Story Tell me a short story from your life

[PixelAngel]

Conversation often starts off well if you ask someone about themselves. People love talking about their own stories generally. I'm no exception. I've lived a lot, so I've got many stories. I think it would be fun to hear some other people though. Pick a story from your life, maybe one you learned something important from, maybe something you wish you'd learned earlier. You get the gist.

I'll try to keep mine short. When I was very young, I was prohibited from watching anything remotely scary, not because my family was cautious but because little me took EVERYTHING seriously and horror gave me nightmares. One day, my mom had my uncle babysitting us, and he wanted to watch Alien (1979). Knowing I was barred from anything scary, my uncle took a gamble, and showed me the Making Of and Behind the Scenes stuff. Something clicked and I saw it all as art, people who liked the same things I do going out and making this movie. I saw Bolaji Badejo in the rubber suit. And from that point on I was obsessed. Not only is horror a favorite genre, Alien is a top 5 movie. Someone bothered to SHOW me what made all these things instead of just making fun of me for being scared, and it turned into a lifelong love of horror, as well as a deeper appreciation that there are obvious alternatives to mockery to bring people around on something.

 

[NearlyIrrelevantCake]

I was 7 years old when Canada released its new $2 coin, the Twoonie. It's a pretty coin--silver on the outside, bronze in the middle with a polar bear.

We had a Hungarian immigrant neighbor in our apartment building and he loved the new coin. Whenever he saw me, he'd give me one. After a while, Mom had to gently tell him off because I was saving up too much cash, lol.

30 years later and I still remember you, Faruk.

 

[computer]

when i was in 9th grade i shoplifted a bunch of coricidin from walgreens and went on a week long binge that ended up with me getting hppd (hallucinogen persistent perception disorder) i didnt tell my parents at first but eventually i told my parents and got officially diagnosed and i still abuse dxm to this day just not as heavily , the visual snow and floaters dont bother me as much anymore as i have come to accept it but im a bit sad i did that shit in the first place

 

[PixelAngel]

30 years later and I still remember you, Faruk.

Ah that's lovely! I had a foreign exchange student once in my school who taught me a lot about the world outside my home town, I wish I'd known him better. Bhaumik and I hope I'm not mangling that spelling.

as i have come to accept it but im a bit sad i did that shit in the first place

It's not the same kind of thing but cigarettes have hung over my head my whole life, even in ways it doesn't for other people, as I relate it both to very happy memories and to self harm. It's done real damage to me. I always end up falling back on it when things are bad. Wish I'd never picked it up.

 

[Cosmophobic]

When I was 17 I was friends with this 32 year old woman I'd met in the psych ward. After we'd both been discharged she invited me to her house a few times. She had a fiancee. They were, for lack of a better word, hippies.

During one of my visits she suggested we stay up and watch Dead Poet's Society after her fiancee had gone to bed. I don't remember any of that movie. We drank vodka and took some kind of downers until I was blackout drunk. I don't know how it happened but I have a blurry recollection of us being physically intimate when her fiancee found us in the early hours of the morning.

I went into a coma on the couch and when I was woken up during the day she had attempted suicide in the bathtub. A friend of theirs helped me get home after she was taken to hospital. I was even invited there again a few times and they acted like nothing happened. Eventually the invites stopped, thank god, 'cause I clearly hadn't the good sense to stop of my own volition.

What did I learn? Adults don't know what the fuck they're doing. As a fully grown one now I can confirm. But I'd like to think I have more sense than those two. That was 20 years ago.

 

[PixelAngel]

What did I learn? Adults don't know what the fuck they're doing. As a fully grown one now I can confirm. But I'd like to think I have more sense than those two. That was 20 years ago.

Damn I'm sorry you went through that. People can be so uncaring. Pretending that didn't happen is really not okay of them. At least they saw themselves out I guess. I had some friends leave me to die on a couch and act like it was just a normal thing to have happen. None of them are in my life anymore. Sometimes that's the best you can hope for

 

[Cosmophobic]

Damn I'm sorry you went through that. People can be so uncaring. Pretending that didn't happen is really not okay of them. At least they saw themselves out I guess. I had some friends leave me to die on a couch and act like it was just a normal thing to have happen. None of them are in my life anymore. Sometimes that's the best you can hope for

Sorry you had that happen to you too it's bad enough when people make shitty mistakes but when they act like it was normal or not worth addressing afterwards that's so much worse.

On a brighter note your uncle was smart and awesome for getting you into the horror genre that way.