Comments on: Turning points

By: Max

Max — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:36:44 +0000

We’ll the story of my life really has a turning point to it! As i was growing up in a very small community i noticed that my family was not that educated…so i set out to be the first within my family to get to uni. I’ve always had this plan in my head that i would make it there. Nothing in the world could stop me… But then…pubity hit! The social life became alot more than books and pens and all that kind of stuff. But all was going good…until the last year of my senior school year. I was made a prefect, class captain and house captain. The unfortunate thing was that half way through the year i found out that i was pregnant. All of what i had planned, constructed carefully, went down the drain! A turning point in life that struck me when i was an inch away from achieving my goal. The sad thing is, now im just like the rest of them! But worse!

But i wouldnt say that my son to me was a bad thing. Just that he really turned my life around. He was the only positive gain that i got out of it. Now look at me…im so inlove with him…

By: Lesley

Lesley — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:15:42 +0000

Lesley wrote “knew” instead of “new.” Lesley wrote “leary” instead of “leery.” Lesley is horrified.

In my defense, I am babysitting for my brother-in-law’s giant dog, which means that I now have two giant dogs living in my house. I also have two children (ages 8 and 5), and all were swarming around me while I wrote my comment. Thank goodness my high school students don’t check this blog. It may not seem like a big thing, but after all the crap I’ve given them during D.O.L. activities, I would NEVER live this down.

By: Amber

Amber — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:00:57 +0000

Turning point for me: Finding your blog (and Ally Carter’s)

Your story is interesting in a short narrative on your blog though!

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:09:30 +0000

Reading this post: for me, turning point.
Kudos

By: Justine

Justine — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:25:24 +0000

I love that both of your turning point stories are about friendships.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:13:25 +0000

Years ago, I took on the role of social coordinator of our high school English department. One of our first outings as a department was to take place on the Friday of finals week. We decided to go to a movie and dinner. Many people were signed up but backed out at the last minute. Three remained, myself included. I was a bit leary…I didn’t know the other two girls well since they were knew in the department, and we were going to spend the entire evening together. That night, we went to dinner, but the real fun began when we saw “Vanilla Sky.” We thought it was weird and ended up laughing through it together. Afterwards, we went to my house to talk and hang out some more. The bonding continued when my toilet got clogged, and I couldn’t get it fixed. Then this girl I barely knew grabbed that plunger out of my hands and fixed my toilet. We laughed so hard that night, and had you asked me then if they would have ended up as two of my closest, most dear friends, I probably would have said no. Alas, that is where we are today, so many years later, and we still celebrate our “Vanilla Sky Anniversary” and are thankful that everyone backed out on our department plans that evening. Had they not, I wonder if we would be as close today.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:50:38 +0000

I think most people will find that their lives have majorly impacted in some way by decisions that seemed really small at the time. For example, when I began uni I really had no friends there. I’d go in, sit down and listen to the lectures and that was it. One day, I just heard some people behind me talking about about how boring the lecture was and how ridiculous the content was, and I turned around and agreed with them. We then realised we were all doing a few subjects together and chatted a bit more.

Long story short; some of these people are now amongst my best friends and I have no idea where I’d be without ‘em.