DISQUS

Guylaine · 1 year ago

So intense was my first reaction when I first met him... that I should have known it was going to be my most significant beginning.. the most life-altering, the most beautiful and the most difficult. So intense was my first reaction when I first met him... that I should have known that all the crazy events that had occured in my life in the prior months were just the cosmic forces of the universe making it possible for us to meet and fall in love... just a few months before he tragiclly died in a car accident, leaving me in terrible pain, but transformed forever and forever grateful that I had the chance to know such a beautiful person and that I had the chance to experience these capsules or moments of pure & perfect happyness and harmony. He is my my gardian angel through this day, 14 years later...

Chantal · 1 year ago

Bali...Bali was my beginning. Traveling overseas for the first time by myself and discovering another world in Bali. How everyone lives perfectly integrated with nature and eachother (feng shui). How the women, in their temple clothes, are completely sexy at every age. How everyone is glowing from the inside out because their spirit is alive and well regardless of their situation. And their amazing smiles that light up the world!
I try to revisit Bali while being in my everyday life.

Romana Mirza · 1 year ago

Here's a doozy for you...the day I started a new job with an amazing high end furniture company - I was so excited, I had never worked in the industry before, it was a shock to me they hired me! I had a great time in that job. Well, that first day I started that amazing job, I came home to find out my husband (of only 11 months) had left me, ouch! That was 8 years ago, it was the beginning of this most beautiful journey that I have been on. I've learned what a deep sense of compassion is from this beginning and this beginning lead to a passion and connection with design that I could now not live without. Lovely.

laurie_matthews · 1 year ago

My first day of college. I had been looking forward to that day for months, even years and it proved to be the beginning of my coming out party... where I found myself, my confidence, my path in life.

Ellen · 1 year ago

When a boyfriend broke my ribs and fractured my arm when I tried to break up with him. That propelled me into seeking professional mental, spiritual, and emotional help, which eventually led me to graduate school, which completely changed my life in every way. Now I am a mental health professional and bring healing to women.

Missy · 1 year ago

The most difficult time of my life has been the last 8 years. Living with someone with addiction and depression has been a roller coaster ride to say the least. I never gave myself anytime to heal. I always thought it was his fault and his stuff to deal with. Wrong! Then I met Marlise! An angel out of heaven who has been helping me re-discover my inner self through energy healing. what a difference this has made in my life. I have given myself a new beginning and been able to rid myself of all the anger and sadness that clouded my ability to see the love of my life standing in front of me. I mark June 2008 as my new beginning for me!

Ngonzi Truth Crushshon · 1 year ago

1. Today I registered for my PsyD in clinical psychology classes.

2. Running my campaign for Miss Fisk University (I didn't win...but was runner up....and I slacked in a few classes...but it taught me to be a well-rounded person). There should NEVER be all work and no play!

3. He just called out of the blue...to say he would fly in for my party...and entered my life nonintrusively w calmness & humility. I just felt safe & loved & wanted! "Go with the FLOW" is his motto....and mine is "Plan ahead". But I feel w us there is a true balance "Plan & Flow" HA HA

Ngonzi Truth Crushshon · 1 year ago

AFRICA! Lagos, Nigeria and Accra, Ghana...not the places but the faces. The love. the smiles. the hope. the JOY! the wealth in the midst of poverty. I had never lived before my trip to Africa. EVERYONE should go- it will transform your life completely. My pact was to never complain again after this trip- evertime I eat- I remember the African village of children. And I vowed to do everything in my power to spread the word....and send aid....which I have done annually since 2005.

Susie Hutchinson · 1 year ago

Meeting Dan. He is one of those rare men who truly likes and respects women. He listens. Not all the time, mind you, but when it really matters. I'm heard.

We have a daughter together, and I know she'll grow up being treated with dignity and respect.

lisaohhh · 1 year ago

my unforgettable first date with my husband almost 16 years ago. unlike any first date i'd ever had (which were more like job interviews with the potential for sex) our first date (which was a blind date) was full of honesty, revelations and cosmic connection. we laid it all on the table, dirty laundry and all- a first date 'faux pas' perhaps, but it laid the foundation of lifetime adventure and a love affair that keeps getting hotter and a friendship that keeps getting deeper. the choice to continue after that first date was not based in illusions, as many of my previous relationships had started, but in truth and authenticity.

Ella · 1 year ago

I moved to another city when I was in the fifth grade. There was another new girl in my class. We were sitting at the same table, and I had one of those playground moments where I just flat out asked her if she wanted to be friends. We were nearly inseparable for a few years. That moment sealed in me the ability to forge new friendships on nothing but proximity and maybe a tiny something in common.

Xai Vicente Charles · 1 year ago

I was immediately impressed by my husband's warm smile but when he parted his lips to speak I felt as if I had known him all my life. We could walk and talk for hours.

Those early days upon our first meeting really set the tone for the rest of our relationship. No matter how bad things get around us and even when we argue we know we can always work through them by talking, walking a warm smile and a hug.

Stacy · 1 year ago

The first time that the doctor handed me my little bundle in the deliery room. I cradled my son in the gurney as they wheeled us together to my room (had a c-section). I immediately felt this new bond, new protectiveness for this new life, new feelings of motherhood. Everything about it was so beautiful and meaningful. It was the beginning of the most incredible, life changing journey I'll ever experience!

Emily Cline · 1 year ago

Being told a school was for "serious actors only" scared me away. A month later, after a journey to England with my parents and my not-present ex-husband I came back, applied, interviewed, and got accepted to the school. I changed my life. The first day of class, my now life-long friends thought I was petite. I'm nearly 5' 11'. I learned to stand tall. My ex-husband thought I was being brain-washed. I found my true voice. We divorced, and my creative expression has flowed ever since, as a "serious actor", a silly actor, and all things in between -- and beyond!

Darcy · 1 year ago

When my husband and I separated, it was the most difficult time of my life. We have 2 children, and at that time the youngest was only a year old. I gathered all the strength I could to get through that time with grace, dignity and learning everything I could to be the best person I could be for our kids. I have grown so much since that time, and came back to being my true self again. I had lost myself in trying to make the relationship work for so long. I am now the happiest I have ever been, and still learning lessons daily. It's been almost 2 years, and I feel that I am a better Mom, a better friend, and a better person. I still have lots of work to do, and I still have some bad days, but I am so thankful that I have a second chance at a new beginning.

Krystl · 1 year ago

Moving to NYC for my freshman year of college. My life, my mind, my experience expanded exponentially - and I met my husband almost immediately - he lived across the hall in my dorm. This new place felt immediately right to me - after living in so many different places in my early years, I felt I had come home at last. And I have lived here ever since. The city has shaped who I am.

Karryn Ransom · 1 year ago

Guylaine - thank you for sharing such a moving story. Blessings to you.

Karryn Ransom · 1 year ago

What you notice at first IS what matters, even if you can't explain it. In the beginning, this man had a quiet comfort to him, a strength in his presence. Something I couldn't articulate FELT right, but there were so many logical reasons why he WASN'T right for me. I talked myself out of pursuing these feelings around him. It took a long time for me to surrender my "reasons" and listen to my heart. Yes, we're profoundly different, and yes we argue about everything, but so what? My soul knew its mate before I did.

Andrew · 1 year ago

And then there was the "lipstick fight"...

RecollectedStephanie · 1 year ago

The significant beginnings have been: my first journal to write in, given to me by parents who thought themselves to be supplying a romantic teenager with something interesting, but who were in reality planting seeds in the deepest part of my being; the first time my husband and I went on a walk together, in my (new) neighborhood, and he didn't let on that he knew I'd gotten us lost; and the day someone handed back to me my own crying infant and she stopped crying as if someone had switched her to "off" - and I thought with a shock, "Oh...! I'M the mom." All my other beginnings pale in comparison with those three.

Stephanie · 1 year ago

The first time I met my dear friend Jen it was a single handshake that sealed the deal. Firm, strong, sincere, 100% present and not shrinking back. There was a mutual recognition: "Wow! Nice handshake!" Not like those limpy, dead fish handshakes so many girls give each other (we were 19 at the time) -- non-committal, wimpy, insecure. THIS was an introduction, a full-frontal meeting of kindred spirits. In the years since, at times when our inner sparks have seemed to flicker and fade in the ups and downs of life, we have many times nurtured each other back to that center where our truest selves live. I have learned with Jen that sometimes friendship is trusting someone else to see you when you can't see yourself.

Candace · 1 year ago

My most significant beginings have been coming closer to Christ as an adult and meeting my best friend. Little did I know at 11 that I would be frends with her to this day. My walk in christ has been a turbulent one, but its something I look forward to everyday.

carla morales · 1 year ago

my first time traveling abroad in my early twenties...my love of art, architecture and culture was born...realizing there's so much to learn and so much to see...it was a momentous and delicious beginning...

katie · 1 year ago

the marriage to my husband opened the door to having children who are in spite of the eventual break up of a marriage due to addiction have been my most significant beginnings. i have found my strength, my power in being a parent/ role model to young women and helping them to unlock to door to their own infinite power.

kerrymac · 1 year ago

He walked up to me and said a simple "hello". I was 15 in red knee high socks, navy Tabi skirt and a peajacket...he looked tall and gorgeous. I was a minor niner (grade 9) and he was in grade 12. I completley lost it, I was speechless, smile-less too, I simply ran away. I cried all the way home on the school bus feeling so ridiculous! Luckily he tried again because we've been basically together ever since. www.snickerdoodles.typepad.com

Jacquie · 1 year ago

The birth of my daughter fifteen years ago began a journey of discovery about myself; who I really am and what I truly believe in. Being a mother is a beautiful, messy, complex ride...and it is not until I began this trip did I really understand all of the things I believe in, fight for, and protect. Knowing ourselves as mothers is an unfolding process so very different than when we just ourselves...

Scott · 1 year ago

I asked my love what her definition of passion was, she said, "the word 'yes'". I knew I had to marry her. And I did.

Februrary 19, 2004: the beginning of our son.

braziliana · 1 year ago

Becoming a Mother was a significant beginning for me.

Beth C. · 1 year ago

The beginning of my current job was a painful transition from a comfortable position into something totally outside of my box. My boss kept telling me I needed to let go of the old to move on to the new, but I was so afraid that they were just telling me to let go so they could then let me go. The change in positions has been one of the best things that could have happened to me to date. I'm now doing something that allows me to be appreciated for having vision, smarts and a love of challenging the old assumptions about how things should be done. I wish I hadn't felt so scared and that I would have let go to relax into the change faster.

C Martin · 1 year ago

When I wrote to my father and said that for our relationship to continue and for me to support him in addressing his alcholism he had to be accountable for his (some very terrible) actions. He chose to never respond. The past ceased to be relevant, the imprints of abuse disappeared and I was free to begin my life as I defined it. I have never looked back (except to smile).

Stephanie · 1 year ago

having a child

Connie · 1 year ago

My most spiritual and humbling and joyous beginning when I gave birth to my first daughter, the first of my three children, 30 years ago. Each succedent child's birth, another daughter and then a son, were also miraculous beginnings, since each child is so decidedly different from the get-go. I never looked forward to a big wedding but I always wanted a family and I got more than I could handle sometimes. Kids are a gift that keeps on giving to be trite; trite but true.

C.S. - Composed Lovely · 1 year ago

My most significant beginning was 22 years ago. At the age of 28 I followed my heart's desire to live in Colorado. Without consulting anyone I gave notice on my job and apartment, and then much to my family's surprise, I informed them that I was moving over 1100 miles away to Denver, Colorado. Within 30 days I left the security of my lifelong hometown and everything that was familiar to me, to relocate (without a job) to an unfamiliar city where I knew only 1 couple - Jack & Jill. This beginning gave me the chance to discover who I really was. I have never looked backed, and had I not done this, I would never have met my wonderful husband of 14 years and have the great life that I do!

Pam · 1 year ago

My most significant beginning was the birth of my daughter. I had insisted on finding a birth center that allowed water birth and even though it was far away from where we lived, everything went perfectly. This amazing child was born as I wished. The whole first year of her life I felt like a powerful goddess. Things were stressful with her fatehr but I was alone with her for hours and days on end and it was really a time that was magical for me. Serving this infant was so fulfilling. Everything I gave her was returned to me many times over.

Stacey · 1 year ago

November 2007. The doctors at Mayo Clinic had been treating an unknown virus that attacked my autoimmune system for over a year and a half. The doctors all came into my treatment room that morning and stated that they could not explain it, but the virus was completely gone. I was given a second chance at life again! What a miracle!
Over that year and a half, I had lost my job, my fiance, the ability to attend events with my daughter and my self esteem. Now, 7 months later, I have a stronger faith in God, my health, a great family life and a new outlook on life! I realize that everything happens for a reason even though we may never understand what that reason is. My new motto is, "Who ever said that sunshine brings happiness, has never danced in the rain!"

C Martin · 1 year ago

Without a doubt, our art collection.

Jane · 1 year ago

Not getting my security clearance and subsequently losing a job. Now I work as designer at an architecture/engineering firm, for the nicest boss I've ever had. Previously I worked for the government, supporting an industry that has leveled the Navajos (and others) because of uranium mining. Now I enjoy my day and can sleep at night. It was just the push that I needed.

Karen · 1 year ago

Stacey, you are and have always been, the kindest, most thoughtful and optimistic person I have ever known. You always have a smile. You ALWAYS cared about me and my family. Even when you were going thru the worst, you lived life as fully as you were able to every single day. You deserved and received a miracle. You inspire me. I am very thankful you are my friend.

Janet · 1 year ago

Getting into comedy improv. I was taking a continuing educational drama class and a classmate suggested I try improv. I did, fell in love with what it did to me as a person -- decreasing my shyness and invisibility, enabling me to speak with more confidence and adlib when I met new people.

The love affair lasted 8 years and I met friends I still have.

I've gotten away from it of late. I need to get back to it.

Vanessa Rae · 1 year ago

The day i told myself that just because I'm not famous, I'm not rich, I've yet to finish college, I stutter, I'm in debt, I change my major every semester, I'm short and I haven't done anything so called "remarkable", does not mean that i do not matter. I AM a loving wife and mother, a loyal friend, someone who loves to learn, an aspiring artist and writer, and I try my best to live each day to my fullest potential, i try me best to follow my heart. My most significant beginning... the days I rise and tell myself that I (underlined at least ten times) am more than enough.