In order to know who you are, you have to know who you were. From birth to now you are amalgams of your life experiences. Good and bad. Truth be told although it didn’t seem like it at the time the bad experiences are actually good. If life were perfect there would be no lessons. In fact some of the best opportunities to grow and learn in your life are from the seemingly bad experiences we’ve endured. You grow through these occurrences to be a better, stronger and more whole woman. And these opportunities to grow and learn will undoubtedly come from the most inexplicable places.
Take a look at the three most significant occurrences in your life that forever changed the path of who you ultimately became. These life altering events happen when we are a young child, a young adult and in adulthood.
My first life changer happened when I was two years old. One morning my birth father got up out of bed, packed up his golf clubs and moved out of our house leaving my mom with two young children and a weighty house payment. He never returned to be a part of our lives.
The second life changer happened around twelve years old. I believed to my core that people of substance only ate dinner after 6pm. I felt I was making the supreme sacrifice to eat a nanosecond before 5pm and would staunchly sit at the table without putting a bite of food in my mouth until the clock hit 5! It was at that moment in time I vowed to myself, that when I grew up I would be someone, someone important, someone with a real job, I would be a person who ate dinner at the sophisticated hour of 6p.
My final defining moment in my life came with the realization that my 12 year marriage was to be no more.
Can you name your three life changers and how they altered the course of your history?
Great post, keep it up.