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What were the most seminal/liberating/life-altering experiences of your life?

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  • #32
    LH Pathe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    Blowin that cantankerous, gangrenous leg offa me w/ teh shotgun? liberating.

    even if the wound is still weeping... argh.. some people get a leg up, I got a leg off.. chances halved of gettin a leg over.


  • #33
    HavingCrack
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,847 ✭✭✭HavingCrack


    When ya just stop giving a **** about what other people think of you.


  • #34
    dave3004
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 621 ✭✭✭dave3004


    Night surfing on July 4th on Waikiki Beach in 2007.

    Just graduated from University and was on a J1. Had my whole future and life ahead of me and was ready for the journey to begin without a care in the world.

    Was sitting on my board beside my friends watching the firework celebrations going off nearby.

    That's my happy place !


  • #35
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,067 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Domo230 wrote: »
    It made me realise that if you can dream it then you can one day achieve it
    Tenet #1 in the Stalker's Guidebook.


  • #36
    hidinginthebush
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    I've two:
    The first time I windsurfed properly, flying around at high speeds, your arse just above the water, holding on for dear life, using your strength and balance to stop you smashing into the water, spray in your eyes, pure adrenaline, actually had to just bail off and scream in bliss.

    Second: doing a set (takes about a minute) over and over again 108 times one day in kung fu. After we finished I had the strangest feeling, like everything was deja vu. Everything. I've had that feeling before on drugs, but experiencing it due to nothing but physical meditation was the most holy thing I've ever felt.

    Both those things thought me that stuff, the things we worry about really don't matter at the end of the day, and its very easy to cheer yourself up if you get up and do it.


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  • #37
    LenaClaire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭LenaClaire


    Quitting my job of 10 years that I hated and moving half way around the world with no new job lined up.

    Scariest, most liberating, and ultimately one of the best decisions I ever made :D


  • #38
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    The moment I got told I had been selected for voluntary redundancy. Amazing moment knowing I'd be in Asia a few weeks later.. Booked a flight that evening and then rang Mam to tell her I threw away my career path and was headin to Bangkok.


  • #39
    Eve_Dublin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,884 ✭✭✭Eve_Dublin


    Walking beyond the garage down the end of my estate when I was about 7. My parents wouldn't have let me if they'd known. I sneaked down to the beach with a friend for the day and got lost coming back. Still remember the feeling....first taste of freedom.

    Escaping out of the school grounds going on the bounce with a friend in secondary. We'd just leg it out of the gates and we never got caught....

    Getting my first part time job when I was 16 and not having to rely on my parents for 2 pounds a week for cider and fags.

    Moving into Dublin city for the first time and sharing with friends....


    Travelling around South America for 11 months on my own and being able to to do whatever the feck I wanted with who I wanted and where I wanted and answering to no one. God that was a great year....


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