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Defining Moments (SOM #5)
Aug. 19th, 2022 11:33 pmPROMPT: What was your most defining moment in life?
"Do I have to choose only one? Well, if I had to, I suppose I'd pick the moment my village was overrun by warlords. I was there in the group of farmers and innocent villagers, young and naive, shaking at the idea of being taken as a slave. At that moment I understood fear, but when Xena came out and fought those warlords... I don't know how to explain it, it's like something shifted within me, something suddenly felt like it was pushed in place. I fought back against those warlords and Xena ran them out of my village and from that moment onward nothing has been the same in my life. I swore to fight for the greater good then, to make sure I could help as many people as I could and forbid this from happening to them.
There have been plenty of other moments that have defined who I am today, but thinking back on it... none of these moments would have ever happened had I not been that little stubborn bard that tagged along with Xena. Had I not experienced that fear, that helplessness, that strange anger at not being able to protect my people, nothing would have happened. Be it good or bad, that moment changed the course of my life. Forever."
"Do I have to choose only one? Well, if I had to, I suppose I'd pick the moment my village was overrun by warlords. I was there in the group of farmers and innocent villagers, young and naive, shaking at the idea of being taken as a slave. At that moment I understood fear, but when Xena came out and fought those warlords... I don't know how to explain it, it's like something shifted within me, something suddenly felt like it was pushed in place. I fought back against those warlords and Xena ran them out of my village and from that moment onward nothing has been the same in my life. I swore to fight for the greater good then, to make sure I could help as many people as I could and forbid this from happening to them.
There have been plenty of other moments that have defined who I am today, but thinking back on it... none of these moments would have ever happened had I not been that little stubborn bard that tagged along with Xena. Had I not experienced that fear, that helplessness, that strange anger at not being able to protect my people, nothing would have happened. Be it good or bad, that moment changed the course of my life. Forever."
