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Your happiest & lowest moments in life

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NoRéN said:
Identity theft
Reading that made me angry. The very fucking possibility that someone could get so screwed like that and the justice system, even while recognizing what's happened to you, is so incompetent that not only is your life in no way repaired, but they continue to fuck you.

Have you ever tried talking to your local news station about your story (I admit I don't know how that would work)? Occasionally there are things like your situation (usually not as bad) that air around here. Sometimes action is taken because the person, through going on television, was given a higher profile and other people are revealed to be completely fucking retarded.
 
Always-honest said:
i know there is a movie somewhere in this... write it down and sell it...

wow.. this is a complete nightmare. i wish you all the best.

If I were a better writer, maybe.

Funny because I've had a dream a few times already. every time I have it, when i wake I immediately wake my girlfriend and tell her about it. It's the same, or very similar dream every time:

I am at some sort of theater. I am up on a balcony. I don't see it, but I somehow know that i have written a book and said but has been turned into a movie, which is what will be shown. the theater is full and the movie begins. I don't see the whole movie in the dream, but I remember glimpses, scenes, when i wake up. Basically, it's about a guy who goes to a pier every day for one year. Each day, he goes and remembers a specific day or event in his life. Each day is different, some days he remembers the ups, sometimes the downs. Eventually, he comes to remember a specific day. On this day, his spouse and pet die in a horrific car accident. Eventually, day 365 arrives. Guy closes is eyes and begins to reach into his coat pocket. The camera begins to pan up and you see the sea lit up by the sunset. The you hear a gunshot.

That's when I wake up so I never get to see the audiences reaction.

My girlfriend told me that maybe the dream is trying to tell me what to do. Maybe I am supposed to be an author and that will be my way out of all this(financially).

But, I don't think I am a good writer so I don't see that happening.
 
NoRéN said:
If I were a better writer, maybe.

Funny because I've had a dream a few times already. every time I have it, when i wake I immediately wake my girlfriend and tell her about it. It's the same, or very similar dream every time:

I am at some sort of theater. I am up on a balcony. I don't see it, but I somehow know that i have written a book and said but has been turned into a movie, which is what will be shown. the theater is full and the movie begins. I don't see the whole movie in the dream, but I remember glimpses, scenes, when i wake up. Basically, it's about a guy who goes to a pier every day for one year. Each day, he goes and remembers a specific day or event in his life. Each day is different, some days he remembers the ups, sometimes the downs. Eventually, he comes to remember a specific day. On this day, his spouse and pet die in a horrific car accident. Eventually, day 365 arrives. Guy closes is eyes and begins to reach into his coat pocket. The camera begins to pan up and you see the sea lit up by the sunset. The you hear a gunshot.

That's when I wake up so I never get to see the audiences reaction.

My girlfriend told me that maybe the dream is trying to tell me what to do. Maybe I am supposed to be an author and that will be my way out of all this(financially).

But, I don't think I am a good writer so I don't see that happening.

Sounds like a Richard E. Kelly kind of movie.
 
Lowest: My uncle was a month away from dying because of an inoperable brain tumor, and my grandpa (his dad) just couldn't take it so he blew his own head off with a shotgun.

Highest: Birth of my kids.
 
Socreges said:
Reading that made me angry. The very fucking possibility that someone could get so screwed like that and the justice system, even while recognizing what's happened to you, is so incompetent that not only is your life in no way repaired, but they continue to fuck you.

I've learned to hold back my anger. At one court, which I repeatedly have to go to as the bastard lives about 1/2 mile away, I ran into the cop who supposedly pulled "me" over. He agreed to talk to me and file a report. We went to the police station and I spoke to him for about 1 hour. He was skeptical but after I showed him all the proof(my proof of address, proof of where I was on that day of the citation, compared description of suspect, and I offered to have my prints taken for comparison), he eventually looked at me and said, "Now that I think of it, the guy I pulled over was bald, short and fat. I've never seen you in my life". I had and still have hair down my face. He said he would be at my next court date and would try to help me out.

That day arrived. He came in and stated to the judge that he clearly remembered pulling ME over.
 
Megadrive said:
Sounds like a Richard E. Kelly kind of movie.

I googled him since your comment peaked my interest. The Lake Placid guy? If I googled the correct person, I cannot say I have seen any of his work except the crocodile movie.

Kuramu said:
Over $5000 to fix him, but he is alive and spoiled today :)

This should be part of your high point. I'm glad your cat is ok. :)
 
Highest - marrying my wife 13 years ago. Adopting my children is very close, but without my wife, I most likely would never have me these kids - so she takes spot #1.

Lowest - 2008. Nine months of stomach pain (which has returned this week, I'm hoping the medication they took nine months to even suggest last time works quickly this time.)
 
Lowest: Finishing my suicide note, standing there with the belt in my hand and realizing that I couldn't go through with it. Still unsure if I made the right decision.

Highest: Thinking that after 30 years, I might've finally found someone I could share my life with. This, too, was pulled away from me, but at least I felt happy for a period of time.
 
Lowest: My entire life
Happiest: When i joined GAF.

*Hugs GAF*
 
NoRéN said:
I went from Aww to :lol

...you're kidding about the low point, right?
Hello there.

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Happiest: Probably my bar mitzvah. The one time in my life when I was actually comfortable with the attention of an entire huge room full of family, friends and some other random jackasses around me. Something about commanding a large number of others to follow you (even in song) is awesome.

Lowest: Sophomore year of high school a little more than two years ago. I hadn't gone to school in two months, had failed every class freshmen year besides one, was failing all of my classes in that year, gained 20 pounds of pure fat mass from the fucking meds they forced me on (making the depression worse) among numerous other things that just made everything completely fucked up and I was seriously considering bailing on my entire life and getting the fuck out of dodge with all my cash (mostly from my bar mitzvah :lol ). I cleaned up now and have an A- average for the last two years but my GPA is still a 2.1, which really seems to confuse college interviewers when they compare that to my SATs. Haven't kicked the depression yet though. From the looks of my family, I likely never will entirely.
 
highest: doing stand up for the first time.

Lowest: getting disqualified from being on "who wants to be a millionaire" and learning that I had to get my wisdom teeth taken out on the same day.
 
Best - Last year, getting hired at a company I've been wanting to work at here in town for years, and finding that the girl I want to marry has been in front of me this entire time, we've been together for a year now.

Worst - Either my past relationship, made the mistake of dating someone younger and less mature and having her move in way too fast. Getting fired from a great game store job when I was in my early 20's and having the owner and manager turn against me and try to sell me out.
 
Highest: 1.5 years into my first job, I had put a difficult project behind me that did not go that well and finally begin to hit my stride.

Lowest: Getting the call telling me my best friend had died in a car crash (drunk/high driver entered the express way on the wrong side, hit their car head on).
 
Kuramu said:
(he had been hit by a car and crawled home on the 5th day, dehydrated and mutilated to sleep on his couch. His diaphragm was split and his guts were up in his chest. Over $5000 to fix him, but he is alive and spoiled today :)

cashew1.jpg

Cute cat. Had the same problem with my kitten, except it was congenital (diaphragmatic hernia) and symptoms didn't show up 'til she was several months old. Was also one of my low points. Wasn't quite as expensive as yours but close, totally worth it though because I still have her. :)

After the surgery (can see her tummy shaved and split open):

lilyaftersurgery2.jpg


Sorry for derail, but just thought I'd share my similar experience.
 
Luckily due to my youth my lowest point isn't too bad. Hell, the worst thing I can think of is when I lost the state championship football game for my Pop Warner league way back when.

Best was probably my first kiss. That whole night was just awesome.
 
xelios said:
Cute cat. Had the same problem with my kitten, except it was congenital (diaphragmatic hernia) and symptoms didn't show up 'til she was several months old. Was also one of my low points. Wasn't quite as expensive as yours but close, totally worth it though because I still have her. :)

After the surgery (can see her tummy shaved and split open):

lilyaftersurgery2.jpg


Sorry for derail, but just thought I'd share my similar experience.

Man, I don't know if I would be able to make it through such an event.

I'm glad your cat also made it through. :)
 
Highest: When I'm living abroad. As proud as I am of the United States, I feel like an outsider in this country.

Lowest: Living in Wisconsin for 4 years as a minority. It did a number on my social development that took years to overcome.
 
Happiest: The first time I heard my son tell me "I love you, daddy."
Lowest: The time a kid sucker punched me when I was 15 and didn't defend myself. My mom came rushing out of the house and kicked the shit out of the kid. I was the laughing stock of my high school.
 
Happiest: Getting my degree back in May
Lowest: Realizing it's useless and I'll be confined to a life of tile salesmanship where no one will ever love me
 
Highest: Being the first person in my family's history to graduate from university.
Lowest: Being diagnosed with cancer.
 
Highest: 2 months ago when I rolled home in my new Camaro. First major purchase post-college ftw.

Lowest: Probably finding out I got cheated on by my girlfriend who I really liked when I was 19, and having to man up and break the relationship off. That event made me quite a cynical/bitter person from then on out.
 
Highest: Seeing a shiton of players enjoy something I created for the first time.

1a. Winning my first b-ball tournament.

Lowest: A strange journey with a on/off gf of 6 years that finally ended a few years back. I have the woman of my dreams now.
 
NZNova said:
Highest: Being the first person in my family's history to graduate from university.
Lowest: Being diagnosed with cancer.
:(

Sorry to hear that man, hope you have a kickass life
 
I'm winning against it :)

Plus, my treatment has given me the ability to experience lucid dreams which is kinda cool!
 
Boombloxer said:
Highest: Seeing a shiton of players enjoy something I created for the first time.

1a. Winning my first b-ball tournament.

Lowest: A strange journey with a on/off gf of 6 years that finally ended a few years back. I have the woman of my dreams now.

what did you create?
 
Happiest? Not sure about that, nothing really good springs into mind.
Lowest? Not getting a job I really wanted and that was so coming to my way and knowing that I'm leaving to army in two days + all kinds of other shit on the same week too.
 
_Alkaline_ said:
Don't worry man, we all have these moments.

First thing's first. Tomorrow morning. Wake up early. I mean 6 or 7 in the morning. Go for a run - make it 20 minutes (or over). That means you've already done something for the day, and it's still morning. Even if you played Xbox/searched GAF/etc for the rest of the day, you've still done something.

Next day, go for another run. Similar length, but an entirely different path. If you have a watch, time it. When you run this path again on a different day, you can compare your results and see if you've improved. It gives you something to aim for, and even better, it's an awesome feeling when you can see your own improvements for yourself.

Do these runs each morning about five times a week. You could sleep in on weekends. Trust me, you'll start getting more and more proactive, to the point where weekends make you feel lazy and you'll want to do more. This feeling will bode well for college, where you'll have to be attending things all the time, as well as if you want to get a job (which I highly recommend, and don't be put-off if the only jobs avaliable are total shit. A shit job just means that you can only go up. Take whatever you can get, and if you get it, then you'll have the freedom to start searching for better jobs. As a side note, being physically and socially active (runs + college) will increase confidence and you'll, without a doubt, end up meeting a girl and hit it off.

Everything above is simple as hell but it'll work. The key thing is to get onto it straight away. Don't keep putting it off. "I'll start next week" or even "I'll start tomorrow" isn't enough. Procrastination is man's greatest enemy. It'll feel a ton better if you address your problems now, rather than later, because there simply is no later. If you don't do it now, you never will.
Thanks for the support. I will try running by Wednesday. I got finals today and tomorrow =[
 
God damn. This thread makes me want to give some of you a hug or have a beer together.

Lowest: I've mentioned this before, but basically all of the years of Bosnian war. I was 7 when it started and seeing all of those things a kid is not supposed to see. I would provide links but I would not recommend anyone to watch it.

Highest: Last year my dad had a bad heart attack, and after waiting for two hours during a surgery the doctor came out telling me that he made it just fine. Longest two hours of my whole life.
 
Wow, I agree with above, I want to buy some of you a beer for this stuff. Anyways now for mine.

Lowest: Having my fiancee that I'd been with for seven years leave me and start fucking another man the day after she left me. On top of that, my grandmother, my cat, and my car all died that same week. Worst time of my life, and I still haven't fully recovered (this was only a few months ago.

Highest: Well, it was the day I got engaged, but.... I guess now it would be when I got Modern Warfare 2.... Pretty pathetic, but at the moment it keeps me going.
 
Happiest: Graduating with my bachelors and hearing the roar (one of the loudest) upon receiving my diploma. For once in my life I felt I had accomplished something and it wasn't just another emotionless pat on the back.

Lowest: Having to move half way through my senior year and having to deal with suddenly losing my high school sweetheart, all friends, and the only group of people I was comfortable with. Naturally, I gained few friends and suffered from depression the rest of my senior year.
 
Holy shit at NoRen's story. All of that over a stolen/lost driver's license? Won't the driver's license mark it as stolen when you report it missing so anything that happens with it afterward is flagged?

Man, that story just makes me depressed. It is far and away the worst tale of identity theft I've ever read.

Anyway, back to the thread:

My lowest was how pathetic I got over a girl in college. I was a complete emotional dumbass over everything.

My highest? The day I moved away from my parents for grad school.
 
I don't mean to get corny but this thread is awesome. I really am enjoying reading all of your positive experiences and yet feel terrible for your negative ones.

I have been a member of many boards but GAF truly is close to my heart. Sure, we joke all of the time, etc. But in the last year & half I have grown to appreciate this community. Thanks for sharing your experiences.
 
NoRéN!!!!!!

Fuck I'm so sorry to hear about your crisis, truly am. Thing is I lost my Driver's License at school last Monday, tomorrow morning I'm going to the DMV, what should I do?
 
Lowest: Right now, realizing that for my Chemistry test I absolutely know nothing. The fact that the entire quarter I've gotten 50's on the test, kept saying "Oh, well this will give you the drive to study.", but it never did. So I'm probably going to fail that test tomorrow, which not only is a disappointment to myself but even more so a disappointment to my parents who are helping to partially pay for my college tuition. So now I feel like a complete asshole by wasting their money on a course that I'm probably going to fail because I was an idiot. Even now I'm taking the time to write this shit and surf GAF instead...

Highest: I was born with a cleft lip and pallet, so one side of my lip was puffier than the other due to a surgery I had when I was a baby, then it also fucked up my teeth. My two front teeth grew in at a 45 degree angle instead of flat and the two teeth next to my two front teeth were nonexistant. So after many surgeries and a TON of dental work, when I looked in the mirror and saw a normal lip with a nice pair of teeth (albeit some of them being fake).
 
NoRéN said:
If I were a better writer, maybe.

Funny because I've had a dream a few times already. every time I have it, when i wake I immediately wake my girlfriend and tell her about it. It's the same, or very similar dream every time:

I am at some sort of theater. I am up on a balcony. I don't see it, but I somehow know that i have written a book and said but has been turned into a movie, which is what will be shown. the theater is full and the movie begins. I don't see the whole movie in the dream, but I remember glimpses, scenes, when i wake up. Basically, it's about a guy who goes to a pier every day for one year. Each day, he goes and remembers a specific day or event in his life. Each day is different, some days he remembers the ups, sometimes the downs. Eventually, he comes to remember a specific day. On this day, his spouse and pet die in a horrific car accident. Eventually, day 365 arrives. Guy closes is eyes and begins to reach into his coat pocket. The camera begins to pan up and you see the sea lit up by the sunset. The you hear a gunshot.

That's when I wake up so I never get to see the audiences reaction.

My girlfriend told me that maybe the dream is trying to tell me what to do. Maybe I am supposed to be an author and that will be my way out of all this(financially).

But, I don't think I am a good writer so I don't see that happening.

yeah, that's a recurring dream in the movie.
You don't have to write well to tell this story.
Maybe you can co-write it.. with the help of someone with a bit more writing xperience.
Some of the gaffers are good story tellers/ writers.
 
One of the happiest would be the first night sleeping in a bed with my first serious girlfriend when I was 16, waking up and finding her asleep with her head resting on my chest. Dunno, it's always been a magical moment to me.

The lowest would be seeing one of my best friends fall to his death (he later succumbed to the wounds received when falling). It was recent, my life's still fucked because of it.
 
Rei_Toei said:
One of the happiest would be the first night sleeping in a bed with my first serious girlfriend when I was 16, waking up and finding her asleep with her head resting on my chest. Dunno, it's always been a magical moment to me.

The lowest would be seeing one of my best friends fall to his death (he later succumbed to the wounds received when falling). It was recent, my life's still fucked because of it.
If you don't mind me asking, what exactly happened?
 
Lowest: When my dad passed away a few months ago. Still hitting me in stages. He was a great guy; didn't have an easy life but he had a good life.

Highest: A multitude of projects with work. Life changing stuff that impacts on people's... lives. I could go and earn more money elsewhere but I wouldn't be as fulfilled.
 
high - meeting the woman i love with her feeling the same way
low - watching her slip away until it was over

:(
 
salva said:
Thanks for the support. I will try running by Wednesday. I got finals today and tomorrow =[
I feel ya Salva. C'mon now, happy face, HAPPY FACE!!! *Internet High-Five*
Good luck on your finals. I hope I don't bomb mine.
 
LovingSteam said:
If you don't mind me asking, what exactly happened?

It feels kinda weird writing about it. Roof we were standing on collapsed. He fell 7 metres, hurt his head badly. There was too much brain damage to save him so a couple of days later they let him go.
 
Highest: Starting at uni with awesome parties, many hot girls and cool dudes everywhere. So many good memories so far.

Lowest: Best-Friend gets together with my ex, and his father dies of cancer some weeks later. Complicated and did stuff I regret.
 
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