What has influenced your life the most?

Or just convinced u to do something completely out of the ordinary? For me, i listened to a song a few years back and it was just so amazing, i probably listened to that song two or three times a day even though i didn't understand it at all. 3 years later, i speak almost fluent chinese:D

my life, like my life is an entitiy of it's own with sentience?

Or me?

What has influenced me the most is. . .

cynicism. without it i'd be just another sheep jumping from mediocre trend to mediocre trend in life.

The same thing that influences every one else's lives more than they'd like to admit it... fate. And not in the sense of you will have to do something, more in the sense that everything that happens in the world around us, only such a small & nearly insignificant part (insignificant, except to the self) is really within our control. And due to the nature of our mind, we are nearly predetermined to make a decision, based on what we encounter, due to our already existing personality & past experiences with situations.Yagami-Iori

This topic is asking what specific past experience would most greatly alter your opinion on a matter though, your just saying all of them together:P

Definitely my dad going to jail for the last time and the divorce that followed.

Totally woke me up to reality and what the real world was like....

[QUOTE="Yagami-Iori"]The same thing that influences every one else's lives more than they'd like to admit it... fate. And not in the sense of you will have to do something, more in the sense that everything that happens in the world around us, only such a small & nearly insignificant part (insignificant, except to the self) is really within our control. And due to the nature of our mind, we are nearly predetermined to make a decision, based on what we encounter, due to our already existing personality & past experiences with situations.aaaaarrrrggggg

This topic is asking what specific past experience would most greatly alter your opinion on a matter though, your just saying all of them together:P

Fate is one thing, it just happens to entail everything.

Fate is one thing, it just happens to entail everything.

Yagami-Iori

Yes, but there can be one event that changes the natural progress of fate, and that is what this thread is asking.