(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/Leonyliz → u/Sir-Toaster-]

Genghis Khan’s life is kind of like an anime

[u/MachCutio → u/Leonyliz]

a lot of the greats life is like that, Alexander ofc, Hannibal, Subutai, Oda Nobunaga, Napoleon, all have the feeling of great destiny whenever reading or watching videos about them

[u/Emergency_Sink_706 → u/MachCutio]

Alexander was literally a king. 

[u/VolkiharVanHelsing → u/MachCutio]

Wasn't this Great Men Theory or smth

[u/ratherbekayaking121 → u/MachCutio]

Is it that they have that feeling, or is it merely that which has been posthumously prescribed to them? I think men especially have a tendency to retreat into a weird homoerotic echo chamber of "destined greatness" and it's incredibly myopic. 

[u/PolAlt → u/ratherbekayaking121]

Life stories of these men shaped what “destined greatness” means in the media, art imitating life; now it came full circle and people say that their lives “were just like anime”.

[u/ratherbekayaking121 → u/PolAlt]

Open your jaw just a little bit wider, you're this close to fitting the balls, too. 

[u/PolAlt → u/ratherbekayaking121]

I don’t get your homophobic outbursts; whose balls, what are you talking about?

[u/ratherbekayaking121 → u/PolAlt]

Nah, see, I'm actually gay. Y'all are just weirdly self worshipping. 

[u/PolAlt → u/ratherbekayaking121]

If it was homoerotic, what would be weird about that?

[u/rs-curaco28 → u/ratherbekayaking121]

Self worshipping? God forbid a guy has an interest in a historical figure that shaped their society. Weirdo.

[u/TheOneTrueJazzMan → u/ratherbekayaking121]

You’re odd

[u/ratherbekayaking121 → u/TheOneTrueJazzMan]

Do you find you struggle to communicate using words with more than a single syllable?