What was the most significant change in your life the past 12 months, that has contributed positively to the person that you are today?

December 30, 2007 10:50 AM

What was the most significant change in your life the past 12 months, that has contributed positively to the person that you are today?
posted by arrowhead to Human Relations (11 answers total)

Making a conscious and concerted effort to be more social, meet new people, make new friends, date more. Damned hard to do when I was feeling down and isolated and lonely. But, in hindsight, it was an absolutely vital change.
posted by browse at 11:02 AM on December 30, 2007 [3 favorites]

Started meditating more regularly.
posted by tkolar at 11:03 AM on December 30, 2007

I started buying toilet paper that had the lotion on it.
posted by bigmusic at 11:16 AM on December 30, 2007

Going back to university - I got a real feeling of validation from being able to drop right back in to learning (or perhaps, if I'm being honest, I never really switched out of a learning mindset through the three years I was working). My goal for next year :).
posted by muteh at 11:21 AM on December 30, 2007

Moving to Chicagoland this fall. I've learned in the past few months that I can handle anything thrown at me.
posted by princesspathos at 11:25 AM on December 30, 2007

I started flagging chatfilter questions and moving on.

The "moving on" part is immensely positive.
posted by dogwalker at 11:26 AM on December 30, 2007

I got married, which blew my tiny mind. I never thought I would get married and sometimes I'm still surprised that I am. But it's great; I wouldn't have done anything different. It brought me closer to my husband and closer to my family in ways I hadn't imagined when we first got engaged.

I also got a new job in a field I've wanted to be in for awhile. It's changed me in so many ways - I'm happier and more confident in many ways, although I'm full of self-doubt in others. But this is the first job I've actually ever cared about and that has made me appreciate what it's like to actually like or even love what you do instead of being some kind of workhorse.
posted by sutel at 11:28 AM on December 30, 2007

For the first time, I gave the money I would have spent on holiday gifts to a charity that would use it 100% to feed the hungry. When I added it up, the amount made me gulp, and it made me nervous to not ship wrapped gifts to family (who lack nothing material) but in perspective, those are good things.
posted by vers at 11:36 AM on December 30, 2007

Shutting down a business that was kinda working but which was time-consuming and which I was not enjoying running at all.
posted by londongeezer at 11:43 AM on December 30, 2007

Nothing. 2007 sucked.
posted by happyturtle at 11:47 AM on December 30, 2007

I moved to another country to start graduate school and discovered that I was perfectly capable of living independently from my parents, making mistakes and rectifying them on my own.
I met my wonderful boyfriend who showed me it's possible to find a smart, funny guy who is a liberal feminist atheist and thinks I'm wonderful too.
posted by peacheater at 11:48 AM on December 30, 2007