Changed.

Started by kidpunk December 15th, 2008 5:49 PM
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Age 28
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New Jersey
Seen September 3rd, 2013
Posted October 1st, 2011
731 posts
15.4 Years
Simple question here people, who or what has chanced your life the most? It could be for whatever you want, the best or the worst.

As some PC members might already know, the little band that could from the seattle area has moved me in such a way that words cannot even describe it. I'm talking about Nirvana, or in my opinion, the greatest american rock band ever to exist.

Their music is powerful, there style and way of life are fascinating, and it all makes me feel like that I can accomplis anything. Even though they had a short run, they still have something that most bands you see today don't.

viridian doubletongue

the world's greatest thief

Age 31
Female
eastbourne/bristol
Seen October 13th, 2013
Posted March 5th, 2013
3,221 posts
17.8 Years
Really tricky exactly how far back to pin it down.

But just along the line there was someone who just had such an effect on me, in every way, that just forced me to get the out there and just become a person I like so much more. In such an indirect way, still.
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processr

Age 30
Male
Southampton
Seen November 18th, 2016
Posted April 11th, 2014
1,608 posts
18 Years
... The Internet.

I've lived quite a depressing existence until I ventured into the series of tubes.
Fix'd. =D

The single event to have changed my life the most is probably the transition from primary to secondary school. I went to a grammar school as opposed to the local comprehensive, and none of my friends went to the same school as I did. Meeting hundreds of new people over the last five and a bit years has really changed me.

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Seen August 1st, 2016
Posted August 22nd, 2011
2,629 posts
14.9 Years
^ agreed. I changed quite a lot. I hadn't really grown up through primary school, so it was a shock to the system when I moved to a new school with none of my mates.

^^agreed also. PC especially.

Cherrim

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Gotta be internet. :]

It's kept me in contact with old friends. I moved around a fair bit as a kid and until my latest move, I was never able to stay in touch with my friends. But thanks to the internet, I don't have to worry about that. I still keep in touch with everyone in high school thanks to MSN, email, Livejournal, etc. For someone who doesn't like phones very much (or long distance charges, kthx) it's a wonderful thing.

Aside from IRL friends, I've made a TON of online friends over the years who've shaped and changed me. I consider a lot of people online to be just as close (if not closer to me) than a lot of my offline friends. Yeah, yeah, it's harder to trust people online and it's very easy to lie but I still stand by this. I feel talking to people online is more worthwhile than sitting around watching TV or something. Not to mention I've learnt SO much about other cultures or parts of the world thanks to online friends. XD I know most major timezones due to gauging when friends would be online, my knowledge of geography has improved, etc. :P Also thanks to forums specifically, my grammar, spelling, and writing coherence has sky-rocketed, ahaha.

And finally... just having the world at my fingertips is very gratifying. Sure, it kind of makes me lazy--I'm much more likely to just google a keyword to get a quick answer rather than look it up in an encyclopaedia or something. But the benefits far outweigh the hindrances. I can know so much more so easily whereas years ago if I didn't know something and I didn't know anyone else who knew about it, I was out of luck. Instead of learning a lot only about a handful of things due to lack of resources, I can learn however much or little about any topic imaginable. I adore having that freedom.


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Circuit

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Age 27
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Berlin
Seen January 6th, 2021
Posted July 29th, 2020
4,815 posts
15.2 Years
Before I look elsewhere, Cora Laffey (the person who I fancy) has changed my life the most. She has changed my opinion on so many things that it changed me completely. I still have to ask her out actually.

Haza

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Age 31
Male
Seen September 30th, 2021
Posted March 18th, 2021
6,720 posts
14.8 Years
My life changed the most when I told my family I was gay and then when I told her I was sexually active.

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Age 31
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QLD, Australia
Seen June 5th, 2022
Posted April 23rd, 2022
35,988 posts
17.5 Years
The Internet, cuz if I wasn't on here, I'd have done better in school... and next year I would be taking the harder class...

It seems negative but it really isn't. XD;

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Age 31
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Seen June 6th, 2010
Posted December 24th, 2009
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15.9 Years
My lovely girlfriend and best friend, Vanilla Kistune. She has changed me so much for the better. I can't how she has changed me. She's just made me a better and stronger person.


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Aegis

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Age 29
Male
Canada
Seen May 20th, 2015
Posted October 30th, 2012
4,558 posts
17.3 Years
Gotta be internet. :]

It's kept me in contact with old friends. I moved around a fair bit as a kid and until my latest move, I was never able to stay in touch with my friends. But thanks to the internet, I don't have to worry about that. I still keep in touch with everyone in high school thanks to MSN, email, Livejournal, etc. For someone who doesn't like phones very much (or long distance charges, kthx) it's a wonderful thing.

Aside from IRL friends, I've made a TON of online friends over the years who've shaped and changed me. I consider a lot of people online to be just as close (if not closer to me) than a lot of my offline friends. Yeah, yeah, it's harder to trust people online and it's very easy to lie but I still stand by this. I feel talking to people online is more worthwhile than sitting around watching TV or something. Not to mention I've learnt SO much about other cultures or parts of the world thanks to online friends. XD I know most major timezones due to gauging when friends would be online, my knowledge of geography has improved, etc. :P Also thanks to forums specifically, my grammar, spelling, and writing coherence has sky-rocketed, ahaha.

And finally... just having the world at my fingertips is very gratifying. Sure, it kind of makes me lazy--I'm much more likely to just google a keyword to get a quick answer rather than look it up in an encyclopaedia or something. But the benefits far outweigh the hindrances. I can know so much more so easily whereas years ago if I didn't know something and I didn't know anyone else who knew about it, I was out of luck. Instead of learning a lot only about a handful of things due to lack of resources, I can learn however much or little about any topic imaginable. I adore having that freedom.
^ That post, except for the part about moving. The Internet has changed me so much since I started frequenting it. I think I let first impressions hold me back from making a lot of friends, and vice versa about people talking to me. But that problem was sort of void on the internet, to a degree. I've made so many friends over the internet I probably couldn't count them all. True, I don't talk to a good many of them that often anymore, if at all, but I do have a group of friends that I wouldn't trade for anything <3

I think the internet has also helped me to be a lot more tolerant about other people and other lifestyles, and about myself (particularly with sexuality). Things that I've heard other people my age be shocked about in person are just natural for me, since I've met so many different people from different cultures via the internet.

So yeah, the internet hands down <3 I don't know what I'd do without it.

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Shiny

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17 Years
My year 7 english teacher & friends, they taught my alot about myself that I didn't know

Lucy Lu

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Posted November 28th, 2012
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18.7 Years
Well it was mostly my family, friends(online and real-life), and work. I used to be so shy around people and be so quiet. But working in a place that you interact with people really helped me get over my shyness. They changed me to become a good person with a good heart. If it wasn't for them, I would have been a delinquent. I am not kidding either.

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Age 32
Male
Kansas City
Seen August 4th, 2015
Posted April 12th, 2015
2,006 posts
15 Years
Car wrecks, or almost being in one, and this website.

The near death experience in a car really changed my out look on life, and I have never been the same since I started posting here.
I really need a new signature.
Seen January 1st, 2023
Posted April 20th, 2020
4,423 posts
15.4 Years
Internet, my friends, changing schools, socialising and just about every simple thing people tend to take for granted. They've all changed me in some shape or form.
'It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home -- only the millions of last moments . . . nothing more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments.'

Eternal Nightmare

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Age 31
Male
Seen August 21st, 2015
Posted June 28th, 2011
2,150 posts
16.8 Years
1. My real life friends
Words cannot express they way i love my group of loser friends. They make me laugh, they make me angry, they make me think about thinks that
I wouldnt otherwise think about. They are like the best gift in the world

2. My PC friends
They are always there to give me a nice chat and make me laugh. they are my friends away from my friends and It is nive to have someone online that i can talk to about my day and my life problems and stuff.

3. The girl I like
She haas changed me from a heartless bastard to a charing person. She has also made me into a huger Sonic freak than I ever was. She can draw, he can be bossy, ans she can be downright funny. I love her so.

4. The Internet
I would just die without it.

5. Pokecommunity
I love this website, its very relacing and I can just chill and hangout.

Theres a lot moe, but I dont fell like typing to much XD.
Seigo Takahashi
Female
Area Unknown
Seen January 4th, 2011
Posted December 25th, 2010
811 posts
14.6 Years
Internetttt.
Honestly, I am so glad a friend of mine got me into Guilds and Neopets again. (I know, I know, laugh at the Neopets nerd). Anyways, I got introduced to a Pokemon roleplaying forum on that site an got interested in Pokemon again after a year-long period of not really paying attention to it. I have so many good friends on that site, and I found PC through my multiple Pokemon-related Google searches. I look at things differently now, since frequenting the Internet more.

Also, my 7th grade Englsih teacher. She put me on the writing road, and I don't think I'll ever be able to thank her enough for that. (I feel kinda bad she only gets this little mention after my Internet rant xD)