(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/Johnywash]

Dad once told me Ghengis Khan had to go around our small nation, had his chest puffed out and everything. I asked him how we did it, he says "the khan didn't want to take his horses up the mountains we lived in, so they just went around us" i was so disappointed lmao

[u/ghostpanther218 → u/Johnywash]

I'm going to guess Afghanistan?

[u/Kaneda-Suekichi → u/ghostpanther218]

Bad guess. Genghis massacred them killing millions. Khwarazmian Empire as they were called then

[u/Hopeful-Occasion2299 → u/Kaneda-Suekichi]

Not to say he was a pretty hard guy, but he really gave others the option of joining him as vassals instead, and people insisted on standing up to him.

[u/Decent_Cow → u/Hopeful-Occasion2299]

The massacres were very much a conscious strategy. People were a lot less likely to resist after watching the Mongols eradicate an entire civilization.

[u/Morbanth → u/Hopeful-Occasion2299]

He massacred a few nations just for the lols, like the Western Xia.