Quitting NASA. Yes, the research centers spend a huge amount of time running in bureaucratic circles, but it beats having to “explain” computers to the teeming millions for a living.
I have other fine mistakes, tho.
When I get too upset about them I think about the lines out of “The Rutles”, where the interviewer Eric Idle – commenting to the guy who decided to give the Beatles up a few months before their first hit – paraphrasing – “You must feel really awful! What a fool!”
My single biggest mistake was accepting a glass of water from some strange kids when I was but four years old. Because, as it turns out, it wasn’t water; it was hydrochloric acid. I’m still paying for that one.
Letting my emotions hogtie all of my logic and rational thought and send them off to Vegas for a month, after my GF broke up with me and I moved down to tallahassee to go to grad school, ( and try and get back together with her)
End result: I was arrested and charged with stalking her. (1 misdemeanor count)
No, but it did affect my esophagus, in that it dissolved a good portion of it. It had to be completely replaced, and I had to go through speech therapy to re-learn how to talk afterwards. So, I do sound a bit more like Elmer Fudd than I might like.
Being so hung up on my ex-boyfriend when I started college last year (we were still together until mid-January). He wanted all my time, so I never left the room, didn’t join anything, didn’t have any friends…and then he broke up with me, and I was left moorless.
In retrospect, I know I should’ve broken up with him in the beginning of the year, or never have gone out with him in the first place, as I ended up mostly losing a very good friend (him)(and coming damned close to losing a couple of others as a result of my idiotic devotion). But I didn’t. Stupid me.
Thank God for APO.
Second place: Lying to one of the aforementioned good friends about having broken up with my ex when we were in fact still together. You would NOT believe the shitstorm that followed.
I broke up with my girl for absolutely the wrong reasons (which now I can’t even imagine came up). I’m still pretty ashamed about how it all happened, but mainly how I handled it.
The relationship wasn’t going to last very long - not that we were fighting all the time or anything like that, but we were aware that we would eventually go separate ways - but this was definetly not how I would have liked it to end.
I really miss having her, if not in a relationship, then at least as a close friend.
This has been without a doubt the biggest I have yet made…
Posted by WSler
>Letting my emotions hogtie all of my logic and rational thought and send them off to Vegas for a month, after my GF broke up with me and I moved down to tallahassee to go to grad school, ( and try and get back together with her)
End result: I was arrested and charged with stalking her. (1 misdemeanor count)
Ditto, except neither you nor I had a say in the matter.
Worst decision that I actually made, as opposed to my parents, was dropping Aikido in 9th grade to join the ski team. I went from a supportive confidence building environment to a competitive one. Now I can’t get myself to apply for jobs for the same reason I don’t buy lottery tickets: I’m not gonna win, so why bother.
Heavy: Telling a friend of mine some very unpleasant truths in a very unpleasant manner. It’s been 10+ years, and I still regret how I went about it.
Light: Being introduced to some potential investors from Arkansas by the Vice President of the company I worked for - my mouth immediately repeated the joke I’d heard an hour prior, “Arkansas. The place where you can get divorced and still be brother & sister.” The Arkansas investors (fortunately) had a sense of humor - but the VP definitely wasn’t laughing.
Well I guess that my mistake may make you feel better. I messed up probably my only chance of true happiness. After 22 years of marriage it looks as though we may separate and this is something that I surely could have avoided if I had been less selfish and aware of how I was behaving. I was in some other place of self pity.This has been the worst year of my life and I don’t see it getting any better in the near future but I did experience a great thing in the whole mess.
I experienced a true, all encompassing feeling of Love that I had never felt before and it has affected me so very much for the best.
Biggest mistake I probably made was competing with my best friend of 8 years over a girl we both liked at the time…end result was us not friends anymore and he was stuck in a relationship with an abusive and psychotic bitch who took advantage of his low self-esteem.
At least it had a good ending; a few years after High School we ran into each other. Turned out he finally broke up with her, and we became friends again.
Ummm…biggest mistake? Racking up 7000 in CC debt by the time I was 19. (But I’m paying off half of that by Spring, so that’s good…)
And beckwell–Try living there for 16 years. Now my sister has moved back there for school, and my mom moved back there because my parents are divorcing and there’s no reason to stay in CA, and they want me to give up my cushy spot in So Cal so I can move back to that hellhole. No thanks.
Huge pain in the ass errors:
-Being singlemindedly pre-med in college. I never for one moment imagined I wouldn’t want to go into medicine after all. Turns out I don’t, and now I’m halfway up shit creek, without a paddle, because that’s where all my training and experience are.
That would be hard to pinpoint, or say it was a mistake. I would say that it was quitting my last job. I had it so easy there, made a bit more than I do now. (last job 14.50 an hour, this job 14.09, crappier benifits and vacation though). If I hadn’t quit my job there I would not have worked where I do now, and would not have been motivated into working out and getting in shape. I had no reason to consider it at my old job.
All benifits from my mistakes aside, I would say my biggest mistake is not going to college after high school. Being 25, with a crappy factory job, and planning on going to school does very little to attract the ladies. Putting off my writing for so many years is another mistake I regret.
