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Your Daily Question, Friday April 17th. Best decision you ever made?

Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,012
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What's the best decision you ever made, & why?


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  • goldongoldon Member Posts: 9,206


    Vasectomy (male sterilisation) - NHS



    Well what did you expect from me. cough!
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  • madprofmadprof Member Posts: 3,461
    Putting aside family 'best days/decisions'.....

    Deciding to semi- retire the first day I could on my 55th birthday...my income reduced to 14.5% annually but the stress of living away and the work I had been doing over the last 10 years....I wouldn't have survived!
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  • rabdenirorabdeniro Member Posts: 4,479
    Years ago I stayed in an bedsit in London, we stayed in the attic the 5th floor, I woke up early in the morning ready for a pee, still hawf **** from the night before, it was freezin an the bathroom was on the floor below, I was lying thinkin should I go now or try and get back to sleep.
    I decided to get up and go, on the way I had a wee look oot the windae, I could see 2 fire engines down below, lights flashin, so I leaned further out the window and I could see flames down below, the bedsit was on fire ( I never smelt smoke or heard a smoke alarm ).
    I woke up my wife and we bolted oot the room, when we got to the floor below you couldn't touch the walls, the floor was roasting, we managed to get oot, when the firemen saw us comin oot he told us the owner had said no one was in the building and that all the workers had gone home for the weekend.

    So lookin back, gettin up for that pee probably saved oor lives, so I would say that was one of the best decisions I made.
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,012
    rabdeniro said:

    Years ago I stayed in an bedsit in London, we stayed in the attic the 5th floor, I woke up early in the morning ready for a pee, still hawf **** from the night before, it was freezin an the bathroom was on the floor below, I was lying thinkin should I go now or try and get back to sleep.
    I decided to get up and go, on the way I had a wee look oot the windae, I could see 2 fire engines down below, lights flashin, so I leaned further out the window and I could see flames down below, the bedsit was on fire ( I never smelt smoke or heard a smoke alarm ).
    I woke up my wife and we bolted oot the room, when we got to the floor below you couldn't touch the walls, the floor was roasting, we managed to get oot, when the firemen saw us comin oot he told us the owner had said no one was in the building and that all the workers had gone home for the weekend.

    So lookin back, gettin up for that pee probably saved oor lives, so I would say that was one of the best decisions I made.


    Crikey @rabdeniro what a story that is.

    Just as well you needed that leak.
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  • MISTY4MEMISTY4ME Member Posts: 6,353
    edited April 2020
    madprof said:

    Putting aside family 'best days/decisions'.....

    Deciding to semi- retire the first day I could on my 55th birthday...my income reduced to 14.5% annually but the stress of living away and the work I had been doing over the last 10 years....I wouldn't have survived!

    I didn't realise you'd been semi-retired for 25 years Granny @madprof :D:D
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,012
    waller02 said:

    The best decision I have ever made is a bit of dark one, but if I hadn't made it then I'm not sure if I would be here today.

    12 years ago I was in a really bad place. Rock bottom and couldn't see a way out. From the outside my life looked great, my 2 kids were cracking little girls but I missed out on so much of their toddler years because there were times when I didn't even get out of bed, never mind leave the house. It's quite sad looking back at old videos my missus had filmed when they were young, with me missing and I'll never get those times back.

    The worst thing was that I had no idea why I felt the way I was feeling.

    Anyway, blah blah blah, long story short. I decided to speak out and get help and it is by far the best thing I have ever done. It turned my life around big time. I still struggle a bit with anxiety (the SPT no show a prime example) but I genuinely believe there is never a complete cure, you just learn to deal with it better. But yeah, if I hadn't decided to take the hardest step of going to the doctors, breaking down and asking for help then Lord knows how my story would have ended.

    Sorry, like I said, it's a bit dark but it's all good now. The moral of the story is that if there is anybody else in a similar situation then make the same decision that I made and it will genuinely change your life.




    Oh my, that's a terrific piece of honesty Ryan, Well done on turning things round. There's sadness obviously, but you ought to be really proud that you got yourself sorted.
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  • TheEdge949TheEdge949 Member Posts: 5,739
    Going to a comedy night on 04/10/2013.

    You know the rest.
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  • mnolan8317mnolan8317 Member Posts: 50
    Giving up professional poker in 2014. Despite making very good money and playing in some great tourneys (WSOP main twice) I wasn't truly happy and life felt like it had no real purpose.

    Since then I have got a career that I love, moved to London and play poker when I am hungry to plan or when there is a global pandemic.
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