Jack Martin, experience is Life's greatest teacher.

2011

“What do you mean you’re talking to some girl in Germany? Have you even met her?”

“Well, no but we talk every day and have Skyped a few ti—”

“Hahahahaha bro get real.”

2011

“你跟德国女孩谈对象是什么意思?你见过她吗?”

“嗯，没有，但是我们每天都会联系，而且还用skypy聊过几次。”

“哈哈哈，兄弟，现实点。”

2013

“What about you Jack, you gotta girlfriend?”

“Uhm, well no. Kinda talking to someone here and there though. It’s complicated”

“How so?”

“Well she lives in Hamburg”

“Hamburg?”

“Yeah, uh, Germany.”

“Oh, so when does she come back?”

“Actually, she’s from there. We’ve never actually met…”

*smirk*

2013

“你呢，杰克，你有女朋友吗?”

“嗯,没有。不过我有对象了。情况有点复杂”

“什么情况?”

"她住在汉堡"

“汉堡?”

“是的,呃,德国。”

“哦，那她什么时候回来?”

“事实上，她就是当地人。我们还没见过面……”

*傻笑*

2015

“BRO! You tryna be my wingman tonight and I’ll be yours?

“Haha—I’ll wingman for you, but I don’t need one. I’m kinda talking to someone.”

“Who?”

“It’s a long, story. She lives in Germany, no I haven’t met her, and yes she’s real—I’m not getting catfished.”

“Haha uhmm OK, well, if you change your mind let me know.”

2015

“兄弟!你今晚得帮我，以后我也帮你行么?”

“哈哈——我可以帮你，但我不需要你的帮助。我算是有对象了。”

“谁?”

“这说来就话长了。她住在德国，但我还没见过她，是的，她是真实的——我不会上当受骗的。”

“哈哈，好吧，如果你改变主意了，记得告诉我。”

For 5-and-a-half years, people told me I was an idiot.

They told me I was out of my mind, that I was wasting my time, that I need to get my priorities straight.

They said I was getting catfished by a 60 year old guy behind a computer screen.

They told me that even if she was real—which she’s not—it would never work out.

I ignored them.

5年半的时间里，人人都说我是个白痴。

他们说我疯了，我在浪费时间，我需要把事情的轻重缓急排清楚。

他们说我被电脑那头一个60岁的老男人骗了。

他们告诉我，即使她真的是个姑娘——很明显并不是——我也永远不会成功。

我不管他们。

7 years of talking and 2-and-a-half years dating later, I’m happy I did.

Instead of listening to everyone else, I listened to my heart.

Best. Decision. Ever.

在经过7年的交流和2年半的约会后，我很高兴我成功了。

我不理会别人的意见，而是听从自己的内心。

这是我有生以来最棒的决定。

Sparsh Gupta, works at HCL Technologies (2016-present)

The best decision I have made in my life is to marry the love of my life.

So the story goes like this. I was infatuated to a girl when I was in X standard. She became my crush in few days. I used to be a very shy person who is not able to talk to a girl by making an eye contact. My friends used to tease me by that girl’s name daily. She used to come to my class to borrow books of different subjects. By the time, she stopped coming because of all this. One day I gathered courage to talk to her over the phone just to hear her voice and a normal talk, no proposal nothing. As soon as I called her, she said Hello, and I became numb. I was not able to utter a single word and cut the call.

I happened to meet her after 2 years and then I was able to discuss all of that happened in school and we became best friends with the passage of time. I was unaware that she loves someone else. My heart sinked and I thought of giving up on her but still I was talking to her normally. But we fought someday over this issue and we stopped talking to each other. My friends used to say that you will find a much better girl than her, somehow I started believing this point and it became fact.

我这辈子做过的最好的决定就是娶了我一生挚爱。

故事是这样的。10年级的时候我迷上了一个女孩。很快她就成了我的梦中情人。我曾经是一个非常害羞的人，根本不敢跟女孩说话，有眼神交流。我的朋友们每天都用那个女孩的名字来取笑我。她以前常来我班借不同学科的书。可那段时间她因为我，不再来了。有一天，我鼓起勇气给她打了电话，只是想听听她的声音，和她说几句话，不是表白，别的什么都没有。电话一通，她说了声你好，我就呆掉了了。我一个字都说不出，就把电话挂断了。

两年后，我巧遇了她，那时候我可以讨论学校里发生的所有事了，随着时间的推移，我们成为了最好的朋友。当时我没发现她爱上了别人。我的心沉入海底，想过放弃她，但我还是故作镇定地跟她聊天。但有一天我们为了这个问题争吵起来，互相不再理睬。我的朋友们一直都跟我说，你会找到一个比她更好的女孩，我开始相信这一点，然后真的变成了事实。

I found this perfect girl in 2012, she was my tutionmate in I standard and we never talked. I got to know that it is her birthday on 11th march through facebook, it was my birthday too. I sent her friend request and she accepted it immediately and wshed me “happy birthday” . I used to like her. We started talking from that day and she happened to be the best person I have ever met in my life. She was beautiful , kind hearted and loveable person. Most of the boys in my locality were after her. We talked for one year normally and became best friends where we used to talk most of the time of a day.

I proposed her on 21st January 2013 and she accepted it after a minute of thinking, my heart skipped a beat. We were commited from 5 years and then her parents came to my home to see me and meet my family for marriage. Everything went well and good to go. Next week my family went to her home and their “Roka” happened within no time as both families believe that its a good match. Although her mother knew about both of us but she was afraid if family will accept love marriage or not.

We got married on 29th april, 2018 and already 7 months have passed , I am glad and feel lucky everyday that I met her and she is really the best thing happened to me and my life has changed totally.

2012年的时候，我遇见了我的真命天女，她是我12年级的补习班同学，我们从没说过话。我通过facebook知道了3月11日是她的生日，也是我的生日。我给她发送了个好友请求，她马上通过了，并对我说“生日快乐”。我以前也挺喜欢她。从那天起，我们开始联系，她是我这辈子遇到过的最好的人。她是一个美丽、善良、可爱的人。我那一带的大多数男孩都在追求她。我们聊了一年，成了最好的朋友，我们经常一天到晚绝大部分时间都在聊天。

2013年1月21日，我向她表白，她考虑了一分钟后接受了，我的心跳都漏了一拍。我们谈了5年的恋爱，她的父母来我家看我，跟我的家人见面商量结婚事宜。一切都进行得很顺利。过了一周，我的家人也去了她的家，两家都认为我们是良配。虽然她的母亲知道我们两个，但她担心我的家庭是否会接受自由婚姻。

我们在2018年4月29日结婚了，到今天已经7个月了，我每天都很高兴，觉得自己很幸运遇到了她，她真的是发生在我身上的最好的事，我的生活完全改变了。

Since the day we met:

-she always used to motivate me to study and bring in a competetion so that I score high and more than her. Because I used to be a bright child in school but somehow I lost my concentration in college and scored bad.

-She pushed me and I scored more than 75 percent marks everytime which helped me score good academically. I gave so many interviews , failed to get selected in all of them, she was there to support me and told me that one day you will be selected and I will be proud of you. I did not lose my courage and concentrated on it and I got two jobs back to back.

-She helped me with my finances also, she was there when I was struggling financially and unable to manage my funds.

-She was there when my mom passed away and I was all alone and struggling in my career.

-She was there when I was about to give up on everything.

从我们相遇的那一天起:

-她总是激励我学习，跟我比赛，所以我考出高分，比她分数高。因为我曾经是个聪明的学生，但大学期间不专心学习，成绩不理想。

-她督促我，每次我都能考出75%以上的分数，这让我在学业方面表现出色。我参加了很多面试，但都没有被录用，她一直支持我，告诉我有一天会被录用的，我会为你骄傲。我没有失去勇气，专心准备，最后接连得到了两份工作。

-她还在经济上帮助我，当我经济困难，无力打理资金时，她就在我身边帮助我。

-当我妈妈去世的时候她就在我身边，而我独自一人为了事业奋斗。

-当我要放弃一切的时候，她就在那里。

Happy we !

Thankyou so much for being in my life and to change it for good. I owe it to you.

我们很幸福!

非常感谢你能出现在我的生命中，改变了我的生活。我欠你的。

Gopalkrishna Vishwanath,

Not one but several. Here are a few.

To accept the offer of Admission at BITS Pilani, in 1967. It changed my life.

To marry my present wife in 1975

To postpone buying cars and scooters and instead borrowing heavily and building a house at Bangalore, at an age when my peers were busy enjoying life and spending on consumer durables, holidays, and other luxuries.

To reverse my decision to have not more than one child (my daughter) and expand my family. My son was born nine years after the birth of my daughter. He turned out to be a Rhodes Scholar, and a top intellectual and walked into Oxford University and got his graduate, Master’s and Doctorate degrees before the age of 29. I didn’t spend a penny on his higher education. Today he teaches at Cambridge University. If I had not reversed my decision, this great scholar would not have been born.

To resign my Public Sector job after 28 years of loyal and happy service and venture as an entrepreneur.

这种决定不止一个，而是好几个。我挑几个说吧。

1967年接受比拉尼学院的录取通知书。它改变了我的生活。

1975年与我现在的妻子结婚

推迟购买汽车和电动车，借了很多钱，在班加罗尔建了房子，当时我的同龄人正忙着享受生活，把钱花在耐用消费品、度假和其他奢侈品上。

推番自己只生一个孩子(我的女儿)的决定，扩大我的家庭规模。我女儿出生9年后，我的儿子出生了。他后来成为罗兹奖学金获得者和顶尖的知识分子，进入牛津大学求学，在29岁之前完成了研究生、硕士和博士学位。我没有为他的高等教育花费一分钱。今天他在剑桥大学教书。如果我没有改变我的决定，这位伟大的学者就不会诞生。

辞去我在公共部门的工作，结束了28年忠诚愉快的公务员生涯，开始创业。

To decide it was time to call it off, 10 years later and sell the company and retire, at the right time.

All these decisions have proved correct in retrospect.

One more decision taken recently is to leave Bangalore after 41 years and move to a retirement home next year at a place called Devanahalli, near the Bangalore International airport, 40 km from Bangalore. It is too early to say how good a decision this is. Ask me again after 5 years and I will be able to tell.

Thanks for asking.

决定是时候停下来了，于是我在10年后卖掉公司，在恰当的时候退休了。

回顾过去，所有这些决定后来都被证明是正确的。

我最近又做了一个决定，离开居住了41年的班加罗尔，明年搬到离班加罗尔40公里以外，位于班加罗尔国际机场附近的德瓦纳哈里养老院。现在说这个决定有多么好还为时过早。五年后再问问我，我会告诉你的。

谢谢你的关心。

 外文链接：https://www.quora.com/What-has-been-the-best-decision-youve-made-in-your-life