galvenized conduit is ass busting work. Pulling cable is also ass-busting, filthy-ass work. When it's 120 degrees, it's even worse. We were done at 4:00, which left me enough time to go home, shower, and get ready for work in the theater for my 6:00-1:00 a.m. shift. The whole night I was thinking, "Fuck this. I'm not doing this for the rest of my life." Next day, I called old Dean Kohl and set an appointment, and he told me what I had to do to get back in. That day changed my life. Moment 2 came almost two months later. I was taking 8 units of summer school at UC Irvine. Since I had to pay for it, I kept working those two jobs. Tuesday and Wednesday my schedule was work 6 a.m.-2:30 p.m., class from 3:30 - 5:30 and work from 6:30-2:00. I started that summer weighing 245 pounds. I would end it at 165. So, on a Wednesday night at the thater, my friends staged an intervention. For the last month I hadn't done any hanging out with them - I had been absentee. They wanted me to hang out. I spent a half hour telling them I had a midterm the next day and needed to study. God, how I wanted to. I had a major crush on Liz, and she was really laying it on thick. But I didn't - I had responsibilities to my school, my employers and myself. They left. That night confirmed that my life had changed. I scored 100 percent on that test the next day - the next highest grade wasn't even close - I think an 82. And I kicked ass continually and never looked back. I got back into college and saved enough to pay for the whole rest of the year. And now that fat, stupid waste of a human life is actually doing fairly well for himself. My wife is hotter than your wife. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lindercles 0 #24 December 28, 2006 I wish I had your conviction (I'll let you decide if the pun was intended ) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jtval 0 #25 December 28, 2006 QuoteI farted in church once. it didnt change my life but it summed up my feelings on this whole organized religion shit. (sorry, I have a felling this isgoing to SC) I tried 8 times to post my serious answer last night but the site kept crashing so I'll try itnow. 1- my first friend that I lost was murdered when I was 9 and he was 7 days from turnig 14. It opened my eyes. 2-SEX. It changed my priorities. (not really but it made me realize my priorites(sex) were worth the hassle) those are some of the NON_sport related ones that happened in the ealry years of my life.My photos My Videos Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
