Favourite age/year?

In My Humble Opinion
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Is there any particularly good year that you wish had never ended? Or perhaps is there an age that you are looking forward to?

I understand that there’s a large spread of ages across this board, so the question could be applied for both the best year you have already experienced or one you are most looking forward to. Feel free to be as vague or explicit as you wish.

Being of the lower end of the age scale, I’m looking forward to being 24 (in 2011). I would be out of University with a good job, a nice girlfriend and be more experienced in life yet still young. Or so goes the dream…

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  1. I was 18 and all was right with the world.

:sigh:

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1997 :cool:

I’m planning on making 2005 a cracker too

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1994 was the best year of my life… until this year. It’s a toss up.

1994 I was 16 and didn’t have a care in the world - I wasn’t in love with anyone, I had no obligations besides school, and even that wasn’t so bad. I wasn’t a popular girl or anything, but everyone was mature enough to stop picking on me by then, I had a few good friends who I would spend my days with. I would come home only to sleep, then wake up, throw on whatever was clean and walk out the door. I wasn’t a bad kid, didn’t do drugs, didn’t drink, smoked cigarettes a little bit, though. We’d spend our days doing absolutely nothing, and yet, looking back, I got more exercise doing nothing than I do now doing everything.

This year has been good to me… though I’d like to work to keep busy, but I can’t as I’m still awaiting a SSN, I can’t complain. Being happily married is wonderful, and being a housewife isn’t bad at all. I do my chores, go for walks to the Locks or to Shilshole, or check out all the shops on Market Street, or walk to my father-in-law’s, since he’s nearby. When I don’t go out for whatever reason (the rain doesn’t deter me, I love the rain!), then I stay inside and paint or use my oil pastels. Life is leisurely, calm, and happy. My two cats are my only “babies” right now, absolutely stressless companions.

Years ending in “4” are great. Years ending in “2” are bad. Bad. (in 92 I was beat up daily, picked on, “friends” backstabbed me - very bad year for me… and 2002 was the year my fiance left me for another woman, dragging me through some very stressful mud before and after the messy, messy breakup…) I’m not normally very superstitious, but frankly, I’m not looking forward to 2012. 2014, on the other hand… :smiley:

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I’ve eliminated 2001 from history. Some years have good times and bad times. 2001 did not have one single redeeming feature. Grrr :mad:

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1998 when I was 22. Fresh out of college and making my first real paycheck.

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When I was 28. It will never be better. 1996

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Looking forward to being 36, at which point it will be legal to sleep with a girl half my age.

I don’t feel like doing the exact calculations, but around 1993 to around 1998 were pretty good. Basically it was from around Jr year in college to a few years afterwards.

2001 was going pretty well until around September - new job, finsihed grad school, moved to New York.

Last two years have pretty much sucked donkey dick.

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The year 2000 was the best for me. I graduated from college, got married, and celebrated my golden birthday at a huge party with all my friends. I think that year is also my favorite because it was the year before my parents got divorced and it’s the last year I have happy memories of being with them together.

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I really enjoyed being 26. I think it’s because of a combination of things that were going on in my life (solid marriage, new & exciting career for my husband, a healthy pregnancy…). Things have actually been pretty good (for the most part) ever since then, but for some reason age 26 just stands out for me.

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No particular year of my life was noteworthy in any regard that I remember although if I had to pick one, I guess it’d be around '99 or '00, when I was seventeen and eighteen and had my first job. I’m in one of my moods where being an adult sucks and being a kid (okay, a teen) would be a nice change of pace.

So far as a future year goes? I don’t know. 2010? I’ll be 28 then and maybe have my life and finances in some semblance of order. Plus, I’ll no longer be a high risk driver and my friggin’ insurance won’t cost me $140 a month.

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When singing along to Bryan Adams’ Summer of '69 (“best days of my life”), I usually change the words to “summer of '95”. However, thinking back, '99 was at least as good a year as '95 IME. The latter half of '04 has so far been good too.

2012 will have a Venus transit that I hope to be able to see, so I am looking forward to that. It’d also be nice to live long enough to experience the '70s (the 2070s, to be more exact) but that would mean living longer than even my grandfather did.

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I gotta say that for the most part, life keeps getting better and better. Sure, sure, I wish I had stayed in shape, and life would be better if I had the body that I had when I was 19, but so much of my life is good NOW that I can’t imagine going back. I remember those days fondly, but now is good too- and next year will be better.

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I’ve always wanted to reach age 35 and then stop aging.

As for what the best year or age in my life was in reality, it was about 10 or 11 years ago, when I was about 21 or so. Ironically it was also the worst time in my life. On the one hand, I had a really huge social life, good credit (which I would later ruin in just a few short years :() and was feeling great about the fact that I was young and independent (as a kid, I always dreamed about the day I’d be living on my own). Yet, at the same time, I was going though a massive pity party because of all of the bad things that had happened, and were going on in my life.
So, as the story line goes “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

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When I was much younger (turned 50 yesterday) I would think to myself “Man it just does not get any better than this.” This happened in my 20’s, in my 30’s.

But it did get better!

I have mostly had a really good life and have few regrets or wishes to go back and stop the clock or anything like that.

It was really cool to be young in the late 60’s and 70’s but it is just as cool to be 50, have the life experience I have, and watch my kids grow up.