Consequentiality

[mattp]

What seemingly small events have since turned out to have a profound and/or long-lasting effect on your life?

The one which comes to my mind is helping a mate clean out his loft on new years day 1996. I found one of his books on bellringing and thought it looked interesting. I've been involved ever since and now help to run weekly learner sessions.

I've thought of another one of similar magnitude. In 1998, I think, I went to a workshop at Manchester Uni run by softfruit. About a year or so later I was round a mate's house and one of his neighbours was there, and she recognised me from the workshop. She handed me contact details of a Manchester bi group and from there I found myself involved in the UK bi community and with many of the friends I now hang around with.

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[kibe.livejournal.com]

My dad introducing me to cix back in 1994. I think if he hadn't have shown me then, he would have got bored and cancelled his subscription pretty quickly. It gave me my love of the internet and a massive bunch of friends and experiences.

Chris pointing out UA to me on the University newsgroups was a biggie as well. Not that I'm terribly active on UA these days, but I did feel part of it back when I first got to uni, and everyone was so supportive when I was going through some tough times.

Meeting my friend Steve on the bus on the way into Uni in the first week.

Me being drunk xmas eve 1999, leading me to make what could have been a catastrophic step of snogging my best friend Adam ;)

I suppose these events aren't really that small, but it all could have gone a lot differently if these things hadn't happened.