@Hypocrisy_Central It’s interesting that your question assumes some unfair or unbearable situation in the past. And in your responses to other users, you said, “Unless you were in a crap situation before that… you had to drastically change” and “what was going so wrong… or was it the tipping point that made a shaky life hit the skids?” Why is the premise that everything is/was going wrong?
That premise is so foreign to me that this question made me do a double take. I’ve been through some strange and difficult times, but never to the point where my whole life needed changing. Are you in the middle of a bad situation that’s making you feel negative/ resentful?
Personally, my tipping point was a coincidence. I met someone on a train late at night, and ended up having my first sip of wine with them a few weeks later. With that sip, there was this instant lightening bolt of recognition. Wine, if it’s a good one, appeals to several senses at once, and layers of aroma and flavor come at you in subtle and intriguing ways. So I was left thinking, ”???” but feeling incredibly curious and engaged; I had to know more. For the next few years I learned everything I could and tried lots and lots of different wines, and now it’s my career. If I hadn’t met this person, my wine experiences might have started and stopped at boxed wine and white zinfandel; the other stuff wouldn’t have even been on my radar.
Things were going pretty well beforehand, and I lost touch with the person since then, but that encounter definitely changed the course of my life.