What was the high point of your life so far? - as in, when did you feel the happiest?

FuckedUp said:
Yeah, in February I would've said "college" but now it's all tragic to think about. Fifth grade was just comfy, the one year nothing went wrong and I was almost always having a good time, young enough to actually be excited about things.
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I don't see how college or fifth grade could ever be a high point in a person's life. It just seems so.. I dunno, average and common. It's like yeah they were good times but that was common when we were kids and or partying in college.
 
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DDBCAE CBAADCBE said:
I don't see how college or fifth grade could ever be a high point in a person's life. It just seems so.. I dunno, average and common. It's like yeah they were good times but that was common when we were kids and or partying in college.
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Maybe there's a reason they're so common?
 
When I graduated from my community college diploma just after one of my parents passed away. I had no formal education before somehow bullshitting my way into that institution. I walked up onto the stage, as one of only five that passed my course out of 20, and accepted my qualification in front of a few hundred people that acknowledged me. It finally sunk in that I'd succeeded through hard work I didn't think I was actually capable of until that last exam.

I'd bummed through all of my teen years, fucking around on the Internet and being a hermit, and I wished they could have seen me up there getting myself together. It was a high point because I felt like I honoured their belief in me all along with my success, and it was my moment to know I really was capable of doing well in tertiary studies.

That singular moment of happiness has driven me forward into a degree and to never give up on myself, even when I feel like I am not good enough. I'm pursuing a degree in my chosen field now. It's important to me to make my parents proud and education accomplishments is how I choose to do that. I remember that moment a lot and what their face may have been like if they were in the crowd.
 
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Early nineties, the summer before I started 1st grade. I don't actually remember that far, but it seems like the logical starting point of everything going to shit.
 
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Dunno, probably some time in my childhood. Could be because a kid is easy to become happy from trivial events, while my definition of happiness changed since then and no event in decades that I could describe as making me "happy" occurred. Doesn't mean I'm sad, just.. "normal".
 
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Actually, 2020 is pretty good. Lockdown has given me time to get my garden under control, start work towards getting my smallholding producing real quantities of food for my family as well as a few other people I formed an informal co-op with. I've 100%ed a few games I've been meaning to play. Life is pretty damned good if I'm honest.
 
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FuckedUp said:
(fifth grade).
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Holy fuck I'd kill myself if that was the high point of my life.

Battlecruiser3000ad said:
Dunno, probably some time in my childhood.
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How is this even the case for anyone? I spent most childhood either wanting to fucking die or kill everyone around me. Almost everything has been lots better since then, and keeps getting better.
 
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Unironically my last year of high school. Decent part time job with fun colleagues which paid well, no bills to pay, in the pub for 6.30pm every Saturday night, nobody had fucking smartphones so there was conversation, beer was cheaper. No real worries about anything so I could live in the moment.

My life isn't shit now but youth is wasted on the young.
 
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AnOminous said:
Holy fuck I'd kill myself if that was the high point of my life.



How is this even the case for anyone? I spent most childhood either wanting to fucking die or kill everyone around me. Almost everything has been lots better since then, and keeps getting better.
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My whole extended family were great people I loved being around (Those still alive still are) and I had many friends so pretty much any day during school year would begin after the last school bell and we'd just have fun riding bikes, playing games on the street or wandering nearby woodlands till the sun started setting. And the summer school holidays went beyond that and were just up to 2 months of joy. We'd spend 2 weeks every year in a forest cabin and look for mushrooms, build stuff out of wood, run through forests and meadows playing whatever game we invented on the spot, swimming in the pond, and then reading old Wild West adventure novels we had there in the light of petrol lamps before going to sleep. Another 2 weeks in a village my father's side of family was from where we'd also go mushroom hunting, visit the family branches living there - for me the highlight of this were all their farm animals, ride bikes through hop orchards and so on. Basically every night one I'd be falling asleep looking forwards to the next day of doing the exactly same thing (can't say that about adult life ;_; )
I guess reflecting the good mood of those I liked and was around played a part in that, and they were the wild but great years just after Communism fell and shit.
 
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I'd say they are three, two already past and one in the future:
- getting married to Frau H.
- managing to find work as a semi-indipendent accountant, with complete independency next
- future highlight, when our baby girl will come to the world this October. Can't wait to meet her.
 
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The happiest days of my life so far were 2005-2007 when I was 15-17, the video games were amazing, the anime was amazing and I first got regular internet access at the start of 2006, which was utterly mind blowing.

And I was young with a world of potential ahead of me, unfortunately adulthood hit me like a ton of bricks, which unluckily coincided with the Great Recession and things have just a lacked a certain magic I felt at that time ever since.

I had a good childhood and there's lots of very happy memories from there too, but it's unfortunately so long ago now that it feels pretty remote, 2005-2007 are years that I can recall much clearer.
 
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Saved an injured bat. He knew it, appreciated it. Helped him grow, saw him off into his life.
Started a trajectory of interventions that have been mostly successful. Gave my meandering, stupid
life some purpose.

Thanks, Jimmy. Godspeed.
 
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