What were your life remembering moments? 🤔
On the news to day they mentioned a certain "life changing" moment happened today.
While I do remember what happened, I really couldn't say it a was life changing moment for me. It has very little effect on me. Not to say that it had no importance at all to some, yet I doubt it was a life changing moment for most. And the further away the less of the importance.
Yet I must admit there were many real life changing moments for most. These are a few of the world changing moments that really did have effect on me...
1. The assassination of JFK November 22, 1963. At home glued to the TV.
2. The Watts riots. August 11, 1965. There's a bit of history revision in that date. Because I remember rioting the whole time between 1963 to 1968. I lived less than 25 miles away from Watts then. And why it was life changing.
3. The launch and successful man landing on the moon in 1969. Glued to the TV for days.
4. The Nixon trial begins Jan 1 1973, until his resignation on August 8th 1974. Lots of TV watching. Lots of arguments, just about everywhere. Family included, very life changing.
5. Death of Elvis Presley on August 16, 1977. Was walking to a highschool football game I was to take pictures on. Was listening to a little transistor radio while walking. The life change there was my first sense of mortality. Not because of whose it was. Yet it was the first sense of my own mortality. I kind of believe that a good portion of my classmates as well had that sense of mortality. Presley really wasn't popular in 1977.
6. Launch of the space shuttle on April 12th 1981. During this time I was in the Air force. You could not, not watch it anywhere on base.
7. Regan's take down this wall speach on June 12, 1987. This was life changing because there was some possibilities for family in Czechoslovakia to be contacted. Turned out they already passed away. And Dad passed away in 1990.
8. The 90s where life changing because of the internet. I was apart of that world changing events.
9. 9-11-2001. I was talking care of mom. The first plane had just crashed into the twin towers. Mom said what does it matter. Yet her world didn't expand beyond her own home. She passed away shortly there after.😞
10. Death of Osama Bin Laden in May 2, 2011.
The death itself again wasn't the life changing moment. Yet it was the beginning of all the suspicions everywhere. As if it was a international signal, which it was. Please remember it was almost 10 years between cause and effect. It was a message of a different sort than 911. I was watching intently in my secluded mountain property thinking of all the consequences. One of them was being forced to pull back from the whole area and glad of it.
11. Russia invaded Crimea on 20 February 2014. This was the start of the current war there. Not at a later time. Life changing event? War, economic changes. Loss of life. Terrible suffering,
And unnotable? Possible loss of unknown relatives.
So what were your life changing moments?
I sure hope it wasn't because of celebrities. 😂
While I do remember what happened, I really couldn't say it a was life changing moment for me. It has very little effect on me. Not to say that it had no importance at all to some, yet I doubt it was a life changing moment for most. And the further away the less of the importance.
Yet I must admit there were many real life changing moments for most. These are a few of the world changing moments that really did have effect on me...
1. The assassination of JFK November 22, 1963. At home glued to the TV.
2. The Watts riots. August 11, 1965. There's a bit of history revision in that date. Because I remember rioting the whole time between 1963 to 1968. I lived less than 25 miles away from Watts then. And why it was life changing.
3. The launch and successful man landing on the moon in 1969. Glued to the TV for days.
4. The Nixon trial begins Jan 1 1973, until his resignation on August 8th 1974. Lots of TV watching. Lots of arguments, just about everywhere. Family included, very life changing.
5. Death of Elvis Presley on August 16, 1977. Was walking to a highschool football game I was to take pictures on. Was listening to a little transistor radio while walking. The life change there was my first sense of mortality. Not because of whose it was. Yet it was the first sense of my own mortality. I kind of believe that a good portion of my classmates as well had that sense of mortality. Presley really wasn't popular in 1977.
6. Launch of the space shuttle on April 12th 1981. During this time I was in the Air force. You could not, not watch it anywhere on base.
7. Regan's take down this wall speach on June 12, 1987. This was life changing because there was some possibilities for family in Czechoslovakia to be contacted. Turned out they already passed away. And Dad passed away in 1990.
8. The 90s where life changing because of the internet. I was apart of that world changing events.
9. 9-11-2001. I was talking care of mom. The first plane had just crashed into the twin towers. Mom said what does it matter. Yet her world didn't expand beyond her own home. She passed away shortly there after.😞
10. Death of Osama Bin Laden in May 2, 2011.
The death itself again wasn't the life changing moment. Yet it was the beginning of all the suspicions everywhere. As if it was a international signal, which it was. Please remember it was almost 10 years between cause and effect. It was a message of a different sort than 911. I was watching intently in my secluded mountain property thinking of all the consequences. One of them was being forced to pull back from the whole area and glad of it.
11. Russia invaded Crimea on 20 February 2014. This was the start of the current war there. Not at a later time. Life changing event? War, economic changes. Loss of life. Terrible suffering,
And unnotable? Possible loss of unknown relatives.
So what were your life changing moments?
I sure hope it wasn't because of celebrities. 😂
61-69, M
