What was The Best Year Of Your Life?

Every year gets better and better.

1992 was also a magnificent year - cramming 6 years of adolescent experience into 12 giddy months; first proper girlfriend, first proper boozing, first drug-taking, first gig i actually liked, first proper parties etc etc etc - really shit summer holiday though in which 6 years of pent-up teenage tantrums were shamefully released, so 2002 wins cos my holidays last year were grebt!

Then I broke down on October 11th...8 years, 3 months, 12 days...life has never been the same, but at least after reaching the nadir in 1998, every year has gotten relatively better, at least

It didn't!

The last few years have all been great - from about 99 until 2001 things seemed to get better and better. 2002 was a bit of a transitional year (new job, house, friends, life...) but this year has been pretty rocking already and looks like its going to continue to be so. Very carefree as well, which helps.

bzzzzz bzzzzz

august 2000 - august 2001 is the best 12 consecutive months i think i have ever had in my life as an adult - mainly due to acquiring girlfriend, increasing social circle (it was only a crescent before), things improving at work, moving out into my own flat, starting numerous web projects, being able to download lots of music finally...fantastico

but really i think 2003 will be; there are just so many good things in my life right now and so few bad ones.

1994 was also my worst year.

Bit of a voyage of discovery in lots of ways. Took acid for the first time, enjoyed living and working in a completely different environment, was able to re-invent myself to a large extent.

Had some of the best nights of my life and finshed the year a very different person to the one that started it (in a good way).

More recently, the last couple of years have seen me very happy and settled. Became a father in 2001, and I think I've found what I've been looking for all these years (some sort of purpose/meaning in life) in a place I was never expecting. Spent years worrying about how I'd find a job that would fulfill me and now realise it doesn't matter.

July 1992 - June 1994 = pretty good

2000 - I can't complain - Got my MA, did more generally, got my old job back and so didn't have to go through the endless round of rejection interviews, started buying music I liked instead of music I wanted to like, read more books than before...

Runners up...
1998 - Played in two bands I really enjoyed. Had lots of fun with my then-new bf. Had lots of friends that, for the most part, I have since lost touch with. Went to New York and DC for fun mini-vacations.

1995 - Just graduated high school. Really excited about going to college where I could settle down for 4 years because I was so sick of moving around. Went to lots of parties and listened to the PIXIES all the time. Lots of fun first semester at college too. Felt like I could do anything with my life/ big open field of possibilities.

1983- Can't remember this too well, but I was 6. I just remember being really happy all the time. I was my parents' little princess, the oldest of 3 daughters. I went to Disney World with my mom and Cinderella talked to me on my birthday. Every day was exciting. I had all these cute little frilly dresses. We went to the zoo, camping, the science museum, libraries... My mom always had something planned for me. When I woke up she would sing to me. When I went to bed, she would sing to me again after my bible stories. Pure heaven.

1997- went to middle school and met people who liked being smart and liked talking about books and didn't know that i was supposed to be shy and socially awkward. lots of new friends. teachers who cared whether i was interested and challenged.

2001/early 2002- socially very fun year, first relationship, which was fun at first.

i wish that when this thread and the opposite were conceived they were placed as one....it would be interesting to see how people picked themselves back up following their worst year...or in my case vice versa

I was at Epinions (an amateur writer site) during that time, making music reviews that I was truly PROUD of (even tho they pro'lly sucked in retrospect) and gaining respect from writers that I truly admired (I was, and still am, an enormous net-writah-groupie)

In the Summer, I visited the beautiful country of Sweden and finaly met my long time netfriend and general Partner In Kryme John, spending a few days with him soaking up the greatness of Sweden's music scene and basking in the surrealism of it all.

Don't remember much about the music: there was Semisonic and The Ramones and Burt Bacharach and Ash and Prefab Sprout and Pulp and a few others.

And yeah, I still didn't (and don't) have a girlfriend, but I had a crush- a pleasant crush whom I could just think about warmly, instead of the tragic bloated Real Love crap that I had gone through the past few years. So that was cool too.

Yeah yeah yeah, Twin Towers, tragedy of our lives, blah, blah, blah. That didn't happen until September, and then, yeah, a few weeks of being a nervous wreck, but ya learn ta live, as y'all know.

You wouldn't be all "blah blah blah" if you were in New York when it happened. Dude, you weren't even in the country.

Hmmm...I'd say this list gives me some goals to work towards in 2003.
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If the best years of my life are already behind me, kill me now.

I didn't mean to be disrespectful; *of course* I'd see things diferently if I had been in NYC when it happened. It's just that 2001 was a great year for me and whenever I say that ppl inevitably bring up 9/11.