A Simple Twist Of Fate.

Godsentme

Did one simple incident ever change your life bigtime? And how?

It could be winning the lotto ,of course. Or missing a bus. Or answering a crazy ad. Or stopping to tie your shoe, thereby missing being hit by a car hitting a wall just where you would have been....( Which is what happened to me. I would have been killed.)

m@cc@

I knew this guy who was crucified but then he rose from the dead. Turned out to be the best thing that could have happened to him.






























I reckon he's full of **** though.

walshb

Godsentme wrote: »

Did one simple incident ever change your life bigtime? And how?

It could be winning the lotto ,of course. Or missing a bus. Or answering a crazy ad. Or stopping to tie your shoe, thereby missing being hit by a car hitting a wall just where you would have been....( Which is what happened to me. I would have been killed.)

Don't you mean "I could have been killed."

strobe

Because of the whole Butterfly Effect thing pretty much anything you do could change your life bigtime. If you decide to leave for work one morning at 7:30 instead of 7:00 it will probably totally alter the course of your life forever.

Then again there are a lot of physicists out there that believe that the universe is deterministic, so if they are right, no one simple incident will ever change your future life in anyway whatsoever because from the beginning of the universe (if it had a beginning) everything has been tumbling along on what is basically a set path and will always continue to do so, free will is a myth and if you knew all the hidden variables at play you could map out everything that will ever play out in the lives of anyone that is ever going to live.........and junk.

Elessar

Nothing major, but when in film school I decided to go do a first aid course with a voluntary body (order of malta). I'm not sure why I wanted to.

My life has changed ever since. I'm now on the path to becoming a Paramedic and a large portion of my life revolves around my friends in the ambulance corps, going on duties, helping people.

I was so close to not attending that first day of the first aid course. My life would be completely different if I hadn't.

Pighead

Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden.

T.S Eliot at his best there. A great quote which mirrors exactly what this thread is about. It's like when you get arrested by the guards for walking drunkingly down the street with no trousers or underpants on. You sit in your small, cold, filthy cell wondering if things may have turned out differently if you hadn't bumped into Mad Benny on the street yesterday afternoon.

Mr Benevolent

Pighead wrote: »

You sit in your small, cold, filthy cell wondering if things may have turned out differently if you hadn't bumped into Mad Benny on the street yesterday afternoon.

Spoken from experience.

mathie

I voted 'Yes' to Europe for jobs.
Then got laid off.

Lando Griffin

If I was born one hour later I would have qualified to be in a younger age group for the community games, because of this I never stood any chance against the older children and so scuppering a great track and field career .

Pighead

Confab wrote: »

Spoken from experience.

Indeed it was, Confab. Indeed it was.

But before any of the youngsters think Pighead is glamourising the whole spending a night in a prison cell experience let them be absolutely crystal clear that he is not. No way Jose. Spending a night in a dirty Pearce Street Dublin prison cell is about as glamorous as an Irish TV awards show. It's a horrible experience that will strip you of your dignity and your trousers.

Pighead remembers well sitting in the small cell with his pal wondering how on earth he had ended up here. A wonderful, handsome, well educated man locked behind bars and all because of a couple of moments of stupidity. This is how Ted Bundy must have felt.

The worst part of it all was when the guard came into the cell and barked at us:
Guard: Oi, Pighead and Pigheads friend. Take off your belts and drop your trousers, NOW!

The colour immediately drained from both our faces. This was like the moment you are with a girl and you realise that making love with her is very much on the cards. Your brain imemdiately sends a message down to you "Hope you have a clean pair of boxers on you Pighead and not the ripped manky brown and yellow pair you wear for the majority of the time."

Pighead looked into his buddy's eyes and he could tell that his brain was enquiring about the state of his boxers. The eyes and the ashen face told Pighead that his buddy was in trouble.

Thankfully Pigheads mother had insisted that he put on a fresh pair of boxers and so he was spared the ignominy of a fat mean spirited guard pointing and laughing and calling in other fat and mean spirited guards to join in.

Poor old Pigheads pal was wearing a natty old grey pair of tight fitting grey Y-Fronts which were showing absolutely nothing in the way of bulge action and which you would be forgiven for thinking that the owner of said Y-Fronts was actually a woman. It was like the whole Lady GaGa penis rumour thing but in reverse.Terrible night for all concerned but especially him. Moral of the story= Always wear fresh clean flattering boxers if you have an inkling that you may be getting arrested on a night out.

Smcgie

^^ A well educated dundalk man? There's a first

mikom

They sat together in the park
As the evening sky grew dark
She looked at him and he felt a spark tingle to his bones
It was then he felt alone and wished that he'd gone straight
And watched out for a simple twist of fate.

PJTierney

First year of college I used to get a lift in and out, until the driver was relocated to Waterford. From then on I got the bus and crossed a comic shop (The Gathering, in Limerick) on my way to college from the station every day.

Almost 4 years later I'm now a freelance writer, contract writer and a whole lot of other things to do with a certain card game that that shop sells products for.

consultech

I had a very big fight with my girlfriend the day of her college graduation ceremony, and she told me not to come. I was at home 45 mins before it started and my mother called. Long story short she convinced me that I should go anyway as the fight would pass, but I may regret not being there on her big night.

2 hours later and we've obviously made up and I'm sitting in the crowd supporting her. I had an epiphany. Something just clicked in me and I decided there and then that I wanted to go back to college to get the qualification I dropped out of a few years back. It's a huge undertaking that effectively means I'll have to go back to living with my parents far later than I should, and have no money, but it will be worth it.

Probably not a great example but it's a fairly defining moment in my head at least. I think a combination of taking that call from my mum, or the effect the ceremony had on me could bring my life on a very different path than if I had sat on my arse watching the footy and ordering a dominos that night.

Irishcrx

Yeah I've had them life turning decisions to make myself, you know the ones that you know the choice will effect everything and you can never be sure of which path would be the best, I guess you just have to be happy in the path you chose and the reason you did it...

itsallaboutheL

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