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

Sitting at the dining room table with the Pre Thru K workbook and teaching my grand-daughter how to write the alphabet because the schools are closed. She can recognize her name written down now and identify the letters.

That I made it this far. That she's such a happy child. That her mother has a good job. That our family was able to adapt and overcome.

That. That's the high point right now.
 
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Summer of 2009. Just starting to come into my own at my job, new house, long summer nights spending time with my friends and my brother, talking about a possible civil union with my (then) partner, things seemed so idyllic and easygoing. That's still the best summer of my life where I really truly felt content and happy with the world.
 
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Probably senior year of high school. The world was less crazy and it was a more idealistic time.

I'm fairly successful, but university and work have never challenged me. I spend less time with people I like now, and many adult friendships are less sincere.
 
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A few years ago, I went for an interview at the university of my dreams as a prospective student. I got rejected from said university a month later, but talking to academics about a subject I loved filled me with so much happiness. I consider that day to be the best day of my life (so far).

I went on to study that subject at a different university and looking back, I don't think that specific course at that university was right for me.
 
2016 for me. Really cute girl was into me, guy who hated me warmed up to me and became a friend, and I got a cool ass award for something I worked my ass off for. This year has been kind to me as well, jumped right into a hobby that i've wanted to get into for a while and turned it into a pretty nice business. Very lucrative financially.

Funny how the worse years for everyone are always my best. I guess I'm just naturally a contrarian, even when it comes to lifestyle.
 
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2019 was the high point. I worked myself to rags but was seeing the fruits of labor blooming, and 2020 was looking prime to push that opportunity even further. Then 2020 came in and took a wrecking-ball to those plans. Things are starting to get back on track but the delays will be felt for a few years at least, assuming everything doesnt get shut down again.
 
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If it weren't for the corona virus, I would say now. I have a good job with interesting work. I'm riding out the virus with my parents, whose company I enjoy. I hang out with my grandparents on their porch and cherish our time. I've matured past the anxieties that made me so miserable in college. Also, I just amicably broke up with a good man. That may not sound like a plus, but it's nice to know myself well enough to know what won't work out and it's nice to know I'm attracting and choosing reasonable people. A few years ago I was definitely at a low point with a horrible job, major depression, and a scary boyfriend. I was pretty much resigned to be miserable for the rest of my life at 23 because I was too afraid to break up with him. In the end, I did it. Moving to a new place reset my life. There's obviously some things I'm missing now, like my privacy and making new friends, but for the most part life is really really good.

The other high point was when I was 12 when for a brief shining summer I was the cool kid at summer camp.
 
I guess right now I am at my highest point. I may be older than I was when I was 20, but I am also wiser and a lot more physically fit, I have a solid social circle, a great job and great family ties. What more could I want than that?
 
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Probably the beginning of this year. My college age years were a rollercoaster of depression, anxiety and instability. Squandering a scholarship, staying with family who hated me, going to the reserve to get a soft reset, fucking up in OSUT, then getting bullied through AIT were all sucky moments so a year spent working a call center at night was actually a relief. Then, I felt oddly optimistic for no reason, looked back at the people there who weren't all bad and I saw the whole world go crazy around my one little corner and felt relief and even gratitude for it all.
 
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