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3 Pivotal Things
What three things have you done in your life that have been pivotal moments for you? What three things have you done that you feel have really shaped your life?
Mine are:
1) Volunteering for five summers at a camp for kids with AIDS
2) Traveling around Europe
3) Reading the book _Adopting Alyosha_, about a single man who adopted a 7-year-old boy from Russia
Danna =]
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Off the top of my head.....
1 Becoming a Stepmother
2 Becoming a Mother
3 Getting fired from my high-paying high-visibility job and becoming a SAHM.
Not as romantic as some I'm sure.
LOL...
Funny how getting married didn't make my list.......
very hard to choose just 3
But I'll say
1. Choosing to finish my PhD after going through significant obstacles and discouragement
2. Deciding to give up my original career path in order to be home with my daughter
3. Becoming Catholic
On the surface these aren't too interesting, but the common thread is making tough choices and going against the current I happened to be in at the time. It's the choosing as much as the doing that was pivotal for me. (Can you tell I have a very interior-oriented life?!
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I guess that's why I didn't mention getting married/meeting my husband. It's so much a part of my life, and it hardly felt like a choice -- it was just life.
Shaun
Hmm...
I guess I would say:
1. Moving from Phoenix to a tiny little New England town as a 15 year old.
2. Having 2 children by age 24.
3. Being with my grandmother as she died.
I'm not really sure why I picked those, but I just went with the gut. They certainly did all change my life in profound ways. That was interesting to think about.
Just 3.......
1. When I started working at the local Sheriff's Dept at age 20. I was a 911 operator. While the "decision" to work there wasn't a moment the whole 7 yr work experience was. I really grew into the person I am in that period and I feel if I had been at a different job I would have been different....
2. The death of my best friend's 4 month old. I never truly knew people could grieve so much and I never truly knew how much love I have in my life.
3. The recent trouble in my marriage and the decision to stay married. It has been a tough experience. It has changed the person I am and thought I was gonna be. But I look in the mirror and realize this is really who I WANTED to be all along.
Man, that was hard picking just 3.
Jana
I didn't pick getting married
I didn't pick getting married or having kids because those were things I'd always planned to do, and so even though they had huge impacts on my life, they were kind-of inevitable, in a way. The three things I listed were things that just dropped into my life unexpectedly. I really think I would be a lot different had none of those things happened. (I certainly doubt that we would be adopting Abrehem, because I don't think adopting internationally ever would have occurred to me, even though I'd always planned to adopt.)
Danna =]
Wow...
Great topic Danna
This was hard, but I would have to say:
- Taking a great corporate job out of college, even though I majored in Anthropology, and was not interested in business AT ALL. This gave me so much confidence and independence, which I never expected to have.
- Deciding not to give up on my relationship with my (future) DH, even though he moved several thousand miles away after a few months of dating. Yikes!!!
- Quitting my corporate career after 10 years to be home with DS. Everyone, including DH, thought I had lost my everlovin' marbles. In fact, my marbles were nearly gone anyway, due to the stress!!! They are slowly rejoining me after 2 years of being home sweet home
JoannaC
Three pivotal things
1) Moving to Oregon (and staying);
2) Meeting John, without whom I would never have become a mom/SAH;
3) Getting online. Completely changed my life and how I think about things.
Lynn Siprelle, Editor
OK, I'll Give This a Try...
1. Going through my best friend with her cancer and recovery
2. Adopting my daughter from Russia last year
3. Transitioning to part-time and work from home which in involved totally rearranging my priorities from work and task centered to kid-centered.
1. moving to Ohio from Florid
1. moving to Ohio from Florida after Hurricane Andrew
2.becoming a mother
3.getting my driver's license at 16!!!
Heidi
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