We all reached to a certain level in our lives that we completely evolved as an individual,given life's inevitable challenges and circumstances being served in front of us

At what most specific and signifcant irrevocable change have you ever made by seeking a way lot better state out of life?

The moment when I threw out my ex wife, after she not only verbally and physically attacked me, but my mother. Enough was enough. And it felt so great when she was gone.

We had retired,I walked away from a 43yr marriage after constantly being argued at.
about nothing,
I bought a holiday home on a leisure park in the countryside near the coast, I feel reborn

Not one moment, I don't think it's ever one moment as we keep growing and learning as we live and get older.
I also don't believe in reaching the point of being completely evolved. No one alive is completely evolved, not even the Dalai Lama. We keep learning as long as we're alive.

For me the first huge moment, which has really altered my life for good, was ending up in an Aboriginal community at the age of 20. At the time I couldn't fathom the depth of that experience of course.

Another was finding out about my spirituality and my own abilities. Major eye-opener.

Yet another was a relationship with a narcissist which led to enormous personal growth and development for me. I had to, it was either learn to swim or drown.

Just a few.

My first turn around moment was very young. I have four older brothers, and the eldest and youngest were at odds quite a bit. There was a particularly bad fight where the eldest caused the youngest to bleed. Because I love them both, it was a very standout event to see either of them hurt the other. And because they are both very proud and masculine, they were both fuming and angry with each other.

Yet, a couple days later, I came from school, and found them laughing and playing B ball together. That revealed two things to me. The first is that good things and bad things happen, sometimes simultaneously, and never with discretion for who or why. Both my brothers were decent guys, neither 'deserved' to feel that way, to my eyes.

The second thing was that grudges are a waste of energy and time. The day or so they spent being angry, was just a wasted day, being that two days later they were no longer angry. I remember wondering what the point of that 'angry' day was, and that they could have skipped it altogether. So my life, since then, I have not been able to hold 'grudges' where i stay angry with people. I get upset, but I get over that feeling pretty quickly and let it go.



The second moment was when I was attacked at a park at 18. I was a very quiet and reserved person, on the sensitive side. But when the moment happened, I got angry and fought. It taught me that I have more fight in me, when the crap hits the fan, than I might have thought.

For me it was, on 3 occasions last year having to face the possibility that i could die. sobering thought that one
that and divorce after 25 years a few months after.

lucky/glad to be alive really.
90+% recovery at the moment, 100% in a few more months.

to be brief, my out look changed a bit. for the better
I thought a lot about what it is about life that is sweet.
And its mostly people.

I've had several throughout my life. I agree with Crystal that it's never just one moment and we continue to evolve so long as we're here.

The most recent was hurricane Irma in September of 2017. I got laid off from work and after spending pretty much 24/7 with my sibling for 3 months it forced me to rethink the quality of life I had in the Keys... I was merely existing and life had become stagnant. In a sense the hurricane was a godsend for me as it paved the way for my life to completely change and prompted me to set out on a journey to discover and reconnect with myself... my soul purpose and passion in life.

I'm now a traveler, growing and evolving as I continue my journey with the destination unknown... at this time.

The death of my 36 yr old son made me realize how short life can be. I wanted to be happy so once I was over the worst part of grieving, I decided to change my life. I left a miserable nasty husband and moved to a small town to start over.

My life isn’t perfect and never will be. I don’t sweat the small stuff, I take every opportunity to do things that I enjoy and I realize that small things can make me happy. I look out my living room at the river and it’s beautiful. Nature is beautiful.

I still have a lot of responsibility with caring for a 21 yr old autistic grandson but he has taught me so much. I also met a man who appreciates everything about me and tells me so every day. Life is so much better!

"Life's Turning Point Moment", I couldn't exactly do it.
I guess mine was like my life story. a little long. can be boring.
when and why I entered this site, they all have.
as tomorrow send more convenient.

I guess my "turning points" have been more like "un-events."

Things like going through social hell, and by utterly failing, finally recognizing that my early deduction that other people knew the right way to live, was a horrible error on my part.

My life didn't get any better from there on, but the fact that I completely own all my mistakes and shortcomings, has made whatever did happen, feel more real, and therefore more satisfying than any false victories would have.

We face turning points every day in our lives, big or small that changes our perceptions of the world for better or worse. For me it was the Family Skeletons that started coming out that totally changed my life and not for the better but finding out explained a lot of things that I had wondered about. When I turned 31 I went in on a condo with my parents and my brother, which would be for my brother and a couple miles from the beach. I paid the deposit, my parents put in their name as the owned other houses and had great credit and my brother was going to add extra on the payments to cover my deposit. It went bad quickly, my brother was a slob and didn't pay the bills on time which we're all in my name. My mom started making it clear by showing up to the HOA meetings that the condo was hers as it was in her name and the problems with my brother were mine as long as he paid on the condo. One day I came home to find his friends and him ate $300.00 in groceries that I had bought earlier that day and left the place all messed up my brother and I got into a physical fight. The moment he hit in the face was the moment we were no longer family! Then my dad came along and first words out of his mouth we're "Robert Get your stuff and get the hell out of here!" Once again I was the bad guy. My brother moved back to my parents house and my mom got a lawyer to kick me out. After 2 weeks I met my mom at El Pollo Loco to discuss things and I finally asked her what was wrong with me, why was I always the bad guy, the black sheep. She told me that she had always hated me even before I was born. She felt my dad had gotten her pregnant on purpose to marry her and she had wanted to marry a rich man, not a poor Ensign in the Navy she had met at the USO. And she couldn't hate my dad because she had to marry now she was pregnant. When she told me that it was a huge ephihany ( I know that's spelled wrong). Why I Never went to birthdays as a kid, why I was always whipped with a belt and my brother never was, why I got crappy Christmas presents and he got all the cool stuff, etc... It explained so much and even though it made my life totally depressed I am still glad to know the truth. Wasn't glad to find out I didn't have a case against my parents for the condo as I had never gotten a paperwork with my signature on it and which my mom had done purposely. I was out in 30 days.

There have been a lot of turning points in my life ...

some good... some not so good ...

becoming a grand mother for 4 sure one of the good ones ...

sometimes I feel... its the waiting part ...
to see where my life will turn next ...

certainly hoping it is for... the better part of me & life ...

I'm going to move from lake Charles with my husband and begin a new opportunity in a less competitive state

I'm pregnant

Was when my ex husband of 13 years stood in the courts of law to say he didn't want me because " we came to a point that we couldn't agree to any thing" . Knowing very well he made that up because he met some lady way younger than me.

There's been some events in life, earthshaking sorts of events. Some deaths of those known to me, some near deaths, some more personal in nature.

I tend to think I've been lucky in the ways that count. I've done things most will never have the chance to do, been places I'd never have picked as ideal spots to go, and had experiences sometimes for the best and sometimes no one should go through.

Things happen in life. You survive, pick up, and go on. The alternative to that isn't one you'd wish.

All in all, they wind up making you who you are. Your experiences color who you are and the way you are in the long run.

So still walking this good earth and happy to be here. As I look around I know I am extremely fortunate. I appreciate that.

Very inspiring messages

There were a few events that changed my life.

I wrote some of my life story ...
1993-1994 was years of preparation for the faculty.
1993-1995 there were gastritis / ulcers in the stomach.
it was mading me alone in of friends. because my eyes / my ear was constantly in my stomach. And thank God, that is been improved.

In 1994 I won the faculty. but I never loved this school. For me to study at this school was perhaps more difficult than death. Then, I had depression between 1995-1997. I couldn't go to school for 2 years. These years were years when I felt lonely on this planet. the world was ruined I was under. these were the days when I was very upset. and in 2001 the faculty was over.

I opened my own clinic at the beginning of 2004. then I worked very intensively in the clinic until 2012. and the 2011-2012 years were lived very sad for my. I've had an event that really hurt me. Then, I have be Salmonella typhi and Salmonella paratyphi in that years. I tried to do what the doctor said. This disease has depressed me. I couldn't go to my clinic for 3 months. I decided to quit the clinic and enter the state business. then my blood in the hospital came out clean for Salmonella. and I took the exam to gain state work and I won. I entered the state business in early 2013. It was a new life for me. I was happy because I won what I wanted. I was sad because I quit my job. Closing the clinic had a cost me $ 140000 to $ 170000 loss.

those who were destined to find me. it was impossible to escape the fate.

So joy and sadness are together. I took a post-graduate exam to forget the clinic. and I won. and started a graduate marathon which will last for 4-5 years. and the high license is over. I would be a faculty academician if I knew advanced English.

I called English speaking sites like 2017. they were all paid. And one day I found Mingle by chance. this was both a free and paid site.

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an interesting man; "Mrmxb" ...

Yes, a very interesting man!

Lots of life changing events Sahin... I'm glad things are better for you now.

Would have to be when I went back to work for myself. My dad and I had run our little business for years. But he taught me nothing about the paperwork end of it. I went and landed a job with another company when he got sick, and was in the hospital. I stuck with that job until spring, then called in sick and went out scouting for work I could contract. I landed one siding job, but told that customer I wouldn't do it until I knew I had another job after theirs. When I went back to work the following day, my then boss decided to lay me off that day. I told him I didn't care, I was out contracting for myself. Then that bastard had the nerve to ask me if I was going to give him two weeks notice. My reply- "Did you?" I jumped his *** anyway a month before, for telling a customer that I was to blame for a pool liner that was leaking. I had never been to that job before that day. To get back at him, I turned him into the labor department for not paying me overtime.

Once I got started back contracting, people got to trusting me, and my work. Word of mouth is great advertising. That was over 30 years ago, and I'm still at it.