What is the craziest, most impulsive thing you've ever done?
I typed it but then deleted it because I don’t know you all that well. But I don’t regret it
@goldenvalleyguy Brunette
In 2010 I packed my suitcase and moved to Thailand, leaving all my stuff with instructions to let my daughter take what she wanted and to donate the rest.
Joined the Navy I had seen the world did my tour went to war Desert Storm. Some say that Navy stand Never Again Volunteer Yourself. I got out after my contract was up. Was a great experience, if my kids say they want to do it I would not discourage them. I just could not see for me making a career out of it.
Thank You for your service and sacrifice... from a "Lifer".
Drove 65 miles through a blizzard warning to see my ex fiance, and her girlfriend (yes, that's right)... just to prove we were still friends. Then drove home again. On the way back, I was almost run off the road by an 18-wheeler merging onto the freeway, found myself in the grassy median strip, braked to a halt... and when the snow cleared I saw, 12 feet in front of me, the steel barricade for the underpass. I had stopped just short. About 3 seconds more and I would have been wrecked, injured or dead.
And what did you learn from all this?
@SukiSue Seriously?
That it's okay to be hurt when someone leaves you, and you don't have to go 130 miles out of your way (round trip, in a blizzard) to prove to yourself that you're "not really hurt". I wasn't doing it for her, I was doing it for an image I wanted of myself as emotionally invulnerable.
I learned that it's alright to be vulnerable.
I joined the Army after September 11th.
Thank you.
Thank You for your service and sacrifice.
Thank you for your service. My late husband was in the Army for 8 years, joined in 2005. It's quite a sacrifice. But we had some crazy adventures and made some lifelong friends.
While training in Germany (where a number of my crazier "plans" were hatched), I printed off a stripped down map from Yahoo of the general vicinity, rented a car for the weekend, and hit a couple places that seemed like interesting destinations. Didn't really look at the map until I was in the car and discovered that it had almost no detail - couldn't tell what was a road, a highway, a border, or anything else. Just jumped in & drove off. Had an awesome dinner on Lake Lucerne, found a B&B for the night, then went on to Strassbourg before heading back. No planning, no (real/good) maps, and no good idea of what the hell I was doing, but had an amazing time.
On another trip to that training site, I woke up one Saturday, walked down to the train station, looked at the list of departures, and hopped on a train to Vienna. Found a B&B, and a serbian restaurant (the language I was studying at the time), went to see the Danube & a park dedicated to Freud, and just wandered around the city.
Travel was so easy in those days!
I discovered Vienna the other month. Loved the place. One night we ended up gatecrashing a birthday party full of the world's leading classical musicians!
Quit my six figure job and moved to the beach to get my head straight. Best thing I ever did.
Wow!! That's brave!
@Sara72712 no, it was necessary...I would probably be dead now from the stress and my life would have been miserable...I loved the job, but I was a workaholic...I needed to learn not to do that...a year off helped me set priorities and I got an even better job with no weekends when I re-entered the work force...it was meant to be...lol
But you arent at the beach....
@Bigwavedave I stayed a year then moved to PA to take care of aging parents...I will be back at the beach in 9 months..I will be in Wilmington, NC...your neighborhood...I am minutes away from Wrightsville, Kure, TopSail, etc. Come visit!
Had sex with a girl i met at a concert in a tim horton's bathroom we both never gived our names numbers so to this day i don't know nothing about her other that she was from montreal and i never saw her again
Mar y Sol Festival... circa 1972. I walked around Naked. But other people in my life will tell you other things that top that.