off-topic What’s a small decision you made that completely changed the course of your life?

[mara]

Have you ever made a small decision that completely changed your life? If so, what was the decision?





Did someone encourage you to make this choice, or did you decide to do it on your own?

 

[Shawn]

I started cycling to lose weight. I fell in love with it. It led me to hiking. Hiking led me to getting healthy and meeting my now wife.

Before I found cycling, I got drunk every night, smoked 2 packs a day, ate nothing but fast food, did no exercise, and weighed 350 pounds.

Now I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't eat fast food that much, I hike and bike a lot, and I'm around 200 pounds.

Had I continued doing, I doubt I would be alive now. I definitely wouldn't had survived COVID. I got the bad wave of COVID (before we even knew what it was) and it was crazy!

 

[Shadow]

I haven't made much of a progress like that although I am doing my best to make changes whenever required

 

[Fidelia1]

The day that I just went to work, felt awkward and turned back altered my life entirely. On my way back, I reflected on why I felt so awkward at work. And I made up my mind to enter business. Never got another job and today, I own a fashion brand.

 

[Shawn]

Buying a bicycle.

Growing up, I was a very active kid. I rode bikes, played in the woods, and was skinny and active. When I got my driver's license, I no longer biked because the car was way better, right? LOL. When I turned 21, I started going to bars, getting drunk, and having fun partying. I ate fast food. I slept all day because I was hungover, worked swings, and parties every night.

Then at the ripe age of my mid-20s, I realized that if I kept going like that, I would die.

Had I kept going like that, I doubt I would have even seen COVID.

So, it scared me.

I tried to go to the gym. I hated it. I quit doing it. So, I bought a bicycle because I used to love it as a kid. I rode 20 miles on it. I fell in love with it.

I rode every day. 10 miles to 100 miles a day. I was 350 pounds and lost 100 pounds in about 3 months. Biking led me to hiking. Hiking made me quit drinking, quit smoking/vaping/chewing, start eating better, become more social, and it led me to my wife who was fan in a bad relationship.

That bicycle saved my life.

I still have that same bike. It's not a very good bike but it changed it all for me.

Edit: After posting this, I saw where I had already responded. Sorry. But I guess this story is a little more detailed.

 

[Yama]

Getting married.
I never though I would get married. I always dreamed of a single life, living a nomadic life, traveling the world as a digital nomad. I met a girl, we talked, and three months later, we married.

 

[Kross]

I grew up as a church boy and was a very religious person. Not until I honoured an invitation to just play for a friend in a birthday party. And I was paid good money for that event whereas I played free in my church. That's how I tasted having to use your talent to make money. From there, I got more gigs and stopped going to church completely. That's how I stopped being religious.

 

[MamaFrankie]

I changed my forename.

 

[Zani]

Getting married.
I never though I would get married. I always dreamed of a single life, living a nomadic life, traveling the world as a digital nomad. I met a girl, we talked, and three months later, we married.

This is such a sweet story, my friend. How has marriage been and what advice do you have for many that are planning to get married as well?

 

[Ja sa bong]

It's taking responsibility and looking after my daughter that's the decision which have completely changed my life in so many ways. She's now the reason why I do anything in this life.