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<blockquote data-quote="RidgeHunter" data-source="post: 1517701" data-attributes="member: 4319"><p>This is actually a good thread, pardon my trolling in it. I don't think I'll ever have a defining moment or redefining moment in my life. "Defining" as in a reason for existence. I'm just here.</p><p></p><p>In terms of things that <em>changed the way I view life</em>, three events relating to mortality come to mind. Two times I came near death myself, and the other was the death of someone I wasn't close to...but was very similar to someone I am close to. The first two made me think of my mortality, and the third one made me think of those around me. (I.E. the mortality of people other than the elderly.) The third one was very odd, I never would have guessed it would affect me at all...and it pointed out things that should have been obvious but I had shut out until that point. I accepted my own mortality long before I thought about it in those around me (excluding the elderly again).</p><p></p><p>I'm a guarded, defensive, cynical misanthrope, and I've met a couple of people that totally tore all that down instantly and left me a pathetic pile of patheticness. Make me feel human? Give me hope for humanity and/or my future? Totally make me feel like a failure at the one thing I was ever good at? Yeah man, definitely the last one. <img src="/images/smilies/image039.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":igetit:" title="Image039 :igetit:" data-shortname=":igetit:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RidgeHunter, post: 1517701, member: 4319"] This is actually a good thread, pardon my trolling in it. I don't think I'll ever have a defining moment or redefining moment in my life. "Defining" as in a reason for existence. I'm just here. In terms of things that [I]changed the way I view life[/I], three events relating to mortality come to mind. Two times I came near death myself, and the other was the death of someone I wasn't close to...but was very similar to someone I am close to. The first two made me think of my mortality, and the third one made me think of those around me. (I.E. the mortality of people other than the elderly.) The third one was very odd, I never would have guessed it would affect me at all...and it pointed out things that should have been obvious but I had shut out until that point. I accepted my own mortality long before I thought about it in those around me (excluding the elderly again). I'm a guarded, defensive, cynical misanthrope, and I've met a couple of people that totally tore all that down instantly and left me a pathetic pile of patheticness. Make me feel human? Give me hope for humanity and/or my future? Totally make me feel like a failure at the one thing I was ever good at? Yeah man, definitely the last one. :igetit: [/QUOTE]
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