SIngle most defining moment of your decade?

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    Ten years have passed. A lot happens in ten years. What would you say is the single most defining moment/decision/experience you've had that has marked your decade? If it's too hard to narrow it down, what are the top 3 most defining moments/decisions/experiences?

    My most defining moment is probably my portfolio presentation/interview to get into film school. I had made a 1-minute documentary about wind energy provincial policy at the time. I presented it, talked about it and went on to be accepted into the program. That was in 2011, and it's pretty much led me to where I am now. I went thru school, had an internship, started working in the industry and it's now been 3 years that I'm an editor for television.
     
    Playing Xenoblade Chronicles for the first time Entering my current relationship in 2016.

    There are a LOT of highly traumatic moments that stand out to me across the decade, but that's the one I'm going with. I'd just as soon forget about all those other moments tbh.
     
    My decade has been defined by my declining health, but I want to maintain a positive outlook anyway.
    I did manage to finish college in 2013!
     
    gimmepie said:
    Yup. Single most life altering thing to happen to me was getting sick back in 2015 and nothing has been the same since.
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    Yeah :c Same! I can hardly eat now so I imagine I'll start looking unhealthy too, but I guess I could try meal supplements
     
    Deciding not to go to Saboten anymore. It became way too hard on my mental health to keep going. Not only that, but every time we went there... something horrible happened to my dad. D: He ended up falling and breaking his hip or whatever and ended up having surgery. This was really the turning point for us that we decided on not going anymore.

    However, I want to go at least once more if by chance Vic Mignogna is able to attend. I made a promise that I would meet him again.
     
    this decade was pretty terrible for me considering a majority of my experiences with abuse happened from 2010 and beyond. i think that of course defined a lot of my future personality and mental health deterioration. also, the loss of friendships and experiencing the death of a friend was one of the most eye opening experiences i've had as i moved from adolescence to adulthood. i also shouldn't forget my experiences with drugs and alcohol. from being addicted to sober and addicted to sober again.

    better things? i graduated high school, moved away from my toxic parents to a new town to get a fresh start, started working and also began my gender transition by starting hrt (testosterone). i think those are the main highlights. also, major improvements on my art in the past decade. hard to believe the stuff i drew ten years ago... i really drew ten years ago lol. time really flies. i feel a part of my is still processing certain years, like 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2016.
     
    Umm tons of stuff happened, both good and bad. But since I'm a huge weeb, my favorite moment of the decade was watching Puella Magi Madoka Magica for the first time. It's my top favorite anime of the decade for sure. Yeah I know that other series like Boku no Hero Academia, Shingeki no Kyojin and Kimetsu no Yaiba were bigger and more influential in the anime fandom as a whole. But I'll always have a soft spot for Madoka Magica.
     
    . switching uni programme; i started one but made the choice to start over with a different one and that really defined the rest of my life

    . daring to become single and happy (it made me much mentally healthier and mature I think, rather than always feeling like i Needed Someone in order to be whole)

    . starting PhD studies, instead of pretending i was done studying and just mindlessly working


    Probably those are the 3 most defining events of my 2010s.
     
    The job interview I did on September 2012 set much of the events that came afterwards.

    Runner up is summer 2014 when I left my gf, attempted a relationship that eventually failed, turned down a second relationship offer that could have worked, and fired myself from the PC staff in a matter of weeks.
     
    It's hard to pick, but I'd have to say the July of 2017. It was when I reunited with an old online friend, who eventually became my partner. Though I have a feeling this upcoming June will be another life defining moment.
     
    Good God, it is hard to choose, I would say if I had to narrow it down to 3.

    1a: Moving to Japan in 2016, that is a massive life change that upended my life after 30 years.
    1b: Getting engaged this past Christmas, this is relatively recent but it's impact will be felt in my life for decades to come.
    3: Graduating college, being the first in my family to graduate, after a hellish time trying to get my degree and nearly quitting at least once or twice made it very very special.
     
    It was, well, quite a dramatic decade if I may say so. I think the most defining thing that happened was me returning to college in 2016 and then getting my bachelor's degree.

    That's putting it very simply. What happened that got me there was one of the most bizarre culmination of events I've ever seen. It literally felt like something straight out of fiction. But it's too long of a story and doesn't quite fit this topic, since it's a sequence of events from 2013 or so to then.
     
    The biggest digital marketing development in the past 10 years was the ability to identify and track individual users with cookies.
     
    probably sounds lame but playing persona 5 changed a lot for me. not just getting into p5, but being able to be comfortable enough with myself and what i enjoy to be able to express it and not care what people think about it. my anxiety was too bad to go to cons, but i pushed past it because i wanted to go and meet other fans of p5 and buy merch and stuff. i got into cosplay. i've met a lot of great people. i got into ita bagging (literally just made a new one last night) and overall i'm really happy that i'm able to do things that i was once too ashamed or anxious to do. it's the little things, i suppose, but it's nice to have an outlet for things and not have to just twiddle my thumbs all alone and have no one to talk to or share in the things i enjoy. getting into p5 was it's own amazing thing, but little did i know how playing that one game i decided to give a chance to would open the doors to so much more. i'm going to a con in a few weeks, actually. and i have a group cosplay planned for a con in may. i'm not professional by any means, but god it's fun as hell.
     
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