My story could have been completely different and I would have never arrived at Krishna Consciousness. My journey began when I met my ex girlfriend who grew within ISKCON as the daughter of Srila Prabhupada disciples. Before I met her I did everything we're not supposed to do and had no intentions of becoming Krishna Conscious, infact I didn't even know there was such a thing as Krishna Consciousness. When I started dating my ex she used to get me to take her to the temple on occassions, I used to go with her and started to learn new things but still had no interest in KC. The longer our relationship went on and I associated with her more and more I started to get all sorts of voices in my head asking questions about life, so I decided to try to find the answers. First I looked through the ISKCON website and started to become intrigued with what I was reading. Then my ex gave me a really good book to read - The Science of Self Realization and I was hooked but I was still not completely at the stage where I wanted to be KC, thought I was having fun in the material things. While I was enjoyin material things my ex got pregnant in the summer. We broke up for a few weeks and then decided to try to see if it could work between us again. I won't name names but this girl is very good at playing mind games, she would constantly break up with me and compare me to the guy she was with before she met me.
Last month we started to have a lot of arguments and she told me that the baby isnt mine and that she was cheating on me the whole time. Obviously we broke up. I started to feel emptiness in my life and was really angry every day. I spent the best part of a week or maybe a little more verbally abusing her at every oppurtunity I had and even thought about physically harming her.
I started to browse KC websites and reading about Krishna and his real devotees is the only thing that helped me calm down. The temple near my house had a Bhagavad Gita yajna 2 weeks ago so I went to that and really liked it. I spoke to a devotee there about how I can become more spiritual and he gave me some advice which I'm trying to follow as best as possible.
Even though my ex did what she did to me, part of me is glad I met her as it was by associating with her that I learnt about KC. I hope she really discovers the same thing she preached to me.