What age are you..

arybvtcw0eolkf · 16-01-2009 01:33PM #1

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 · 16-01-2009 01:35PM

42 is the answer to everything. Enjoy it.

admiralofthefleet · 16-01-2009 01:36PM

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 · 16-01-2009 01:44PM

42, I can just about remember being 42.

Lobelia Overhill · 16-01-2009 01:54PM

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 · 16-01-2009 01:56PM

To old to Rock and Roll
To young to die

Ass · 16-01-2009 01:56PM

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 · 16-01-2009 01:57PM

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LeahBaby · 16-01-2009 02:00PM

I'm 20

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

Lows: Try not to dwell on them.

Kold · 16-01-2009 02:01PM

23. Not sure if life has started yet.

Puddleduck · 16-01-2009 02:03PM

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 · 16-01-2009 02:04PM

Kold wrote: »

23. Not sure if life has started yet.

+1

Wagon · 16-01-2009 02:07PM

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 · 16-01-2009 02:09PM

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 · 16-01-2009 02:15PM

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 · 16-01-2009 02:18PM

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 · 16-01-2009 02:19PM

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 · 16-01-2009 02:23PM

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 · 16-01-2009 02:27PM

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 · 16-01-2009 02:31PM

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 · 16-01-2009 02:34PM

RedXIV wrote: »

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

/Takes the credit

RedXIV · 16-01-2009 02:37PM

Kold wrote: »

/Takes the credit

forever in your debt

Puddleduck · 16-01-2009 02:38PM

/pukes.

Sorry, had to be done

John Mason · 16-01-2009 02:52PM

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 · 16-01-2009 03:10PM

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.

16-01-2009 03:14PM

Mairt wrote: »

a 'gentlemans family'.

They call that the pigeons brood where I come from.

16-01-2009 03:14PM

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 · 16-01-2009 03:14PM

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 · 16-01-2009 03:26PM

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

_blank_ · 16-01-2009 03:30PM

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 · 16-01-2009 03:30PM

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.

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