I would like to know what event or events that happened to you would you consider life-changing. How did it change your life? Was it for better or for worse? Was it an event in history or a personal happening? Mine would be when my sister gave me her cat for Christmas in 1988. I have spent lots of money on toys and food for my cat, sometimes at the expense of getting a social life. But I would do the same because Clarence has been so special to me and the lives he has touched.  

Over my life I have had what I call "Fork in the road moments".  

When you look back to a particular date and realise the choice you made that day altered your life.

Xmas Eve 1988 is my biggest fork in the road. (weird Indy - your event was Xmas 88 too !!!).

I was working in a pub in London.  I had phoned a paper and asked to be set up with an Austrian millionaire they had done an article on.  He was seeking a travel companion to join him on his new huge expensive catamaran - sailing around the UK and down to the mediteranean etc etc.

He was to come to the pub that night to meet me.

During the day - before he arrived - I was serving two brothers and we got talking about our time in the US as they had just returned from there and I had just left there.

There was a connection with one of the brothers and when I said I had a blind date later that night he tried to talk me out of it.

Anyway I went on the blind date and really enjoyed the company of the Austrian.  

But something made me turn down his offer of sailing to the med with him.  I decided I wanted to get to know the younger of the brothers better.

Long story short - I married the younger brother and he turned out to be a drunken gambling addicted violent creep.

So - if I went back to my fork in the road day and made the other decision - to sail off with a millionaire who had climbed Everest and Mont Blanc and lived an exciting life - how would my life had turned out ?

I have no doubt my choice that day changed my life.  It was completely against character for me and for the year I was with the creep I became a person so unlike me (tolerating violence etc).  Its made me somewhat cynical and untrusting about relationships etc.  It made me hate guys who drink - even the ones that can actually handle their drink.  

Spring 2002:  Tiffany Reck tells me that I really should ask this girl Chrissy to prom.  I take her advice.  My life is never the same again.

I guess when my Brother passed away 9 years ago,It changed the Family's lives. :(


Howard

When I got my dog Clancy when I was 9, it wont be easy when the day he passes away comes around.  When my last grandparent passed away because that ment I no longer had any grandparents left and at the time I was only 16.  Working at Wal-Mart made me realize how poorly run that company is, it amazes me how it has lasted this long and still continues to grow.  Going to college, which I am still in the process of doing, though it has little effect now it definitly will later in life.

Thanks, SmithsGirl. Considering that he didn't get a life threatening illness until last year, I guess he is very lucky. I'll miss him when he's gone. :'(

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That is very sweet. As an animal lover and someone that works with animals on a daily basis I can appreciate that story. Clarence is a very lucky cat. :)


SmithsGirl


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wll, I could take the easy way out of this and say the time that the doctor told m that I could possible have cancer, but that didnt really change my life, it just got me thinking.....

hmm...Im not sure...

lol...I could say Prom weekend, but I wont say that....maybe th summer after prom..Im not sure

The biggest "fork in the road" for me started in 1988-89. I was kind of stagnate until 92 when I decided to go back to school. Best decision I ever made in my life. I met my husband-not to mention getting my degree-B.A. (even though I still have to finish up my M.A.) Now, my life is WONDERFUL! I have had smaller "forks in the road" before and since but that was the big one.



Cat

When I found out I was pregnant.  It motivated me to kick my lump of an ex out of my house.  I figured I was obligated to support the baby, the grown up needed to make his own way in the world.  I figured out my expenses so I wouldn't have to work two jobs anymore, and brought me back to church.  I don't know what it would have been like had I not gotten pregnant.