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Worst/best thing to happen to you in life?

  • 12-11-2019 8:24pm
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    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭


    Worst: probably failing the leaving cert

    Best: the entire year of 2013. Extremely manic, thought I could do anything.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Worst: having kids at a young age
    Best: having kids


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Worst. Losing my father far too young.

    Best. Having my own family.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,935 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Worst: Lost block of time due to depression
    Best: Relationships (platonic) with some family members.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭Four Phucs Ache


    Worst was touching a shiny silver screw inside an open lampost on my street aged 8.

    Best is still happening, watching/listening to my near teenage kids knowing I've done a good job in raising them.


  • Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Worst - My mam getting sick
    Best - Having had her for a mother. Having my dad too.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭mr_fegelien


    Worst: having kids at a young age
    Best: having kids

    for a second I thought you were Sramreen


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    for a second I thought you were Sramreen

    We're twins. Just have over forty years between our birthdays.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,587 ✭✭✭baldbear


    Worst: Cancer getting the auld fella just as we got close.
    Best: Seeing my kids been born.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    Worst, loosing my father at a relatively young age and not getting the chance to know the man.

    Best: meeting my partner almost 20 years ago.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,046 ✭✭✭Berserker


    Worst : Had an accident a few years ago and I had to spend some time in hospital. Thought I was invincible before that.

    Best : My wife. Brilliant person.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭Stacksofwacks


    Worst: Too many to mention
    Best: Not too many highlights here


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,916 ✭✭✭Marhay70


    Best: Every day I wake up

    Worst: Losing my mother at just the time when I began to realise how much she meant to me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭The Tetrarch


    Best: being born into a rich Western economy
    Worst: having to work for a share of it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Better Than Christ


    Worst: My mother's illness and death. Seven years on, it still makes me feel sick when I think about the fact that I'll never see her again.

    Best: Having her for the first thirty years of my life.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    Worst: probably failing the leaving cert

    Best: the entire year of 2013. Extremely manic, thought I could do anything.
    Your brain undergoes damage while you're manic. Thinking an episode of severe mania was the best thing that ever happened to you shows an alarming lack of insight.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Someone said something obscene to me one day..altered the course of events of my, and probably others' lives..It's weird, he's the one person I can't forgive..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    Someone said something obscene to me one day..altered the course of events of my, and probably others' lives..It's weird, he's the one person I can't forgive..
    What did they say that could have such an impact?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    Things don't happen to me. I happen to things.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    What did they say that could have such an impact?

    Ah, I'd rather not say, and tbh, it probably wasn't their intention, but considering who was there, it was yeah, just obscene, and just kind of altered lots of things, and decisions after..

    It's weird..It was definitely a turning point though..


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Things don't happen to me. I happen to things.

    I'm in a combined mutual cause and effect relationship with things..


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭theballz


    Worst: Death of my best friend when I was 17 and failing my leaving cert that year

    Best: Helping teenagers with options after they fail LC. Completing my MBA at UCD Michael Smurfit and dedicating it to my best friend


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Losing the last of my family after contracting a ,misdiagnosed, misunderstood incurable illness ..

    Contracting a major ,incurable, illness misdiagnosed until recently as it has taught me far more about life, about endurance., living with and overcoming pain, about fellow humans than anything else ever could.

    It is in darkness that we learn to see and value light


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,901 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Worst: fathers death
    Best: potentially being diagnosed with autism


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    Best: potentially being diagnosed with autism

    Can I ask why?..I'd probably have a touch of it myself if I'm honest..dont really see much benefit in being diagnosed though..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,932 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    Can I ask why?..I'd probably have a touch of it myself if I'm honest..dont really see much benefit in being diagnosed though..

    I don't want to presuppose another poster, but I'd hazard a guess that being diagnosed after years of second guessing oneself as to mental capacity or illness?
    That having a diagnosis can put a whole new, and quite comforting slant on ones interactions?


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,786 ✭✭✭KathleenGrant


    Worst was losing my daughter.
    Best having my children and my grandchildren. My grandchildren make bad days wonderful.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,996 ✭✭✭antimatterx


    Worst: Falling out with a girl as a teen who accused me of stalking her. Gave me extreme anxiety of running into her/her friends that I still have 10 years later.

    Best: My parents. They raised me well, and I'm going to have an extremely easy life due to them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭dvdman1


    Worst: regret not having kids at a younger age.

    Best: my wife & kids


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭SusanC10


    Worst- Losing my Dad after a very long and difficult illness.

    Best - meeting my Husband and creating our own family.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,958 ✭✭✭D3V!L


    Worst: finding out I have Boneitis

    Best: found out it was totally curable


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,901 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Can I ask why?..I'd probably have a touch of it myself if I'm honest..dont really see much benefit in being diagnosed though..
    banie01 wrote: »
    I don't want to presuppose another poster, but I'd hazard a guess that being diagnosed after years of second guessing oneself as to mental capacity or illness?
    That having a diagnosis can put a whole new, and quite comforting slant on ones interactions?

    well said, thank you

    more or less, its giving me great insight into my own struggles in life and most likely reasons for other family members struggles, im luckily getting help from an autism outreach service, whereby im meeting others on the spectrum, and very well informed professionals


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    banie01 wrote: »
    I don't want to presuppose another poster, but I'd hazard a guess that being diagnosed after years of second guessing oneself as to mental capacity or illness?
    That having a diagnosis can put a whole new, and quite comforting slant on ones interactions?

    More than anything is empowers to act to help and support yourself. Before, you had no idea what was wrong and knew it was not what was being mooted. First thing I did was get on the internet and start learning and sorting. Not comforting, as in my case I was stunned and terrified, but truth is always a relief and a release.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,932 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    well said, thank you

    more or less, its giving me great insight into my own struggles in life and most likely reasons for other family members struggles, im luckily getting help from an autism outreach service, whereby im meeting others on the spectrum, and very well informed professionals

    There is a large cohort of folk in the 30 and above age bracket that are slowly discovering that what was boisterous or poor behaviour in school was very likely due to their being on the spectrum.

    There was no ADD/ADHD or Autism spectrum recognised in Irish schools when I was going, and one of my brother's was probably the 1st to receive an official Irish diagnosis in the mid 90's.
    But that was only after Trojan work and research by my mother that at one stage even led to him being commited to Fairyhouse.

    Glad to see a diagnosis and support have made a positive difference.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Worst: Realising next year I'd have lived as many years without my Mam than with her. The thing about losing a parent as a teenager is that you never get over it, you just get on with it. But you have almost every life milestone and hurdle ahead of you without them, College Graduation, Marriage, Kids etc. They all just come up and smack you on the face when you're least expecting it.

    Best: Getting married and starting a family.
    Also the feeling of knowing you've worked hard to get where you are now and it's all come together.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 468 ✭✭w/s/p/c/


    Worst: Losing my mam suddenly 3 months ago. Will never get over it :(

    Best: Meeting my wife


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,885 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    D3V!L wrote: »
    Worst: finding out I have Boneitis

    Best: found out it was totally curable

    New Worst: Forgetting to get the cure


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,958 ✭✭✭D3V!L


    astrofool wrote: »
    New Worst: Forgetting to get the cure

    Nope, didn't forget thankfully. I gave up my job at the brokerage to concentrate on a cure.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    Worst: Depressive phases on and off before I got on medication.

    Best: Meeting my OH-he's made me a better version of myself and even if down the road we part company I know he's had a lasting effect on me for the better.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭captbarnacles


    Worst: MND
    Best: my son and daughter and anytime I get to spend with them


  • Registered Users Posts: 116 ✭✭Chelle_C


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

    Best: I'm currently pregnant and feeling my baby kick is the best feeling I could ever imagine. If it's a boy, they will be named after my Grandad.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 766 ✭✭✭Foggy Jew


    Worst: Husband of 19 years doing a moonlight flit on me and my 4 boys.

    Best: My 4 boys.

    It's the bally ballyness of it that makes it all seem so bally bally.



  • Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭Motherof123


    Best : Travelling around the world when I was 24 not a care in the world! I worked two jobs to save it took me 10 months to gather up enough money for the round the world open flight ticket! Couldn't possibly do that now young people are crippled with rent and taxes.

    Worst : losing 2 close family members (not at the same time) one to cancer and the other a brain condition very hard to watch someone suffer and not be able to help in any way possible.
    Most other worst things that have happened me I always tried to flip it and say it could have been a lot worse and accept that.


  • Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭Motherof123


    Foggy Jew wrote: »
    Worst: Husband of 19 years doing a moonlight flit on me and my 4 boys.

    Best: My 4 boys.

    I can only assume a moonlight is he left.
    That's awful


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭Mango Joe


    Worst was touching a shiny silver screw inside an open lampost on my street aged 8.

    Best is still happening, watching/listening to my near teenage kids knowing I've done a good job in raising them.

    1. Please tell us the rest of the lampost story?
    2. Sorry to hear that your far away teenage kids are such bollocks's.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    My husband is the best thing that ever happened to me. I met him as a kid, we started dating as teenagers when my home life and sense of self worth was at its lowest he brought me back to life, everything good that's happened to me is because of him and he means the whole world to me.

    Worst thing was the family I was born into but it all turned out OK.


  • Registered Users Posts: 28 giggs76


    best: winning a million euro in the lotto

    worst:being to young and blowing it all with bad decisions except for i still own a house outright


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,149 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    giggs76 wrote: »
    best: winning a million euro in the lotto

    worst:being to young and blowing it all with bad decisions except for i still own a house outright

    Seriously?
    What kind of stuff did you blow it on?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,368 ✭✭✭bladespin


    Best thing: my babies, nothing has had such a profound affect on me or made me feel happier.

    Wost: my parents sort of abandoned me with my grandparents (they were brilliant) when i was 5, they gave me the choice of where I wanted to stay... Nothing has had a bigger affect on me bar my kids.

    MasteryDarts Ireland - Master your game!



  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Worst: Multiple family tragedies and close bereavements.

    Best: Meeting my incredible partner and starting our lives together, the sheer luck of being born into a great family and all the advantages that solid foundation resulted in.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,305 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Worst: one of my uncles dying suddenly
    Best: graduating from university


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