What Event Changed Your Perspective On Life?

Probably war in Ukraine. Until then war was something I perceived as something I saw in movies, read in books, learned about in history classes, heard from grandma's stories and it seemed like something far away that doesn't directly concern me...after this event I acknowledged the fact that war could be a real threat in my life and places I've always known as safe could simply become ruins. Just a few years back it would seem like something absurd but now it seems like a real possibility.