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Thia
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Thia asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 1 decade ago

What was your grown-up wake-up call?

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  • DEBS A
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago
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    having to buy stuff like lightbulbs, collanders and a screwdriver!!! paying bills for the first time was pretty horrifying too! taking my newborn son to theatre for open heart surgery was no picnic either!!! (he's fine now!!)

    hmmm good question

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Hey! You are 40 and getting nowhere! Won´t be long and you´ll kick the bucket as nobody. Wake up and do something about it!

    So I divorced a woman that never worked in her life and was happy to live in rented flat.

    Left Australia for Europe.

    Started my own business.

    Got myself new wonderfull missus and a cat

    Bought a house with several flats in it

    And started to enjoy giving to good people

    Never looked back

    Source(s): oml
  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Wikileaks is only one of many proofs which India has on the role of terrorism in India by Pakistani state agencies. For one, India knows from the start that ISI was behind Kabul attack. Only thing is that India is unlucky that it has not a powerful leadership which is the reason pigmy countries can bleed India every now and then.

  • 1 decade ago

    When Timothy McVey bombed the Federal Building in Oklahoma.

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  • 1 decade ago

    When the spokes kept breaking on my rear bike wheel. I thought the wheels were poor quality, but then I realised I was 5 stone overweight and needed to do something about it or risk a heart attack. I am now fit as a fiddle.

  • 1 decade ago

    Last year in my final year of school when my dad used to leave me at home alone without any food,proper electricity,hot water etc. and i had to work to keep the house going, that really made me wake up into the adult world!!!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I went to an alternative school because I did not want to go to school, I saw all those losers there and said "This is not me". Now people cannot believe that I am only 21 people think I am very mature for my age.

  • 1 decade ago

    Divorced at 24 with a toddler son and making things work.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Looking death in the face and realising how "insignificant" I am.... and scared! And definitely NOT ready to go just yet!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Realising friends aren't everything, and aren't always who they should be. Realising I had to do things for myself to get to the places I want to be, and realising how to get there.

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