For me, it was learning English. Although I do make a few mistakes here and there, I’m mostly perfect on it.
The amount of resources you have access to dramatically increases when you know a universal language. I say dramatically because it made me realize how much my native language lacks when it comes to certain topics. The most obvious one to me was tech and computers. Everybody knows how to use Windows but there are very few resources about stuff beyond Windows. It’s actually sad. [insert sad face here]
Quit smoking.
Apart from that, it’s been a clusterfuck.
Quitting smoking
- In real life: 🙂😎
- In a Source game: 😲😠
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Moving to Ireland. Better than the UK in almost every way.
Asking out my partner. They’re my favorite person. I pity the alternate timeline version of me who didn’t have the guts to make a move. They’re really missing out.
Super cute and wholesome. Glad for you both of you, and cracking up at your username.
Thanks fam! <3
Deciding to transition ten years ago
What element were you before you transitioned to fire?
EDIT: I should probably point this out, this is a joke; please don’t speculate or ask about a trans person’s pretransition identity.
I think people on lemmy should start using the “/s” more, even if it’s a reddit legacy
A lot of the federation has been people groomed by reddit dropping all the social progress that site has made over the years.
Going to college.
Honestly there’s a lot of things I know all contributed to where I am. But I’m fairly certain I would have a far worse life if I hadn’t gone to college.
Buying dirt, it’s a struggle everyday but as much as I say I’m giving up and selling… I’m never going to
Quiting an exhausting job. That was a big relieve for me and for my partner even more so
It wasn’t my decision, but getting fired from an exhausting job was amazing for me. I wasn’t going to pull the trigger myself, but walking out of my boss’s office I couldn’t keep a huge grin off my face. I was in no rush to find a new job so the months of uneployment that followed were some of the happiest of my life. And I have a better job now that pays less but is so much less stressful.
Quit work at 35, am now 58.
Regrets ? Not brave enough to quit earlier.
How do you support yourself and how did you make that happen?
If you are actually interested there was movement, not sure if still going, a few years ago called financial independence. It was r/financialindependence. One of their influencers was Mr Money Moustache. You can look that up if you want
Yeah :) I actually am going to reach FI myself next year at 33 y/o. Was hoping to hear this person’s story since its a concept I’m very interested in.
Seconded I’m ready to take notes at 33
Going to therapy.
I found out the reason I could’t sleep anymore was deeper than just being stressed out during a particular time frame of my life, but it was the last ring of a chain of bad (but apparently “normal”) decisions that started a long time ago.It’s kind of weird that English became a universal language. There must have been better choices.
Apparently not, or those would’ve become the universal.
History is what caused it. Though it’s pretty fascinating that in Shakespeare’s time, English (in England) was considered the commoner’s tongue, while the upper classes spoke French.
This is part of Shakespeare’s legacy (he wrote and performed in English) , and also shows why the early documents in America are worded the way they are. No American says “four score and 20 years”, that’s from French.
No American says “four score and 20 years”,
My whole life has been a lie.
I mean the options at the time were English, French and maybe Spanish with Dutch being a distant 4th so… Not really? Nowadays your options are English or Mandarin.
French and Spanish would have been better.
I don’t speak Spanish but I do speak French and I disagree.
At the risk of repeating what others have posted, getting together with my wife. She’s smart, financially responsible, and we influence each other in positive ways. We’ve been so much more capable as a team than either of us was separately.
Moving. I was in my mid 20s and I lived in a city with all my friends.
Really struggled with mental health. Felt like all my friends hated me. Turns out they were just mediocre friends.
Packed up and moved, solo.doing way better than I ever woulda done in that situation, I think.
I’d say so far, my best decision has been saying “ok” when an old coworker offered me an interview at a new job.
OP, do you mind if I ask what your native language is?
I apologize for the late reply. I was really busy these few days.
OP, do you mind if I ask what your native language is?
Well I do not mind. It’s Turkish.
Was taking 2 gap years in education. Where I worked a year, and took firefighters education for 9 month, where I met my now wife, after that traveled for 2 month, before I continued my education with computer science.
