What was the biggest mistake of your life?

As title suggests, what was the biggest mistake of your life?
What did you learn from that mistake?

Is It Normal?
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  • Yeah, probably normal.

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    • I disagree. Completely abnormal.

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      • We must be reading different posts. This seems pretty common. I was on the fence until the last bit there, then I was all like yeah...yeah, normals.

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        • I know that my life experiences may differ from other people's, but OP's situation just sounds completely alien to me.

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  • Coming here.

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    • What about me? Think about it, you couldnt make fun of that deck pissing story.

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      • Very true. That heartwarming story got me through a real tough time. Not to mention the sweet view I got of the incidents from a secret perch nearby. Niccce. Thank you dj.

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        • You're welcome!

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  • The biggest mistake of my life was dropping out of college to move to another state and get married.
    :-(

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    • you should watch a British movie called "an education" starring Carey Mulligan

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      • Interesting, I think I'd like to check it out.
        :-)

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        • I think alot of women go through a similar thing, which the movie explores, the lure of first love vs. their education. It's a good film I think and an important one.

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  • inb4 being born

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  • Falling in love with a person who had a girlfriend and never planned on really breaking up with her as he said.

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  • Being a cosigner to a house. Growing up I was just so tired of my family moving all the time and having to live in pest and mold infested houses with no heat or cold water that I hastily cosigned for a house with my mother. At first it was nice because there was no problems, but then I later on realized that not only did we we overpay for the house, but it's impossible to sell it because it's smack dab in the middle of the ghettoist part of a town that was already ghetto as fuck to begin with. I'm paying my part of the mortgage for something I no longer want to be part of, but can't leave, so I just have to deal with it.

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  • Haven't made it yet.

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  • I should Have stayed in my own country. Now I'm becoming a misfit with a son to educate, alone.

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    • Be optimistic always. There are not many racist people now-a-days. There are many comnunities in the world who are living by leaving by their native countries happy and glad. As far as for your son, i wish him best of luck for his bright future who shall raise the flag of his native country proudly in the current living place.

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      • Were I live they are a bit racist torts Black and Asian people, never to me.
        There is some culture racism against other European cultures but its because of their weakness and fears:)
        My country is nearly 1.000 years history and with the same boarders ever since:)
        Our history books take almost the same space then an encyclopedia:)

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  • That I was born.

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  • My second worst mistake was smoking for 15 years. I quit successfully, but it was a terrible experience.

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  • Publicly masturbating. I was witnessed by 20ish people and rather quickly learned my lesson (though I had been doing it for roughly 9 months going at the time).

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  • Not looking hard enough. I still beat myself up over that. I've learned that she still cares about me regardless.

    This not being allowed to see if I could've been a bone marrow match for a friend dying of bone cancer. He ended up dying and I blame myself. It was out of my control do, it doesn't count.

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  • Though all the choices I've made have led me to a pretty great place in life, which I would not change for anything, there is one thing that I truly wonder about.
    At one point, just before the birth of my second child, when I met someone I was much more suited to, than the gal I was with (before she became my second wife). Even my wife to be thought I should be with this other woman.
    My second wife hated sailing (boats in general) and was seasick a lot. This other gal loved sailing and we had a great deal more in common than my second wife and I ever had. But I elected to stick by the one who was having my child and all in all it was a pretty damn good relationship, until she had had enough of boats and wanted us to move ashore.
    As I said, if given the option to do it over and change things, I would not do it, but it would be interesting to see the other time line.

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