What was your smallest action that has had the largest repercussions on you?

[Cal]

I have 2 answers to this question because I think too much.

By far the action I've taken that has had the largest impact takes us way back to second grade. Little Calvin got some combination of angry and upset that my friends were playing Star Wars tag and I had to do something, so he instead of toughing it out stormed off in angry second grader fashion. After getting lonely presumably 5 seconds later while trudging through the sand, he found a chubby kid and a little girl playing. They were all the base of the slide and for whatever reason the chubby kid pushed the little girl into the slide where she hit an edge and got a cut on her somewhere. The little girl started crying, so little Calvin walked over and stood up for the little girl. I don't really remember what little Calvin did or said, but he ended up getting socked for it.
Little Calvin cried for a little while then got up and took himself and the little girl to school nurse to get a band-aid and a Capri sun. That little girl's name was Sidney, and she's been my best friend ever since. Growing up together has had the biggest impact on my personality, my behavior, my interests, my motivations and nearly everything that can be influenced. Little Calvin's decision to quit playing Star Wars tag and go and get socked by a chubby kid has had the biggest impact by far on my life.

In the much less influential, smaller scale, I started a little routine where I go and sit on either our patio or the porch depending on where I am, and just write whatever I'm thinking about out on a notepad for about 10 minutes. I've been doing this about a month now and it's made me so much better at just getting the random tasks I need to get done, done. I also started a doing the activity competitions with a few of my friends, which has been huge in keeping me focused on running, and training for the coming track season.

OK, that's my thought for the day. Your turn!

 

[Maddy]

getting hit by a car

 

[xx]

Honestly, I feel that joining this forum has had a huge impact on my life and what's to come. Granted, I am still very young, however, I would have never gotten into business if it weren't for everyone on this forum setting a standard of professionalism. This didn't just affect me online, but in real life too. Because of this, I've moved on to working with organizations such as FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) and many more. I've wen't on to create multiple businesses and projects, a lot of which have actually been successful. I'm even brainstorming a potential service that i'm hoping to one day offer to my school district and many more. But yeah, ok.

 

[Theo J]

*record scratch*
*freeze frame*

Yup thats me. Youre probably wondering how i ended up in this situation. it actually was a very small action that nobody would think would result in such a drastic change in my life

 

[kayn]

Well i’ll first list what happens to my retarded friend. She was invited to a friends house who loves vaping right and she was like whatever i’ll go my parents won’t find out or i’ll won’t even vape. She goes and vapes at her house. Later on she gets CAUGHT by her parents after doing drug tests on her. She knew and told me her parents had 50 drug tests and she still went on vaping which is stupid.


For me I would have to think

6th Grade when I thought i was the shit i decided to like scare the shit out of this 5th grader. And of course his brother was not the person you trying to mess with. I was walking home from school in an ally way and literally got socked in the back of my head and almost hit by a car.

now i know to never do shit to people i don’t know

 

[Dudd]

Purchasing Minecraft - and on an even smaller scale joining a specific server. Never thought I'd say that.
Joining the Minecraft community was honestly one of the greatest things to happen to me, and the specific server I joined was even more important to me, and still is. Not only did I find a way to combat my anxiety, I made friends I still have to this day, and am very close with most of them. Minecraft gave me the chance my social anxiety couldn't and it truly did impact me for the better. Minecraft also allowed me to harness my thrill for helping people, and making people happy. Later down the line it also taught me a valuable lesson, and eventually pushed me to change yet again for the better. Minecraft simultaneously changed my friendships, combated my anxiety, allowed me to help people, ruined my school career, and in the end it pushed me to refocus on my studies. In the course of a few years the blocks took me on a journey I can never forget.

This damn game. It annoys me now at times, but looking back on it, it's done so much for me.

 

[moon10k]

Buying a trailer from Danny Q. lol. Danny's trailers are legit what got me into making trailers, and now It's been a good way for me to use my time and make some side money.

 

[Dad]

Honestly, it wasn't me who did it, but my friend who made this huge impact on me.

SO, back in 2nd grade it was my birthday (1/15 pls no forget i want gifts), and we invited everyone to this bowling party at the mall where everything went just fine, we played some bowling, i lost (oof ), and we went to get some Pizza.
Then we went to the big boy arcade, where I believe everyone split into teams of 2-4, and I teamed up with a kid who I won't say his name, but let's call him "Bitch" cause that's what he is.
Anyways, so we had some fun, got a lot of tickets, (like 200 lol), (btw I should probs let you know that bitch was my best friend at the time) and suddenly, bitch sees that the other team, had like x3 the amount of tickets we had, so the kid is like "fuck you lol" (he didn't really say fuck you, we didn't even know what "fuck" meant at the time), and he starts running over to the other team to join them.
God, I remember how much I cried at the time, I wanted to legit kick the guy in the balls 1000 times, and big surprise, the kid sees me and even looks at me for about 2 minutes but does literally nothing, doesn't even apologize.

After he did that, (As well with some other smaller reasons) I decided to switch schools after finishing 3rd grade, and I'm so glad but so not at the same time, that I did that. Basically Elementary school sucked, I would tell you the biggest reason for that, but it's something I'd rather keep private.
Although I will tell you that because of what bitch did to me I became an extremely shy and awkward kid who barely left the class until it was time to go home.

Yeah... That's my story.

 

[LeapingSpider]

Backstory:
When I was 10, presumably there was a mouse entering our apartment in the nights and eating stuff just like normal mouses do. So I decided to do something, create a mousetrap by myself, so I googled (in spanish since it's my native language): "Traps for mouses", but somehow google ended searching, "Traps for thieves" (the translation of mouse and thieve in spanish is similar), so I ended in a Minecraft tutorial about making, well... a trap for thieves, when I was younger I used to play lots of Legos and also played an old game called Lego Creator, the controls were awful, and it was a pain in the ass to even build something simple, but well, it was what I had, so when I first saw Minecraft, I thought: "Holy molly, this game seems much better than Lego creator, I must try it", so I downloaded it, in the old launcher you could play cracked without even modifying it or patching it, so there I was, playing the game for the first time, I searched for a tutorial on Youtube to learn the basics...

Important Part:
I never thought Minecraft would completely change and shape my life, I can't imagine how my life would be without Minecraft, because of Minecraft I learned TONS of things, because of this game programming became my interest and somewhat my career, thanks to Minecraft I made lots of friends, the majority of them are now gone and I no longer have contact with, but I still have some friends which I knew in 2012/2013 and I still talk with, I think I'm safe to say Minecraft was one of the best things ever happened to me, this game had a good amount of influence on me when growing up, and for sure I don't regret it.

TL;DR: Finding Minecraft by accident when trying to search for a complete different thing on Youtube, Minecraft changed my life in many, many ways, more than I could ever imagine.

 

[Choo]

LOL! Calvin the sock boy!

 

[TechEdison]

One of my friends was depressed and whatever. My then girlfriend made a group chat with me him and her because we were gonna try to cheer him up.

I said something to which he responded “go to hell”. I just responded “bye” and left. She got quite upset with me about that and dumped me not long after. Me and the other friend are still good friends.

It happened years ago and I still regret it to this day. There are so many other things I could’ve said or done that I didn’t.

 

[Maddys Son]

purchasing minecraft and joining this community and buying premium.

 

[Asodey]

opening a joke server... rapes my grades on my exams for 2 years now

 

[Spenser]

Prob leaving private school for public schools. Met all my best friends in public school, got into certain games cause of friends.

 

[Maddys Son]

remember when you joined and sniped a name that meant fuck all and basically said something like santa in FUCKING LATIN? then kept calling it og? remember? good TIMES!

yes good times.