Monumentally bad decisions

[slobake]

Have you ever made any really bad decisions that affect you for a long, long time. Two immeadiatly come to mind for me:
The first one was my deciscion to quit college after one year and become a construcion worker. For some people that might be a good decision but for me it was not. I was 18-years old and very strong but I have never been real mechanically inclined. Also I based that decision on this magazine cover and the article inside about Peter Fonda working construcion in South America. Sounded good a the time. I have learned that basing life changing decisions on magazine articles about celebreties is not a good idea.

My second bad descision was to keep hiking in the wilderness when I had fallen and screwed up my ankle. I only 3 miles in to a 15-mile hike and carrying a 60lb pack. I didn't want to go back and ruin anyone else's vacation. Can you say co-dependent boys and girls, say it nice. So I ended up hiking some very rugged terrain for a total of 27 miles. When I got out I found out my ankle was broken in 3 places. For the last 10 years I haven't been able to run or go on any long hikes because I don't have any cartiledge left in that ankle. I have learned from this and am not nearly as co-depent. That vacation is long over, my friends have gone on with their lives and I'm stuck with a gimpy ankle. I have also been able to practice forgiveness for some of them who encouraged me to go on. It was my decision not theirs.
Thank God for cycling and swimming. I still love the wilderness maybe I can find place to paddle in.
How about you, ever make any really bad decisions that still affect you?

 

[elgecko]

...My second bad descision was to keep hiking in the wilderness when I had fallen and screwed up my ankle. I only 3 miles in to a 15-mile hike and carrying a 60lb pack. I didn't want to go back and ruin anyone else's vacation. Can you say co-dependent boys and girls, say it nice. So I ended up hiking some very rugged terrain for a total of 27 miles. When I got out I found out my ankle was broken in 3 places. For the last 10 years I haven't been able to run or go on any long hikes because I don't have any cartiledge left in that ankle...

Ah, I was under the impression that you were solo. Was this in the Sierra Nevada? Didn't you hiking partners notice you weren't 100%

 

[ErebusBass]

I started smoking cigarettes when I was 14 years old. Fortunately I stopped doing that 66 days ago.

 

[yodedude2]

not divorcing sooner. but really, that decision was more about my daughter than me. so i can't say that it was a bad decision. it was just bad for me.

 

[Vince Klortho]

All of my really bad decisions have involved women and they are way too embarrassing to go into detail about.

 

[FrankenIbanez70]

I started smoking cigarettes when I was 14 years old. Fortunately I stopped doing that 66 days ago.

This, not quite that long since quitting, but, I smoked a pack a day of marlboros until I was 18, and 2 packs of unfiltered camels a day for the last 2 years. It finally just reached a point where my lungs were so raw I couldn't go a day without crippling coughing fits.

 

[cfsporn]

Oh boy.
I was accepted to one of the finest colleges in the world. Unfortunately, I was extremely unprepared academically and emotionally. I ended up having a depression and drug induced mental breakdown that I am still recovering from 4 years later.

That one is going to haunt me the rest of my life...

 

[EricF]

Signing up for TB. With the amount of time I've wasted here, I could have changed the world.

 

[slobake]

Ah, I was under the impression that you were solo. Was this in the Sierra Nevada? Didn't you hiking partners notice you weren't 100%

Yes it was in the Sierra's. I know a beautiful place in the Emigrant wilderness. You go in at Pincrest and hike part of the way off the beaten path to a granite valley with a stream running through it. It is too high for mosquitos and there are trout in the stream. The best time is during a full moon. Not one else is around for miles.
Yes my friend saw I was in bad shape. We all thought it was a sprain.

 

[slobake]

Signing up for TB. With the amount of time I've wasted here, I could have changed the world.

FTW

 

[slobake]

All of my really bad decisions have involved women and they are way too embarrassing to go into detail about.

I had a feeling a lot of the comments here were going to be about women. There is a whole industry called country western music based on this.

 

[Ziltoid]

I don't think I have made any monumentally bad decisions, hundred of thousands of bad ones sounds more like it

 

[MatticusMania]

I am the sum of my decisions, both good and bad. Ive none so bad that I havent made up for in other ways.

 

[bluesblaster]

I had a feeling a lot of the comments here were going to be about women. There is a whole industry called country western music based on this.

well that.......and booze and your hound dog running off with the neighbors cat

 

[bluesblaster]

smoking cigarettes for 30 plus years. Smoke free for 7 years now, best thing I ever did for myself

 

[Unrepresented]

I don't think I have made any monumentally bad decisions, hundred of thousands of bad ones sounds more like it

Same here. Many, many bad decisions but none in hindsight that I would list as monumental. Dunno if that's a testament to luck or my Pollyanna take on life.

 

[colcifer]

Signing up for TB. With the amount of time I've wasted here, I could have changed the world.

Haha! Too true...

 

[Ziltoid]

Think about it I got lucky once, a bad decision that could of been a monumental catastrophe but turned out very very well. A year ago I basically moved to a new city for a girl, about two months after the move we were not together anymore. Could of been pretty bad, but being here in a different city at a different university gave me many opportunities. Turns out it was a good decision even if not for the right reason.

 

[NickBEADG]

A lot of my bad decisions were women related, tattoos, quitting school, not keeping my mouth shut, not opening my mouth... I could go on. But in the end it's a good way of learning what NOT to do from here on out.

 

[HaMMerHeD]

I dumped a loyal woman I didn't like very much, but who was in love with me so that I could be with a woman I thought I loved, but who was only interested in me for my money. I eventually married the parasite, and we had a kid. Then she left, we divorced, and I was pretty much her slave for a few years. Then she chose to take her own life, and I became a single dad to a little girl with very serious mommy issues.

Pretty much every choice I have ever made that involved a woman has been monumentally bad.