Thread: Have You Changed This Year?

Hmmm. Good question.

(BTW, I'm too new to remember you, but hey, whatever. I'll still answer the thread because it's a good question)

In the past year I've changed a lot. I've:

• Decided to drop law and am dead-set on taking history to a postgraduate level, possibly even PhD
• Finally decided what I want to do with my life - be an historian!
• Gone from relatively sexually inexperienced, to weird and kinda crushed because of a friends-with-benefits relationship gone horribly wrong
• I've cut of my sideburns, trimmed my beard, and grown my hair LONG. I look completely different to what I did two years ago, and fairly different to what I looked like at the start of this year.
• I've lost wieght, gained weight, and am now losing it again.
• I've gone from a stay-at-home university student, to flatting and paying my own bills and cooking for myself and cleaning etc etc. But, I'm going back home at the end of this semester.
• Have started to realise my parents are getting old.
• Have become more comfrotable with my parents' divorce and am now on decent terms with dad again, and even his new girlfriend.
• Turned twenty-one. (Last weekend)
• Gone from not drinking alcohol to a borderline alcoholic. It's okay, I've got it under check though.
• Have figured out that I'm actually a GOOD COOK, which is kind of amazing.
• Started LDing, and remembering my dreams.
• Read Leo tolstoy's War and Peace, a startlingly life-changing novel.
• Stopped going to the gym. I'm still very strong though, and am not too overweight.
• Have seen my extended family take a turn for the worse, and a turn for the better - I'm close to my cousins, and some of them have done good shit, some of them bad.
• Have developed a crush on somebody old enough to be my mother.

There's lots more. But yeah. A year can change people, a lot. I think I'm still the same person I was a year agom, though, despite everything. This isn't totally good, either. There's a lot of things about myself that I need to change, and am going to try to.

This past year I have...

• Fallen in love with photography (hey, i'm still not that great, but I enjoy it)
• Went out with a nice Catholic boy
• Went out with a nice Muslim boy
• Went out with a nice Scientologist boy
• ...Discovered I was atheist, or maybe just agnostic...
• Decided not to care.
• Practically given up on my family...
• Discovered that I need therapy pretty badly
• Developed, and got rid of an "addiction" to sleeping meds
• Discovered Lucid Dreaming
• Really put some major effort in the violin department
• Worked like hell to get straight A's
• Fell for a boy 3 years older than me, about to graduate, that I knew I couldn't have.....
• Discovered that I could have him....
• Spent 15 days together, before he was shipped off to South Carolina for Basic Training
• Then spent 3 months communicating only through letters
• and another 2 with some phone calls.
• Let the boy rip me apart...
• found out who my true friends really are.
• Was surprised at the low number...
• Felt like giving up.
• Developed an odd obsession with piercings
• ...and emo girls [ugh. don't ask]
• Did some stupid things...
• regretted some stupid things..
• hacked 7" of hair off
• dyed remaining hair
• pierced some stuff
• fell in love...XP

this year i...

-broke up with a crazy lover.
-moved in with and old friend.
-moved into a new town.
-made completely new friends.
-amped up my photography.
-wasted too much of my life on the internet.

This year I (mostly in chronological order):

- was made a Dream Guide and then a Moderator And made a lot of new friends!
- turned 25
- was a bridesmaid in my brother-in-law's wedding
- went to more awesome concerts this year than my whole life combined
- instructed my very own Kitten Kindergarten class that I designed
- bought a house with my hubby
- slashed my wrist down to the bone while doing dishes
- planned and threw my sister's bridal shower
- bought a gun (okay, it was James' idea)
- went to the first adult Halloween costume party that I've been to in about 6 years
- and as jacobo said - wasted too much of my life on the internet, and loved every minute of it - ok, I added the last bit.

Been a busy year for me.

- Am now leading a team of 8 engineers
- Made silver medallion status with Delta
- Met Ophelia Blue in person
- Talked to Joe and Mitzie on the phone
- Turned 45
- Grew a lot more gray hair
- Started travelling, A LOT!
- Saw the grave of Elsie, the Borden Cow

Not a big as most as every one else's :
(not in any order)

-got a car
-finished some important exams with great grades
-spent too much time on the internet as well
-found out about LDing and joined this forum
-looking for a new job
- hopefully will have the new job before this year is over

A lot of changes...

-got my hair cut so it actually looks nice
-nearly became obsessed with AIM
-realized just how many friends I have
-lost a friend to suicide
-heard about LDing
-got a Myspace
-went from shy to sarcastic
-realized how strange life really is
-realized how much I have to be thankful for

I, too, have changed a lot in the last year... a lot. It seems even more so in the past several months.

• Broke up with a boyfriend on Oct. 3, 2005
• Continued to be friends with him. Still friends to this day.
• Lost my dearest mentor to acute leukemia.
• Figured out I'm not meant to be alone.
• I've grown closer to my family.
• I've decided to spend a year in Russia later on.
• I've discovered, especially in the last two months, I have many more tears than I thought I had.
• I've grown tired of crying.
• I've become completely obsessed with Naruto.
• I've realized that I'm not good at analyzing poetry.
• Marching band has lost its magic.
• I've purchased a Nalgene... and used it.
• I've become addicted to coffee.
• I've become more flexible.
• I've earned my yellow belt in Judo.
• I'm disappointed that my instructor didn't show up Friday to give it to me.
• I've developed a crush.
• I've become confused on how to proceed.
• I've become confused about a lot of things.
• I've become more closed than I used to be.

In the last year:

-I tried being a carpenter
-I hated being a carpenter
-I was unemployed for the longest time in my life
-my girlfriend moved in
-my girlfriend moved out
-I got my massage license back, and bought a massage clinic
-I joined dreamviews
-I hiked Grotto mountain in a town near my city called Canmore
-I re-acquainted with old friends
-I made new friends
-I started having frequent nightmares again

Good to see everyone is moving along

Where are the rest of yas, same old ey????

have fun, ben

I see all of you have done a lot... You must have a very colorful life.

- I recognized getting tired of travelling
- I learnt not to judge by appearances any more
- I got my first face to face meeting with death (in the hospital) but recovered by miracle...
- I put more effort than ever on my spiritual self-developement
- I lost sizable amount of hair
- I realized how old I'm really was
- I understood that my priority in life was to make the world a better place in spite of difficulties
- I forgave a person who had done a lot of harm to me 2 years ago

Enough of that, I'm gettig sentimental...

Oh I have changed so much this last year, life rocks...

-hung out with friends constantly
-made a best friend
-smoked for the first time
-smoked for the last time
-started drinking
-became an insombniac
-had school, an internship, and 4 jobs at the same time, and partied all night
-started to play the guitar
-quit the guitar
-started a DVD collection
-fell in love for a bit
-eased out of it
-I was the "other guy" 2 times this year
-first kiss and learned to kiss
-had first sexual experinces
-came out that I was Bi
-quit windows, switched to mac
-started college
-made a huge group of very very close friends
-started kissing everyone now
-much more confident
-grew more distant from my parents
-trying to get closer to them again
-know my brother better
-starting drinking coffe
-started to randomly flirt

yea so thats whats been goign on this year.

I did the following:

• Had a very negative lyfestyle of video games and being a pessimist and a reject.
• got straight As on my final report card
• Gained a ton of friends, and lost a couple because of a disease known as "Jackassism"
• lost a best friend
• gained a new best friend
• had a reunion with my overseas best friend
• went to kiev (as usual)
• became optimistical
• becam,e spiritual
• found out about LD
• had a very awesomastic fully controled LD
• became the happiest person in my school
• became the most enthusiastic person in school
• got a cat
• really got into guitar
• got into bonsai
• got into spirituality
• had fun
• had a birthday
• something else
• mowed the lawn
• something else is something that i might have mentioned, but forgot... nothing weird
• became addicted to Warcraft 3
• stopped being addicted to Warcraft 3
• learrned a lot

This must be the best topic I've come across. Really. It's all nostalgic. And stuff.

Anyway, I've done (are you ready?):

• Met a girl I went to school with at a party
• Kissed a girl I went to school with after 2nd date
• Fell in love with the girl I went to school with
• Learnt a shit load about life, sex, love, and Grave's disease
• Got a new car
• Crashed my new car
• Got a diploma
• Got a job
• Started a business
• Moved in with my girlfriend (the girl I went to school with)
• Discovered how it feels to be a pilots wife
• Gained a lot of weight
• Got my first ever raise!
• Searched for the truth
• Discovered LD
• Learned how it feels to be sick and tired of life
• Hated my mom
• Hated my aunt
• Lusted madly after my girlfriend's younger sister
• Realized my lust wasn't what I thought, and was happy with the girl I went to school with
• Fell in love with a dog
• Got a tattoo

Not much, nothing exciting. But hey, a year ago if you told me I would be where I am today I would have told you to go eat chicken curry.

I like this thread too! Makes it possible to catch up with oneself..

This year I:

• Moved into my new apartment, which I bought two years ago
• Had my girlfriend move in with me
• Had long fights with my girlfriend
• Decided to stay with her no matter what
• Gained lots and lots of programming knowledge (not from school, mind you)
• Started a company
• Realized 'I can do this!'
• Realized that university doesn't hold that much knowledge, the professors are old and slow (ELIZA is not AI&#33
• Realized that I can't possibly be a full-time student
• Realized I'm really becoming an adult now
• Worked hard, but not with studies
• Got less arrogant, but also more angry (the 'righteous' kind)
• Joined Dreamviews
• Got better control over my life (although the future is pretty much uncertain)
• Developed a better understanding between my girlfriend and I
• Switched my iPod-battery after THREE years! Mine is one of the few who lasted

• Actually got good at maths
• And I like it
• A lot
• Adopted the philosphy of tolerating a lot more of the shenangians that the planet's top quality dolts the have on offer.
• Read books
• Oh, sweet sweet books
• How I lust to turn your creamy pages underneath my careful touch
• And stuff

same old me

Originally Posted by Xisdence

Hey dv ppl's.

So what have you all been into this year, what's the main obsession/job/chick/lifestly you have endulged yourself in for 2006?
Anyone moved, family additions, graduated, promoted, name changed, new cereal for brekki, joined a gym, gone on vacation to a diff island, stopped having ld's, been in love, had a life changing moment,??? Do you surprise yourself in the mirror now, or do people not recognise you?

Just catching up on things. It's funny how life doesn't print your next destination on the ticket, because i wanted to know what was going to happen on this ride.

Hear from you all soon,
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So what is your obsession? Have your forgotten to place your own image on the list? Unbelievable...
A complex of inferiority? ... Yes, I understand....

I changed shit.

*shames*