Big Life Risks/Decisions you took that did or did not come off.

[garygroundwork]

What big life decisions/risks have you taken in your life that either did or din not come off?

For example:

-A career choice that did or ddi not work out? walking out of a job on the spot.
-Relationships- living someone that wa the best idea or the worst and you regret this day
-Selling a house you should of or shouldn't of to invest in something that made you rich or bankrupt?
-Chance to buy BTC at $5 etc and you did or didn't?
-Gambling or losing all your money in someway?
-Investing or taking some risk that made you rich?
-Maybe you cancelled your flight on 9/11?
- A decision that maybe ended you up in legal trouble?
- A decision that ruined your life?
-Maybe a smuggling opportunity?
-A decision that cha ged your life?
-A decision about moving locations that was bet thing or worst Thi g you could of done.
-A business decision that changed your life.
-Maybe a huge life changing regret?
-maybe a huge life changing risk you took that changed everything?

You know those moments when you are faced with a. huge life /decision.
I don't know . Huge sliding doors moments for you in your life. Ones that worked out but also ones that maybe fucked your life.

Some people are prone to risk more than others.

Post your stories here.

 

[Shambles]

I packed up and moved countries. Twice.

To be fair, all three countries are within the UK so not really as dramatic a change as I made it sound… but… still counts

First time was England to Wales, which I did to escape long term crack and heroin addiction. Obviously I realise you can’t always run away from your problems… but I ran away from two major ones - and it worked! For me, at least.

Second time was Wales to Scotland. This was for love - it’s where my Good Lady @Sadie lives and she wasn’t in a situation where she could reasonably move away so up north I went. This also worked out great!

tl;dr: run away from your problems, run toward (and move in with) the person you technically don’t even know all that well. Follow this advice and nothing could conceivably go awry

 

[placebonaut]

I was a paper multi-millionaire while working for a start up on a lower salary than I could have earned elsewhere.

company folded and and got nothing, 5 years of working life - know the risks of start ups, high risk v high reward = low chance of a pay out.

I was young and childless at the time so worth the risk, and if I had my time again I would most likely do it again as it taught me a great deal about life skills that have helped me be a better and happier person as a result.

 

[thujone]

I went out East to pursue schooling instead of staying at home and going to a better school.

That probably cost me a lot of time but the past is past.

I try not to dwell on the past. Mistakes are best to have in the past as long as there's time to recover.

The worst would be making huge mistakes at 50+ and waking up to the realization that a do-over is no longer possible.

My life has always been an uphill battle so I have a sixth sense for big mistakes, I see guys in their 30s and 40s confidently walking into situations with a high probability of disastrous failure but people are stubborn and want to do it.

I think people that lived privileged lives don't see how precarious health and wealth is and that gives them this confidence like they'll just be able to deal with anything that happens... but we are finite beings and if you make a mistake that costs too much money then that's going to cost you time and you're going to run out of that eventually.

 

[streaM Freak]

I've gotten in to plenty of precarious life situations. Not so much huge risks with no basis in reality, but mostly things that may have happened in some sort of way eventually anyway. Certain trending patterns that just ramped up as I got into my 20s.

With impulses dialing down in magnitude, coupled with recognition of my own patterns, I don't believe that I so much have lost that "edge", it's more that I know when to let the leash off and when not to act.

Because while some things I did were absolutely stupid, like I said earlier I understand why I did them.

And psychologically, I'm more accepting of fate and not as fixated on immediate needs.

 

[Blowmonkey]

I should have finished school, should have finished college, should never have decided to grow weed instead of building an actual career, should have went with my best friend on his world travels and maybe he wouldn't have died of an od, should have bought btc in 2011 when I could've and not spent so much of what I later did buy on drugs, I never should have lost myself in drugs the way I did and still do, should have never decided to not keep in touch more with my friends and family when I started breaking down and getting lost in life, I should have never taken the people that I love for granted the way I did, I should've just jumped head first into that last relationship and moved countries to marry her when I had the chance..

I should've been a better person long ago, not just wanting to be one, but actually working on being a better person, should've put all those empty words into action.

I should have invented the time machine I told myself I was going to build as a little kid, I kinda feel like I could use one right now.

I shouldn't have given up on life so many times, on myself, on my future. Should've gone to rehab 6 years ago.

I should finish what I fucking start. Except for my life, I'm not going to finish that anytime soon, never even started it for real. It was gifted to me by sheer coincidence and I have wasted it so far. I should've made my parents proud a long time ago. I probably should've learned the practice of self-love much earlier, I'm not too good at it.

tl;dr: run away from your problems, run toward (and move in with) the person you technically don’t even know all that well. Follow this advice and nothing could conceivably go awry

Oh great, now you tell me..

I try not to dwell on the past. Mistakes are best to have in the past as long as there's time to recover.

I should've been making that Einstein's gun of relativity, but your mom's massive gravity curved time and space so much that I was caught up in the event horizon, time has no meaning to my black hole, I just try to suck as much of it up as I can while everything around me passes me by faster and faster, sometimes prep H helps me recover more quickly.

I honestly try to see the light in all the darkness everyone has to deal with every day, but sometimes the fog just doesn't want to clear until the sun is gone already. I've missed the sun a bit too much the last few decades, I'm like a fucking vampire sucking the life out of me, myself and everyone else. I decided to try not to be anymore a bunch of years ago, but that too was apparently unsuccessful.

I guess there's not a lot of things in my life that I managed to succeed in. I was good at growing weed and making nice crosses, but I probably shouldn't have trusted the friend that I used to grow weed with. That cost me a lot of money and trust I had in people, both of which I had little of already.

Sometimes you live and learn. Sometimes you don't.

 

[Flynnal]

Well, freaking hell, do I have some of those. Quite a few in that list.

A lot of anger problems caused me to want to do bad stuff, and now I am even worse, but despite having worse anger, I seem to have better control. I don't raise my voice. I just let it simmer, and whoever caused it gets to stand there and see it in my face. Right now, I'm a bit couch-locked due to some pulls on a nice new live rosin cart, but getting to sleep won't be too hard tonight. I guess it's one of those things that I cherish.

 

[M!$TER-ED]

Hmmm big life decisions? Fell in love and married a woman with high moral standards I knew would keep me out of trouble.
Never should have looked at porn because women are so beautiful
Probably shouldn't have married my first wife on the basis of getting a free ride.
Should have been a more responsible driver in my youth.
Should have told my dad exactly what I thought of him
Should have turned in my driver's ed project at the end of the semester so I wouldn't have to take the class again.
Shouldn't have started smoking cigarets or weed in high school or any other time.
Shouldn't have drank liquor after taking LSD