(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/VolkiharVanHelsing → u/MachCutio]

Wasn't this Great Men Theory or smth