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What's the best thing you've ever done for yourself?

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Apirateslifeforme · 28/04/2020 13:54

If you look back at your life, what's the best thing you've done? I want to know what is the best thing that people have done for themselves in their life.

I'd really like to read things that people have done that have changed their life for the better =)

OP posts:
Hingeandbracket · 28/04/2020 13:55

Had DD

PiggyPokkyFool · 28/04/2020 13:58

Pulled my finger out and got on a great Uni course - it led to everything that is good in my life.

BuffaloCauliflower · 28/04/2020 13:58

Took myself into a college on induction day without having applied and said ‘can I do some A levels please’. I was 21, had 1 GCSE and a BTEC First (GCSE level) and that was it. I hadn’t finished school due to mental health problems and was 6 months out of a very unhealthy relationship and a cocaine problem. They said yes. Put me on a completely different track for life.

boredboredboredboredbored · 28/04/2020 14:01

Nurse training at 18. I'm 43 now, have had a career for life, never short of work or worried about job cuts. Because I've worked my way up I earn a decent enough salary. It meant I could divorce exh without worrying about finances. Even now with Covid and the worries of job losses and paying bills I've been ok. I thank my 18 year old self for getting a job which has always given me security.

AmbitiousHalibut · 28/04/2020 14:02

I lost a load of weight after having my second DS. Finally felt like myself again, and it was great to be able to run around with my kids, wear the clothes I wanted to wear, and to see people's reactions. A little bit has crept back on and I need to remind myself how good I felt before.

Aposterhasnoname · 28/04/2020 14:02

Left the ex.

caringiscreepy · 28/04/2020 14:03

Started writing

ConstantlyNameChanging97362 · 28/04/2020 14:12

Left a 7 year DV relationship with my 8 month old and 2.5 year old. I left the town id grown up in and we went in a hostel and got put into temporary housing, we only got our permenant house 8 weeks ago. I walked away from my entire life to be free of my ex, i was too paranoid to tell friends where we were incase he found out

That was in 2017 and every day I still wake up grateful that we left and courts gave a no contact order

StepAwayFromTheEcclesCakes · 28/04/2020 14:22

Learnt to drive 👍🏻

littlepeas · 28/04/2020 14:23

Starting yoga.

HoneysuckIejasmine · 28/04/2020 14:23

Lost a large amount of weight.

Microwaveableteapot · 28/04/2020 14:31

Re-started an old hobby when I was 28. The hobby itself brings me great joy, and as it's a group thing seven years on I have the strongest, tightest friendship group I have ever had, something I never managed to create at school/uni. It honestly changed my life. Can't say what the hobby is though, it'd be outing Wink

roseinthedark · 28/04/2020 14:42

Was earning a pittance in my first real job but took the plunge and bought myself laser eye surgery!

DatingDickheads · 28/04/2020 14:43

Left my ex.

Sharpandshineyteeth · 28/04/2020 14:44

Went to uni

TheVanguardSix · 28/04/2020 14:51

Sounds basic but calling 999 instead of 111 saved my life. I usually think I’m making a fuss and ‘I’m in the way’, but I didn’t waste time worrying about wasting others’ time or NHS resources, feeling selfish/entitled, etc. And I live to fight another day because of it.
Survival is what we live for. And it’s amazing how sometimes we forget that and feel too polite to fight for it.

Glendaruel · 28/04/2020 14:54

Left my ex 16years ago. He said
I wouldn't get my degree, I know have one, a PGCE and a masters.
Hold down a full time job, I know have a great career
I wouldn't be able to write a book with my dyslexia, I'm now a published author.
I wouldn't be able to teach English as a foreign language but I spent half a year in Asia doing it fine.

When I left I made a concerted effort to grasp life, I backpacker through Europe, travelled to remote places and finally found someone that I love and trust who is supportive. Sometimes the worst thing turns out to be the best thing.

SimonJT · 28/04/2020 14:59

Left home at 17, it was under bad circumstances but I wouldn’t have been where I am now if that hadn’t happened.

maddy68 · 28/04/2020 15:01

Went abroad to work , life changing experience

ViciousJackdaw · 28/04/2020 15:17

Quit smoking. Best favour I ever did myself.

Undomesticgodde55 · 28/04/2020 15:18

Blocked my ex from all forms contact

StickerMania115 · 28/04/2020 15:22

Paid for & passed some qualifications that lead to better employment

Partake in hobbies which I enjoy

Be comfortable to live the life that I want, my choices ( not a life that some people may expect ) Be happy with myself

If an opportunity comes along take it !

MsReturntoLife · 28/04/2020 15:27

Best thing I ever did was to get rid of ExH. He kept re-appearing. I don't seem able to get rid of him completely. DC don't get that I divorced him and still think it was my best move.

I have removed myself now and even in just a few weeks in the lockdown I am so much the better for that action.

venusandmars · 28/04/2020 15:28

Continually adapting and going with the flow... kept on learning and studying. I'm now on my 4th career (have segued from one to the next). Did peak intensity jobs in my mid-30s - late forties, and now in an amazing lifestyle role in my late 50s, and a role that can continue as much or as little as I choose for the next 20 years...

BobbinThreadbare123 · 28/04/2020 15:36

Stopped teaching and went back to industry. Teaching was making me mentally and physically ill. It was full of horrible people as well.