Sometimes it's the little things that make the biggest impact.
It's a domino effect- one tiny thing leads to another tiny thing, then another, then another...until it becomes a complete mess.
What are these minor mistakes?
These Redditors will tell you.
Redditor: cobaltbpt asked:
"What's a minor mistake that can't be undone?"
Definitely not minor.
"Putting a sticker slightly off center on your LEGO."
swiggityswaygreenday
"OP said "minor"."
gaprats
An "accident".
Giphy"When you send a text or an e-mail to the wrong person..."
ToonlinkFTW890
"And they're definitely not going to believe you when you tell them it was an accident."
NedTal
TRUTH
"Accidentally liking someone's photo while looking at their profile... things like a minefield."
Nuclear_Soup
"Worse when you're 3 years deep in their photos too."
Kookadoodle
Be honest.
"When someone asks "what do you really think" and you are honest and it's not what they wanted to hear."
"The cat can never be put back in the bag and it will always be out there."
scott60561
"Whose fault is that? I feel like people shouldn't ask for an opinion if they don't want the truth. I won't be mean, but if someone asks how they look in a dress, I will be honest. I'll say something along the lines of "I'm not a fan of that dress. What if you try this one? The color will bring out your eyes.""
i_am_a_goat_baa
Good plan.
Giphy"Calling an SO your ex's name."
SleepyySnorlaxx
"That's why you find a common name when you start dating, only date people with that name."
golden_fli
Um, ew.
"Overcooking pasta."
drj0e
"If you overcook it, just mash it. Same as overcooking potatoes, only way forward is to mash it. Mashing solves problems!"
Philosofried
That's comforting.
"Typos on your resume/CV. It's already too late, you look unprofessional."
ProstituteEggz
"Honestly they aren't always that big of a deal. I see 7-10 a day and a typo is the least of the issues."
fdxrobot
"I wanted to shape my eyebrows when I was 11 and my mom wouldn't let me get them done. So, I just took a regular razor and just tried to trim around the edges. Of course I took the entire tail end of my eyebrow off. Only recently did it start growing in normally again. I'd say I went a solid ten years without my eyebrow tail growing back in with more than a few hairs."
NotThatSerious26
Good cover.
"Calling a teacher mom."
XxpandamanxX
"I was about five or six when I did this in school, but luckily for me I didn't say it with enough confidence that someone would hear me and the teacher was speaking to someone else so she didn't notice."
"However, me being the awkward kid that I was, I started singing a song I made up called "Mommy" so I could pretend that I was just singing at the time. What. The f*ck."
NotThatSerious26
A fair argument.
"Accidentally stepping on your dog's tail or paw. The instant look of hurt and betrayal on their face always stays with me."
ifearbears
"I have a black cat, and the last place I lived had dark hardwood floors. That sonovab*tch got kicked so many times, and every time he'd squall about it. I'd just remind him that it's his dumb a** who can see in the dark."
Snatch_Pastry
Add Ons
"Adding too much seasoning to a recipe."
JohnDough39
"Apparently if you put too much salt into a soup/broth/other liquid, you can put a couple whole (peeled) potatoes in and cook it for 10-15min, and they will absorb some of the excess salt."
CyanPhoenix42
"Nah you can always save food, you can use yogurt, butter or lemon juice to save something you've made too spicy, starch to remove salt, cornstarch to remove liquid, or simply add more of everything else in the recipe."
SuicidalPelican
Stay Put
"Accidentally closing the door hard when you were just in an argument with your mom."
Goldninjan
"When I was a teenager I had a row with my mum, stormed out of the room but spun around to give her 'and another thing!'"
"I went to push the door open with my palm but wasn't quick enough, the latch had engaged. I put my whole force onto a glass door which exploded into a million pieces, and my momentum carried me through. To mum, it looked like I just walked through the closed glass door, kool aid style, whilst shouting at her."
JimmerUK
Back Up
Tiffany Mitchell Idk GIF by Indiana FeverGiphy"Accidentally crossing a personal boundary that has to do with another person's family member."
Andrew_Korenchkin
Just Wait
"Pushing the 'walk button' at a busy intersection. Then deciding not to cross as traffic just sits there, waiting for the light to change."
Back2Bach
"Some crosswalks have a button you need to press for the light to turn green. And sometimes you press the button and then decide you don't want to cross so the button stays pressed and you stop the entire traffic for no reason."
FrostyVampy
"Not sure if they mean the same thing as my experience but I have social anxiety and I've hit the button to cross and got so preoccupied with how everybody saw me push the button that I didn't notice the light go green for me to cross until it was too late to cross and had to wait again. I could have disintegrated I cringed so hard for myself."
FlaccidWeenus
X
"Misspelling someone's name on their birth certificate."
zealousearthkat
"I have a friend who’s middle name is legally ‘X’ because his parents filled out the form with the intention of not giving him a middle name, so they wrote an X as in N/A. Yeah, they f**ked up."
KryptGMD
Secured
"Not properly securing a lap bar or restraint when riding on a coaster or thrill ride."
No1UpvotesLikeGaston
"You rarely have the choice to NOT secure it. They come and check and can see if it isn't secured. I think they have warning lights in the booth for who isn't locked in correctly, too."
elebrin
"Unless you're at one of those pop-up carnivals. Carnies generally don't care if you're secured well enough or not."
the-magnifi*unt
Excess...
"Drinking a few too many drinks, bedspins are a *itch."
RandersTheLonely
"If the beds not too high you can plant one of your feet down solid on the ground and it should help a bit with the spins. Enough to get you to sleep without puking from them."
FlaccidWeenus
"I still occasionally have a few too many, but I haven't had the spins in many years. Almost forgot they existed."
iWatchCrapTV
The Stench
earth skunk GIF by Lil DickyGiphy"Startling a skunk."'
drdoom
"That is not at all minor. My husband says I would not be allowed in the house for a month if I get skunked. (And he’s probably right, since I would want to use the clothing and furniture in the house after I’ve recovered.)"
easwaran
"Something startled one outside my bedroom window at about 3am yesterday morning. Talk about a rude awakening. I have sleep apnea and wear a CPAP mask. So it was like a skunk was spraying right up my nose. It burned so bad and my eyes watered like crazy. Took about three hours to go away."
kaylaamandaedelmann
There are something you can't undo. Do you have similar experiences? Let us know in the comments below.
Experiencing death is a fascinating and frightening idea.
Who doesn't want to know what is waiting for us on the other side?
But so many of us want to know and then come back and live a little longer.
It would be so great to be sure there is something else.
But the whole dying part is not that great, so we'll have to rely on other people's accounts.
Redditor AlaskaStiletto wanted to hear from everyone who has returned to life, so they asked:
"Redditors who have 'died' and come back to life, what did you see?"
Sensations
Happy Good Vibes GIF by Major League SoccerGiphy"My dad's heart stopped when he had a heart attack and he had to be brought back to life. He kept the paper copy of the heart monitor which shows he flatlined. He said he felt an overwhelming sensation of peace, like nothing he had felt before."
PeachesnPain
Recovery
"I had surgical complications in 2010 that caused a great deal of blood loss. As a result, I had extremely low blood pressure and could barely stay awake. I remember feeling like I was surrounded by loved ones who had passed. They were in a circle around me and I knew they were there to guide me onwards. I told them I was not ready to go because my kids needed me and I came back."
"My nurse later said she was afraid she’d find me dead every time she came into the room."
"It took months, and blood transfusions, but I recovered."
good_golly99
Take Me Back
"Overwhelming peace and happiness. A bright airy and floating feeling. I live a very stressful life. Imagine finding out the person you have had a crush on reveals they have the same feelings for you and then you win the lotto later that day - that was the feeling I had."
"I never feared death afterward and am relieved when I hear of people dying after suffering from an illness."
rayrayrayray
Free
The Light Minnie GIF by (G)I-DLEGiphy"I had a heart surgery with near-death experience, for me at least (well the possibility that those effects are caused by morphine is also there) I just saw black and nothing else but it was warm and I had such inner peace, its weird as I sometimes still think about it and wish this feeling of being so light and free again."
TooReDTooHigh
This is why I hate surgery.
You just never know.
Shocked
Giphy"More of a near-death experience. I was electrocuted. I felt like I was in a deep hole looking straight up in the sky. My life flashed before me. Felt sad for my family, but I had a deep sense of peace."
Admirable_Buyer6528
The SOB
"Nursing in the ICU, we’ve had people try to die on us many times during the years, some successfully. One guy stood out to me. His heart stopped. We called a code, are working on him, and suddenly he comes to. We hadn’t vented him yet, so he was able to talk, and he started screaming, 'Don’t let them take me, don’t let them take me, they are coming,' he was scared and yelling."
"Then he yelled a little more, as we tried to calm him down, he screamed, 'No, No,' and gestured towards the end of the bed, and died again. We didn’t get him back. It was seriously creepy. We called his son to tell him the news, and the son said basically, 'Good, he was an SOB.'”
1-cupcake-at-a-time
Colors
"My sister died and said it was extremely peaceful. She said it was very loud like a train station and lots of talking and she was stuck in this area that was like a curtain with lots of beautiful colors (colors that you don’t see in real life according to her) a man told her 'He was sorry, but she had to go back as it wasn’t her time.'"
Hannah_LL7
"I had a really similar experience except I was in an endless garden with flowers that were colors I had never seen before. It was quiet and peaceful and a woman in a dress looked at me, shook her head, and just said 'Not yet.' As I was coming back, it was extremely loud, like everyone in the world was trying to talk all at once. It was all very disorienting but it changed my perspective on life!"
huntokarrr
The Fog
"I was in a gray fog with a girl who looked a lot like a young version of my grandmother (who was still alive) but dressed like a pioneer in the 1800s she didn't say anything but kept pulling me towards an opening in the wall. I kept refusing to go because I was so tired."
"I finally got tired of her nagging and went and that's when I came to. I had bled out during a c-section and my heart could not beat without blood. They had to deliver the baby and sew up the bleeders. refill me with blood before they could restart my heart so, like, at least 12 minutes gone."
Fluffy-Hotel-5184
Through the Walls
"My spouse was dead for a couple of minutes one miserable night. She maintains that she saw nothing, but only heard people talking about her like through a wall. The only thing she remembers for absolute certain was begging an ER nurse that she didn't want to die."
"She's quite alive and well today."
Hot-Refrigerator6583
Well let's all be happy to be alive.
It seems to be all we have.
Trying to lose weight is a struggle understood by many people regardless of size.
The goal of reaching a healthy weight may seem unattainable, but with diet and exercise, it can pay off through persistence and discipline.
Seeing the pounds gradually drop off can also be a great motivator and incentivize people to stay the course.
Those who've achieved their respective weight goals shared their experiences when Redditor apprenti8455 asked:
"People who lost a lot of weight, what surprises you the most now?"
Redditors didn't see these coming.
Shiver Me Timbers
"I’m always cold now!"
– Telrom_1
"I had a coworker lose over 130 pounds five or six years ago. I’ve never seen him without a jacket on since."
– r7ndom
"140 lbs lost here starting just before COVID, I feel like that little old lady that's always cold, damn this top comment was on point lmao."
– mr_remy
Drawing Concern
"I lost 100 pounds over a year and a half but since I’m old(70’s) it seems few people comment on it because (I think) they think I’m wasting away from some terminal illness."
– dee-fondy
"Congrats on the weight loss! It’s honestly a real accomplishment 🙂"
"Working in oncology, I can never comment on someone’s weight loss unless I specifically know it was on purpose, regardless of their age. I think it kind of ruffles feathers at times, but like I don’t want to congratulate someone for having cancer or something. It’s a weird place to be in."
– LizardofDeath
Unleashing Insults
"I remember when I lost the first big chunk of weight (around 50 lbs) it was like it gave some people license to talk sh*t about the 'old' me. Old coworkers, friends, made a lot of not just negative, but harsh comments about what I used to look like. One person I met after the big loss saw a picture of me prior and said, 'Wow, we wouldn’t even be friends!'”
"It wasn’t extremely common, but I was a little alarmed by some of the attention. My weight has been up and down since then, but every time I gain a little it gets me a little down thinking about those things people said."
– alanamablamaspama
Not Everything Goes After Losing Weight
"The loose skin is a bit unexpected."
– KeltarCentauri
"I haven’t experienced it myself, but surgery to remove skin takes a long time to recover. Longer than bariatric surgery and usually isn’t covered by insurance unless you have both."
– KatMagic1977
"It definitely does take a long time to recover. My Dad dropped a little over 200 pounds a few years back and decided to go through with skin removal surgery to deal with the excess. His procedure was extensive, as in he had skin taken from just about every part of his body excluding his head, and he went through hell for weeks in recovery, and he was bedridden for a lot of it."
– Jaew96
These Redditors shared their pleasantly surprising experiences.
Shopping
"I can buy clothes in any store I want."
– WaySavvyD
"When I lost weight I was dying to go find cute, smaller clothes and I really struggled. As someone who had always been restricted to one or two stores that catered to plus-sized clothing, a full mall of shops with items in my size was daunting. Too many options and not enough knowledge of brands that were good vs cheap. I usually went home pretty frustrated."
– ganache98012
No More Symptoms
"Lost about 80 pounds in the past year and a half, biggest thing that I’ve noticed that I haven’t seen mentioned on here yet is my acid reflux and heartburn are basically gone. I used to be popping tums every couple hours and now they just sit in the medicine cabinet collecting dust."
– colleennicole93
Expanding Capabilities
"I'm all for not judging people by their appearance and I recognise that there are unhealthy, unachievable beauty standards, but one thing that is undeniable is that I can just do stuff now. Just stamina and flexibility alone are worth it, appearance is tertiary at best."
– Ramblonius
People Change Their Tune
"How much nicer people are to you."
"My feet weren't 'wide' they were 'fat.'"
– LiZZygsu
"Have to agree. Lost 220 lbs, people make eye contact and hold open doors and stuff"
"And on the foot thing, I also lost a full shoe size numerically and also wear regular width now 😅"
– awholedamngarden
It's gonna take some getting used to.
Bones Everywhere
"Having bones. Collarbones, wrist bones, knee bones, hip bones, ribs. I have so many bones sticking out everywhere and it’s weird as hell."
– Princess-Pancake-97
"I noticed the shadow of my ribs the other day and it threw me, there’s a whole skeleton in here."
– bekastrange
Knee Pillow
"Right?! And they’re so … pointy! Now I get why people sleep with pillows between their legs - the knee bones laying on top of each other (side sleeper here) is weird and jarring."
– snic2030
"I lost only 40 pounds within the last year or so. I’m struggling to relate to most of these comments as I feel like I just 'slimmed down' rather than dropped a ton. But wow, the pillow between the knees at night. YES! I can relate to this. I think a lot of my weight was in my thighs. I never needed to do this up until recently."
– Strongbad23
More Mobility
"I’ve lost 100 lbs since 2020. It’s a collection of little things that surprise me. For at least 10 years I couldn’t put on socks, or tie my shoes. I couldn’t bend over and pick something up. I couldn’t climb a ladder to fix something. Simple things like that I can do now that fascinate me."
"Edit: Some additional little things are sitting in a chair with arms, sitting in a booth in a restaurant, being able to shop in a normal store AND not needing to buy the biggest size there, being able to easily wipe my butt, and looking down and being able to see my penis."
– dma1965
People making significant changes, whether for mental or physical health, can surely find a newfound perspective on life.
But they can also discover different issues they never saw coming.
That being said, overcoming any challenge in life is laudable, especially if it leads to gaining confidence and ditching insecurities.
