I often think how choice of spouse sets you on dramatically different paths. You spouse shapes you and you shape your spouse. It is certainly the case that the biggest factor in my adult life is my wife.

I don't know if there's only been one. I like to belive that I am able to change my life when I need to.

We had some similar discussions here

And you too mentioned yours...#599048

But we can discuss it again. Such an important question it is!

Now I think mine is same as yours!

I've had a ton, from deciding to move to Russia when I was like 19, to deciding to leave Russia with a 6-month-old baby and start from scratch in Bulgaria when I was 30.

There could have been many paths along the way, so it's hard to say.

One thing that I'm glad I didn't do is steroids when I was 25. the education and information just wasn't there 15 years ago, and I'm 100% sure I would have, at a minimum, messed up my hormone panels and not been paying attention to lipids and all sorts.

Plus what's the point really? I'm not a competitive athlete, and women mostly care about the wallet muscle!

so objectivly, I think that decision would have almost certainly negativly impacted me without giving me any real benefits

Going to university. Very double-edged there; changed my life and trajectory but I kind of wish I didn't https://mises.org/mises-wire/ten-years-ago-i-discovered-mises-institute-these-are-things-i-wish-i-had-done-differently

I think my turning point was when I decided to emigrate from my home country. Whether I decided to stay or leave is one of the things that could have changed my life definitively. Being an immigrant and working for myself was one of the things that radically changed my life.

Realizing that nearly everything i was told in school is a lie or propaganda. Then stop working and paying taxes and starting to learn what i wanted. Now when i see my friends that are earning well and paying a lot of taxes only to buy stuff they dont need. I feel really sorry for them. But the funfact is that they also feel sorry for me. Like if i did not make it. I own no big expensive house and no new car, i sometimes even ride a bike or walk. Iam happy with my old car and would not trade it against a new one, even if its worth 10times more. You always can buy new expensive cars or toys, but try to get the same toy back you sold as a child, it is nearly impossible.

There are many, but nothing comes close to choosing my life partners (spouse and having kid)

On a related note, I find it interesting that having kids is not a mutual choice. You choose them, they don't choose you. They fully depend on you for their survival, they can't leave you if you're an a**hole...