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What is your 'Sliding Doors' moment?

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bridgerbelle · 18/06/2024 12:52

Defined as a seemingly inconsequential moment or decision that goes on to dramatically affects the trajectory of your life.

So what's something small that, if you went back and changed now, would result in you being a different person/living a different life?

OP posts:

Whatineed · 23/06/2024 18:47

MaGueule · 18/06/2024 13:00

I went to an acquaintance’s wedding reception even though my miserable fiancé refused to go because he wanted to watch stay in and watch Match of the Day. An hour later, I fell completely in love at first sight with the wonderful man I’ve been married to for twenty years.

That's an absolute belter. 😅

tillytoodles1 · 23/06/2024 18:58

APaintedSmile · 19/06/2024 08:33

I have a 'near miss' one. When I was nine, one Sunday afternoon I went out with my mum and sister to walk to the local park. About 30 seconds after we'd passed a particular house, an out-of-control car came swerving down the road, onto the pavement and then crashed through the garden wall and into the house behind us. The driver was seriously injured, but thankfully survived.

I've often thought about what could have been if we'd left the house 30 seconds later - one or all of us would have been seriously injured, perhaps life-changingly injured, or possibly even killed. The exact time of leaving the house was entirely random; we were just walking to the park so it wasn't a case of 'we must leave by 2pm'.

If one of us had dithered slightly, or in the time leading up to us going, taken 30 seconds longer to do something, it would almost certainly have had a life-changing impact. I still think about this often; if I am leaving the house to drive somewhere, for example, I wonder if the exact moment of leaving will mean we later have or miss a serious accident.

I had exactly the opposite happen to me. As I was walking on the pavement I stopped to fix my shoe, then a few seconds later, just as I reached the edge of the road I was about to cross, a car appeared out of nowhere, travelling at a really high speed. I've often thought if I hadn't stopped for those few seconds I'd have been crossing the road and been killed.

DaringlyDizzy · 03/07/2024 12:55

Loved reading these. Funny how life works!!

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