Did you ever make a seemingly insignificint decision in life's road that later proved to

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be life changing? Trade's signature and one of my favorite Yogi Berra quotes: "When you come to the fork in the road, take it" always makes me remember a few of mine.
 

"Did I ever" I seem to have made so many bad decisions in my life that has brought me to where I am now.
The problem is I can never see into the future but my hindsight has 20 20 vision. I must be facing the wrong way.
I cannot blame anyone else but myself, well maybe there were people who contributed to some of my bad decisions but at the end of the day it was still my decision.
Things I have learnt from bad decisions.
1, Be careful with my money and if i have to throw it around try and do it like a man with no arms would.
2, Women with long legs, short skirts, high heels are not good for me.
3, Learn to say NO, its my right to say NO sometimes.
4, Don't entirely trust other people as they sometimes don't have your best interests at heart.
5, Women with long legs, short skirts, high heels are not good for me. ( I know I've already said this in rule number 2 but its so important its worth saying twice)
:rolleyes:
 
Yes, decided to buy a chicken for my supper.

Because of that I caught a later bus, and sat next to the girl who six months later was to become my wife of 54 years!
 

Yeah. It was after the Tet Offensive, and they were drafting everybody. I was working in a hospital as an orderly. So I joined the Navy, as a Corpsman. That's a "medic" to
you non-Navy people. It did occur to me that being in a nice thick battle ship 50 miles off shore had its advantages. Then at Corpsman School, I found out the U. S. Marines didn't have medics of their own. They used Navy Corpsman. Out of 80 men in my company, I was one of 3 newly minted Corpsman, who did not get orders for FMS. Fleet Marine School, where you were taught battlefield medicine.
 
I believe we encounter many many forks in the road on life's journey and and that every one has the potential of changing our future, often dramatically. We are what we are today as a result of the decisions we have made throughout life. Would I like to hop in a time machine and go back and change some of mine? You betcha!

I am also fascinated by the theory of infinite universes. It's fun to think about, speculate, but of course there is no way to know at present. Maybe someday science can provide answers to such questions. Or maybe not.

http://www.space.com/18811-multiple-universes-5-theories.html
 
the fork in the road is not a very good anthology. If one path is well worn but the footprints only go in one direction is it the right one, or is the other less worn path but with footprints going in both directions the better choice?
 
My hubby died in 2006.
I was determined to maintain the home we had that he adored even though it was on top of a mountain, had a 700 foot driveway that in the winter needed to be plowed non stop,heated with wood and had 3 acres to mow.
Due to an insurance fiasco I didn't get much life insurance,was not old enough to get survivors benefits from his SS and we all know how far that 225.00 death benefit goes.
I had been a stay at home wife and mom and needed to get a job,ASAP.
I pulled this off for 4 years with cars (junkers),dying,pipes freezing and so
My big life change was I decided to let the bank have it.My children were less than supportive, understanding or sympathetic.
My reaction to this was to drink,nonstop,24 hours a day,hoping that I wouldn't wake up,never eating either.
I wound up in a motel room,waiting on a bed in a shelter,kids were notified when I wouldn't open the door to the staff,hospitalized, 2 weeks was about all I had left...
I got sober,7 years ago last week,I moved into a close friends house,got a job,reunited with my family.
I probably took the wrong way to do it but leaving that hill was the best thing that ever happened to me!
Sorry for the length.
 
Giantsfan1954, life gets tough at times, doesn't it. I'm so sorry you had a rough patch. You are to be commended for being able to turn things around. Only a very strong person would have been able to do that.
 
Giantsfan1954 that's amazing. I'm pleased for your success in turning your life around and reuniting with family.

I've made some seemingly unimportant decisions that turned out to be life changing in negative ways so I won't go into that here.
 
What seemed like the ultimate "no-brainer", turned out to be momentous...in retrospect. I was offered warrant officers bars for my young military shoulders if I reenlisted for helicopter pilot training and duty. I call it a "no-brainer" because after three years of Uncle Sam's army...there was no way I'd reenlist. It was fortunate I had this disdain. It was 1963, Vietnam was just taking off, and chopper pilots had a 15 minute life span in combat at the beginning. I had no idea the war was starting. In Germany, without civilian TV or radio, you only heard what the Armed Forces Network and the "Stars and Stripes" paper chose to tell you. We had no Adrienne Cronauer. Anyway, I've always thanked my stars for that break.
 
Giantsfan1954 said:
My hubby died in 2006.
I was determined to maintain the home we had that he adored even though it was on top of a mountain, had a 700 foot driveway that in the winter needed to be plowed non stop,heated with wood and had 3 acres to mow.
Due to an insurance fiasco I didn't get much life insurance,was not old enough to get survivors benefits from his SS and we all know how far that 225.00 death benefit goes.
I had been a stay at home wife and mom and needed to get a job,ASAP.
I pulled this off for 4 years with cars (junkers),dying,pipes freezing and so
My big life change was I decided to let the bank have it.My children were less than supportive, understanding or sympathetic.
My reaction to this was to drink,nonstop,24 hours a day,hoping that I wouldn't wake up,never eating either.
I wound up in a motel room,waiting on a bed in a shelter,kids were notified when I wouldn't open the door to the staff,hospitalized, 2 weeks was about all I had left...
I got sober,7 years ago last week,I moved into a close friends house,got a job,reunited with my family.
I probably took the wrong way to do it but leaving that hill was the best thing that ever happened to me!
Sorry for the length.
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That's an inspiring story, Giantsfan. Thank you for sharing it with us.
 

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