What is the one single mistake or decision you have made that you wish you could undo? - The Daily Steem Poll [A Question for the Community]
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The Daily Steem Poll Question for the day is:
What is the one single mistake or decision you have made that you wish you could undo?
Several years ago, I was involved in a serious industrial accident: my head was set on fire when I inadvertently found myself inside a cloud of flaming vapors. Te minutes later, paramedics sedated me and I was unconscious for the next 9 hours. I don't particularly regret the accident itself, but in the 10 minutes between the fireball and my sedation, I had an opportunity to make a phone call and let my family know that I was alive. Because I did not make that phone call, they spent the next 9 hours knowing that I'd been in some sort of explosion, but had essentially no other information. If I could go back, I'd make that phone call in a heartbeat.
Never pass up a chance to tell people that you love them.
Not buying gold and silver sooner.
Wish I could have been smart enough to buy gold below $1,000.
Steem on,
Mike
I feel the same way about Bitcoin.
You are right, I too waited too long before getting into Bitcoin.
Steem on,
Mike
This is the opposite of what many people say but... going to college. It wasn't the right choice for me but I didn't think there were any alternatives. I learned a lot but I still feel as if it were a very expensive lesson.
Tim, thanks for using my poll question. Great responses from everyone here. For me, there are so many regrets, so many times when I ignored my gut instincts and basically sabotaged myself. Mistakes made when younger were easier to overcome or repair but a mistake I made less than ten years ago has permanently impacted my life. I married a man with a serious personality disorder. He was emotionally and psychologically abusive and by the time I was wrenched out of that relationship by a concerned family member it was too late. I had lost my savings, home and inheritance due to his gambling, contracted a STD due to his affairs which I only found out about after I left him, sacrificed a career because he was paranoid about me working with men so I quit (I was still in love with him at that point and thought the break would be temporary), isolated me from my family, and threatened to hurt me with a smear campaign should I ever leave him. He had filmed me while I was in a deep sleep...won't describe the graphic details but it was "his insurance" to use later. There were times when he would get so angry that he snapped and I felt that my life was in jeopardy. There were times when he was the perfect husband, told me I had misunderstood his comments or behaviour, and that I needed to apologize to him. I thought I was losing my mind. After I left him, he tried to ruin my life, threatened to post the video--revenge porn. Police and lawyers were involved but the video is out there, online somewhere. It took nearly three years to get back on my feet but my financial security is gone. I'm a renter where once--before that asshole--I owned a home outright. I once had RRSPs, considerable savings, had planned to retire at 62, and could afford to travel every second summer to Italy. I had friends, a social life, a light heart. He destroyed everything I had built in my life in less than four years. I'm relieved that he's out of my life now but I'm facing a far different future because of this one stupid mistake: I ignored all of the red flags and married a man I knew was very wrong for me. I thought my love could heal him. I learned the hard way that it couldn't.
Wow, what a horrendous story. Sorry you had to go through that. Thanks for sharing though :)
Great question. I seriously don't know if I have any regrets. All the mistakes I have made has made me the person I am. Just like a sprouting tree needs to push through layers of dirt to grow strong -- we need to make mistakes so we can learn from them. If I have any regrets it would be: not noticing the mountain of dirt on top of me sooner.
that I didn't pursue writing many years ago. I allowed others to put me off of doing so.
I spent a good portion of my twenties in a relationship that I wish I had had the courage, strength, knowledge, or whatever it was that I needed to get out of and stay out of for good. Eventually, yes, I did find the will to do this, or maybe it was my partner who found the will to do this, but either way, it was way too late for both of us, after we both wasted five or six years of our life and went so far as to get married. I really wish that I could have stepped out into the world earlier, tested the water in many areas, and both selfishly and selflessly pursued my own interests to their limits.
Not to realize sooner the importance how the people you let enter in your life affect your happiness and/or personal success. Simple yet fundamental.
Yes, so true!
To stick with the last woman I was with for so long; she was a pyschic vampire, and I knew it, but I thought my love for her would make her better.
Classic mistake that people make all the time, and I knew it was a bad thing to stay with her WHILE I was staying with her, which makes it worse.
She might've been a parasitic host like the ones whistleblower Donald Marshall is exposing.
;> nah she was just a plain old narcissist sociopath
otoh, she was a LOT of fun when she wasn't being a pyscho
Daily poll suggestion: What are you going to be for Halloween? Tis the season!
Thanks for the suggestion :)
I mined Bitcoin early on. I decided it was lame and I didn't keep my wallet.
I played around with it as well, before GPU mining I had several servers. I set up mining on one of them and it was mining away unmonitored for months. One day I needed to use that server for something and without even looking I wiped it.
Months later someone mentioned btc price was rising... I don't even know how much I had but I ain't got none now lol...