Who (or what) did you "Used to be"? Care to share?

A young woman.

I use to be a do it all, can’t say no kind of person. I organized many activities and did many hours of volunteer work.

I used to be a functional person

I USED to be extremely physically active and high energy and young, yes! Now I am still very mentally active but my ass needs more work and I am just not that into it anymore.

I used to be totally fucked up. Now, I am totally fucked up in completely different ways.

I’m in this video

I used to be a self-loathing, self-sabotaging, cynical, pessimistic, miserable survivor of childhood abuse, trapped in the mindset of a victim.
I am now a grateful, happy, hopeful realist who has mostly overcome the trauma of childhood abuse.

I used to be a city girl. Now I’m a country girl and I have no desire to go back to the city.

There was a time, @ibstubro, oh there was a time when I was a power. The protégé of Enabran Tain himself. Do you have any idea what that means?
No, you don’t, do you. You don’t know much of anything. Tain was the Obsidian Order. Not even the Central Command dared challenge him. And I was his right hand. My future was limitless until I threw it away.
I only wish that I had stopped those prisoners.
No, my disgrace was worse than that. Unimaginably worse.
I let them go.
It was the eve of the Cardassian withdrawal. Elim and I were interrogating five Bajorans. They were children, None of them were older than fourteen years old. They knew nothing. They lived in bombed-out rooms, scrounged for food on the streets. They were filthy and they stank. The room was freezing cold, the air was like ice, and suddenly the whole exercise seemed utterly meaningless. All I wanted was a hot bath and a good meal.
So I let them go.
I gave them whatever latinum I had in my pockets, and opened the door, and flung them back into the street. Elim couldn’t believe his eyes. He looked at me as if I were insane.

I was a fool! I should’ve finished the interrogation and turned them over to the troops for execution. But because I was chilly and my stomach was growling, I failed in my duty and destroyed everything I had worked for.
And so they exiled me and left me to live out my days with nothing to look forward to but having lunch with you.

I used to be indifferent to politics. Policies undertaken by the Reagan administration, along with a financial windfall set me to thinking and WATCHING how things worked.

I used to be more sexual (I miss it) and thinner and younger and healthier.

@ragingloli – Deep Space Nine?

@Seek_Kolinahr
yep

@ragingloli Everyone knows that Elim is your own first name.

I used to be more of a hippie than I am now. Now I have more shit stuff and I am less happy. Ho hum.

I used to be less resilient and competent than I am now.

I used to drink way too much. Now I don’t.

I used to read all the time, everything from books to magazines to nutrition labels. Now I read the internet.

I used to want to work alone in some lab and I thought working with children was for crazy people who liked to talk in annoying baby voices. Now I adore working with children and I have never needed to talk to them in baby voices.

There’s always ‘young at heart’ @gailcalled. I tend to be ‘30 at heart’.

You no longer can, @YARNLADY, of no longer have the desire/fire?

You’re functional, now, @anniereborn. Maybe on a different level, but you’re here, participating and I tend to like your input.

@Coloma yada. yada. yada. You’re basically at peace with yourself, or you’d do something different. Wouldn’t you?

@filmfann No, you used to be fuckered up, now you’re just getting puckered up.

Sorry for that @Seek_Kolinahr. Are you the young girl/face toward the end? Almond joy.

@hearkat “You’ve come a long way, baby!” I know that you’re a popular and well respected Fluther member!

Chicago? @jonsblond. Green Acres is the place I want to be!

I’m a child of politics, @stanleybmanly. I think I was wearing political pins before I could speak (literally). Oddly, at some point my flip, flopped. I don’t understand why the US of A has so many leads, so few leaders.

@JLeslie I was so sexual that I welcome the respite that age brings. Unfortunately, that respite is brought on by my being fatter, older and generally less healthy.

@SwanSwanHummingbird it’s not the shit stuff that’s making you unhappy. You just are. Can’t you still embrace your inner ‘hippiness’??

You have to exercise you’re brain, too, @janbb. You can regain the resilience, be more competent.

No worries, @ccrow. I’ve picked up your slack. Now, if you loose weight and miss it, I’ve got that, as well!

@hug_of_war You can read the internet and books. I do. TV is the devil, not reading.

Freakin awesome epic answer for me!

I’m in this video

Oh my, Seek.

Well now I know who to call if I need some tongues spoken or snakes handled.

@ibstubro Not Chicago. I grew up in Las Vegas with a few years spent near Los Angeles and San Francisco. Rural Illinois became my home about 23 years ago.

@ibstubro Always a work in progress, I am a creature of extremes, if I do something, I do it big. I shift through big blasts and then go into neutral for awhile. lol

Oh. Crap. This is my question!

We can all speak in our loud voices!

I don’t give a carp. I was just impressed that I stuck with it long enough to answer all the responses. Usually I wander or deflect.

FINE!

@ibstubro You’re telling me I have to exercise “you’re” brain when you didn’t even understand what I wrote?

I used to identify as a woman and have that makes sense to me. Now, I don’t want a gender identification.

I used to give a crap about a lot of things.

I no longer have the desire, and I have switched to taking care of my two younger grandsons every weekend and resting up afterwards until they come back.

I have them for the entire two week winter break right now, and it’s very exhausting.

@ibstubro Unfortunately no weight has gone missing recently:-p

Sorry @janbb. I was wearing down quick, didn’t mean to offend by trying to include everyone.

I was at a Kohl’s yesterday, @Simone_De_Beauvoir, and a woman manager was raising hell about having to do work that was not suitable for a woman. It was all I could do to hold my tongue.

You still give a crap, @DWW25921. Maybe just not about as many things.

I bet you’re a great grandma, @YARNLADY.

I hear ya, @ccrow! How is it that I keep finding weight??

@ibstubro Just one of those mysteries of life, I guess….

I’m the curly-haired blonde with my back to the camera the whole time.

And no snake handling. But thanks.

I used to be a farm girl, then I became a super-religious girl (almost joined a cloister), then I became a party animal and rejected all that religion, then I got married up (bf), then I came back to the rural life, met hubs and partied a few more years, then settled back down into a comfortable, semi-religious state.

I used to be awesome. Now the parts of me that are still awesome nobody knows about, because when they look at me they assume all of me is broken and useless.
I used to live as I desired. I once had a guy ask me what my fantasies were. I told him I didn’t have any. He persisted. I told him anything I cared to do, I did, so it went right from fantasy to memory.
He looked surprised, hungry, and jealous all at the same instant.
I used to be quite the flirt. I still am, but now it makes people laugh.
I used to be a daredevil. Now I get scared taking my wheelchair over a curb.
I used to be fun.
What a depressing answer.

@Joneson4burgers Is the wheelchair situation the root of the other issues of being ‘broken’ & the laughs?

I used to be an atheist.
I still am.

@KNOWITALL pretty much. After being damaged by a van which ran me down in a crosswalk, my mobility and dexterity have gone downhill. It has finally gotten to the point that when I go anywhere, I have to use the chair. I have to be always certain of a place to sit, and that’s impossible without riding my sit. I’ve heard people on the bus grumble things like I probably fake it to get special treatment.
Losing mobility meant gaining weight, so when I do go anywhere, what people see is a squat old woman wedged in a chair. They don’t know I used to go dancing, and was always the last one to leave the floor and go home. They don’t know I was more proficient with a bullwhip than Indiana Jones. They don’t know that… well, I already covered what I used to be. Sux. Sux. Sux. Sux. Sux. Sux. Sux. Sux. Sux. (infinity)

@ragingloli , how can you say that? I thought you fancy yourself God. (smirk)

Um. I used to be a born again Christian….

Can you ever be unreborn?

<Pentecostal Doctrine>

Once one has followed the Acts 2:38 instructions for Salvation – Repentence, Baptism in Jesus’ Name for the remission of sins, and receiving the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in unknown tongues as the Spirit gives the utterance – one has earned a place in the Book of Life. All those whose names appear in the Book of Life will be judged before God on the Day of Judgment, and their lives weighed against the Word.

One must have faith in God (for without Faith it is impossible to please him…) but it is not enough to simply “accept Jesus” or “receive the Holy Ghost” to be saved. (Faith without works is dead, being alone) One must live a life of holiness, continuing to repent of (meaning “turn away from”) their sins and seek a closer walk with God.

If, after receiving the Holy Ghost, one “backslides”, or turns away from God, they will lose favor with God. All unrepentant sinners will take their place in the lake of fire and brimstone on the Day of Judgment.

</Pentecostal Doctrine>

Rot row, @Dutchess_III. Better start stocking up on the marshmallows!

It was so hard to write those few paragraphs, because there are other, also completely official, doctrines of the same organization of the same denomination that said completely contradictory things. But it all boils down to, “Most people are going to hell, but if you want an ice cube’s chance at making it to heaven, you better hook up with us. And pay us tithes. And love offerings. And make a monthly contribution to the missionary society. And never, ever, leave or ask too many questions.”

@ibstubro ” can you ever be unreborn”, LMAO!

A friend of mine’s mother was hooked on a televangelist, @Seek_Kolinahr, and fell into the “pay us tithes. And love offerings. And make a monthly contribution to the missionary society” habit. Then mom fell on hard-times and wrote in to request a withdrawl on the hard-tithes. Nary a word. Not an acknowledgement of the letter even.

Sad that they didn’t even care enough to hire a bullshooter to cover.

I’m nonunreborn myself, @Coloma