What have been the catalysts to the transformations in your life?

@Msabu09 (111)
United States
September 11, 2009 11:22am CST
First, let's talk about the transformation: a significant change in your life; a virtual 180 degree turnabout; becoming something/someone you were not previously; having an AHA! moment. These are some quick definitions of a transformation. When you consider the transformations in your own personal life, what do you feel was the defining moment, the change-agent, the catalyst to stepping into something new and different? For some of us, it may be letting go of something we have carried inside - or even in our exterior lives - for far too long. This could be possessions (perhaps you are a hoarder?), relationships (could be friends, but often this is a past lover), obsessions (neat freak? stalker?), addictions (even an addiction to being right, arguing your point for the sake of arguing; more noticeably: alcohol, food, drugs, people) or perhaps you have let go of real physical weight by changing your diet and even your hairstyle. More deeply, you may have experienced a transformation in your spirit, a shift in the consciousness of what life holds of importance for you. So very often, the external transformation is accompanied by the internal one. We get so focused on the internal changes we desire - peace, contentment, love, happiness - that we forget how much our internal life can be impacted by our external choices and way of living. I would love to hear your thoughts - those that may be very light and those that are more deep by comparison. What in your life has prompted you to change?
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@mrakobesie (1246)
• United States
11 Sep 09
I had those moment many times throughout my life. The first one was when i was 5 and my father got a psychiatric illnes that happened to be uncurable. This one changed my own life and lifes of everyone else in my family. The second was when i was 10 and my mom couldn't afford to live the same life we did, she simply couldn't raise 2 kids on her own so she went to US and leaft us with our grand parents. She did her very best to make our lifes easier, but at the same tiem she was too far to provide emotional support. The 3rd time my life changed was when i can to US and finally reunited with my mother. I decided to go into medical field and become a doctor, but about half a year ago i had another turn oaround. I started studying things that are not talke dabout much, things that everyone should know about and all my thinking changed as a result. Instead of continuing my education in traditional medicine i'm now studying alternative medicine. I no longer belive in god and became a non-secular atheist instead. I simply started learning more and my entire world changed. I started seeing things that are carefully hidden in the plain sight and i started understanding things that i couldn't understand before. Knowledge is very powerful and it gave me understanding and changed my life for better.
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@Msabu09 (111)
• United States
11 Sep 09
Gosh, you have had many challenges in your life to bring you here! My life transitioned at 5 as well - although I couldn't know it at the time - as my family split apart with the divorce of my parents. I wonder what your father's illness was and where your relationship with him is now? Where are you from originally? I have so many questions I would ask you about your life's experiences and the things you are studying now....but instead I would ask you to share the details with which you are comfortable. How did these experiences impact your life? Your father's illness, not having your mother? Do you feel they ultimately created a stronger sense of who you are?
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• United States
11 Sep 09
my father got schizophrenia, got it literally over night. One day was perfectly normal, the next day woke up all strange left and came back a few days later totally delusional. I'm originaly from all over the wrold lol. Tomorrow i'm breaking a record of living in one place for the longest, 7 years. Was bork in Ukraine, but we moved out a little more then a month after i was born. Chernolil accident madi it rather undesierable for my family to go back to ukraine lol. I lived in 3 middle eastern countries, in russia and then when i was 13 i came back to ukraine and lived there for another 3 years. I think all the things that happened made me stronger. I learned how to cook soups when i was 9 after all and could do everything any woman should know how to do when i was 13. It tought me a lot and i now am ready for almost anything life can throw at me. If the whole civilization will colapse tomorrow, i will be one of the few who will actually know what to do to survive, skils that are needed very much. I'm now concentrating on alternative medicine and at the same time trying to find a way to make this place a better one through politics. I learn a bit too much about how corupt orgonized religions are and how corupt our govenment is. All the ways our government poisons us and makes it nearly impossible for us to think on our own. Missinformation that is forced on us by the media is simply scary. Since i know 3 languages and get news from different countries, i get a view on the same news from different prespective and can use my own judgement to figure out who's lying.
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@Msabu09 (111)
• United States
12 Sep 09
I love that perspective - knowing three different languages and so able to get news from three different countries - what a unique look on what's happening in our world! Like you, I learned to cook and take care of myself and others at a young age. There were five of us children, with 7 years between us older two and the younger ones. My sister and I did a lot to help take care of things at home. Although there wasn't mental illness, my mom struggled with physical illness when I was a teenager and my sister was out of the house. There was a lot to help manage. Having lived so many places, do you find there is somewhere you prefer and would go back to if given the opportunity?
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