What age are you..

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And whats been the most significant points in your life, your highs and low's to date?.

Me - I'm 42.

The most signifcant times in my life were I guess..

Low's - losing some friends to drugs and sitting in Beaumont ICU for 10 ten days while my uncle died from head injuries suffered in a drunken fall.

Low's - serving in Lebanon while five Irish lads died, one to a gunshot, three to a landmine and one to suicide.

High's, I guess leaving school and joining the Defence Forces in 1985. Serving oversea's for the first time in 1988. Returning home with the money for a deposit on my first home and enough left over to get married.

Then in 1992 my first child being born - a boy. Followed in 1995 by the birth of my daughter - a 'gentlemans family'.

My life more or less continues on a high at the moment, despite quickly approaching middle age I'm still competing at Judo - to the amazement and amusement of my kids!.

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Sherifu

42 is the answer to everything. Enjoy it.

admiralofthefleet

im 27, 28 in 2 weeks

16 to 23 were great times for me, pretty wild and had lost of fun, since then ive calmed down a lot and got on with setting myself up for the future

Hagar

42, I can just about remember being 42.

Lobelia Overhill

I'm 43. I'm on Carers Allowance with the last 10 years looking after my parents. I can't even remember what it's like to "have a life" and be able to go out, and do what I want, when I want.

Deadzone

To old to Rock and Roll
To young to die

Ass

Lobelia Overhil wrote: »

I'm 43. I'm on Carers Allowance with the last 10 years looking after my parents. I can't even remember what it's like to "have a life" and be able to go out, and do what I want, when I want.

Bring your parents out with you , or is that not "cool" these days?

BaconZombie

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LeahBaby

I'm 20

Highs: Getting a mortgage on my 19th bday!!

Lows: Try not to dwell on them.

Kold

23. Not sure if life has started yet.

Puddleduck

LeahBaby wrote: »

I'm 20

Highs: Getting a mortgage on my 19th bday!!

Lows: Try not to dwell on them.

You have a mortgage??? Fair fcuks to ya! Im 24(I think,Ive stopped counting) and Im still working out what the hell Im doing.

Highs will have been the last two years when Ive finally pulled my sh!t together and done some things Ive wanted to,

Lows would be the years before that.

Ron DMC

Kold wrote: »

23. Not sure if life has started yet.

+1

Wagon

22

Highs: right now I'm cheerful enough.
Lows: Shaved my mates pubes off and stuck them in his mouth. That was pretty low.

who007

Kold wrote: »

23. Not sure if life has started yet.

It hasn't!

35.3 )i.e. 35 version 3.

At one point I was putting my age down on a form and my ex pointed out I was a year older than I thought I was. Bitch added a year to my life!

Lows - LOTS.. too much alcohol, wasted years smoking - destroying my health and wasting money, spent too much time with the wrong women and wrong type of women, developed little as a person for many years. Never stuck with a) the book I tried to write b) any of the martial arts I started training in. Wasted my school and college years in a daydream and ended up in the same job I haven't liked for years.

Highs - Discovering I was good at running (although I always kind of knew but took it for granted until recently) - completing marathons etc., my daughter, my new apartment, ehmm... think that's about it.

jim o doom

phsyically 28, mentally 16 (forever).

Lows, when my parents died (at seperate times) was the worst. Plenty of high times though, and we all gotta go some time!

RedXIV

21

Lows: probably discovering I actually was a Geek in school and getting a fair bit of bullying sent my way. Moving house when i was 10, thought i'd never get over that. Finding out i was blind in one eye.

Highs: Going to college and finally fitting in. That subtle transition in people's thoughts of you from "kid" to "man". Meeting my girlfriend was also pretty lifechanging (in a good way)

Whispered

I'm 24, 25 in a month. - almost 1/4 of a centurt :eek:

Highs - The day we got the keys to our house 2 years ago

A suprise proposal on my birthday last year

Getting the phone call telling me that one of the pups I was looking after would pull through a sickness, then deciding to keep him.

Getting my Reiki master certificate.

Lows - a fair few family deaths in a short space of time, including a cousin who was only 20 dying in her sleep.

An old friend commiting suicide, then hearing rumours that it had something to do with me (despite not having spoken to him for a year)

Finding out the house we bought 2 years ago is now worth a lot less and realising that no matter how hard we work, we're going to be in negative equity for a very long time.

At the moment though, things are going great, planning a wedding and having a little puppy who is always so so happy to see me in the mornings it has to bring a smile to my face, no matter how hungover I may be.

Canis Lupus

28.

Highs... Dunno... completing a sprint triathlon last year and carrying the fitness over to now to do more this year? (I used to be a chunky lazy ****er).

No lows that I can think of to be honest.

tribulus

23. +1 to the life hasn't really begun yet, my highs and lows would pale in comparison to others.

One high would be getting my dog - he's like the little brother I never had.

A low would be my mate dying of a heart attack when he was 14.
A more selfish low was missing out on a job I've wanted since I was a kid by one place and possibly not having the chance to get it again for at least a year.

abi2007

25

Low: breaking up with someone I loved

Highs: Holiday to Zykntos, first year of college, Moving into my first home on my own.

Kold

RedXIV wrote: »

Meeting my girlfriend was also pretty lifechanging (in a good way)

/Takes the credit

RedXIV

Kold wrote: »

/Takes the credit

forever in your debt

Puddleduck

/pukes.


Sorry, had to be done

John Mason

almost 34

Highs:

Realising you have to have lows to know you are on a high and the only person who can make you happy is yourself.

this revelation changed by life beyond comphrension 2 years ago.

so go me, i am amazing

Quazzie

I'm 28 and my biggest high was last November when my son was born. Quiet simply the biggest thing that could've ever happened to me.

Mairt

Mairt wrote: »

a 'gentlemans family'.

They call that the pigeons brood where I come from.

24


Highs and lows......realising that they are a part of life and inevitable means I try not to let them dictate who I am.

Turd Ferguson

22 now. Highs have been pretty much the last 6 years. Great friends and good times, lots of drinking and some pretty wild times.

Lows have to my ma(cue yore ma jokes :pac:) getting cancer. But I tend not to dwell on the lows and just keep on keeping on.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

I'm 25, waiting for my life to start really. Lets hope it starts soon, yea?

Lowest point was 2006, worked in AIB, hated it. Girlfriend left to Australia, was in massive debt due to college loans, lost the will to live, most depressing year of my life.

Highest point. 2008, new girlfriend, new apartment, got my BA and got the idea to start a new business.

Lows, moving house back in 2000, not being able to see my mates when I wanted, eventually speaking to 1-2 out of about 40+ of us. Pretty sad.

Highs, 2001 joined the RDF, one of the best things I ever done in my life, great experience. However when I wanted to join the PDF I was too old

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pink fluffy bunny wrote: »

so go me, i am amazing

:rolleyes:

I'm 29.

Lows : erm....can't remember. Some football related stuff

Highs : Leaving UCD after 1st year.

Seeing Australia, NZ, SE Asia and West Coast USA.

Some football related stuff.

Getting off the gear.

JCDUB

Am 30.

Lows: My Dad recently dying of cancer.

Bit of a mis-spent youth, drinking and soft drugs for a few years, great craic at the time though:D

Highs: Been made redundant recently, and feeling very positive about changing career path to something which I will actually find fulfiling.

Year and a half travelling the world and broadening my horizons - recommend it to anyone.

21,finishing my undergrad degree and pursuing a Pharmacy degree next year!:)

g5fd6ow0hseima

Not playing the baby, but stuck in a society which I truly am out of sync with. Worst off, it doesnt look like ill be getting away from Ireland any time soon. Music passes the time for me.

minidazzler

19, Male


Lows - The Entire ages of 12-15. I went through one of the worst pubertiesyou can imagine, I had no friends whatsoever, and I wanted nothing more than to die.


High's - The last year or two, Dropped out of college, have a job working every now and then at Concerts and Matchs, Working the Munster match today, even though I hate rugby, and right now I am writing this from a Suite, penthouse in the Clarion Hotel Suite, Limerick, at no expense to me. I have some of the best friends you can imagine, and I really love life, even if I hate the fact that I am not outta here yet travelling.

Good thread Mairt.

SoWatchaWant

I'm 21.

Highs: Getting my college course

Lows: Almost dropping out of said course.

Getting dumped by my first girlfriend at 15.

Another high: Passing the exams successfully after I had the crisis. My dad sent me back on track.

Alot of people seem to be shy about admitting their age

craiginireland

Im 27,

Highs: The birth of my little boy, And some of the adventures i've had running my own company

Lows: Some of the adventures i've had running my own company

Terry

33 and a third.

Lows: Most of it.
Highs: Still waiting.

neil_hosey

22

Highs: Gettin a first in my degree.
College
Getting accepted for my Phd and starting it.

Lows: Losin a girlfriend of a long time.
Losing a lot of friends by moving down to meath (:eek: of all places..)

Wagon

<3BeingIN6th wrote: »

33 and a third.

Lows: Most of it.
Highs: Still waiting.

It's your own fauilt for giving up smoking.

Caoimhín

31 going on 90.

I am broken.

Snowie

im 27

Low points ermmmm possibly depression

HIGHS I would say it's eather droping my first coual, snowboarding , or droping into a powder boal 3 times the length of crow park....with no avalanch transeaver on which wsa plane dumb but OH So worth it...

Des

Des wrote: »

Getting off the gear.

What gear was that!?!

Ostrom

24

High: Getting research funding two years ago

Low: Doing the research

shrapnel222

37, male

highs: being a student for 7 years, travelling the world, my wife-soul mate, the birth of my 2 boys

lows: 2 tumors, one cancerous one not, probably more to follow- being told i'd never run again, and forbidden to do most sports.

purplegeko

25: Female

Highs: College life /getting my degree in a subject i am passionate about/ births of my niece and nephew
Lows: Being unbale to find work relating to my degree /losing contact with college friends

Smart Bug

29, malebug

We of the MTV generation feel neither highs nor lows.

javaboy

<3BeingIN6th wrote: »

33 and a third.

That must be a record!


23

I disregard highs and lows in my life as outliers.

Otacon

I am 23.

High: Getting a job straight out of college, getting paid loads, in London etc.

Low: Almost losing said job due to company going bankrupt

High: Maintaining job with subsidiery company

Low: Losing a good friend from work in a car accident

Plenty of ups and downs before these but these are the most recent.

petes

28

Highs: Having sex


Lows: Not having sex

Spore

26 - a dude.

Lows: seven years of depression, going off course in my life...

Highs: beating said illness and finally going back to college, doing a course I love and... excelling at it. Also meeting and moving in with my girlfriend.

Kiera

I’m 29.

Highs: Travelling around the world. Buying my own place on my own. I’m sure there’s a lot more but cant think of them right now.

Lows: Losing my Dad at 15. Nearly died 3 times due to Asthma complications when I was younger.

Life’s pretty awesome right now tho.