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Moments you'll never forget
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15-09-2010 08:17PM#1We all have those moments that we'll never forget and will stay with us forever. I've a few:
1) Breaking up with my on/off "boyfriend": We were together through final year, nothing serious just a bit of fun for both of us, but we stayed having fun when we finished college. I moved to the opposite end of the country and we kept the fun going. He wanted to just keep it as fun because of the distance, and that was fine with me. Then he dropped the bombshell that he had a girlfriend. Who was living in America. So I stopped contact. Over Christmas I was back up at home and he called and asked if we could meet for coffee as friends, I agreed, cos before we were having fun we were friends and I missed him, but one thing led to another and yeah, well I don't need to say what happened
I felt awful for his girlfriend, but I got over it. We met for a drink again, and he kept trying to lob the gob, but I just kept avoiding it. We were walking through town and he took my hand, looked into my eyes and told me how much he loves spending time with me and how much he misses me, and went to kiss me. I muttered "you have a girlfriend" and that stopped him. We talked for a while, and then had a goodbye kiss - and I have to say, that kiss will stick with me FOREVER. It was so emotional - so many feelings behind it. It was perfect - just the best kiss ever, knee's buckling, the lot! - until I remembered it was a goodbye kiss, and I had to go. I cried the whole way home in the taxi. I'll never forget that kiss. I still get butterflies when I think of it.
2) Holding my nephew for the first time: And looking into his eyes and thinking that he was the most precious thing ever. Knowing that this little dude was going to be a major part in my life (his mom had PND so I was minding him for the first few months) and knowing that I was unconditionally in love with this 6 hour old lump. He signalled a turning point in my life - it wasn't on track, but knowing he was going to rely on me made me get things back on the straight and narrow, and now he has an aunt he can be proud of. I love that kid, and some day I'll have my own and give him some cousins.
3) Hearing my first serious boyfriend had died: His sister rang me to tell me he'd had a brain hemmorage and was in ICU. We'd been together for almost 5 years and had broken up over the summer, but were back talking and had spent the previous weekend together (yes, in the biblical sense!) and were discussing if we could move on from our break up (we broke up because I'd lost his baby) and we decided that we should give it another go. He had the stroke on the Tuesday and died on the Thursday. I got a phonecall on my way home from work to tell me he was gone. I never got to say goodbye. The weekend together we'd spent listening to Snow Patrol's "Final Straw" albumn, and "Run" was on my ipod as I took the call - that song always reminds me of him.
That's all I can think of for now! I'm sure as others share I'll remember more!59
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- Day that I first met my husband - we saw one another in college and both looked and said hello - remember going on about how cute he was to my mummy...it took a while for us to go on our first date.
- Day that mummy had her brain haemorage.
- Day that I knew without a doubt that my husband is "the one" for me, was also the day that I was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer.
- Day that I got married
- Day that we found out that I was expecting our son.
- Day that our son was born.
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Tears came to my eyes after reading your post OP. I hope you got through it okay.
1) Finding out my bestfriend had committed suicide
We hadn't talked for a few months because of an argument we had. I remember her mother ringing me asking me to come to her house and telling me. I was devastated and it took me ages to recover after it.
2) Loosing my first serious boyfriend
I was with him a good couple of months and was mad about him I used to see him nearly everyday. There was a gap of about 2 weeks when he never rang or text me I really thought he didn't want to be with me. I was really angry so I went in to where he lived and after a load of running round I was finally sat down and told he had overdosed and nobody had the heart to tell me. I was shattered to this day the mention of drugs makes me angry I stay well clear of them.
3) Getting with my boyfriend
I had the biggest crush on him when I was younger, he was my brother's bassist at the time. 2 years past and I went to a gig of his new band's with some friends and we got along so well at the end of the night I really fancied him. I started texting him that night and we met up the next day and hung out with friends together. After a while they all ditched us as it was clear we both wanted each other, he was so shy so I was the one to initiate our first kiss and it was amazing. 3 and a half years later I am so very happy.
4) Seeing one of my favorite bands live
I went to see AC/DC last year with my boyfriend and friends, it was incredible and the day went so well. To top it off we got free pitt passes and right in front of the stage at the barrier. I ended up meeting some savage people and think of it from time to time.
5) Being in a crash on the way to Dublin
Heading up to Dublin with friends and ended in a crash it's still really foggy the clearest bit I remember was being in ambulance heading for the hospital and my boyfriend beside me holding my hand. I remember my heart rate going down all of a shot and getting the shock to the heart to keep it up. I was so scared.
I still have a couple but will spread them out over time
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Pocketfizz wrote: »Tears came to my eyes after reading your post OP. I hope you got through it okay.
I still have a couple but will spread them out over time
I've more too, but wanted to wait and spread them!
I got through it okay, well I'm still here to tell the tale. A little bit messed up, but here!
Another one:
Drunken talking: Went out with a crowd from work one night last year. My housemate/best friend's ex was finishing up, and she wanted some moral support, so obviously I went out with her. We went to the club, but drew the line at going to the house party, so we went to the local greasy spoon and got take out, and sat on the couch in our house and just talked - complete honesty. Neither of us were overly drunk, just merry. But we sat there with cold chips, cups of tea and biscuits until it was bright (it was November, so for a long time) and we just talked. We learned so much about each other that night, from funny things like favourite sex position and the most adventurous thing we'd done in bed, to deep and meaningful conversations about her on-going battle with eating disorders and my on-going battle with depression/anxiety. It was "the moment". Awesome.
Sunrise/Sunset: Seeing the sunrise at the lighthouse in Byron Bay (most easterly point on mainland Australia) and then the sunset at Uluru. Two of the most amazing moments.0 -
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First time I ever remember hearing music - the song was enya, orinoco flow. Was released in '88 so i was at most 2. Just sat on the kitchen floor as babies do and listened to it mesmerized and wondering what the hell it was. Still love the song and reminds me of my youth.
First time seeing my younger brother, i was 6 and i was amazingly jealous as he was getting all the attention My mother was holding him in her arms and he was crying a lot. He was very sick up until his teens and now he's a beast of a man, funny how life goes.
Seeing my cousin 2 weeks ago, didn't have the strength to even hold his head up yet he was cracking jokes and enjoying life even when the odds were stacked heavily against him. Got to spend 2 days with him before he passed in his sleep. A traumatic time for all involved but I will look back fondly and remember a friend who always looked on the bright side of life and laughed in the face of death.
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Throughout sixth year, I was in love with a friend of mine. We finally kissed, the night before I was moving to Edinburgh. It was bittersweet, because I knew I was leaving, but it was by far the best kiss of my entire life. It was indescribable. No kiss has ever lived up to it!
The night my ex boyfriend told me he loved me. We'd been to dinner together in a really fancy restaurant, had come back to his house and had hours of sex by candlelight, and we were cuddled up in bed listening to unbelievably romantic music and the rain pounding against the window, when he just casually said it. It was probably the happiest moment of my life.
The minute my ex told me it was over. My heart literally stopped and my blood ran cold. All those clichés you read in books, they all happened. I will never forget the disbelief, followed by the numbness, followed by the earth-shattering, crippling heart break.
The day my mum told me she had breast cancer. Nothing more needs to be said there really.
Passing my driving test! It was the biggest feeling of relief ever! 0 -
Going to the cinema for the first time, I was 8, a bit of a late bloomer for it, but anyway, and it was the summer of 1989. My dad took me to see Batman, I remember seeing the ads on tv for it, I had loads of Batman comics and a sticker album and some trading cards that came with a really manky piece of chewing gum that you didnt really care about but just wanted cards you didnt already have.
And then one Saturday it was pissing rain, and we took a drive into town, he didnt tell me what we were doing until we were walking towards the cinema, I honestly didnt know what to expect,but I do remember being amazed at the smell, you know that popcorn and freshly hoovered carpet smell that only exists in a cinema?
I cant remember much before it but I do remember the beginning, as it was an old style cinema that had these big red curtains that opened before the film began, so I was sitting there, amazed at how big the still blank cinema screen appeared, and the movie began.
And i sat there completely awestruck for over 2 hours, my dad actually thought I hated it because I didnt say a word the whole way home, it wasnt until my mam asked me if I liked it that I started gushing on about how amazing it was. So thats the exact moment I figured out I loved movies, I mean I had spent hours on weekends watching old videos that my dad had (well old now, new at the time) of Indiana Jones and Star Wars and Back to the Future and The Goonies and all that, but this was something else entirely, it felt like a life changing event, it might seem silly to some but it was definitely the moment I fell in love with the cinema, and still do over 20 years later 0 -
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Some more I've been thinking over.
When my sister went to hospital
She was diagnosed with crohn's disease and had to have several operations and at one point we thought she was gone. I was terrified:( Thankfully she pulled through, sadly she still needs to get injections every so many months.
Stalked and harassed
Over three years ago I started getting strange PM's on my bebo account from some person I didn't know (no picture), it contained all private things about me that a lot of people didn't know. It got worse... this person managed to hack into some email accounts and social networking sites belonging to me and my boyfriend. Every time I went online I had to reset all my stuff not to mention I lost many of my online accounts to the hacking and they started making duplicate pages of me and my fella's Facebook and bebo, it got worse when this person targeted other people that new my boyfriend (including his ex girlfriend) and of course I ended up being blamed for doing it even many people who I never seen nor heard of before hassled me despite there being 6 billion others in the world. I went to the guards twice and was turned away saying nothing could be done about it, one night I was sitting at home with my boyfriend and out of nowhere my boyfriend received a text from my mobile saying I wanted to break up with him.
I eventually had to change my phone number.
This went on until 1 year ago.:eek: Every time I think of it I get chills, the fact that we never found out who it was still scares me and every time I have to reset an account I always freak out in case it was hacked again.0 -
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Personally being cut from a car after an accident, thank god for volvos.
Not being in Ireland when my closet relative, my grandmother passed away suddenly. And watching other my other grandmother die of lung cancer.
Quite possibly the most depressing moments in my life which will haunt me as long as I live.
On a happier note, being asked to by a godparent to my nephew 0 -
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Great idea for a thread OP
Here's a few of mine -
I'd say the single most memorable moment of my life to-date was watching my sister have a mental breakdown, when I was fourteen years old. The trauma and confusion and sheer fear of what was happening is something that haunts me to this day. Unfortunately it's something she's never recovered from, so that day was basically the first day of the rest of our lives as a family. It still hurts to think about it.
Getting my JC results. For some reason this is far more memorable than getting the more important LC results. I guess that year my confidence had taken a huge hit and it was such a traumatic year for me that I never envisaged I could do as well as I did. It was a proud moment and I'll never forget how proud my mammy was!
Another depressing one...cycling uphill in blistering heat in New Jersey whilst on J1 several years ago, when a huge truck passed me by. I was in the midst of the onset of an eating disorder at the time, going for one of my 25 mile cycles, and I remember in that moment the truck came so close...and I really wished in that second it had knocked me down. I was so miserable and so scared. I knew I was out of control in that moment and that I needed help. It was a powerful moment.
Happier times...coming home after a work placement interview, opening my emails and finding out that I was going to be placed in a TV station for 2 months. It was an 'oh...really?' moment as I'd never even considered a career in TV, but four years later it's something that has lasted, mapped the course of my working life and has thrilled, excited and fulfilled me in ways I never imagined.
Finally, probably the happiest moment of my life, for no particular reason...walking over to college when I was studying abroad in California. I had just made some amazing American friends, started seeing a really great guy and was loving classes over there and just American life in general. It was a sweltering hot day, I stopped in Starbucks to get an iced tea and I just had this sudden burst of happiness, like I had never experienced before. An explosion of just 'this is it. I love life right now. I've never been happier.' I don't know what provoked it, maybe I was still pi5sed from the night before! But it was this lovely, safe, warm, adrenaline-filled feeling that I strive to encounter again in life.0 -
- My dad leaving my mum.
- Watching my mum mentally break down after this.
- Finding out my brother was in a car crash in which he broke his neck and the driver died in the car beside him. Also going to the drivers funeral.
- Not being in the country when my baby nephew was born, I was in the states and he was born 3 days before I was due to leave, I was so lonely those days.
- Getting accepted to college after I ****ed up my LC due to a fight with my (ex) best friend.
- Finding out one of my best friends committed suicide, causing his dad to become a raging alcololic (he was my dad's best friend) and eventually die himself.
- Rebounding after my ex.
- The night I went out with my boyfriend, and the day after when we kissed
- Being accepted to an MA programme, and finally finishing the most boring thesis in the world.
- Leaving the job I was in for 3 horrible years to get a nicer job where I'm not treated like crap!
- Going out the night after I got my eyes lasered. The colours I will never forget. It was like some sort of trippy rave although I'd only had one pint! 0 -
Great thread Hersheys
Reading through some of the posts, you've all had the worst of times and you've all had the best of times. It's always hard when you're having a bad time to believe that life will ever be good again. This thread proves that there'll always be a way out and good times ahead0 -
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My 16 Y/O cousin dying from Cystic Fibrosis
She was sick right over Christmas 2006, we all waited by the phone through the entire Holiday, we thought she was going to leave us on Christmas morning.. We all gathered in the Hospital but they kept giving us glimmers of hope.
On St. Stephen's Day we were told they were going to have one last try and treating her by going into her lungs with some special machine to clear them out but one of her lungs became punctured and we lost her on New Years Eve. It was the most miserable time a family could go through. She was such a lovely kid.
She never even told any of her school friends that she had the illness because she never wanted any special treatment RIP Sweety X
My Sister returning home from NYC on 11/09/2001
Her and her then Fiance, now Husband were literally hours from the disaster. The WTC was the last place they visited before their dash to JFK Airport. She arrived home to my Mothers house about an hour before the first plane hit. She was completely in shock for about 2 days.
They were on the front page of her Fiances local paper that week, they had a digital picture of the 2 of them on top of one of the towers with the date 10/09/01. Thank God she didn't stay an extra day!!
A random moment of contentment (is that at word?)
On Holidays in Tenerife a few years back, sitting outside a nightclub on a patch of grass and just feeling like life would never be quite as carefree as it was at that moment. It was quite sureal, I remember Gnarls Barkley 'Crazy' was playing and I just felt so free and happy
There are so many more but don't have time or inclination to go typing them out right now :cool: 0 -
I wish that I could just give you a big hug, the pain from loosing babies is beyond words...I still get upset over our losses. Huge hugs.carolinespring wrote: »WHEN WE LOST OUR FIRST BABY.
The moment the doctor told us we had lost our baby. The room spining and I felt my blood go cold. I was sure I was going to pass out. The hours after when I just could not cry. The many more time that we have had to rehear the same words from a doctor and feel the same each time.
In keeping with the thread: the day that we lost our baby January 2009...still too painful.
The day that my gran died - she was 100 and I was with her, she would have hated to know that I was getting ill at that time but would have loved to see me getting married (she really took to my husband) and would have loved seeing our son.
The day that I heard that my brother had finally asked his lovely fiancee(sp) for her hand in marriage - she is lovely 0 -
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