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<p>Life is inherently full of risks, even the small choices in our lives involve a good deal of risk management. But there are some risks that can go south in a far more intense way, risks of life and death, career stability, emotional safety, and immediate humiliation.</p><p>Regardless of whether they pan out as desired or not, it can be fascinating to look at the fall-out of major risks, whether in our own lives or the lives of others.</p><h2>In <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/njcf9z/what_was_the_biggest_risk_you_have_taken/" target="_blank">a popular Reddit thread</a>, people shared the biggest risk they have taken, and what happened right after.</h2><h2>1. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/SnooMemesjellies6886/">SnooMemesjellies6886</a>:</h2><p> </p><blockquote> <p>I bought a house without looking at it. I don&#39;t regret it, but wouldn&#39;t do it again.</p> </blockquote><h2>2. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ItsMyView/">ItsMyView</a>:</h2><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Six years ago I had a massive heart attack. The ambulance came and it was clear what was happening. They said there was a hospital close by that could try and stabilize me and there was another hospital 30 minutes away that had a cardiac unit that could do whatever was needed. The risk was that if I went to the one close by they may not be able to do anything.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I told them to take me to the one 30 minutes away even though they indicated there was a chance dying while in route. I made it there and while in the operating room I coded for 4 1/2 minutes. End up it was a widowmaker heart attack. I woke up three days later on a ventilator but made it through it. If I had chosen the local hospital I would I never would have made it.</p> </blockquote><h2>3. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/TNBCisABitch/">TNBCisAB**ch</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Threatening my employer with legal action.</p> <p>Edit: I&#39;d just like to say that I don&#39;t recommend doing this unless you have an actual reason and a strong case.</p> <p>My (now ex-) employer threatened to sack me if I didn&#39;t come back to work immediately. I was on sick leave with severe depression and anxiety shortly after completing treatment for a rare form of breast cancer at 34. They f*cked up.</p> </blockquote><h2>4. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/TheSpatulaOfLove/">TheSpatulaOfLove</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>2009, the world was economically on fire. Layoffs weekly at my job. Toddler and one on the way.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Decided to double down everything I own to buy a house in an area I could not afford under normal circumstances.</p> <p>On the way to the closing I was sh**ting diamonds. Before we entered the closing, I looked to my wife and said: &ldquo;If I lose my job, we lose everything. House, cars, retirement&hellip;.all of it. But if we make it, we will do very well.&rdquo;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I just sold that house last week. While it was emotional to let it go, we raised three kids, made a lot of friends and memories, and were able to make enough profit to wipe out her student loans.</p> </blockquote><h2>5. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/gil_beard/">gil_beard</a>:</h2><p> </p><blockquote> <p>I got accepted to a good university the same day my band was offered a recording contract. There was no way I could do both so I chose the contract. I look back on those years I spent traveling and playing music for a living as some of the best memories I&#39;ve ever had and I did eventually end up with an associate&#39;s degree from a local college but I&#39;ll always wonder what could have been different.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Gretchenmeows/">Gretchenmeows</a>:</h2><p> </p><blockquote> <p>I moved from the Gold Coast (Australia) to Newcastle almost immediately after I graduated high school. I knew no one there except for the deadbeat now ex I was moving with. Best decision I have ever made. Ex and I broke up, I found my passion working in a coffee roastery and I met my now-husband on a bus!</p> </blockquote><h2>7. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/sloth_eggs/">sloth_eggs</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I abruptly quit my job/career and dropped my entire life in Germany to come back to the states and be with my ex. Right before COVID. Things didn&#39;t work out. Such is life.</p> </blockquote><h2>8. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/thunderfart_99/">thunderfart_99</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Felt very nervous before a presentation in university, and thought I was going to do quite poorly on it as I hadn&#39;t prepared very well for it. I just thought, &quot;F*ck it&quot; and boldly went up to the lecturer to ask if I could do my presentation first. It paid off and went much better than expected and I got one of the highest marks in the class on the assignment.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Defiant-Growth6382/">Defiant-Growth6382</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I gave a 5 minute speech on how erectile dysfunction will cause the apocalypse to two middle-aged women in an academic speech competition.</p> <p>I entered a school academic decathlon speech competition. I gave a speech on erectile dysfunction and how it&#39;s a pandemic that is affecting men everywhere which will lead to many sexually frustrated men causing the downfall of humanity. I stood up there on that podium for five minutes and delivered a fine speech. I felt great walking out of that room.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>There was a girl that literally cried during her speech and couldn&#39;t finish because she was so nervous.</p> </blockquote><h2>10. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/TeamUrahara-/">TeamUrahara-</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Getting my friends to all watch Human Centipede together so I could spend more time with this guy I was interested in. He sat next to me. We touched legs as the woman was screaming into the other guys&#39; buttcheeks. I lost my virginity the next week.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>11. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/sootpastry/">sootpastry</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I voluntarily became homeless to quit paying rent. After 2 months of sleeping in the woods I was given an old car from a relative unsolicited and lived out of that for 2 years. It was actually pretty comfy once I got my routine down. I have a place now because I need to have somewhere to take care of a family member.</p> </blockquote><h2>12. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/goodolbeej/">goodolbeej</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Sold my car, packed my things, got on a train, and moved halfway across the country to be with a woman I&rsquo;d been with in person less than 20 days total.</p> <p>12 years later married with a kid. Craziest, stupidest, best decision I&rsquo;ve ever made.</p> </blockquote><h2>13. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/IndianaMogens/">IndianaMogens</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Followed a sketchy homeless man into a dark alley in San Fransisco at 2am. I was fifteen, alone, armed with nothing but a paperback copy of the Light Fantastic. My teachers were asleep, no one knew I&#39;d left our motel, and it was my first time in a city bigger than Copenhagen. I should, by all accounts, be dead.</p> <p>Ended up saving his friend&#39;s life by calling 911 and applying what basic first aid I&#39;d been taught.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>14. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ChesterMarley/">ChesterMarley</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Quit my job of ten years, rented out my fully-furnished* house to strangers, and then proceeded to backpack around South America for six months. I was half-convinced I was just going to come back to an empty house. Returned and everything was in place, even the booze we had left behind. I made a couple of bucks renting the place out, and three months later got a job making 10% more than the one I left.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>(* when I say fully I mean FULLY. Not just the furniture, but the dishes, utensils, towels, TVs, etc. Basically removed the laptop, jewelry, guns, and clothing and left everything else.)</p> </blockquote><h2>15. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/jenskal/">jenskal</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I left my last job due to some health issues. I was expected to return to the same kind of work in December. I refused when I found out they were trying to get me to work in the same building that caused my illness. I knew it was a risk that I could lose the job and benefits. But my health is way more important than working a crummy desk job. It&#39;s not just mental health issues, it&#39;s physical ailments too.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I&#39;m currently on leave without pay while I figure out my next steps. It&#39;s scary. I have some medical benefits coming in from the feds but that will run out eventually. But I have faith things will work out for the best.</p> <p>Life is too short to stay at a job for benefits and a pension. Especially when the toxic and hostile workplace culture causes you serious illnesses.</p> </blockquote><h2>16. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/RCKJD/">RCKJD</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Left my country in Europe to marry someone in the USA that I had met online. We had dated online for about 9 months and had met once for 2 weeks. Two kids and we had our 20th wedding anniversary in April. Still in love.</p> </blockquote><h2>17. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/___cats___/">___cats___</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Moved my wife and kid to a different state to help start a business with someone I only met in an interview because he promised me a steady salary.</p> <p>Worked out well for about 9 years and he kept his promises, then another 2 after a 1 year hiatus. No longer working with him and he owes me about $20k in back pay.</p> <p>But hey, the first decade was a hell of a ride.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>18. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ColHappaBlap/">ColHappaBlap</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I kissed my crush at a Christmas party as part of a &quot;magic trick&quot; because we were both too scared to tell each other we liked each other (we&#39;d been good friends for a couple years but neither wanted to ruin the friendship by shooting our shots).</p> <p>It worked. He married me two years later.</p> </blockquote><h2>19. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/rhett342/">rhett342</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I had just turned 20 and was laying in bed with my girlfriend of four months who had just turned 19 when I got the bright idea to ask her to marry me.</p> <p>Almost 23 years later and she&#39;s taking a nap while I lay next to her playing on my phone. I definitely made the right call that night!</p> </blockquote><h2>20. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Gnarbuttah/">Gnarbuttah</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Swam with a great white, no cage. Spearfishing off the NC coast, happened twice in one day. Had a 10-12 footer start bothering us at the first dive site so we rolled out to a different wreck a few miles away, as soon as we hopped off the boat we had an even bigger one come in and check us out. It wasn&#39;t as aggressive as the first so we just stayed in and kept spearfishing, he just circled around the wreck, staying around 100&#39; away from us and minding his business.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

20 people share the biggest life risk they've taken and whether they regret it.

Life is inherently full of risks, even the small choices in our lives involve a good deal of risk management. But there are some risks that can go south in a far more intense way, risks of life and death, career stability, emotional safety, and immediate humiliation.Regardless of whether they pan out as desired or not, it can be fascinating to look at the fall-out of major risks, whether in our own lives or the lives of others.In a popular Reddit thread, people shared the biggest risk they have taken, and what happened right after.1. From SnooMemesjellies6886:  I bought a house without looking at it. I don&#39;t regret it, but wouldn&#39;t do it again. 2. From ItsMyView:  Six years ago I had a massive heart attack. The ambulance came and it was clear what was happening. They said there was a hospital close by that could try and stabilize me and there was another hospital 30 minutes away that had a cardiac unit that could do whatever was needed. The risk was that if I went to the one close by they may not be able to do anything.  I told them to take me to the one 30 minutes away even though they indicated there was a chance dying while in route. I made it there and while in the operating room I coded for 4 1/2 minutes. End up it was a widowmaker heart attack. I woke up three days later on a ventilator but made it through it. If I had chosen the local hospital I would I never would have made it. 3. From TNBCisAB**ch: Threatening my employer with legal action. Edit: I&#39;d just like to say that I don&#39;t recommend doing this unless you have an actual reason and a strong case. My (now ex-) employer threatened to sack me if I didn&#39;t come back to work immediately. I was on sick leave with severe depression and anxiety shortly after completing treatment for a rare form of breast cancer at 34. They f*cked up. 4. From TheSpatulaOfLove: 2009, the world was economically on fire. Layoffs weekly at my job. Toddler and one on the way.  Decided to double down everything I own to buy a house in an area I could not afford under normal circumstances. On the way to the closing I was sh**ting diamonds. Before we entered the closing, I looked to my wife and said: &ldquo;If I lose my job, we lose everything. House, cars, retirement&hellip;.all of it. But if we make it, we will do very well.&rdquo;  I just sold that house last week. While it was emotional to let it go, we raised three kids, made a lot of friends and memories, and were able to make enough profit to wipe out her student loans. 5. From gil_beard:  I got accepted to a good university the same day my band was offered a recording contract. There was no way I could do both so I chose the contract. I look back on those years I spent traveling and playing music for a living as some of the best memories I&#39;ve ever had and I did eventually end up with an associate&#39;s degree from a local college but I&#39;ll always wonder what could have been different. 6. From Gretchenmeows:  I moved from the Gold Coast (Australia) to Newcastle almost immediately after I graduated high school. I knew no one there except for the deadbeat now ex I was moving with. Best decision I have ever made. Ex and I broke up, I found my passion working in a coffee roastery and I met my now-husband on a bus! 7. From sloth_eggs: I abruptly quit my job/career and dropped my entire life in Germany to come back to the states and be with my ex. Right before COVID. Things didn&#39;t work out. Such is life. 8. From thunderfart_99: Felt very nervous before a presentation in university, and thought I was going to do quite poorly on it as I hadn&#39;t prepared very well for it. I just thought, &quot;F*ck it&quot; and boldly went up to the lecturer to ask if I could do my presentation first. It paid off and went much better than expected and I got one of the highest marks in the class on the assignment. 9. From Defiant-Growth6382: I gave a 5 minute speech on how erectile dysfunction will cause the apocalypse to two middle-aged women in an academic speech competition. I entered a school academic decathlon speech competition. I gave a speech on erectile dysfunction and how it&#39;s a pandemic that is affecting men everywhere which will lead to many sexually frustrated men causing the downfall of humanity. I stood up there on that podium for five minutes and delivered a fine speech. I felt great walking out of that room.  There was a girl that literally cried during her speech and couldn&#39;t finish because she was so nervous. 10. From TeamUrahara-: Getting my friends to all watch Human Centipede together so I could spend more time with this guy I was interested in. He sat next to me. We touched legs as the woman was screaming into the other guys&#39; buttcheeks. I lost my virginity the next week. 11. From sootpastry: I voluntarily became homeless to quit paying rent. After 2 months of sleeping in the woods I was given an old car from a relative unsolicited and lived out of that for 2 years. It was actually pretty comfy once I got my routine down. I have a place now because I need to have somewhere to take care of a family member. 12. From goodolbeej: Sold my car, packed my things, got on a train, and moved halfway across the country to be with a woman I&rsquo;d been with in person less than 20 days total. 12 years later married with a kid. Craziest, stupidest, best decision I&rsquo;ve ever made. 13. From IndianaMogens: Followed a sketchy homeless man into a dark alley in San Fransisco at 2am. I was fifteen, alone, armed with nothing but a paperback copy of the Light Fantastic. My teachers were asleep, no one knew I&#39;d left our motel, and it was my first time in a city bigger than Copenhagen. I should, by all accounts, be dead. Ended up saving his friend&#39;s life by calling 911 and applying what basic first aid I&#39;d been taught. 14. From ChesterMarley: Quit my job of ten years, rented out my fully-furnished* house to strangers, and then proceeded to backpack around South America for six months. I was half-convinced I was just going to come back to an empty house. Returned and everything was in place, even the booze we had left behind. I made a couple of bucks renting the place out, and three months later got a job making 10% more than the one I left.  (* when I say fully I mean FULLY. Not just the furniture, but the dishes, utensils, towels, TVs, etc. Basically removed the laptop, jewelry, guns, and clothing and left everything else.) 15. From jenskal: I left my last job due to some health issues. I was expected to return to the same kind of work in December. I refused when I found out they were trying to get me to work in the same building that caused my illness. I knew it was a risk that I could lose the job and benefits. But my health is way more important than working a crummy desk job. It&#39;s not just mental health issues, it&#39;s physical ailments too.  I&#39;m currently on leave without pay while I figure out my next steps. It&#39;s scary. I have some medical benefits coming in from the feds but that will run out eventually. But I have faith things will work out for the best. Life is too short to stay at a job for benefits and a pension. Especially when the toxic and hostile workplace culture causes you serious illnesses. 16. From RCKJD: Left my country in Europe to marry someone in the USA that I had met online. We had dated online for about 9 months and had met once for 2 weeks. Two kids and we had our 20th wedding anniversary in April. Still in love. 17. From ___cats___: Moved my wife and kid to a different state to help start a business with someone I only met in an interview because he promised me a steady salary. Worked out well for about 9 years and he kept his promises, then another 2 after a 1 year hiatus. No longer working with him and he owes me about $20k in back pay. But hey, the first decade was a hell of a ride. 18. From ColHappaBlap: I kissed my crush at a Christmas party as part of a &quot;magic trick&quot; because we were both too scared to tell each other we liked each other (we&#39;d been good friends for a couple years but neither wanted to ruin the friendship by shooting our shots). It worked. He married me two years later. 19. From rhett342: I had just turned 20 and was laying in bed with my girlfriend of four months who had just turned 19 when I got the bright idea to ask her to marry me. Almost 23 years later and she&#39;s taking a nap while I lay next to her playing on my phone. I definitely made the right call that night! 20. From Gnarbuttah: Swam with a great white, no cage. Spearfishing off the NC coast, happened twice in one day. Had a 10-12 footer start bothering us at the first dive site so we rolled out to a different wreck a few miles away, as soon as we hopped off the boat we had an even bigger one come in and check us out. It wasn&#39;t as aggressive as the first so we just stayed in and kept spearfishing, he just circled around the wreck, staying around 100&#39; away from us and minding his business. 