Have you ever made a sudden, rash decision that changed your life?

[BlondieK143]

What was your decision and what were the outcomes from it? Did it have a positive or negative effect on you? Would you take that decision back? And you really don't have to tell me if you don't want to. I'm getting ready to make a change in my life (no, not THAT kind of change) and I'm trying to see if I'm completely off my rocker. :)

[Abelman]

1. Yes.

Breaking up with my ex-girlfriend. My life would be far different if we were still together.

On that same note, going out with my ex-girlfriend. Life would be different if I'd said something else.

Getting angry at a co-working and grabbing his shoulder while yelling at him. I had to leave the job. I would still be working there if I hadn't done that. That's actually a good thing.

[yvr girl]

2. I moved to a different province on two days notice

No regrets. Sometimes you just have to go for it.

This coming from a woman who can debate for months whether or not to have bangs.

I didn't say I was consistent.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. well, my mother thought so

16 years ago, I went to a Sufi camp. I had my first initiation into a Sufi order. I met a fellow there and within a week had quit my job, put my house up for sale, and moved from Illinois to Texas to be with him. We were married with the chanupe (sacred pipe) and then by the jp and finally in a Sufi ceremony.

[gater]

4. I left the world of Rock an Roll after a bit more than 20 years.

I made a great living, and did more drugs, saw more shows, climbed more rocks, and generally did the all the stuff most people dream about...and left it all to work in Internet communications. It was a great choice. I AM STILL ALIVE!!!!

[flvegan]

5. I stopped eating red meat.

It was the first step (for my diet) to where I am now. Positive? Oh, yes. For many reasons. Physically, I lost a bunch of weight. Mentally, I felt much clearer. Karmically, I felt much more in tune, positive and safe.

[BikeWriter]

All three times I got married. Chaos ensued!

[gizmo1979]

6. I joined the Army at seventeen

biggest mistake I ever made.This was back in 1979.I had alot of great times made lots of friends,but it put me way behind the eightball as far as job skills,and lifeskills I guess.

[In_The_Wind]

7. a few

with some regrets and also with some wonderful memories

[hunter]

8. I jumped out of my girlfriend's moving car in Berkeley.

It was one of the best damned sudden rash decisions I've ever made.

I took the bus home, and she sent my stuff back to me in a box without any note. I've only seen her once since then, after she was happily married to someone else. Of all the ways our horrible relationship could have ended, that was probably the best. It was very quick, no time to think.

Then I met my wife, and it was True Love. We have two wonderful kids who are teenagers now.

I've made a few rash decisions that haven't turned out well, but still, in general, I follow my heart.

[Redstone]

9. Yes: Riding the skid,

after being told not to.

Redstone

[fudge stripe cookays]

10. Deciding to try ONE last time....

on love, with a Canadian who lived 1600 miles away.

Best decision I ever made. Everyone told me I was crazy, but r and I just knew it was right. And once everyone else saw what we saw in each other, they agreed!

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[BikeWriter]

11. Hey, way cool! I have a Friend in Canada who swears...

she's going to sweep me off my feet. She even knows all my bad habits and she still loves me. :shrug:

[fudge stripe cookays]

12. Grab that girl!

She sounds like a helluva gal!

I have a special fondness for Canadians. If anything ever happens to mine, I'm looking for another one.

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[BikeWriter]

14. Hey, this Lady is dynamite. Canadian First Nations and New Orleans...

Creole. Her heart and her smile are both beautiful!

[Huckebein the Raven]

18. Does she have a relative who is single ?

:D

[BikeWriter]

22. I'll check and see if her daughter still is. She is gorgeous!

[all.of.me]

29. it's great when people see your worst and still love you

i mean REALLY love you, not run off when times get hard, hang in there through it all. that is real love.

[Ariana Celeste]

13. Quit my job, and used my last paycheck

along with a little extra cash from mom, to fly out to Indiana and move in with a guy I met on the internet. It was the best decision I ever made.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. Yes, I applied to the intensive Japanese program at Cornell

on impulse after seeing the notice on a bulletin board. I did not tell my parents, because I knew my mother would try to talk me out of it. ("But that's so far awaaaaay.")

That was probably the pivotal decision of my entire life.

[mark414]

16. yes...only i haven't done it yet

i just decided the other day to move to san francisco in january

i was going to leave earlier...but my little brother is coming to school in milwaukee in the fall and was expecting me to be up here so i'm not just going to abandon him like that...

we'll see how it turns out?

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. The sudden, bold, rash decisions are the only decisions

that will bring happiness.

Unless they're STUPID, sudden, bold, rash decisions involving pregnancy or self-mutilation.

[Left Is Write]

19. Oh, some people may have thought so.

Deciding four days after I met this guy that I wanted to marry him, getting engaged inside three weeks, and getting married three months after meeting him - well, some people might have thought that was rash. :D

We are still happily married nearly eight years later, and we have two children together.

Would I take back that decision? Not a chance.

[sundog]

20. several

I won't go into a lot of detail... but I firmly believe in destiny ;)

[HeeBGBz]

21. I joined the army when I was 30

I guess that has to be my most significant rash decision.

Some positive and more negative effects.

[Ellen Forradalom]

23. Yes

After a few agonizing months, I dumped my ex-boyfriend definitiveely for my husband. Mr. Forradalom and I had some good years, but lately things are pretty rotten. Maybe it's time for another rash decision? :shrug:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

24. Hell, yeah!

I was in a dead end job, recovering from trying to drink myself to death, and in need of a sea change. I sold most of my belongings, including my classic rock LP album collection, and took the five hundred dollars cash and hopped on my vastly underpowered Kawasaki bike. I drove to Orlando Florida (I was in northern Ohio) and rented a sleeping room off an 80 year old woman while I looked for a job.

I found my job, and when I got my first paycheck I was down to forty two cents in my pocket. Literally.

My job was as a grass cutter and landscaper, and I went back to that type of work after yet another cross-state move, and stayed in the profession for over fifteen years.

I wish I still had the balls I had when I did that. It was in 1983.

[davsand]

25. Oh--you mean the day I quit the bookstore?

I'd been there five years already. I'd had some good times but mostly a lot of bad ones.

I'd seen one boss fired for sexually harassing a male employee, I'd personally turned one store manager in for theft (then had to work for him for 6 weeks after he found out I'd done it!) and I had survived three department resets--involving moving a couple of million in stock from one place to another. I worked for a total of six store managers, three Regional managers ad two Zone managers in five and a half years...

I was at the point where I considered it a REALLY good day if nobody was chewing my ass by nine AM--and the store opened at 8:30!

One day I was standing there while a store manager was just nattering away about what a fuck up I was, and I just snapped. I looked over at him and said, "Yup, you are right--I AM a fuck up. I am such a fuck up that I am gonna give you THIRTY days to find my replacement."

It was simply AMAZING to just quit a job with no advance thought and no planning. It was also worth it to see my boss's face when i said that.

I was unemployed for a bit, and it took me a long time to earn as much as I was making there, but I completely changed my lifestyle and my career.


Laura

[ronnykmarshall]

26. Moved to SF.

Well, I had a "boyfriend" that helped. He ended up being a total prick .... but I had family in the Bay Area that helped me out and I lived in SF from 1986 to 2000.

The best thing I did in my life.

[mark414]

28. that's what i'm about to do

where did you move from?

i've spent my whole life in wisconsin and i figured it's about time i do something different...though i am still pretty young (20)

i reason that if i don't do it now, when will i?

[ronnykmarshall]

31. From Bakersfield, CA

I was 25 when I did it.

[last_texas_dem]

27. Nothing major

I'm too chicken to do anything like that. Lack of doing anything like that probably contributes a great deal to why I'm so unhappy with my life...

[all.of.me]

30. i have run off two times, almost a third and am contemplating a fourth

the first time was in 1978. i was 24. my boyfriend and i had lived together for 5 years, and things were not going so well. i went to visit a friend in another state and never went home!

the second time was in 1987. i had lost a great job and found a crappy one, had built a house at the same time they changed the tax rate to reflect the housing boom, lost my crappy job and was miserable being single. a friend of a friend stayed at my house for a few days. when he left (i'd never seen this guy before!), he gave me $500 and told me to take a road trip. i left and only went back to sell the house a year later. i never saw that guy again, either.....

when the kids' dad left in 1998, i almost ran away again, 2000 miles far. i met a woman here who helped me with my kids and my crisis. that is the only reason i stayed put.

i'm ready to run again. life is boring, i'm ready to see other countries.

(this is part of a post i left the other night)

[babylonsister]

32. Oh, yeah. I hitchhiked about 75 rides when I was

around 24. I lived in Steamboat Springs, Denver, and Grand Lake, CO, and hitchhiked around the US. I am now 49 and have been married for 25 years. But I was pretty slick, or so I thought. :hi:

[BlondieK143]

33. KiCk for the morning crew!

:)

[In_The_Wind]

34. Morning

:loveya:

[BiggJawn]

35. Several times...

Both my marriages were "quick" descisions, And with the exception of my daughter (from the first) I regret BOTH of them.

I changed jobs and relocated after only about 4 month's consideration. That has worked out OK, even though I lost my house and had to file bankruptcy.