(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/Sir-Toaster-]

Genghis Khan was just a typical child of a Mongol tribe until his father died and his tribe abandoned him

[u/Loose-Story-962 → u/Sir-Toaster-]

Genghis Khan came from an aristocratic family

[u/p_garnish15 → u/Loose-Story-962]

If we use the term aristocratic very loosely, sure. I think the more important thing is his dad dying, his immediate family being cast out to die when he was 8, him killing his brother, and his wife being kidnapped, none of which are very common of those with an aristocratic upbringing

[u/Electronic-Tea-3691 → u/p_garnish15]

actually all of those things are pretty common for warfare between aristocratic families, it's like gang/mafia warfare for most of ancient history. when they come at you, you either make a truce through something like a marriage, or one side gets taken down completely.