Transformative Experiences

Be they large or small, massive or miniscule, this is the thread for anecdotes about transformative experiences.

I was driving behind someone and I was overwhelmed with road rage.
Get out of the way you prick". Etc and tailgating him. Man I was pissed at him.
I looked at my speedo and we were 5 kms over the speed limit. I backed of,camed down and I haven't had the rage since.( I'm not behind him now though. Several years ago.)

I once had a home electronics kit where you'd build little electrical and electronic circuits out of individual components. It was fun, you could build a device that did something simple, like produce a humming tone or turn a lightbulb on or off, or count in binary; and you'd understand how it did so, because you'd built it yourself.

One of the things I built was a simple transformer.

@happy-chappy said
I was driving behind someone and I was overwhelmed with road rage.
Get out of the way you prick". Etc and tailgating him. Man I was pissed at him.
I looked at my speedo and we were 5 kms over the speed limit. I backed of,camed down and I haven't had the rage since.( I'm not behind him now though. Several years ago.)

@FMF

Two transformative experiences, both to do with my health.

1. I had a stroke, which partially blinded me. There was no pain or discomfort, no physical distress at all. Could have killed me.

2. I passed a kidney stone, worst pain I ever felt, for three days I thought I was dying -- worse than getting kicked in the balls. Physically trivial, when the stone finally got peed out, it was at most 1 mm in diameter, much smaller than a grain of rice. You don't die from passing a stone, it's just very painful, that's all.

Takeaway lesson: pain is a poor indicator of whether you are about to die.