Life Changing Events

[bigirl]

Just wondering if any of you had anything happen to you that completely changed your entire outlook, philosophy and consciousness. Once it happened you could never go back to how you were before. A dividing line so to speak.

For me it was one cold bright January day when I was about 20. You know those kind of January days with blindingly bright sun and not a single cloud in the sky? So I am walking up 29th street around 1 in the afternoon and all of a sudden the sky gets dark out of nowhere and I hear what sounds like thunder. Perplexed as to where this freak thunderstorm is coming from out of nowhere in the middle of January I stop walking and look up at the sky. Well it was a good thing I stopped because what had actually happened was a HUGE chunk of the facade from the top of the building(you know the part with all the gargoyles and shit) had fallen off and landed less than 2 feet in front of me. It went right thru the sidewalk. I was completely taken aback and shocked

So how this changed my entire life and philosophy is that what i was most struck by is damn who would expect some random freak shit like that in the middle of the afternoon. If I hadn't wondered and stopped walking I would have been flattened like Wil E Coyote. So I first of all really realized that I walk with Jah Guidance and Protection and second I lost pretty much all my fear. If I could just die from some crazy random shit like that any time I may as well just do what the fuck I'm going to do. Yes that experience is the definitive line of before and after.

 

[KINGFROMQUEENS]

2 THINGS HAVE CHANGED ME. THE 1ST THING WAS THE 1ST AND HOPEFULLY THE ONLY TIME I FIRED MY WEAPON IN THE LINE OF DUTY. IT HAPPEN WHEN I WAS STILL WORKING UNDERCOVER , DURING A ROBBERY. BEFORE THAT I HAD NEVER REALLY THOUGHT ABOUT THE DANGERS OF MY JOB OR THE RESPONSIBILITY OF CARRYING A FIREARM. I STILL THANK GOD TO THIS DAY THAT I DID NOT TAKE A LIFE THAT DAY.

THE OTHER THING WAS I WAS IN A BAD ACCIDENT YEARS AGO.ONE THAT MOST PEOPLE DONT WALK AWAY FROM, AND AT THE TIME I DIDN'T. BUT AGAIN I THANK GOD CAUSE I HAVE RECOVERED AND I CAN DO EVERYTHING I USED DO.

THESE 2 EVENTS HAVE CHANGED THE WAY I LOOK AT AND THINK ABOUT LIFE. I KNOW ALL TO WELL HOW EASY AND QUICK THAT LIGHT CAN GO OUT.

 

[hustlehard718]

my god damn arm got caught in a machine at work

 

[KINGFROMQUEENS]

Just wondering if any of you had anything happen to you that completely changed your entire outlook, philosophy and consciousness. Once it happened you could never go back to how you were before. A dividing line so to speak.

For me it was one cold bright January day when I was about 20. You know those kind of January days with blindingly bright sun and not a single cloud in the sky? So I am walking up 29th street around 1 in the afternoon and all of a sudden the sky gets dark out of nowhere and I hear what sounds like thunder. Perplexed as to where this freak thunderstorm is coming from out of nowhere in the middle of January I stop walking and look up at the sky. Well it was a good thing I stopped because what had actually happened was a HUGE chunk of the facade from the top of the building(you know the part with all the gargoyles and shit) had fallen off and landed less than 2 feet in front of me. It went right thru the sidewalk. I was completely taken aback and shocked

So how this changed my entire life and philosophy is that what i was most struck by is damn who would expect some random freak shit like that in the middle of the afternoon. If I hadn't wondered and stopped walking I would have been flattened like Wil E Coyote. So I first of all really realized that I walk with Jah Guidance and Protection and second I lost pretty much all my fear. If I could just die from some crazy random shit like that any time I may as well just do what the fuck I'm going to do. Yes that experience is the definitive line of before and after.

its crazy how these random acts take people out. my accident was a freak accident. one minute you are just living life and the next......

 

[bigirl]

my god damn arm got caught in a machine at work

damn thats fucked up. do you still have it?

 

[hustlehard718]

yea i still have it after a couple surgies im tryin to figure out how to embed pix on here. but basically I learned ALOT my whole time out like true happiness comes from inside and nothing material can make u happy. Learned alot of budgeting and ALOT about yall females. Fear does'nt control me anymore its kinda crazy how I reacted when it got caught and when i took it out because I was calm as hell. Everybody else was going crazy but my instincts kicked in and I stopped a cab no tears hell I was even laughing at the pain. All in all I learned to just do me and love those that love me

 

[redsox]

i was born.

got married.

had a kid.

billy slowhands got banned on bgol yesterday.





....those are the highlights so far.

 

[KINGFROMQUEENS]

i was born.

got married.

had a kid.

billy slowhands got banned on bgol yesterday.





....those are the highlights so far.

 

[Twiceasnice45]

How somebody ended up dead... My life lesson...

When I was 26 I had a best friend who worked at nortel who knew I had bad credit and could not get a cell phone... this was about 6 years ago. He got me a phone and told me each month how much I owed him. He was my best friend at that time but a scoundrel. I figured out he was cheating me. I looked over the bill one day when I was at his house, his moms was there so when I wanted to point out he was cheating my ass I took the bill and said I would talk about it with him later. He objected and wanted me to pay right then. I started to walk to the door and he pretty much grabbed me. I am a tall but slim dude he had been a football player for NC State. He jacked me up on the wall. I had years of full contact training and always knew I could whoop this dude even though he ALWAYS talked down to me like he was better. I easily turned the tables and slammed him on his back, I got up and stomped him while his mom pulled me off of him. I reigned supreme in his house making him apologize to me and then I didn't accept his gesture of a handshake and walked out of his house not being his friend again.

I had another side deal with his cousin for 6412$ worth of furniture and the Rooms To Go Store. I gave him a check and wrote on the check "3 sets of furniture" in the comment line. I only got two sets of furniture and a bunch of excuses for the last 2000$ worth of furniture. Four (4) months passed and I never got the goods. It is not like I just let this go quietly. I called his house to the point his girl told me not to call. I went to his job and he kept telling me 4-6 weeks for delivery on the last set because it was "back ordered". I would wait and it was killing me he just kept my money and didn't seem to ever call me to update me with the "order". I suspected he just kept the money and was bullshitting me until I would give up on it. It was killing me to wait. I waited for 4 months and nothing... After 5 months I found that somebody had assumed my identity and with drawn 6214$ from my bank account, almost the exact same as the furniture I purchased from dudes cousin. I was mad as hell but what could I do? I reported this to the police and debated what to do next. I pretty much started going to dudes job asking for my cash. I was good with loot but still had to hustle like everybody else and now I was down 12000$ no cell phone. The shit hurt each day and I suspected my friends cousin of doing this to me.

Anyway, the police did nothing. The surveillence tapes showed some slick cat in a baseball cap withdrawing my money from the credit union, too inconclusive. I was mad stressed and broke. I was too nice to the guy. He came to my house and I swear he was going to kill me somehow. He rode his motorcycle to my back yard and knocked on my backdoor. I insisted he come to the front door he left on his helmet and his gloves when he came in the house and asked who was upstairs. I told him "nobody" I stayed close to him in case he tried anything. The phone rang and I answered telling my girl who was at my house and details about what we were doing like he was riding a motorcycle and he just got there and still had his green helmet on. After I hung up he said he didn't have the money... Why did he come over so suspicious like? He also asked me about the amount of the money originally and said the amount wrong stating the 6214$ amount, which was how much I was robbed by someone who assumed my identity. Clearly he was responsible. I could no longer call the guy cause he blocked my number and would not return my phone calls I made from work. I went to his job and we almost got into a physical fight. I decided to go to his boss. I wrote up all of the details of his "scam" and went to his job saying I was going to talk to his boss, he said "fuck you"... I went to his boss and sat and told him the issue. Two weeks passed and Nothing. I almost resigned to losing my 2000$ then I got a call from my friends cousin. He told me he had my loot and wanted to meet me in a parking lot near the mall in Raleigh, near my house. It was near sundown and I was with my other best friend. Dude told me to come alone but I just barely talked my friend into going with me. We rode my camry to the meeting location and discussed how I was glad to get this over. We briefly discussed how it might be a set up but we both knew the guy and did not think he would get stupid on us. My friend was even good friends with him.

We parked in the parking lot and waited. First I noticed the Food Lion grocery store that was there had recently closed so the parking lot was stangely quite the only thing open was a nearby pizza hut, full of people around 8:30 pm on a friday night. It was summer so the sun was setting. We saw a white car pull up and my friends cousin told me to come to his car once he stopped about 20 feet behind my car. I said "here goes nothing" and got out to get the money. As I approached the car he jumped out angry as shit yelling "you muther fucker!!!" swinging a stick. I ran but could not get back in my car. I stumbled and he began beating my back with the stick I got back up and stumbled again he was tearing me up with the stick but it was nothing I could not handle I felt. I got up and got in a fighting stance. I blocked about 4 blows with my forearm and got ready to take more damage before it was over. My plan was to throw hard punches and avoid his strikes with the stick. I countered a blow from the stick and caught him right over the eye with all I had. He was knocked out on his feet. It happened in slow motion. He staggered for a second, dropped the stick and collapsed to the ground hitting his head. His body tensed up like he was having a spasm then he was knocked out. I yelled "you got knocked the fuck out." and began walking to the nearby pizza hut 100 yards away. People were starting to come out and ask what happened. I told them to call the police. Some young black dudes were eating pizza came outside and asked me if I "checked" dudes pockets. I said "no" but told them they could if they wanted too, just fukin around. The black folks then told me I should jet before the cops arrived. I thought this was silly and said "I didn't do anything." The police arrived and I got arrested. They took me to the atation and grilled me on EVERYTHING. I got suspicious when they wanted to search my house. To make a long story short I KILLED the dude. He hit his head in our fight and DIED. This changed my life and I got a few life lessons for you guys. Needless to say my sad situation just got worse...

1. Never loan out money or invest money in a "hook up" you can't just forget about. If you loan money think of it as a gift.

2. Never hit anyone first or when they are down. If they die you are probably fucked or will have to deal with legal shit you don't want to.

3. Don't let your friends tell lies to other people around you and not say anything. If you see them being dishonest with others they will be dishonest to you.

4. Don't tell people you have a gun. If dude thought I was packing he would not have brought just a pool stick to the fight. I don't have a gun and he knew this so he felt safe bringing something non lethal. He probably would have stomped me into a coma if he had the chance though.

 

[DaleMabry]

3. Don't let your friends tell lies to other people around you and not say anything. If you see them being dishonest with others they will be dishonest to you.

Learned this lesson the hard way. If they are shady to others they will be shady to you at some point, inevitably.

Me, I had a kid. That changed my life (for the better.) The end.

 

[Bigmario23]

Wow I had a couple I don't wanna get in trading war stories
but

1.Laying on the ground after a scuffle looking down the barrel of a 9.
(nigga didn't squeeze)

2. Being shot at on my moma's porch bullets riddled the mailbox
and door my cousin returned fire as we hit the deck
(nobody hit on either side)

3. Two niggas caught me slippin came out from the bushes
rob me.... one gun stuck in my back, another in my stomach.
($400 gone..... but I kept my life)

4. my moma screaming out "DON'T KILL HIM!!" the only words that
brought me outta beast mode and possibly doing a long stint in prison.

SO many war stories shit gets deep i could go on
yall gotta wait for the book though......

 

[HoneyBerry]

THE OTHER THING WAS I WAS IN A BAD ACCIDENT YEARS AGO.ONE THAT MOST PEOPLE DONT WALK AWAY FROM, AND AT THE TIME I DIDN'T. BUT AGAIN I THANK GOD CAUSE I HAVE RECOVERED AND I CAN DO EVERYTHING I USED DO.

Me too. I think that was the only major thing. Lots of little things happen everyday that shape who I am though

 

[Poobs]

Probably gettin molested by a couple family members when I was little...multiple times...orr..gettin pissed on when I was little...its alotta shit I been thru but those the first ones that popped in my head when I saw the thread title...

 

[TittyMaster404]

I'm sorry to hear about everyones misfortunes. But, the events the change my life was 1) having a heart at 33 yrs old. It taught me to slow and appreciate my life and family. 2) My divorce. It taught me no matter how hard you try. You just can't make everyone happy.