Bob/PKB
Sometimes you just "go for it" without thinking about the logistics or consequences.
Mine would probably be back in 1973 when my boyfriend moved in with me to help with finances (we had separate bedrooms, for what that was worth), and ended up together for 9 years. My best friend and lover, we had a great time.
How that worked for me? One day I woke up and realized I wanted marriage and a family. He didn't, and we broke apart soon after. He has no children and never married. You all know my story, and my only regret is that I had my children later than I'd have preferred.
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robertgrist
Sometimes, you just have to run for your life and leave everything behind no matter what….then get your life back together starting with nothing. I never fully recovered, but I survived and I know I did what I had to do. Nothing can prepare a person to do that and survive. But I have known others who have had to do the same thing just to survive. Those who stay too long trying to hedge through such problems, often, don’t survive or are severely harmed. Flying over the coo-coos nest may seem to many to be wildly crazy….but if it gets you beyond the smoking pile you were about to land in it’s worth the effort.
| 10 years ago. Rating: 7 | |
impulse |ˈimˌpəls|
noun
1 a sudden strong and unreflective urge or desire to act: I had an almost irresistible impulse to giggle.
• the tendency to act in this way: he was a man of impulse, not premeditation.
2 a driving or motivating force; an impetus: an added impulse to this process of renewal.
3 a pulse of electrical energy; a brief current: nerve impulses | a spiral is used to convert radio waves into electrical impulses.
4 Physics a force acting briefly on a body and producing a finite change of momentum.
• a change of momentum so produced, equivalent to the average value of the force multiplied by the time during which it acts.
PHRASES
on impulse (or on an impulse )suddenly and without forethought; impulsively.
ORIGIN early 17th cent. (as a verb in the sense ‘give an impulse to’): the verb from Latin impuls- ‘driven on,’ the noun from impulsus ‘impulsion, outward pressure,’ both from the verb impellere (see impel) .
I was looking for something a little more specific. Running for your life doesn't sound impulsive to me. Did you just decide on the spur of the moment to leave and not look back? Just drinking your morning coffee one minute, then driving off, never to return the next?
Was supplying the definition of "impulsive" well-thought out, as I did explain what I meant in the additional text below the question line. It corresponds with your #1 (most likely that being the most common meaning of the word, and, coincidentally, and I repeat myself for emphasis, what I meant).
Looking around through cleaner lenses at the crowd of well dressed on-lookers I said, “ Has anyone seen my cat?” and left by a nearby exit.
digger
Mine was buying a revenue property site unseen. Luckily, when I finally laid eyes on it, I was pleasantly surprised at the shape it was in. The numbers were just too good to pass up.
| 10 years ago. Rating: 7 | |
