Mercurial Moments – What’s Your Story?
I found that whenever I shared my story others would tell me theirs. It’s as though my story inspires others to recall their fond memories.
Stories are fun, vital and good for business too, so I hope my story reminds you of something that happened in your happy past. I would love to hear your story – via the comments box.
When my parents moved north to Newcastle I was twelve and instinctively I knew I needed to get out there and make new friends. What could I do? make? or be? what would attract people to me and make me likeable?
Being mad keen on electronics and a boys boy, I made a ‘morse code’ machine (even though I could only ‘do’ SOS). Low and behold, the same day, I had people knocking on my door.
From creating something new and putting out a few simple messages I discovered people would come to me. What I learned back then has stayed with me always. I have discovered that every time I tell this story, others tell me of things that happened to them in their formative years, which has always been interesting. I hope that you are inspired by my short story to recall your story.
At the end I run through all the things that I learned – there were about 10 things from this one event. I hope, if you listen in, that it sparks off some fresh perspectives on some or just one of the things that you did when you were younger that helped form who you are today.
Please leave a comment and share with me your formative story that you now see as a stepping stone to who you are today.
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#2 written by Robertson Chris 1 year ago
When I was around 12-years old, I saw a dollar bill over a fence. I saw this as a opportunity to get a free dollar. So I tried to climb the fence to get the dollar. I assumed that the fence was at the same height that I climbed it and jumped down. I was dead wrong. It turns out that the ground was a lot steeper than I was expecting and I ended up with a fractured wrist and cheek bone. I still got the dollar. However, I now know that some things aren’t just worth it.
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#3 written by Moriss Adams 1 year ago
I remember one day, me and my brother were bored to death because there was nothing to do around the house. We decided that building a fort would be great idea and pretend that it was our own mini-house. We got a couple of chairs and cardboard boxes, using the chairs as support and the cardboard boxes as walls and the roof. It was really fun, and now I still like to build stuff in my free time.
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#4 written by Angela Kane 1 year ago
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#5 written by Thomas Gonzalez 1 year ago
I remember when I was younger, I would always go to my cousin’s house to play video games. I think it was Crash Bandicoot that we would always play. We would take turns, trying to collect as many apples (I think that it was) as we could. This game is one of the main reason why I still love video games today. And because that, I’ve gain a lot of interesting friends over the past years who has the same passion as I do.
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#6 written by Tommis Shelton 1 year ago
When I was 7-years old, I would always go racing with my friends. We would go around the block, trying to outrace each other with out bikes. I don’t remember how exactly, but I crashed directly into a trash can with my bike flying in the air. Thank god I was wearing a helmet that day, because it was totally destroyed afterwards. I now go by the motto “Better Safe than Sorry”.
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#7 written by Robert Green 1 year ago
I would always play a game called “Handball” or “Wallball” in other schools during elementary school. The idea was to hit the ball back and forth with another player, trying to make him lose by letting the ball bounce twice. I remember I would always scrape my knees and elbows trying to prevent that from happening. I think that’s why pain does not really hurt me after constantly scraping myself.
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#8 written by Toby Anderson 1 year ago
Whenever I would want something, my parents would always say that I should earn it instead of it being given to me. At the time, I thought that they were being unfair and stingy. None of the less, I still worked to get what I wanted. And now, I think that’s one of the main reason I appreciate most of the things that I have now.
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#9 written by Bertram Harrir 1 year ago
I remember my parents would always be stingy whenever it came to spending money. They did not like the idea of spending a lot of money, and would always try to prevent doing something like that. I think that after years of being raised with parents like that, I became a cheap person too. I would always look at the price first for a product. And I would usually wait until the product goes on sale to buy it.
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#10 written by Dawn Crandall 1 year ago
One day, me and my siblings would build bows out of long pieces of sticks that we found and rubber bands. When we built it, we would get a smaller stick and try to shoot it like in the movies. We started to try to shoot targets that we made. However, we would always mess up shooting a stick and somehow hit ourselves. This taught me that even though something may seem easy because of movies, it’s most likely not.
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Ha! I loved being a kid. I made a Barbie karaoke disco on my old Sinclair spectrum. Carefully lining up the words to my favorite songs recorded off the radio. And making the page colour and the border colour change like a disco!
Fun