Pivotal Experiences

Our lives are shaped by critical moments and chance encounters with people we meet along the way.  It's never completely obvious to me when that will happen so I try to make the most out of every interaction.

I call those times pivotal experiences, and I thought you might find it interesting if I shared some of those people and aha moments. In each of the posts below, I highlight a person that made a big difference in my life, and the big lesson I learned from that encounter. 

It's worth pointing out three obvious disclaimers before I get started: first, this is an endless list and just because you don't see a name doesn't mean they didn't make a profound difference or that they won't appear in future vignettes. And second, it's an over-simplification to say I only gleaned one takeaway from a person or experience or that the lesson came from one single person, but you get the point. And finally, third, I try here to be as factual to the moment as possible but I hope you'll forgive that my memory isn't perfect.  That's how life is anyway. Onward!