Do you have experience with making irrational decisions that change your life?

You sure ask a lot of questions within the details!

I made the decision to move from NY to Sweden about 5 years ago. I didn’t know anyone there and really had no clue what I was going to do, but just decided to do it. (I had visited it before I moved.) I went, left everyone behind and lived there for 3 wonderful years. Everyone considered it an irrational move; I agree with them, but it was the best thing for me at the time.

As for explaining the decision, I needed a change. I was stuck living with roommates I hated, feeling depressed and feeling like a mental breakdown was coming. So I left.

I bought the mower shop. In retrospect is was actually quite irrational decision for me. Although I couldn’t have predicted it, it gave me nothing but four years of poverty and constant, screaming code 10 stress….

My story is somewhat similar, although I did not go quite so far afield. When we realized a layoff was inevitable, my husband and I looked around at the economy of where we were living. We felt the picture of future employment was bleak. So we decided to move.

It was not really an irrational decision in my mind. We looked at his industry and said where in the country is the economy better and there are jobs in his field. We chose the Washington DC area. He was laid off, and we were gone within two weeks. (Much advance planning.)

What surprised us was how astonished people were by the decision. They asked if we had family there. No. They asked if he already had a new job. No. They called us “brave,” but with a tone in their voices that clearly meant foolhardy.

I sit here typing this watching the year;s first snowfall after five years of Florida sunshine. It is seven months since the move. My husband just got his dream job in his own field. I am so happy we took the risk!

ha, alright. i used to work at this taco place in the mall. i went for a run one day and got locked out of my house…i tried to get in via the roof but ended up “stuck” on the roof. i was due to be at work in like an hour and had no way to get inside, get dressed, get my keys, etc. so i sat on the roof for hours and hours. i know i could of got off, had i tried, but it was risky, because the way i got up wasn’t as easy to get down. the ladder was shaky and it was too far away, i would have had to jump kinda. anyhow, so i could have done it, the roof isn’t that high, but i didn’t, because i fuckng hated that job and the religious freaks that ran it and didn’t wanna go in. so i didn’t…and i couldn’t call off…and they already hated me, so i just didn’t show up, obviously. i must have sat on the roof for 5 hours.

finally i got off the roof and when i got inside i had a text message, yes a text message, that i was fired. i was happy. a day or two later i was unemployed and feeling free and good so i bought a plane ticket to san francisco to visit my brother. my friend and i went a few weeks later, and it was amazing. this led to me using craigslist rideshare to get from sf back to pittsburgh a month later, which led to me meeting the guy that drove us from denver, co back to pittsburgh, who, if you’ve read my other questions on here, is now my boyfriend, and i am moving to boulder, where he lives (but not strictly because of him at all) in less than a month.

so yeah…kind of an irrational little decision in the first place to just blow off work, maybe? but the chain of events that followed me being fired have led up to the best relationship so far in my life. kooky.

I guess the most irrational decision i ever made was leaving home at 16 and moving half way across the country with a friend I got tired of the drunken abuse at home it made life unbearable so I made the choice packed up and left , that led me to a life of some very bad hardships for years to come but overall I dont think i would have changed that decision because i got to experience freedom and eventually led to self control and a good role model of what not to do when i had a kid made me a very independent person

it was a choice of a rock and a hard place the only I regret is never being able to finish school

yes, it was when I randomly left to meet a person I’ve only talked to online in a different state while he and i were both married to others…everyone thought we were crazy…then he moved here for me

I got married. I don’t believe that’s ever a rational decision, but on the upside, it has worked out beautifully for me!

Back in May, some fucktard doing 50mph in a 25mph residential zone tore the front end off my beautiful, sexy black car. I decided to take the money I wasn’t going to have to send the bank for the payment and buy a plane ticket to Michigan to meet a guy I’d been talking to for three weeks. There were about a million other things I could’ve/should’ve done with that money, but I had to see what was there with this guy, if anything. I was still in a relationship at the time… had been for 2½ years. I said “fuck it” to everyone and everything, and flew out to Michigan. 5 months later, I’m the happiest I’ve ever been, and have finally discovered what true love really is.

A lot of people were annoyed with me for spending that money on my trip, but I shudder to think what it would’ve cost me if I hadn’t gone.

Knowingly making decisions that appear to be irrational would only apply to aspects of my life that don’t have any serious consequences or if they did it was by sheer coincidence.

I think it’s a very rational to decide not to be rational all the time, because it takes some of the fun out of our lives. Drinking hard liquor with loads of sugar in it – like caipirinhas for example – can be very irrational. Especially when you have more than two of them.