Gun to your head, what has been the happiest year of your life so far and why?

DareGod

For me it was 2007-2008. I was having a care-free good time, and I still had hope for and was excited about the future. Plus I was less aware of, was much more oblivious to, all the ****ty things that go on in the world.

What about you?

Sheep Lover

Definitely wouldn't be the year I had a gun pressed against my head, that's for sure

DareGod

Sheep Lover wrote: »

Definitely wouldn't be the year I had a gun pressed against my head, that's for sure

Fair point. You'd get a good story out of it though, at least.

jaded_pause

2006-2008. the rest can go die in a fire. pit. pit of fire.

NachoBusiness

1984..
Got my first Mountain Bike that year and a Walkman for Christmas.
Bought / somehow got hold of: Springsteen's Born In The USA and Billy Idol's Rebel Yell.
Seen Beverly Hills Cop, The Terminator, The Karate Kid..
Clara Lara with the Scouts.
Did stuff with girls.
Good times.

PTH2009

2012- from March-Dec saw a few bands i wanted to see, was in a relationship, college, had money

all downhill from there although im going on my first flight in a few weeks time

The_fever

2008 I finally got clean, I have not had a drug, drink or a bet since. it can be done.

endacl

Any year when I didn't have a gun pointed at my head, and an unanswerable question to respond to.

MadDog76

jaded_pause wrote: »

2006-2008. the rest can go die in a fire. pit. pit of fire.

Is that not 3 years?

Robsweezie

I couldn't pinpoint one standout year to be honest


I think threads like these can be a nice reflection of the past but also cause a kind of sickly celtic tiger nostalgia that takes away from the now.

I used to be the nostalgic type that always wanted what was, and never appreciated what is. And then is became was. Like being being in school. In second year it's like, I wish I was in first year again, then in third year you wish you were back in second year.

It's sad to hear you say you still had hope in 07. Sometimes we view the past in rose tinted glasses.

dodderangler

So this person has a gun to my head and asks me about best year of my life?
Pleasant gun man IMO

Ruu

Summer of 69. Best days of my life.

DareGod

Robsweezie wrote: »

I couldn't pinpoint one standout year to be honest


I think threads like these can be a nice reflection of the past but also cause a kind of sickly celtic tiger nostalgia that takes away from the now.

Yeah but the now sucks ass!

jaded_pause

MadDog76 wrote: »

Is that not 3 years?

ok technically it does seem like that but the 14 or so months from the end of 2006 to the start of 2008, and the entire 2007, but good stuff happened in the other 2 months or so mentioned. I didn't think I'd get slapped on the wrist for a couple months mr. sassypants!

Duckworth_Luas

MadDog76 wrote: »

Is that not 3 years?

He's got a triple barrelled shotgun to his head

jaded_pause

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

He's got a triple barrelled shotgun to his head

:eek:

Fluffy Cat 88

2006.

Boom time, tiger roaring, breakfast rolls, new cars, the property ladder, credit cards, twas great ; )

newtoboards

The year from when I turned 22 (2001). Had a brilliant surprise party, got who I thought was the guy of my dreams, was working in a job that I felt incredibly passionate about.... Everything was absolutely on the up for the year and then some. Roll on a couple of years from that and the dream guy was very unkind and broke my heart with every relationship since had been overshadowed by how terrible that one ended up for me, I left my dream job as it was a contract one and I wanted job security so started working in a permanent job sort of related to it but it has never been the same. Cant believe that is 14 years ago now and I still look back and think how great it was.

XplaygirlX

Winter of '09/'10 most incredible and amazing time of my life. Adored every second

Teafor two12345

17 for that year I woke up happy every morning.

efb

1998 off to college

Galwayguy35

Luna Big Geese wrote: »

1949 - We sat and drank with the sun on our shoulders and felt like free men. Hell, we could have been tarring the roof of one of our own houses. We were the lords of all creation. As for Andy - he spent that break hunkered in the shade, a strange little smile on his face, watching us drink his beer.

1949 wasn't a great year for Andy by the time Boggs was done with him...

Sunnyisland

Luna Big Geese wrote: »

1949 - We sat and drank with the sun on our shoulders and felt like free men. Hell, we could have been tarring the roof of one of our own houses. We were the lords of all creation. As for Andy - he spent that break hunkered in the shade, a strange little smile on his face, watching us drink his beer.

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

1949 wasn't a great year for Andy by the time Boggs was done with him...

Well here's the thing

A lot of things bother me

Such as "Why are we here?

Is there an afterlife?

Whats the meaning of it all"

and "Who the **** hung the poster back up in the cell at the end of The Shawshank Redemption after andy dufresne escaped?"

Sunnyisland

Best year of my life , 1962.

Teafor two12345

realies wrote: »

Well here's the thing

A lot of things bother me

Such as "Why are we here?

Is there an afterlife?

Whats the meaning of it all"

and "Who the **** hung the poster back up in the cell at the end of The Shawshank Redemption after andy dufresne escaped?"

He stuck it on real well!

Dirty Dingus McGee

2000 - 2001 school year and summer.

Second year in secondary school and there were teacher strikes on that year which meant we got a load of days off that year.

Second year and 5th year are probably the 2 best school years so it was a really easy time and soccer (which I really like now but really loved back then) was much more enjoyable and also it was around this time that I began to fully appreciate the Simpsons.

Whereas by and large my teen years were great my 20's have been a complete disappointment.

Sunnyisland

Nostalgia is a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.[1] The word nostalgia is a learned formation of a Greek compound, consisting of νόστος (nóstos), meaning "homecoming", a Homeric word, and ἄλγος (álgos), meaning "pain, ache", and was coined by a 17th-century medical student to describe the anxieties displayed by Swiss mercenaries fighting away from home. Described as a medical condition—a form of melancholy—in the Early Modern period, it became an important trope in Romanticism.[1]


I am forever doing this, the ifs why and only :-(

Teafor two12345

realies wrote: »

Nostalgia is a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.[1] The word nostalgia is a learned formation of a Greek compound, consisting of νόστος (nóstos), meaning "homecoming", a Homeric word, and ἄλγος (álgos), meaning "pain, ache", and was coined by a 17th-century medical student to describe the anxieties displayed by Swiss mercenaries fighting away from home. Described as a medical condition—a form of melancholy—in the Early Modern period, it became an important trope in Romanticism.[1]


I am forever doing this, the ifs why and only :-(

I don't really like it. I don't really do it much.

Teafor two12345

Actually my brain just doesn't do it very much ...it's not me ..just brain.

sonny.knowles

NachoBusiness wrote: »

Did stuff with girls.
Good times.

Stuff like play with dolls and makeup?

crazygeryy

The_fever wrote: »

2008 I finally got clean, I have not had a drug, drink or a bet since. it can be done.

I bet it can't.

OhDearyMe

April 2007-March 2008.

biko

74-75

Lumps Bumps n Blues

July and August 1995, and to a lesser extent July and August 1993. But those two months in 1995 were perfect, the only time I experienced pure, unadulterated happiness, hope, and contentment, with not even a hint of a black cloud hanging over me. It had never happened to me before, hasn't happened since. And it the hottest summer ever, too.

Colser

2001..New baby,new house and new car.Still have them all but the house needs a makeover,the baby is now a hormonal teen and the car is parked up and replaced by something a little bit cheaper to run. Nothing a lotto win wont sort...

Dolbert

This one has been pretty fantastic. I've enjoyed our new baby so much and have been lucky enough to take almost the whole year on maternity leave. Also got to travel the country playing some great gigs and festivals. Working is for chumps.

SEPT 23 1989

Consistently happy for a year

Never happened

Whispered

biko wrote: »

74-75

Got no reason?

I've found this last year both the happiest year of my life so far and the one with the scariest moments.

Menas

2009. Got married, had high disposable income, went on 4 or 5 holidays abroad, saw some great bands and had a very active social life.

sheesh

1991

Valentina

2005/2006. The last time I had that incredible, no worries kinda happiness. I'll never have that again.

I'd just graduated and got a job I loved. My dad had retired a few years earlier so now that I, the youngest, was set up in the real word my parents could finally relax and enjoy themselves, travelling etc. It was a great time.

The following year my mother was diagnosed with cancer and was gone within 6 months.

Such is life.