little things that have hugely affected your life

[Bob]

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As opposed to the things you do decide...
https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php/topic,14933.0.html

[shasta]

Things beyond my control:

-September 11, 2001

-My parent's car accident

-When my best guy friend said nothing after I told him I was in love with him.  Silence.

-Getting rejected from every graduate school I had applied to in a particular field I had wanted to pursue many years ago

^^No one is entitled to anything in life.  Without a doubt, all of the above have made me a stronger and more intense person. 

[keys]

Those are pretty big things Shasta.

When I was studying for the SATs I had to choose three subject tests to write. I had a hard time deciding on the third test.  I hadn't studied any of the science topics before, and didn't think I would do well enough on the math ones, so I decided to give Chemistry a try because I had a  Chem text  book lying around. I studied for three weeks, scored well on the test, and ended up changing my studies from music to science.

[zheer]

-When my best guy friend said nothing after I told him I was in love with him.  Silence.
 

   I can relate, i was madly in love with this girl a long time ago, i expressed my love for her, but she did not care for me in the same way. Sad but true. These days i gard my feelings a lot more, i gess you could say am a lot stronger, and older.

[Torp]

Saying Yes instead of No...despite my fear.

[pianistimo]

perhaps the time i rented a motorhome to take my kids on a camping trip.  i found out it didn't have brakes on the way home (down a mountain) and had to use drive 1 and 2 to slow it down.  i was thanking my step-dad all the way down that he showed me that trick.  otherwise, we would have careened off of a windy road down a huge embankment.

[ted]

Well obviously, the incident I mentioned in the decision thread. One Saturday morning in 1977 I decided to go to the local beach for a swim. Therefore I didn't want to eat breakfast so I read the paper instead, which I hardly ever did. There was an advertisement placed by a woman in the Philippines for a penfriend. I liked writing letters so I answered. Two weeks later a letter arrived from her best friend. Forty letters had been received and mine had been rejected immediately because I seemed completely mad and my writing incomprehensible.

The writer of the reply said she didn't mind my being mad because she had a brother who was a poet and author and who was also mad. Thus began a four year correspondence terminating in our marriage.

[m1469]

Loving instead of hating.

Going instead of staying.

Listening instead of talking.

Trusting instead of fearing.

Living in the moment.

[Tash]

the story of my life: taking up french in yr8 instead of german, then dropping french in yr9 and taking up music cos it was apparently a bludge- had i done german i may have stuck with it and thus never done music and possibly dropped music and who knows what i'd be doing now...so thanks to being in 7purple and learning german after we'd made our elective choices for yr8

also my yr12 music teachers suggesting i do a musicology elective despite the fact that one of them barely knew me (dunno how it occured to her i should do this) and am now obsessed with musicology and music history woo

switching groups in yr9 and telling my best friend to go to hell that was exciting

[mycrabface]

-When my best guy friend said nothing after I told him I was in love with him.  Silence.

 

Until now?
Just a question to everyone.. Would you rather wait for the person to tell you he/she likes you, or you telling first?

[zheer]

Until now?
Just a question to everyone.. Would you rather wait for the person to tell you he/she likes you, or you telling first?

   The last time a girl told me she liked me was, ammmmmmmmmmmmmmm, it was last, no hang on a moment, let me check my note bock, ah here we go it waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssss, no i cant find it, let me think aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, no sorry cant remember.

[mycrabface]

   The last time a girl told me she liked me was, ammmmmmmmmmmmmmm, it was last, no hang on a moment, let me check my note bock, ah here we go it waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssss, no i cant find it, let me think aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, no sorry cant remember.

lol.. remember to write it down in your precious journal if you do..

[rlefebvr]

First fo all, it's not a small thing. O.K.

I don't know what you heard, but the rumors are not true.

It's a Big thing. It really is.

[shasta]

Until now?

??  What do you mean?

Would you rather wait for the person to tell you he/she likes you, or you telling first?

I am usually the one to tell the man that I'm interested in him.  <--The men I've dated often tell me I'm hard to read, so I usually have to spell it out for them.  Rarely do they make the first move.  Sigh.

[gilad]

i was car jacked in the dark of night by four thugs, i had a gun to my head and thought i was going to die a horrible death. it lasted a mere 20 seconds and gave me sleepless nights for a year.  it was after that happened that i started to consider what it means to be alive, to  make the most of it, to  leave a positive lasting impression on this world.

[mycrabface]

I am usually the one to tell the man that I'm interested in him.  <--The men I've dated often tell me I'm hard to read, so I usually have to spell it out for them.  Rarely do they make the first move.  Sigh.

Wow.. so brave.. for me i just act cute and wait for people to tell me..

[4tissimo]

Actually, it's not all that little but it surely effected my life.  The physical exam notice I got for the draft on Fri., Nov. 13, 1963.  I wasn't superstitious until then.   I was a librarian at the National Music Camp/Interlochen [MI] Arts Academy.  Student deferments were still good & I lucked out & got into music school @ Northern IL Univ.  If that hadn't happened, I doubt I would have ended up in Japan for 34 years--a significant culture change, indeed.

   As for telling my significant others that I love them vs. waiting for them to tell me, I normally make the first move in that regard.  Luckily, it's always turned out well. 

[gorbee natcase]

missing the toilet when I go

[hamauzu]

Last year at our Choir Banquet (a little end of the year celebration we have in our choir), I decided to go stand in line for coffee, which was rather odd since I don't even like coffee. There I met this girl and discovered we had the same name and so we started to talk and now...we are inseperable (best friends). She is pretty much the only person who I can really talk to about everything, and really feel comfortable with, and to think that if I hadn't decided to go wait in line for coffee for no apparant reason...its just rather odd.

[henrah]

Last year at our Choir Banquet (a little end of the year celebration we have in our choir), I decided to go stand in line for coffee, which was rather odd since I don't even like coffee. There I met this girl and discovered we had the same name and so we started to talk and now...we are inseperable (best friends). She is pretty much the only person who I can really talk to about everything, and really feel comfortable with, and to think that if I hadn't decided to go wait in line for coffee for no apparant reason...its just rather odd.

Fate, my friend. Fate.

As for me, hhhmmm....let me see....

There was the terrible cold sore I got during primary school, and I think I had it for a whole year. It might not have been that long, but it sure was a long time, and it made hell of my time at primary school. I don't know if it has made me any stronger, but being on the receiving end of bullying certainly has made me think about other people's personalities. I know feel that I analyse every single person I meet, and come up with - sometimes - assumptions, of which some are proven true, whilst the others are proven false. It helps me to decide how much I should trust them, and whether they are true friends. This all came from a little scab that kept growing on my lips.
Henrah