Worst/best thing to happen to you in life?

partyguinness · 13-11-2019 2:08pm

Best: Blessed with very good health. I don't have so much as a tooth filling after 41 years and never sick or spent time in hospital (football injuries do not count). No baldness or grey hair either and weigh the same as I did at 18. No close family members have died or been sick- a few granduncles died but they were all in their 90's.

Worst: Knowing that someday the above will be a distant memory (hopefully we get to live that long).

decky1 · 13-11-2019 2:15pm

several of the worst, when my parents had passed away i realised i'd never sat down and had a good chat with them, always too busy,although i did see them every day it's just something that sticks in my head, also finding out my wife was unfaithful with a so called friend of mine.
Best. my children watching them grow up, adults now with their own kids, their my life now.

Beta Ray Bill · 13-11-2019 2:17pm

Worst: Breaking up with Ex (9 year relationship) after I found out she'd been having an affair
Best: Having a Son and breaking up with Ex (9 year relationship) after I found out she'd been having an affair.

machaseh · 13-11-2019 2:53pm

Best: I cant think of a 'best thing in my life'. I have never been happy in my life. Of course good things happened, like graduating from university, getting hired for jobs, getting promotions, traveling to Brazil for research for my studies, going on nice vacations. But I have never been truly happy.

Worst: Probably being diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease, though many other bad things have happened as well. It's hard to pick honestly. Maybe I should pick 'moving to Ireland', hah. Nah kidding it's grand here but I'd wish the job market in my home country was better so I could return.

mr_fegelien · 13-11-2019 3:39pm

machaseh wrote: »

Best: I cant think of a 'best thing in my life'. I have never been happy in my life. Of course good things happened, like graduating from university, getting hired for jobs, getting promotions, traveling to Brazil for research for my studies, going on nice vacations. But I have never been truly happy.

Worst: Probably being diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease, though many other bad things have happened as well. It's hard to pick honestly. Maybe I should pick 'moving to Ireland', hah. Nah kidding it's grand here but I'd wish the job market in my home country was better so I could return.

What eye disease was it? Eye floaters, glacuoma, macular degeneration?

Are you from Marrakesh in Morocco? (judging by your username)

Keano · 13-11-2019 4:26pm

Worst - lost my Dad when I was very young. I have kids of my own now and I wish so much he was around to see them.
Best - 2 kids

dinorebel · 13-11-2019 5:03pm

Worst: all of this within a 6 week period last year wife's mother died a week after her sister got married then her granny died a month later and just to top it off the sister was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer.

Best: Sister in law has the all clear

lennyloulou · 13-11-2019 5:09pm

Best: Meeting my husband and getting married

Worse: Burying him to suicide after being married for 3 years and 9 months. I have never got over it.

Wanderer2010 · 13-11-2019 6:04pm

Worst: My entire family torn apart by something I was partly responsible for and trying to rebuild the tiny tiny pieces of the wreckage.

Best: Realising you have the power in you to change anything you aren't happy with, but that came a long time after.

14-11-2019 3:25pm

lennyloulou wrote: »

Best: Meeting my husband and getting married

Worse: Burying him to suicide after being married for 3 years and 9 months. I have never got over it.

I am so sorry.

machaseh · 14-11-2019 4:56pm

mr_fegelien wrote: »

What eye disease was it? Eye floaters, glacuoma, macular degeneration?

Are you from Marrakesh in Morocco? (judging by your username)

Yes it was Glaucoma and no I am not from Morocco, I am from the Netherlands.

LirW · 14-11-2019 5:07pm

Worst: having a debilitating ovary related health issue that cost me many hours of my life due to pain and the misery of it. At some point I was almost put in disability because it made it nearly impossible living normally. Thankfully it seems under control at the moment.

Best: my husband, hands down. The kids are great too but I chose to be with him and he's my favourite person in the whole wide world.

The Crazy Cat Lady · 15-11-2019 12:18am

worst: ending up in hospital last year

best: doing my autism presentations

dartboardio · 15-11-2019 12:50am

Worst: leaving school at 16, returning but spending too much time smoking weed, and failed my first leaving cert

Best: falling in love for the first time with such a kind caring person, still together four years later, and also, passing my leaving cert and getting to choose whatever I want to do with my life.

And of course, being lucky to have been born into an amazing, hard working caring family.

poisonated · 15-11-2019 1:47am

Worst: developing OCD
Best:When the medication for my OCD started working

freshpopcorn · 15-11-2019 4:09am

Worst: Really losing my confidence/self worth for a good while.
Best: When I started to get it back.
Also, my mother!

Noo · 15-11-2019 5:10am

Chelle_C wrote: »

Worst: Telling my Grandad I'd call him tomorrow and not doing it. He unexpectedly died that night, I will live with that forever.

When I was in college I was at the point of making a decision about which stream of my degree to specialise in. My grandad told me not to make the decision without him (as it was in his line of work), I told him I wouldn't as I left his house. That was the last time I saw him. I think about that moment a lot, mainly because I was a little short on patience with him during that visit for various reasons. I regret that immensely.

cj maxx · 15-11-2019 6:21am

Too hard to choose a best and a worst really as when thinking back there are multiple choices for both.
But I'll give it a go.
Worst. The fall out from a friends suicide . It was only a drunken comment but it completely changed me for the worst.
The best. The exhilaration I felt after escaping a life threatening situation . The pure rush of whatever runs through your body after something like that was something I had never experienced before ,or thankfully , have since , but it was an unbelievable drug like rush of both euphoria and pride ( I can't think of the word to describe it ) .It stayed with me and expelled alot of demons. So in a odd way nearly getting shot was a good thing ?

Pablo Escobar · 15-11-2019 6:45am

cjmc wrote: »

Too hard to choose a best and a worst really as when thinking back there are multiple choices for both.
But I'll give it a go.
Worst. The fall out from a friends suicide . It was only a drunken comment but it completely changed me for the worst.
The best. The exhilaration I felt after escaping a life threatening situation . The pure rush of whatever runs through your body after something like that was something I had never experienced before ,or thankfully , have since , but it was an unbelievable drug like rush of both euphoria and pride ( I can't think of the word to describe it ) .It stayed with me and expelled alot of demons. So in a odd way nearly getting shot was a good thing ?

Adrenaline

thewolfisloose · 15-11-2019 7:06am

Worst - Being promoted into a position I was ultimately ineffective in, along with the subsequent humiliating fallout. It happened over a year ago now and I'm still reeling / figuring out what went wrong.

Best - Anytime I get to make people laugh.

Goodigal · 15-11-2019 3:07pm

Worst - when my husband of 13 years finally admitted hed been 'seeing someone' for almost 2 years. And they'd had a child together the previous year.

Best - the circle of loving, supportive family and friends that surrounded me and minded me and hugged me through the horrendous year that followed.

cj maxx · 15-11-2019 8:39pm

Pablo Escobar wrote: »

Adrenaline

No. Adrenaline was pumping of course but it was something more.

New Home · 17-11-2019 6:44pm

cjmc wrote: »

No. Adrenaline was pumping of course but it was something more.

Euphoria?

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