What accidental change - resulted in a permanent change?
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To elaborate slightly as the title isn't long enough.
What accidental or enforced change, has then led to you making that change permanent THROUGH CHOICE?
i.e at the lower end of the spectrum, as an example:
The brand of coffee you usually buy isn't available, in order not to go without, you buy an alternative and then discover you much prefer it, initiating a permanent unplanned change.
This question is designed to capture those situations forced upon us, that result in a better option/solution resulting.
So something that initially starts out being a negative, turning into a positive.
Go :-)
What accidental or enforced change, has then led to you making that change permanent THROUGH CHOICE?
i.e at the lower end of the spectrum, as an example:
The brand of coffee you usually buy isn't available, in order not to go without, you buy an alternative and then discover you much prefer it, initiating a permanent unplanned change.
This question is designed to capture those situations forced upon us, that result in a better option/solution resulting.
So something that initially starts out being a negative, turning into a positive.
Go :-)
That escalated quickly.
Simon I don’t mean to be flippant, I hope you’re as well as can be. My wife’s better than me at this. I’m crap. I’m glad you’ve found peace. That sounds awful, it’s meant well! I’m crap at sentiment.
Accidental change is mostly up shifting and not liking going back down. Real butter, I can never go back to margarine. I was raised on margarine.
Simon I don’t mean to be flippant, I hope you’re as well as can be. My wife’s better than me at this. I’m crap. I’m glad you’ve found peace. That sounds awful, it’s meant well! I’m crap at sentiment.
Accidental change is mostly up shifting and not liking going back down. Real butter, I can never go back to margarine. I was raised on margarine.
Nethybridge said:
Not sure of its accidental-ness, but a personal tax on income was a temporary measure to help fund
the Napoleonic Wars and has been with us ever since
Lol. Not a joke, I’m currently reading this https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/13/lega...the Napoleonic Wars and has been with us ever since
I have no intention of bringing up any of the arguments on PH but we have some history on taxation.
Closed my business during covid for the second lock down. Forced upon us by the staff really, several all went off with covid at the same time and that lost us a lot of customers all at once. We were closed for nearly 3 months in the end. After the first month I really started to enjoy it and wound down a LOT and realised I was pretty stressed out and really other than more money was getting nothing from working.
Life is short so why work to a set age because society says so.
Money wasn't a factor so decided to call it and 18 months later I was done and have been retired now for just over a year.
If it wasn't for covid I would 100% still be working.
Life is short so why work to a set age because society says so.
Money wasn't a factor so decided to call it and 18 months later I was done and have been retired now for just over a year.
If it wasn't for covid I would 100% still be working.
Nethybridge said:
Not sure of its accidental-ness, but a personal tax on income was a temporary measure to help fund
the Napoleonic Wars and has been with us ever since
Many such cases!the Napoleonic Wars and has been with us ever since
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Daylight-Robbery-Shaped-C...
Got pissed off with my boss putting demands on me to sort out stuff he should have done months ago, walked out after being asked to cancel my holiday to finish a job he should have started 8 weeks earlier. Got used to not working and decided not having loads of spare cash was fine. Now just starting my 6th year of retirement.
simon_harris said:
I got diagnosed with incurable cancer, made me decide to be somewhat less of a 
, as a result I am happier.
I should have probably put a , as a result I am happier.
in this post!It is true I was diagnosed in 2013 with Follicular Non Hodgkin's lymphoma which is considered incurable, it is also true that it was a massive wake up call that how I was living my life was pretty s
t for me and for everyone around me so I made a conscious effort not to be that person any more and as a result 10 years later I am a much much happier person and the people around me are happier as well.It is no longer an effort to not be a
and following some pretty brutal chemo in 2017 I am currently free of any symptoms, sadly the type of cancer it is means that it will come back at some point but that could be 5 years, or 30 years we just don't know so in the meantime I just get on with living life.On my first diagnosis meeting I was told I most people are dead within 5 to 10 years of diagnosis so I have already beat that...
cheesejunkie said:
Nethybridge said:
Not sure of its accidental-ness, but a personal tax on income was a temporary measure to help fund
the Napoleonic Wars and has been with us ever since
Lol. Not a joke, I’m currently reading this https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/13/lega...the Napoleonic Wars and has been with us ever since
I have no intention of bringing up any of the arguments on PH but we have some history on taxation.
Grrrrrr.
Eric Mc said:
So we can blame the French for that one too. They are also responsible for VAT.
Grrrrrr.
Blaming the French has served us well, some politicians are still at it Grrrrrr.
. We're far too similar in so many ways but at least we don't smell like garlic. Or maybe I watched too many carry on films in the past.Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff