47 People Share The Insignificant Moment That Ended Up Changing Their Life Forever

Probably more like 5 minutes, but opting for a cesarean section during a long induction. i was given the option to wait things out or elect for a section. it was an especially tough decision given that i stalled at 9 cm - so nearly ready to push. was shaking like a leaf on the operating table, so hard that i was practically convulsing from the adrenaline. i later found out that my decision quite literally saved my life and my kid’s. c-sections get a bad rap, but they can be life saving for some. if i could do things over again, i would probably just schedule it in advance instead of trying to be a hero for nearly 40 hours, haha.

When I was younger I remember I was chillin my parents house with my gf. It was the day after christmas and I decided to take my gf home before taking a nap. On the way home I got a call from my mom, she said not to worry and everything was fine before it cut off.

When I called back I got some error about the line being disconnect, weird... When I got back my whole road was blocked off and I remember pulling over being like "what's going on" before I saw my house on fire. I parked and ran down, found everyone fine thank god. Apparently my christmas gifts caught my bed on fire.

The chief said I wouldve most definitely passed away from smoke if I had been napping. In fact my dad thought I was and almost passed running up to my room to get me. Tbh I dont think he knew I was even out until my mom called me. I lost everything I owned but everyone was safe and it was only the upstairs. Insurance took care of us.

Drove home from college after winter break was over because my dumb boss scheduled me for 1 last shift after my semester had already started.

Got there a little late and it was slower than they thought it'd be so told me to go home. It was a 2 hour drive back to school so I decided to just go back to my parent's house for the night.

Got a call just before leaving from a friend who lived in my dorm telling me I should come back that night. He mentioned a female friend was visiting him and he'd wingman hard for me (he was dating one of my friends who met each other through me).

I really didn't want to, but in the spur of the moment I decided "Why not?"

That was in January 2008 and we've been together ever since that night.

Apparently me asking for a pencil...I made 10 friends that day as an introvert because I can apparently "speak" 😭.

Taking on my niece and nephew as my own. Split second decision and question from a social worker.

Decided to get gas at the last minute at a station I don’t frequent, helped a lady whose car had broken down… married 31 years this year!!!

I was behind a woman in the left lane doing 20 under the limit on the interstate. When I’d try to pass, she would speed up and slow down so that I couldn’t. I finally had a break in the right lane, so I decided to gun it, but this absolute psycho SLAMMED on her brakes and came to a complete stop. I had the choice of plowing into her or jerking over to the right.

I went diagonal, tapped her gas tank with my front bumper, nearly got t-bones by a semi going the actual speed limit, almost got the exit sign, and careened into a ditch, rolling 1.5 times before coming to a complete, upright stop.

My roof was dented in about an inch from my skull, and the only injury I sustained was broken glass from my windows shattering upon impact. My airbags didn’t deploy, which was a blessing.

The icing on the cake is that she drove off, then later called the police to say she had been rear ended, thinking I had passed in the accident. Surprise! Not only did I not pass away, but we had the same insurance company. Apparently, she kept asking for more rope with which to hang herself as she continued to lie to them, and an entire investigation was launched.

Stay safe out there, folks. A lot of motorists are completely unhinged.

I asked a cute girl out on a date, but told her it was just because i didn't want to eat bdubs alone. Four years of "not a date" later we got married and now i never have to eat bdubs alone.

12 years ago I had just come back from holiday and was absolutely shattered. It was my friends birthday and there was a big night out planned. I felt bad cancelling on my friend but I was so tired, I drove just to say hello and stayed for a couple of hours. As I was driving back home I just did a U-turn and left the car at the pub and went out with everyone.

Couple of hours later met a girl who is now my amazing wife and we have a beautiful 5 year old boy.

My decision to go back completely changed my life’s trajectory!!!

After a few weeks of what I couldn't tell was flirting or not, I put my hand on the leg of the cutest girl I had ever met and said, "So I think we like each other." And she grabbed my hand and said, "Yeah..."

And somehow 4/10 me has been with 10/10 her for twenty years.

I woke up one day in my early 20s and was sick of how my life was going, in a matter of a seconds i decided to join the USAF. I hadnt really even thought about it prior, i just knew it would be a massive change to my life and would force me to do something uncomfortable but character building. So, that day I went and talked to a recruiter and the process started. I didnt career it, but its definitely a fork in my life where I could be far worse off... it helped me get away from home and start a life/mature.

I don't think it was quite five seconds but I made the decision to join the Navy in about five minutes and that completely altered the course of my life.

I had thought about it before and so it wasn't totally out of the blue but I hadn't really seriously thought about it until one day I was just like 'frick it, I'm out' and called up my recruiter, who amusingly enough was named Charles Dickens.

Deciding to not go for my masters but try to get a job with just a bachelor. Holy it paid off. Decent starting salary amd x2 mu salary in 18 months and bought a house. .

Told my crush they could crash at my place the next time they were in town visiting friends.

The hookup turned into a marriage. 10 years going.

I once walked past a poster that said walk across America for global nuclear disarmament, then ended up walking across America on the Great Peace March for global nuclear disarmament, from LA to NY, then to DC. Definitely changed my life.

I said yes to a random last-minute invite for coffee after class, because i was hungry and it was raining. That turned into my wife, a move to another state, and somehow two kids later im still annoyed I almost went home and microwaved leftovers instead.

Years ago wife and I were returning to Denver after camping in Great Sand dunes national park. On one of the state highways, we are like the 10th car stuck behind a camper van driving at 50mph on a 70mph stretch. It's a single lane both ways with over taking every half mile so one by one cars would go the oncoming lane to get past the camper. My turn comes and I wait for a long straight stretch and move over to the oncoming lane to over take the camper. Just as I do that the camper starts to speed up. My spot in the lane is taken by the next car that was behind me and now I'm stuck in the wrong lane. I honk but no one is budging and letting me back and I see oncoming traffic is getting too close. I accelerate but realize I am not going to get past this camper, and at the last second had to bail to the shoulder of the oncoming traffic side at full speed and then floor it to get past the camper. Easily one of the most harrowing experience on a highway I have had.

I was having matcha w a former coworker & good friend and talking about how i need invisalign but can’t afford it. she told me how invisalign is discounted for students (some of the time!) and how i should go to school. i told her i haven’t finished hs & can’t afford to. she told me hs at community college is actually free! now i’m enrolled in both my hs courses & some dental hygienist prereqs, she changed the course of my life and what i thought was possible.

Shortened my first name to make it more resume friendly

I got the job.

So many!

Saying yes when my first husband asked me to marry him. Bad decision.

Asking my husband to marry me. Great decision. Happily married 25 yrs now.

Buying my horses.

Adopting my dog, and subsequent cats.