# "Each person’s life is dominated by a central event, which shapes and distorts everything \[after\]"

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 30, 2018, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/each-person-s-life-is-dominated-by-a-central-event-which-shapes-and-distorts-everything-after/807805 "2018-01-30T14:53:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/each-person-s-life-is-dominated-by-a-central-event-which-shapes-and-distorts-everything-after/807805/41 "2018-02-01T17:09:23Z")

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> [@Chimera](#):
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> One single event?
> 
> No, large patterns of events writ large across my life.

Same here. There’s no single pivotal event I could think of in my life. Lots of crazy, wacky turns, but no single one that shaped the overall plot, that I could think of. I mean, sure, I could probably in a literary sort of way focus on one where I was faced with doing A or B and how choosing B had changed and shaped all that came after it, but I can do that with many important and not-so-important points in my life.

So, no, to the OP.

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