Current Events > Your best experiences of 2019?

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-Went to some neighborhoods for the first time
-Found some great eateries and restaurants
-Started going to some interesting places that just opened up (Hudson Yards Mall, Domino Park)
-Commissioned an artist to do an artwork for the first time
-Saw a show of artist John Singer Sargent, with drawings that either haven't been seen in 100 years or have never been seen by the public
-Started going to more meetups (only went to 3 in the previous 3 years)

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2019 was a quiet year for me. Went out east for a week to visit relatives, moved over to my current position at work, and started HIIT. Not much happened beyond that other than the norm.

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volunteer for a charity which aims to prevent young men from suicide. we show up at gigs, festivals, sporting events, etc to change the culture of men not opening up to one another when things are bad

probably the best thing i've done all decade

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2019 was a pretty bland year. It was mostly me working at my job and finishing up grad school (I finish in June 2020).

I got to visit Palm Desert, CA in February but I've been there lots of other times and even spent my year off from college there. I also visited my dad in Georgetown, KY (it's near Lexington). I've been there before but this was the most time I've ever spent there at once.

Besides that nothing that exciting happened.

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Best experience was definitely attending a music festival where I saw bands that my highschool self thought I'd never see in my life.

I went to A Varning from Montreal Festival. AKA Varning Fest.

It's an annual 3 night punk/d-beat/crust fest in Montreal.
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i only had a short vacation away from home this year, but it was nice rented a cabin on a lake for a week and did boat shit.

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Only bad no good.

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Thanksgiving with my husband and my entire family.

Awesome time. Everyone got along and had a wonderful experience.

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Parappa09 posted...

volunteer for a charity which aims to prevent young men from suicide. we show up at gigs, festivals, sporting events, etc to change the culture of men not opening up to one another when things are bad

probably the best thing i've done all decade

That sounds pretty cool. I've lost a good friend to suicide and the worst part about it was that it came out of nowhere. He never talked about it or even hinted at what he was going through.
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a-c-a-b posted...

That sounds pretty cool. I've lost a good friend to suicide and the worst part about it was that it came out of nowhere. He never talked about it or even hinted at what he was going through.

yeah, we get a lot of that from people who have been affected by suicide. it sucks because a lot of guys have grown up not being able to talk about how they feel or bottle up their emotions coz it's seen as 'unmasculine'

it's even more sad because some of the suicides are attributed to losing a job, relationship break ups, poor mental health and other issues that a lot of other men face that could be easier if they opened up and spoke to other ppl about. but in their minds, the only way out for some men is to kill themselves which i feel bad about

i read a statistic that suicide is the biggest cause of death for men under 40 in the UK. i'm sure it's the same for the US and most other western countries. and that alone made me sign up to be a charity volunteer

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Mistere Man posted...

Only bad no good.

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Parappa09 posted...

volunteer for a charity which aims to prevent young men from suicide. we show up at gigs, festivals, sporting events, etc to change the culture of men not opening up to one another when things are bad

probably the best thing i've done all decade

I really respect that. I lost a friend to suicide the other year. Things did seem tough for her in the years that I had known her, she then lost a lot of weight and was looking sickly but looked and sounded much better the last time I saw her. I found out about her death 4 weeks after that.

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-Got a job again after a long stint of unemployment.

-Met @Duncanwii and hung out at the mall with him.

-Went to see the Bristol Speedway in Lights for the first time.

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KogaSteelfang posted...

-Got a job again after a long stint of unemployment.

-Met @Duncanwii and hung out at the mall with him.

-Went to see the Bristol Speedway in Lights for the first time.

You met a CEman? Cool, I couldn't imagine doing that though.

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Vol2tex posted...

I really respect that. I lost a friend to suicide the other year. Things did seem tough for her in the years that I had known her, she then lost a lot of weight and was looking sickly but looked and sounded much better the last time I saw her. I found out about her death 4 weeks after that.

sorry to hear that man :(

i'm very lucky that suicide hasn't affected any friends or family of mine. but it's surprising how many people have been affected or knew someone fairly close

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Parappa09 posted...

sorry to hear that man :(

i'm very lucky that suicide hasn't affected any friends or family of mine. but it's surprising how many people have been affected or knew someone fairly close

Yeah, I always wonder if anything I could have said or done might have changed things.


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Vol2tex posted...

You met a CEman? Cool, I couldn't imagine doing that though.

Eh, it's not bad. A bit awkward, but you either move past that bit or you don't.

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OrdonGoatCheese posted...

Eh, it's not bad. A bit awkward, but you either move past that bit or you don't.

i've never had a bad experience meeting up with a CEer irl

bar hopping in NYC was super fun, and street food/pubs over here was p good too. and there was a time when someone came to my bday party at a bar lol

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It was a decent year.
My three biggest highlights are:
Road Tripped Ecuador,
Finished eriting/editing my first novel, and
Played the final show with my band of 13 years.

The last one was kinda bitter sweet, but whatevs.

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OrdonGoatCheese posted...

Eh, it's not bad. A bit awkward, but you either move past that bit or you don't.

It's just weird connecting words on a page that you've seen for years to real people, especially on a board like this where people say weird and silly things. At least with other people from the internet who I meet, for modeling for example, I meet them within a day or two.

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Graduated college with my bachelor's degree, went on a road trip to Texas, and watched the finale of the greatest anime in the history of anime.
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Endgame
People finally realized Game of Thrones has been shit

That's about it

going to hhn at universal orlando

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• Getting rid of my shitty account at work
• Winning fantasy football
• Finding new friends in WoW Classic

The rest of 2019 can F off.

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i went to japan
i went to canada
i got engaged
i moved
got a new car


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Mistere Man posted...

Only bad no good.

This and it's only going to get worse.

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Vol2tex posted...

It's just weird connecting words on a page that you've seen for years to real people, especially on a board like this where people say weird and silly things.

Yeah, that's fair enough. For the most part I don't even bother mentally putting a face to the usernames on here. Majority of you are Americans anyway, so it's not like I'd knowingly meet you in person unless I went out of my way to.

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OrdonGoatCheese posted...

Yeah, that's fair enough. For the most part I don't even bother mentally putting a face to the usernames on here. Majority of you are Americans anyway, so it's not like I'd knowingly meet you in person unless I went out of my way to.

I'd prefer not putting a face on these people, though I'm sure most of you are fine in real life.

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