What\'s important to you ?
 

I would be interested to learn what you consider is / are the most influential:

1: book
2: album
3: person
4: place
5: event (in your life time)
6: film
7: historical event
8: discovery
9: other

I appreciate that for ever category I have chosen, there will be variables, so if your favourite book 1, is "Far from the madding crowd", but you feel that "The life of PHI" should get a mention, put it down as 1a. This way, if there is something beyond say "Dark side of the moon" is worth of a single mention, put as down as a suffix - 2a.

Keep it short and to the point please.
9 is for 1x thing you feel is important. That's personal

Tim

This is completely personal to me and other people may question why.... but I get the jist that you are looking for what has influenced me in my life ?? ( hope I am right )

Here goes..

1: book = The Green Mile ( Stephen King )
2: album = Pink Floyd- The Wall
3: person = My Mother
4: place = My home town ( I have never ventured far ! )
5: event (in your life time) = The birth of my son
6: film = Schindlers List
7: historical event = Both World Wars
8: discovery = Smiles cost nothing and in my line of work go a VERY long way !
9: other = ditto.... okay, treating people the way I want to be treated ... helps me through my days..


People may see some of these answers as somewhat shallow, but they are an insight into me as a person !

[Edited on 28-9-2004 by HellsBells]

1: book = The wife of Bath from the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer
2: album = What's going on? Marvin Gaye
3: person = Mum
4: place = Taj Mahal
5: event (in your life time) = Birth of my children
6: film = The Accused
7: historical event = Fall of the Berlin Wall
8: discovery = You can do ANYTHING!
9: other = Proper selfishness(How can you love others if you dont love yourself?)

This ones gonna get very deep

1:Book = 1a-Swallows and Amazons
1b-Early Bike mag articles about travelling
anywhere.
1c-A book written about a good friends family all about the familys tragedies, 2 suicides, coming out the closet, sounds like the script from Dallas but its all true.

2:Album = I'd have to do my own KTel compilation of top 10 tracks.
3: person = My wife, she's a star (with the odd exception)
4: place = Sunset over the dunes in the Sahara desert.
5: event=sorry to be predictable but gotta to be birth of my two kids, cried my eyes out.
6: film =have to give this some thought/or last pile of crap i saw on SKY
7: historical event = 1973 FA Cup Final
8: discovery = that my willy wasn't just for peeing.
9: other =My dad dying when i was 4.

I find the above quite moving really, I`ll post mine when I get time.

1: book. barry sheene 1950-2003
2: album. stereophonics performance n cocktails
3: person. mother
3 b: my gran
3c: my bayner for putting up with me n my bikes
4: place. st austell ( hometown )
4b: donington
5: event (in your life time). my first time with a lady
6: film. matrix
7: historical event. being a 5 year old lad crying my eyes out after seeing that sheene crash at silverstone.
8: discovery. beer, women, beer, women and more beer
9: other the death of both my grans, sheeney an d.j all within 3 months, made me realise its time to live and sort myself out

[Edited on 28-9-2004 by deej]

1: book = this would take too long to answer, as am book-a-holic:o
2: album = Floyd, the wall:sing: (Hells, we must meet up sometime!)
3: person = Alan my husband;)
4: place = Valetta harbour, at sunset in the winter
5: event (in your life time) = Birth of my daughter 20 years ago
6: film = Bambi, yes, corny - but I loved that as a kid, and it still brings a tear even now.
7: historical event = Landing on the moon
8: discovery = I'm not as invincible as I thought, when coming off a bike
9: other = beating the nasty C earlier this year, soon after losing my mum to it.

Charlotte

[Edited on 28-9-2004 by CK and AK]

1: book = The Dam Busters
2: album = Anything by Jimi Hendrix
3: person = Lynn
4: place = Duxford airfield
5: event (in your life time) = Getting my HND
6: film = Shadow of a doubt by Alfred Hitchcock
7: historical event = The Battle of Britain
8: discovery = Women
9: other = ?