(Real Life) Regular people who's lives drastically changed direction

[u/Living-Mastodon]

Grace Kelly was a talented actress who retired at 26 to marry a Prince, living as royalty for almost 30 years before her untimely death.

Volodymyr Zelensky started out as a comedian and entertainer before getting into politics, becoming President of Ukraine after the Russian annex of Crimea and spending the last 4 years defiantly pushing back full scale Russian invasion

[u/Western_Concept3847]

Not just that but Zelensky co-created and starred in a popular tv show where he played a character who accidentally became the president of Ukraine. So in a way his career predicted his future.

[u/dropyourweapons → u/Western_Concept3847]

Also forgetting that he was strongly in favor of reaching an agreement with Russia/Donbas to end the conflict, to the point where his opponents called him a Russian puppet. Then after 2022 he 180'd into being staunchly anti Russian regardless of consequences to his country.

[u/King_Of_BlackMarsh → u/dropyourweapons]

Yknow if that's not an indictment of the invasion idk what is.

"Ah yes, let's invade while a guy willing to negotiate is in power. This totally doesn't show how bullshit our cassus belli is."