Best year of your life.

[Ker_Thwap]

Rule: Clearly we're all amazing individuals, are happy with our personal growth, and wouldn't really want to go back to relive a time before we became the amazing people we are today. So, you can't pick 2014/2015.

I'll go with 1980; I was 16. I lived on a lake, I woke every morning to the sun shining across the calm waters. Waterskiing with friends free from care, lounging under the hot sun and occasionally rolling into the cool spring fed bliss. Sailing across the white caps on the edge of control, feeling alive. Canoeing under the stars with a pretty girl, discussing the universe.

[Gnome Rage]

I can't pick the last two years? Well, then I guess I pick 2013. I don't think I would want to relive any portion of my life up until this point, except maybe childhood--but I wouldn't want to be stuck as a kid forever, that shit would suck so bad.

Your sixteen is waaay better than mine, I've pretty much blocked 12-18 out of my brain lol.

I'll relive your 16, but you can't be there!

[Ker_Thwap]

I can't pick the last two years? Well, then I guess I pick 2013. I don't think I would want to relive any portion of my life up until this point, except maybe childhood--but I wouldn't want to be stuck as a kid forever, that shit would suck so bad.

Your sixteen is waaay better than mine, I've pretty much blocked 12-18 out of my brain lol.

I'll relive your 16, but you can't be there!

I wasn't an asshole yet at that age, there should be no fear of running into 16 year old me.

[Gnome Rage]

Fear? No, I wanna be alone with the pretty girl and the universe, duh

[Ker_Thwap]

Fear? No, I wanna be alone with the pretty girl and the universe, duh

No, that was my pretty girl, get your own!

[Fallen]

2005: Transitioned out of the Army into what would become my current career. I was out of the barracks and with enough income that I could live comfortably.

[Androidpk]

Rule: Clearly we're all amazing individuals, are happy with our personal growth, and wouldn't really want to go back to relive a time before we became the amazing people we are today. So, you can't pick 2014/2015.

I'll go with 1980; I was 16. I lived on a lake, I woke every morning to the sun shining across the calm waters. Waterskiing with friends free from care, lounging under the hot sun and occasionally rolling into the cool spring fed bliss. Sailing across the white caps on the edge of control, feeling alive. Canoeing under the stars with a pretty girl, discussing the universe.

The year of my birth.

[Keller]

August 2007 - July 2008.

Third year of law school; had a full-time job secured the next year. Had saved a bunch of money from the summer associate job.
Lived rent-free in condo owned by my in-laws.
Wife was in Paris for the year doing research.
Spent 3/4 of the year in LA not stressed about school living the geeky bachelor life (video games, take-out food, drugs/beer), and the other 1/4 in Paris living the spendy Parisian life with money from the summer.
Spent most of the summer "studying" for the bar exam, which was also very stress free.

I don't think any year will come close to being as awesome as that year was.

[Androidpk]

For me, 2004. Working my ass off in Qatar and raking in buckets of cash money. Plus I got to hang out with Vince Vaughn.

[GS4-Seomanthe]

2008! I was making a great salary and living essentially rent-free with an awesome roomie who was the superintendent of the building, in return for helping him take out the building trash and cleaning the public access areas. I successfully completed my first computer build, went to Germany three times (once to attend Wacken Open Air (https://www.wacken.com/)), Hawaii, and hiked the 4-day Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. It was pretty badass.

2014 was pretty sweet too though.. Bought and renovated a duplex with my best friend, a brand new car... and capped Seo :grin:

[Lord Orbstar]

do they call oral sex "cleaning the public access area" now?

[Tisket]

I consider myself extremely fortunate to have enjoyed most years of my life. It might be easier to narrow down had you asked for our worst year. As a mother, I probably should say the year I had my kid was my best year but, that would be a lie. That was a tough year. I think I had a touch of undiagnosed postpartum depression.

And although I feel a little guilty saying that my best year was from before I met my husband, if I had to narrow it down, probably the year when I went to stay with my aunt and uncle in Alaska when I was a teenager. Memories can be strange and unreliable things but I remember it as a completely golden time. I've been back numerous times but that year was special.

[Ker_Thwap]

I consider myself extremely fortunate to have enjoyed most years of my life. It might be easier to narrow down had you asked for our worst year. As a mother, I probably should say the year I had my kid was my best year but, that would be a lie. That was a tough year. I think I had a touch of undiagnosed postpartum depression.

And although I feel a little guilty saying that my best year was from before I met my husband, if I had to narrow it down, probably the year when I went to stay with my aunt and uncle in Alaska when I was a teenager. Memories can be strange and unreliable things but I remember it as a completely golden time. I've been back numerous times but that year was special.

Pfft, newborns are boring little things. Forget that guilt! I have many shiny memories of time spent with my kids, but I couldn't lump them into a single year.