Moments/conversation that drastically changed your views - Life changing moments

[Grundlejungle]

I was in the Boy Scouts when I was a lad, and I distinctly remember being a bit of a little bitch (In my defense I was 12) until one of the older scouts said this to me:
"Absolutely fucking no one gives a shit about your lame ass fucking feelings, you whiny little faggot. Suck it the fuck up, and shut the fuck up."

 

[mr.moon1488]

I was in the Boy Scouts when I was a lad, and I distinctly remember being a bit of a little bitch (In my defense I was 12) until one of the older scouts said this to me:
"Absolutely fucking no one gives a shit about your lame ass fucking feelings, you whiny little faggot. Suck it the fuck up, and shut the fuck up."

Most of life's problems can be solved by simply not being a bitch.

 

[c-no]

More of a gradual realization than a singular event, but stay awhile and listen...

I used to think of myself as pretty left politically. I was for free speech, I didn't care if the gays wanted to get married, I thought we needed to be more environmentally aware ect.... Typical left leaning talking points. I had a 'live and let live' mentality, that if someone isn't hurting anyone or potentially causing harm in their actions, it's nobody's business what they choose to do with their lives.

Since the last decade, the left to me has done a complete turnaround on everything I thought they stood for. Free speech is only okay when it's to parrot their views, anyone else is some sort of -cist/-phobe/-ist hatemonger. The sheer authoritarianism, cognitive dissonance from them and absolute refusal to listen to differing views or admit another side may have a point on something made me take a look at why I was still involved with this party of immature, myopic hypocrites.

Came to realize my political affiliations lie more in libertarian beliefs than liberal ones and now just refer to myself as a libertarian if asked.

I have those sort of views and I still would but the latter half of the last decade makes me just feel like the political situations are nothing more than a reason for me to distrust politicians in their promises, Add to that seeing how people could try to go on about shit like "saving the West" and "crypto-fascism" and "apolitical means you stand for a status quo." Much as those could be true to any of them, I feel there's no difference in their screechings aside from what wing they lean on and they just turn out to be excuses for some tard to screech at a black guy dating a white chick or some tard screech at a guy thinking some stupid shit related to video games journalism was just some stupid shit and not some sort of "hate campaign against women and minorities."

 

[MrJokerRager]

Impeachment just completely broke me. It just made no damn sense as I was still a 2016 style Bernie Bro at the time. I didn't go full retard like the 2020 ones did. There were leftists who made way better arguments for impeachment but it seemed to me the democrats would not touch those topics since it would make them lose momey from their donors along with neocons joining the democrats after Trump decided not to invade Iran.

Also got banned from leftist subreddits despite thinking of myself as a liberal and being called a right winger.

 

[Slimy Time]

A fucking Horrid Henry book, I shit you not. There was a story in one of the books when I was a little kid where Henry and his family go to a fancy French restaurant where menu is all in French. Henry's stuck up rich cousin dares him to order escargot, doing a double double bluff of them being snails. He gets a bowl of snails, eats them...and thinks they are delicious. Pestered my parents to try escargot, they said "no but why don't you try Chinese style frog legs when we go out and eat"...taking the lesson from that book as a kid, I tried it...and what do you know, frogs legs were delicious. After that, tried damn near everything - durian, duck tongue, squid ink pasta, crocodile, eventually got some escargot as an adult, and that kids book was right, they are delicious with butter and herbs.

Interactions with modern western women and seeing the metoo movement 180'd my opinion on marriage for the foreseeable future. Went to the UK from SEA doe eyed and thinking about marrying young, Seeing women seriously fuck over friends, or openly tell me shit like "I'm going to accept the date so I can order all the best food and then leave him with the bill", or attempt solicit me or someone else for sex in front of their boyfriend/ex to spite them really opened the eyes to how toxic the modern woman is. Also know 3 guys who got metoo'd, or they attempted to metoo because of a regretful 1 night stand, or they partner found them cheating, and one got an STD because his feminist gf had 2 guys on the side. Until this shit fixes itself, or I get to an older age where priorities shift...no thanks, I can do without marriage, and I generally find myself with low tolerance for relationship bs. Bad run/encounters? Probably, but that's still going to take some time for me to change my mind on the state of women and marriage for the time being.

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

I could say there are a million

>lost a scholarship and went home to an abusive family for school and work
> get screwed out of FAFSA because mom thought I sucked too much ass at life s ok i couldn't go back to school after that year
>joined Army Reserve, reclassed out of OSUT, aunt probably committed suicide while I was in because she figured I'd screw up again
> almost got screwed out of an inheritance and cheap rent by my grandmother trying to screw my mom (her daughter) and so I essentially led a coup against her

My adult life has had some turbulence.

 

[L50LasPak]

This one probably changed me for the worse, but I was working a shift with a supervisor I respected at one of my old jobs, and I was trying to get across why I didn't trust a number of new policies the company was implementing. Without getting into irrelevant detail, I refused to take the company's explanations at face value and continuously asserted that they must have had some ulterior motive for each new directive. Insert your choice of explanation here; just covering their asses, some executive in an office a thousand miles away though it sounded like a cool idea, some committee okayed it for some arbitrary reason, etc. That's not the important part.

Pretty clearly fed up with my resistance on the subject, he turned to me and pointedly said "You have resisted change every single time it happens here." I kind of just just emotionlessly replied "Yeah." and got back to whatever it was I was working on. But on the ride home and over my drink once I got back to my desk, I realized that not only was he right about that; I've resisted change virtually my entire life, and over a few more drinks I realized that a lot of the fucking changes in my life have been extremely negative. If something positive happens, something immediately worse occurs to counterbalance it. I still remain at a loss for what to do about it. Just live in fear that tomorrow will be worse even though it has no reason to? Just disconnect and try to live in apathy? All from such a relatively simple accusation too.