The worst/best days of your life?

Today was good and bad.
Good:
Leaving for Humboldt soon to kick it with my best friends til the 5th.
Got a scholarship from UC Davis.
I’m alive.

Bad:
Friend moving away.
Supposed to leave for Humboldt tomorrow, but trip postponed til Thursday.

Driving through the French countryside with my kids and my spouse as our year abroad was coming to a close, and looking out at the unspoiled loveliness and consciously committing it to memory. “I’m never going to forget how beautiful and perfect this moment is. I’m never going to forget how beautiful and perfect this moment is…” I was right there in that moment and I can see it now if I close my eyes. It makes my heart hurt to think about it now.

Worst The days my dad died and my sister died. Any time one of my pets dies.

Best my second wedding. Some magical travel days when everything has gone right and been full of wonderful surprises. (Too many to mention.) Watching my mother (84) and my great niece (11) celebrating their one-day-apart birthdays this year by eating cupcakes and then laughing at their identical frosting mustaches.

The best day was the day my first child was born, 7/11/84….....

SRM

Best: high school and my year in Seattle. I felt healthy, had lots of friends, lots to
do and was most definitely in my element.

Worst: college. I wasn’t healthy, had few real friends, didn’t like what I had to do, and was way out of my element.

@kevbo

So far it’s been the opposite for me. I hated high school because i had no friends and had to take classes I didn’t want to take but I love college because of the freedom, the options, and the new people.

I can definitely understand. That seems to be a more common experience. For me, college felt like less freedom, and the culture was pretty homogenous.

Where’d you go? And why didn’t it feel like freedom? (Not to pry or anything but you’ve aroused my curiosity).

Catholic Disneyland a.k.a. Notre Dame.

Mainly, it was just a repressive culture. Not that all my complaints were about sex, but just as an example, the Dean of Freshman Year addressing my entire freshman class with our parents at our side told us not to have sex until marriage. At Junior Parents Weekend (again with parents in tow) Lou Holtz said, “You don’t change Notre Dame. Notre Dame changes you.” Dating was weird. Imaginations were severely handicapped. Too many white suburban J Crew lookalikes with lookalike minds. It’s a great place for people of that ilk, but not for me.

@kevbo

lol. I saw the movie Rudy the other day so Notre Dame is fresh on my mind.

Best day would be when I realized is if you try hard enough, you could accomplish anything (reasonable of course)

Worst would be when my first girlfriend dumped me, you get so heartbroken as a kid.

@elchoo, Yeah, that was filmed during my senior year. Nobody I knew really respected the guy because he whined his way in and then used his top tier education to become an apartment manager at a complex near campus. He, at least, appreciated his time there.

Going abroad for grad school. First day: so excited, never been that far away from home. Fly into airport, my baggage didn’t make it with me, it’s pouring outside, and all I have on me is my laptop bag, passport, magazines, and some gum. Best and worst day all-in-one. My baggage showed up 3 days later. Still kind of pissed about that…

Aside from the days my kids were born, the day my sister and I landed in Manhattan to celebrate my 40th birthday together. What an amazing trip.

I would depress everyone if I answered this one. My worst day is probably worse than you can imagine.

I can relate to what you’re saying johnpowell. I’ve had some pretty shitty days too. Lt’s just say the best has yet to come.

@JP

Can you share them anyways? I’ve always been someone who listens to/reads depressing things for catharsis.

Best day: when my kids were born. hands down.

Worst day: the night I called suicide hotline because i had worked 3 months solid without a day off for an abusive alcoholic boss. I had a self estime problem.

worst day: when i was stranded a half hour from home and looked down at my phone and realized i had nearly 200 phone numbers, none of which i could call because i was ashamed. in 4 months i had turned from a dedicated student and outgoing individual to a high school drop out and druggie.

all this in the fourth quarter of my senior year, all because my husband of two weeks joined the Army to start a better life for us. i had screwed things up with him too. i threw my entire life down the drain because i felt alone and i was too weak to handle it responsibly. and i didn’t realize it til that day, when i needed a favor. there’s ALOT more to this story, it’s way worse with all the details, obviously.

i plan on writing a book, teens everywhere will LOVE IT.

the best day: when my husband called after he heard i was trying to get back on my feet and said he still loved me. he flew me out of that environment and i’m working on getting a counselor to be sure i’m ok. since that day, i’ve really pulled through, we’re expecting a baby girl in march, he isn’t getting deployed anytime soon, and i’m now back in school getting my associates. i think it’s alot easier to talk about bad situations when u pulled through them,

@ bri l: i hope bri l would agree.

and the best part: my book will have a happy ending, kinda inspirational. sorry if this reply bored u guys, i’m new to this fluther thing, and this answer is still fresh in memory.

You’re an attractive lady, armywife ;)

I think it’s great you’re writing a book :)

thank you, maybe one day you’ll see it on the shelves :)

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