What small thing, detail or decision almost ruined you're life?

[Kae]

Ok guys lately I've been kinda exhausted since I've had to study really hard and I was thinking how did I get here (20 and still in high school), and I remembered I'm here in this shitty situation everyday farther away from my dream of becoming a Physicist because of some stupid test results, well I guess I should elaborate on this braze yourselves I think this will be a long one.
So when I was still in high school (by this I mean when I was at a school since I am currently studying by only books and about to finish BTW) I was the loner nerdy kid who had no friends you know the guy people called freak but no one mocked because they though was crazy and would eat them alive if they touched him, and needless to say I was kind of sad but I always took comfort in the fact that I was smarter than most people since I always had very high grades, until the day we had an IQ test and for some strange reason they revealed the results to us and... well turns out my IQ was below average (76 I think) and I was the only one in class with that score, now for the reason that I mentioned above that the only thing I felt made me special was the fact that I was smarter this result affected me a lot and at the time I took it really bad, and by bad I mean I just stopped caring about school and ended up dropping out, and this is by far the worst mistake I've done in my short life, it really made me lose a lot of precious time, and by a lot of time I mean 5 years of my life I'll never get back.
Why do I post this, well because I needed a place to vent the frustration of realizing how bad I fucked myself with that.

Now have you thought about what seemingly very small and unimportant thing, detail or decision almost fucked you over, or maybe it did fuck you over I don't know.

 

[Azaez]

My first two years of High School were a mess, I got wrapped up in drugs, partying and sleeping with random people, and the harder I feel into it the more my High School education went down the drain. Then one day I decided to salvage what was left and became an Honor Role Student and droped that crap, and enlisted in US Navy for a solid job. So even though stuff seems hard, I swear never to late to fix it.

 

[Kae]

Using what was in my hand to defend myself. Nothing bad just a few 2X4s i was moving to work on props for a school play. I bloodied the bastards lip, knocked him on his ass, and his ***** of a mom ignored my black eye and fat lip(his mom was vice principle) because precious little Donny dick weasel; the fucking ass hat could do no wrong. Yeah i hit the fucker with a board but only once. He hit me twice in the face and slapped me with an arithmetic text book. Who's the greater evil there? I was spared when my dad convinced the ***** not to call the cops. Go figure the one fucking time coach took his eye off of the students work shit goes down that nearly lands me in waist high shit. So because of that it was my word against the two of theirs(because history of the bastard doing this shit means fuck all if you weight twice as much as him and look 4 times as mean). So yeah last eyar of high school i could have been arrested and it would have been averted had i put down the fucking 2X4. But then the leather work gloves would probably have cut the little weaklings lip.

I know what you mean I did something like that too, about 7 or 8 times, I changed schools almost every year and every year I had prove that I was not a pussy and fight people for hours (that's how it works in Mèxico, you have to earn respect by proving you are a man the old fashioned way), I never won a fight but my endurance was incredible specially considering how short and skinny I was, one time I fought for 5 consecutive hours, I was completely bruised and bleeding but I just couldn't give up, I grew up with the idea that I must never show any weakness, which of course includes to never run away no matter how bad is the situation, that's why I fought so much. Oddly enough I was never considered a troublemaker by anybody even though I ended up in a lot more fights that I can remember.

 

[StormShaun]

Dating my first girlfriend, if I didnt break up with them im sure my life would be worse if I didnt break up with her.

Pretty small compared to some of you guys.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Trying my hand at 3D software when my uncle lent it to me almost ten years ago. And now look at what I made in my spare time

My first two years of High School were a mess, I got wrapped up in drugs, partying and sleeping with random people, and the harder I feel into it the more my High School education went down the drain. Then one day I decided to salvage what was left and became an Honor Role Student and droped that crap, and enlisted in US Navy for a solid job. So even though stuff seems hard, I swear never to late to fix it.

Good on ye man, that is a Solid story.

 

[enzilewulf]

Once I was playing wall ball with my lacrosse stick and I missed and it went out in the street. My friend was watching me and he asked me some stupid question and I laughed my ass off instead of going to get the ball. I am glad.. because about 10 secs after a crazy lady came and hit and run every car on that street and almost hit my neighbor. My ball was in the middle of street a little ways down where she was coming from.

 

[Kae]

Trying my hand at 3D software when my uncle lent it to me almost ten years ago. And now look at what I made in my spare time

My first two years of High School were a mess, I got wrapped up in drugs, partying and sleeping with random people, and the harder I feel into it the more my High School education went down the drain. Then one day I decided to salvage what was left and became an Honor Role Student and droped that crap, and enlisted in US Navy for a solid job. So even though stuff seems hard, I swear never to late to fix it.

Good on ye man, that is a Solid story.

That's a nice train, did you make it just for fun or are you making a movie?

 

[strider2u]

My parents got divorced before I was born (an anti-wedding day thing - as they wanted me to be born a bastard child) but have always lived in the same small town. Well one day during school we get an unannounced short-day because of a bomb threat and we all have to leave. The girl I had been courting for years didn't have a car so I convinced her to come back to my house (mom's) where we promptly started going at it; whereupon my father decided to come by (because he could evidently hear me losing my virginity from five miles away and decided to cock block me harder than a urologist with trimming shears).

My bedroom is right next to the entrance-way and so when he knocked on the door it sounds like a bulldozer was coming through the wall; which I ignored until five minutes had passed, upon which I figured someone had died and thus I couldn't ignore the incessant knocking and ringing anymore. I open the door to find he wants to look at my car stereo. A cassette (yes one of those old-timey things) was stuck and had decided THIS moment was the only moment in his precious life he could spare to look at the damn thing. He sees me barely clothed, she walks out to see what's going on and puts six and nine together whereupon....

The girl freaks out and bolted, I caught up with her a half-mile down the road where she got in and and the only thing she said was to drop her off at work. The ride was silent and awkward and she would hardly look at me after the sheer dump of embarrassment from my dad's encounter. She cuts off all communication and I wouldn't have sex until my third year of college because of the cockblock curse that had been lain on me. It was my first encounter with that curse, but it never left me; every time (and I mean EVERY) I thought I had a chance with a girl a parent/sibling/friend would rush in just in time to save my virginity.

So yea, self-esteem went to shit, because I was sure she was THE ONE which led to depression/confidence issues, whereupon I abandoned all my old friends and fell into the drinking/druggy/partying crowd, leading to getting kicked out of the house...all because I answered the door.

Wow, that was surprisingly cathartic and emotionally draining. Also I chose the smallest, least-significant thing I could think of.

 

[Tonythion]

Nothing as bad as you guys

But I made my best friend slightly homicidal/suicidal.

And all I meant to do was piss him off a little, hurt him for hurting me.
My friends wanted to meet him so I went to his house to talk.
He asked why they wanted to meet him now. I told him because they didn't believe he was actually my friend. That brought up some shit from middle school (I had a thing for a teacher and came onto said teacher while I was dating my best friend)

He accused me of cheating, I told him about all those times I caught him cheating. He said it wasn't the same and we kept on fighting and he said some hurtful shit so I went onto say that "his father never loved him, that's part of why he left, the other part is because he was a good for nothing Irish drunkard." (his father disappeared after he bought the house, his stuff still in the house and the company he worked for asked where he was. The police gave up looking after a year)

He was so hurt, I've never seen him cry in the 6 years I've known him I never seen him angry before. I got what I deserved and he beat the shit out of me and pulled his knife out, he only stopped because his mom bashed him over the head.

Later his mom told me she had to keep watch over him for a while because he was suicidal.

 

[Anarchemitis]

That's a nice train, did you make it just for fun or are you making a movie?

Demoreel.
It actually is a real train, Google the name.

 

[Kae]

Nothing as bad as you guys

But I made my best friend slightly homicidal/suicidal.

And all I meant to do was piss him off a little, hurt him for hurting me.
My friends wanted to meet him so I went to his house to talk.
He asked why they wanted to meet him now. I told him because they didn't believe he was actually my friend. That brought up some shit from middle school (I had a thing for a teacher and came onto said teacher while I was dating my best friend)

He accused me of cheating, I told him about all those times I caught him cheating. He said it wasn't the same and we kept on fighting and he said some hurtful shit so I went onto say that "his father never loved him, that's part of why he left, the other part is because he was a good for nothing Irish drunkard." (his father disappeared after he bought the house, his stuff still in the house and the company he worked for asked where he was. The police gave up looking after a year)

He was so hurt, I've never seen him cry in the 6 years I've known him I never seen him angry before. I got what I deserved and he beat the shit out of me and pulled his knife out, he only stopped because his mom bashed him over the head.

Later his mom told me she had to keep watch over him for a while because he was suicidal.

Wait what?! You almost got yourself and him killed and it's nothing as bad as the other guys? I mean this has to be one of the worst ones.

 

[StBishop]

Nothing as bad as you guys

But I made my best friend slightly homicidal/suicidal.

And all I meant to do was piss him off a little, hurt him for hurting me.
My friends wanted to meet him so I went to his house to talk.
He asked why they wanted to meet him now. I told him because they didn't believe he was actually my friend. That brought up some shit from middle school (I had a thing for a teacher and came onto said teacher while I was dating my best friend)

He accused me of cheating, I told him about all those times I caught him cheating. He said it wasn't the same and we kept on fighting and he said some hurtful shit so I went onto say that "his father never loved him, that's part of why he left, the other part is because he was a good for nothing Irish drunkard." (his father disappeared after he bought the house, his stuff still in the house and the company he worked for asked where he was. The police gave up looking after a year)

He was so hurt, I've never seen him cry in the 6 years I've known him I never seen him angry before. I got what I deserved and he beat the shit out of me and pulled his knife out, he only stopped because his mom bashed him over the head.

Later his mom told me she had to keep watch over him for a while because he was suicidal.

Wait what?! You almost got yourself and him killed and it's nothing as bad as the other guys? I mean this has to be one of the worst ones.

Agreed. That's possibly the worst story I've heard in a long fucking time.

My one was similar to your OP.

I moved away to be with a girl, who ended up being a ***** anyway, my marks were shitty and I wasted a year of my life with which I could have been studying, I then spent the next year paying off debts I'd accrued, I'm now in my second year of uni while some of my friends are completing a masters or working as fully qualified engineers, nurses etc.

It's all for the best, I met the most wonderful woman in the world so in the end it was worth it. I don't regret it but I am pissed about the lack of study done.

 

[Tonythion]

Wait what?! You almost got yourself and him killed and it's nothing as bad as the other guys? I mean this has to be one of the worst ones.

well because he was only suicidal for a day, his mom cooled him off. Plus I think I was exaggerating. I think he only wanted to hurt me for like a second. After his mom bashed him over the head he dropped the knife and ran away.

 

[kidd25]

Wait what?! You almost got yourself and him killed and it's nothing as bad as the other guys? I mean this has to be one of the worst ones.

well because he was only suicidal for a day, his mom cooled him off. Plus I think I was exaggerating. I think he only wanted to hurt me for like a second. After his mom bashed him over the head he dropped the knife and ran away.

genocide before suicide, its what i always, mainly because I just refuse to kill in cold blood for selfish purpose. so if i can't do genocide then i ain't doing suicide.

 

[SckizoBoy]

I got fixated on the idea that having a child might make us happy...

 

[Akytalusia]

ah man, 'almost ruined'? you get to be my age, and you realize just how many little things you did wrong that did completely ruin your life. retrospect. what a pain.

 

[DanielBrown]

"Screw this girl, I can't be arsed to be second guy anymore."
Don't really want to spill my guts about what went wrong after that decision, but everything bad about my life now(quite a long list) can be traced back to that moment.

 

[AngloDoom]

I decided to end a 'fuck-buddy' style relationship, then months later decided to try a genuine one with someone whom I had a real connection with. The result was the 'fuck-buddy' of mine turning around and accusing me of raping her. The only reason it didn't escalate and end up with me in court was because I was unaware of the accusations for a while and so it was her being the center of everyone's attention and she finally made too many mistakes and contradictions in her story.

On a more recent note, last night when climbing roofs with some buddys of mine I lowered myself down, ready to plant my feet safely against the wall so I could reach to the next gap. Turns out I was hanging down a protruding ledge with no-where for my legs to go, almost lost my balance and fell about three stories onto concrete. Thankfully, my friend was there and spotted a place for me to put my feet. Love the bastard.