Things you never thought you'd do...

[Oznogrd]

But did/ended up doing anyway. or happenings.

Im sitting around here thinking about the direction of my life and the bullshit thats led me to this point (some of it good, some of it bad) and got the idea for this thread.
Apply to grad school
I cant believe I actually did this, but 2 years and a shitty job market later: it seems to be my only choice to pursue a career in what I want to do. Who would've thought?
Apply to grad school: as a special education major...
I swore for years this wasnt what i wanted to do. I fought tooth and nail everytime it was suggested...now...it seems to be my only logical choice of a degree that'd serve me a purpose and get me a job
Quit Playing WoW
Oddly enough, as little as a year ago i wouldnt've believed i'd give it up. 1 summer away from it was all it took. The spell was broken (and an xbox 360 later) and I dont even have the game installed anymore.
Smoke a cigarette
Swore for years i never would: did it anyway as told in the first time thread.
Live at home with the 'rents after college
come back to my hometown
See first arrow
Let go of sports and pretty much everything i had in Illinois (friends, connections, desire to be there)
Due to my body crapping out and coming back here: i talk to 1 friend from college. Some of it has to do with me, some of it has to do with them. Either way i didnt see it coming
Meet a non athlete celebrity
Darius rucker came to my work this summer and sat at the table with the kids i was working with. Good guy
Have a kid die that I knew
I knew it came with the territory working with kids with disabilities and terminal illnesses. Little did i know it was going to happen 3 weeks into working with them. One of the toughest days of my life and she wasnt even one of the kids i was in charge of. But it did help me realize I'd be able to handle it and that this is truly what I want to do with my life

Thats all i got for now i think...

[Dee.]

A Free Hugs Campaign in my city.
Smoke some weed.
Trying to kill myself,Damn.
Started playing WoW,i always called it a no-life game,but I'm not addicted by it at all.
Doing a concert in my School,and screaming as a madman.
Find a person that i care about more than family,i seriously get depressed if i don't see her even for at least a week.
Getting a Dog.

[el badman]

getting married
start smoking weed
getting a cat
become a PC gamer, giving up on consoles

[JaoSming]

Actually pulling off the 40 hour 8-5 work weeks and not getting super depressed
Give up on PC NBA Live
Propose
Actually plan on getting married after proposing
Being happy after proposing
(ok Kathryn left the room)
Get a pool table and a nice place to rent
Go from a 1 console per generation person to a computer/ps360ii gamer
Turn gaming from an obsession to a hobby
and continue to be somewhat productively active here

[Andrew]

I'd say drinking alcohol counts for me. I never had an interest in it through high school, so I was one of those rare people that didn't actually try alcohol until I legally could. Ultimately spent a few years going out pretty much every week, but now just enjoy a beer with a meal or a few at a BBQ/party (as opposed to some of the big nights my friends and I used to have).

Also, I certainly never would've thought I'd have a friend take their own life, sadly a couple of years ago I was proven wrong. Doesn't quite fit the phrasing of the topic but I'm guessing it still qualifies.

[J@3]

pass out before 12 on new years... never saw that coming
move to Melbourne/England/Adelaide etc. Thought I'd be in NSW forever
see an EPL game
dump a hot girl
amass so many posts here... so many times I mentally "quit" back when i was 14-15
post so much at RealGM. Used to hate the place now I've got like 4,000 posts there
get an NBA League Pass subscription. Didn't think they'd bring them here
that's about it... I've always been a whatever happens, happens sort of person so I don't expect or not expect things generally.

[cyanide]

:arrow: Quit Playing WoW
Oddly enough, as little as a year ago i wouldnt've believed i'd give it up. 1 summer away from it was all it took. The spell was broken (and an xbox 360 later) and I dont even have the game installed anymore.

Ditto. It was the realization that escaping (whether it would be WoW or other games) doesn't produce anything worthwhile in the end. I still play games for entertainment, but there's more worthwhile things to do.

[Modifly]

- I never thought I'd pierced my ear. I've always wanted to but I never thought about doing so seriously. Now that I did, I kinda regret it because the holes are pretty damn hard to heal properly.
- I'd say drinking alcohol counts for me as well. When I was young I've always thought that alcohol beverages taste horrible.
- I never thought I'd be able to grab the rim. I was real short until I was 16. Grew 10 cm that year and I was able to grab the rim later on that year. Now I'm a few inches away from dunking. Sigh..

[Al Ka Pwn]

Finding an online cult and being hugely amused by it.

[Doobie]

I never thought my parents would get divorced...
I never thought I'd smoke weed
I never saw myself hooking up with as many girls as I have
I never saw myself being this fat.
I never saw thought I wouldn't be in college at this point of my life.

That's all I can say now..

[dare]

never thought Id smoke cigarettes
never thought Id drink alcohol (yeah I'm a good kid )
never thought I can nailed two girls at the same time it happened yesterday and it was exhausting

that's all, I think

[J@3]

I never saw myself hooking up with as many girls as I have
I never saw myself being this fat.

this seems contradictory

[Oznogrd]

amazingly enough alot of women dont give two shits about looks. Go figure.

[Doobie]

One thing I learned is that while shallow girls do exists in the world, most girls would believe the lies that come outta ur mouth. I'm more confident now then ever and if I didn't have a girlfriend I probably have 3-4 girls I can hook up with right away. Yeah, not all girls I've touched are pretty, I've probably only been with 2/3 good looking girls out of 12-13 that I've hooked up. But yeah, most of them are decent at the least. And I suffered from a low self-esteem as a child so I really didn't think I'd hook up with more then 5 girls in my whole life.

[cyanide]

amazingly enough alot of women dont give two shits about looks. Go figure.

It becomes more apparent with Mr. Moneybags throwing bucks around like Santa fucking Claus.

[NovU]

Puking in some random hot girl's purse at a bar... my friend ended up paying for its cost since I was just dead...
Making out at middle of night at busy downtown street...
becoming a chubby cute looking guy rather than a macho macho

[The X]

- Almost being arrested on my Bucks Night for public nuisance (series of misfortunate events)
- Doing 25 shots of Jim Beam in one sitting
- And being beaten by my mate who did 35 of Smirnoff Vodka & thinking he was going to die
- Still studying over 10 years removed from high school (hopefully finished in a month though)
- Still be posting at NLSC all these years later
- Have to go to the police station to give a statement after a very good friend committed suicide as I was one of last people to see him alive
- Having 2 dogs, let alone one. I was always a cat person but somewhere along the way my preference changed.
- Being a much better basketball player after 7 years & an additional 30kg (65lbs) out of the game, with my jumpshot not losing a beat at all

[Dee.]

I never thought ill be interested in something like satanism...Ever.

[NovU]

Satanism!? That sounds hardcore. I sure don't like the sound of it...

[Dee.]

Satanism isn't actually what most of you think it is.

[Modifly]

Enlighten us, what is it actually is?

[Dee.]

It would be a pretty long read,so.

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[shadowgrin]

Geez, even Satanism has different kinds. Religious factions, lol.


banging that chick I thought I would never bang and now trying to hide it forever unless confronted with undeniable evidence, which I will still deny.
puking in a bar table as I was talking to friends
being this fat (but now starting to get back in shape again)
puking in the stove of a mate's house and only knowing it the morning after because the stove doesn't light up because it's clogged. Breakfast delayed.
using pics of an NLSC member (Fenix/Vank?) in chatrooms for girls to send me naked pics of them, which is confirmed to be actually them after a few sleuthing of social networking sites. Good times.

[Dee.]

Geez, even Satanism has different kinds. Religious factions, lol.

Well then i said it wrong "I never thought ill be interested in something like satanic Church...Ever."

Ok,Now?

[shadowgrin]

It was more of a statement regarding the disorganization of organized religion rather than being anal about your semantics.