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Life Changing Decisions

The July 10, 2013 prompt for "Blogging Circle of Friends Prompt Forum"  and "Invalid Item"  is
Pinpoint a moment in your past where you had to make a big decision.
Write about that other alternate life that could have unfolded.

Life changing decisions,
one, two, and three:
Which had the most impact
upon me?

The three most important decisions I made in there chronological order. First, the decision to spend my life living with my mother when I moved to Las Vegas. Second, the decision to give my daughter up for adoption. Third, the decision to become my mother's caregiver. I suspect that the biggest decision was to move in with my mother when I came to Las Vegas. The reason I say this is that I believe that choice had an effect upon the other two decisions.

What alternate life style would unfold
if I could go back in time
and change
or unmake the decision
to live with my mother in Las Vegas
instead of going out on my own?

I would not be writing this today because my mother was the person who encouraged me to write. True, I might have been more independent (this is questionable), but I would not be writing. I would not have given up daughter up for adoption and given her a better chance at fulling her potential then should could have with me. I would not have heard about the Baha'i Faith and had the courage to investigate it or Baha'u'llah. I know I would have ended up with some loser who thought he was a man. Someone who only wanted a woman to make a living for him while he went to bars to philander and get drunk.