Things that have shaped you into the person you are today.

[B.A. Baracus]

Everyone throughout their lives goes through experiences that shape who they are as a adult. Experinces, sadness, joy, loss and guilt can all make us act and be who we are as adults?

What parts of your life made you, you. things you can pinpoint and maybe made you change direction, maybe when you realised you were gay, maybe a day you realised you never wanted children.

What has affected you in your life so much that it's now a integral part of you.

For me my dad was never there for me, even though he only lived a mile away from me, he sent me one birthday card in my whole life. plus my mum had issues, These all made me want to be a better father to my children, give them all the love and support i never had, from the horrible experiences i had, i made something good out of it.

 

[Hurm...]

I'm Batman.

 

[B.A. Baracus]

Sorry to hear about your parents, bit of a bummer.

 

[Harls]

I'm pretty reserved & don't accept friends easily because I've moved around so much when I was younger. Each move was too far from the last to stay in the same school/group of friends and happened about once every few years, if that long, so I never developed those life-long, BFF type relationships & have a tendency to not want to try for a subconscious fear that I'll just lose them again.

I've witnessed people I care about get messed up from hardcore drugs or bad choices in general, so seeing that firsthand made me not want to make the same mistakes that they did.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

I guess when I almost died. If I want to accomplish something bad enough in life, I tend to try as hard as I can do catch that dream. I always wanted to be a professional wrestler, and one day I decided to go for it. I had a few training sessions in NWA: Ireland, but I didn't know my valve was leaking, causing heart issues. While I was training, my heart rate shot up to about 300 beats per min. It wouldn't stop, so when I arrived at the hospital my heart was shocked and poof, it went back to normal. I needed a valve transplant, and wrestling was a ''no, no''.

While spending almost 3 months in Hospital, I started watching a **** ton of flicks. Same after the surgery, it's all I could really do at that point. Just seat on my ass. I become a film buff, just buying film and film and then it hit me, ''I want to be a film maker''.

Right now I'm in the middle of story boarding and saving for my budget for my feature film. So things really worked out in the end.

 

[B.A. Baracus]

Blimes, thats quite some story. I suppose it worked itself out in the end, but haaving heart surgery at such a early age is pretty crap.

Whats your film about and who are your directing influences?

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

Blimes, thats quite some story. I suppose it worked itself out in the end, but haaving heart surgery at such a early age is pretty crap.

Whats your film about and who are your directing influences?

Yeah it sucked and there's always that lingering thought of ''What if this or something else happens again?'', but I try not to think about it.

I say Sam Raimi and Kevin Smith are my influences. Clerks and Evil Dead II really pushed me, also An American Werewolf in London.

My story is pretty basic, it's about a teenager who's brother died at an early age, and how it effected him and his family. It's a dark/comedy, but fingers crossed that I can even get it off the ground.

 

[Alchemyst]

My friends and my family, mainly my grandps, he was a big part of my life since my father wasn't around alot when I was kid due to him being in the Army. My grandpa showed me how to drive, play sports and all of that stuff. It hit me pretty hard my junior year of highschool back in 2001 when he passed away, even at times now, some things just don't feel right because he's not here. I feel like him being there for me when he was alive made me who I am now, he was a good person to everyone, I can't think of anyone ever having anything bad to say towards him, he was just an all around good man.

 

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[Figs]

Everyone throughout their lives goes through experiences that shape who they are as a adult. Experinces, sadness, joy, loss and guilt can all make us act and be who we are as adults?

What parts of your life made you, you. things you can pinpoint and maybe made you change direction, maybe when you realised you were gay, maybe a day you realised you never wanted children.

What has affected you in your life so much that it's now a integral part of you.

For me my dad was never there for me, even though he only lived a mile away from me, he sent me one birthday card in my whole life. plus my mum had issues, These all made me want to be a better father to my children, give them all the love and support i never had, from the horrible experiences i had, i made something good out of it.

Although that sucks, I had the problem of my dad always being there. He's a short tempered, bitter jerk. Catholic as well. Didn't like the way he raised me and I see too much of him in myself, which is why I don't have much confidence and pretty much hate myself.

 

[JewishHobbit]

I can see a list of things that had little to do with one another that added up to who I am today. In chronological order...

1. My father left before I was born and my mother married a drunk:

Though my grandparents made my father spend a couple weeks with us most summers until I was around 17 I still have never really had a relationship with him. My step father wasn't the best of influences and did nothing that father's should do for their children so I was raised pretty much fatherless. I saw the damage that my father's drinking did to himself and our family and I decided very young that I didn't want anything to do with that. I also saw how he was to my siblings and I and decided that I wanted to be a better father than that, and I am.

I'm more sensitive due to only really depending on my mother and I've stayed away from alcohol and the party scene all my life. I've never had a drop, not even a wine cooler, and I don't plan to.

2. Family moved a lot:

Like Harls said, my family moved a lot all through the elementary years so I never really made those GOOD friends that shape your young life. It was just me and my brother and whatever random neighbor I was around at the time. I went to 4 elementaries in 6 years. I became very shy and only managed to make 1 really good friend toward 6th grade that lasted after that.

Being a shy and backward kid I stayed out of trouble and never got in with the "in" crowd or any others that would tempt me with the things teenagers do to get in trouble. Thus, I stayed pretty squeeky clean through my childhood and early adolescence.

3. My mom bought me Web of Spider-Man 81:

And thus, my insanity began. I turned into a huge comicbook fan at the age of 10 and still am nearing 20 years later. All my friends know me as the comicbook guy and I learned so much from comics while growing up, such as morals that my family never taught but Spider-Man did

4. I rebelled... by going to church:

Yeah, I'm a rebel, I know. I wasn't really rebelling but this was as close as it got. My best friend Brian (the one I met in 6th grade) starting going to church the summer between 9th and 10th grade (so between Jr. High and High School) and semi-forced me to go. The girls were cute, though I was too shy to talk to them, and I quickly made a couple of friends alongside Brian so I stayed and eventually became a christian.

My mother hated this because she couldn't stand penticostal churches and did everything she could to make me stop going but I fought her and I think this challenge led me to push harder and grow in my faith at the time. Being in church gave me friends, confidense, destroyed my stage-fright, destroyed my low self-image, and just all around made me stand taller. While I made the decisions to try and wait to have sex until marriage and to not drink at all... church encouraged those and modeled my other morals that's since become a staple of my being... such as not cursing, not smoking, being more respectful to people, etc. I would also later meet my future wife at this church.

So yeah, I think all of these things molded who I am until I was around 19 or 20 and I was pretty much developed as the man I am today. I've matured, married, and become a father but the root of everything I am began with those 4 things. I've just used them to adapt to the new challenges and blessings that I've been handed and I think I've turned out pretty well.

 

[JewishHobbit]

Oh, also... somewhere in there around #3 or #4 my friend Brian asked if I wanted to write a book with him. He knew I was creative and just wanted to give it a shot so we spent years planning what became a series of books, but never wrote them. It was just a fun hobby and I still have all those binders and notebooks to this day (actually, to my right at this very minute on a shelf). I later thought about those and decided to write for fun again and after highschool I realized I LOVE to do this. I've since written 3 novels just for fun, the most recent one I'm editing and will try to send out to see if an agent is interested in picking it up.

During this writing I did give up at one point, about 3 chapters into the first book on my own because while I was imaginative, I couldn't write. Then a guy on the hype named Midnight Ice asked if he could read it and I let him and he agreed I couldn't write, but that he saw potential. He wasn't a writer or anything either but he read it and made corrections for me to see. My mother and grandmother then began to read my stuff also showing me where I went wrong and comparing these notes I found confidence and began teaching myself how to write. I am now decent enough to receive compliments from professionals so I'm pushing forward to achieve my dream of becoming a professional novelist.

So I guess there's two big moments there:

1. My best friend asked me to help him write a book.

2. Midnight Ice complimented my book and encouraged me to continue writing.

 

[socool]

****...I'm like really behind here. My family has been pretty normal. Ya know, a mom, a dad, a little brother, nothing crazy like the stuff here. I'm not even out of high school yet so I guess nothing really happened that has influenced me. Well, pot really helped. Not in the way you think. But in 10th grade I started smoking weed. Because of my laid back personality, the weed kinda "reversed" it. I became super influenced whenever I was high. I stopped smoking in the beginning of 11th grade after almost getting arrested for having pot on me. But I LOVED the feeling of getting all my homework done and my studying in one day. So I still do that. Really helps. I'm (so far) number 14 in my class. Yeah, so for once cannabis was a good thing, go figure.

Recently I have been getting into writing. Particularly fan-fic, but that's only because I love the character I write about (could you guess ) I have a great new idea already partially started but for once I actually feel compelled to finish my fan-fic. Originally when I wrote (the few times I did) I would do it in a movie script fashion. Now, I write in a novel style in the first person and it really helps. You become incredibly attached to the main character. I'm actually almost done with it. It's incredibly amateur though and I hate it because of that, but I'm enjoying it enough to actually consider making it a career. Right now I'm planning on doing art as my college major, but I might do literature now...

 

[JewishHobbit]

Recently I have been getting into writing. Particularly fan-fic, but that's only because I love the character I write about (could you guess ) I have a great new idea already partially started but for once I actually feel compelled to finish my fan-fic. Originally when I wrote (the few times I did) I would do it in a movie script fashion. Now, I write in a novel style in the first person and it really helps. You become incredibly attached to the main character. I'm actually almost done with it. It's incredibly amateur though and I hate it because of that, but I'm enjoying it enough to actually consider making it a career. Right now I'm planning on doing art as my college major, but I might do literature now...

Don't sweat it if it's amateurish... that's how everyone's started. Just don't be afraid of criticism and learning how to grow. I was in the same boat and nearly gave up (as detailed above) but I've grown MASSIVELY since then and my love of writing has only intensified.

Someone once said something along the lines of "You have to write 10,000 bad pages before you get to your first good one, but when you get to that page you'll find it's all been worth it" or maybe I just made that up... I don't know.

Just stick with it and ultimately, have fun

And yeah, you definately get attached to the characters. I never finished my first book and plan to rewrite it at some point but my second one - I cried after writing that last page. I closed a chapter in these characters's lives and knew I'd likely never return to them and it was like saying goodbye to an old friend. My most recent book is the same way because there will NEVER be a sequel as it isn't one of those types of books.