Current Events > Your best year of the 2010s?

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2013, I met some of the coolest people that I know, best time at work, didn't have as many health issues, had fun gaming, Instagram was starting to become popular but people still mainly used stuff like Facebook, Tumblr was still good, people still used blogspot, some of my other favorite websites didn't yet go defunct or have massive changes...
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I dunno, the last decade was weird. My professional and social lives had a directly inverse trajectory (made less money, had more free time and was with a great woman), then that flipped again this year (single again, busy as fuck, all of the sudden making half again as much as I was). Maybe somewhere around 2014 there was a happy medium?

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I picked 2015 but I should've picked 2011 instead

Not a whole lot to choose from. Decade was awful

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Didn't really have good year this decade. Been pretty meh actually.

First half of the decade wasn't too good, 2015 is when things turned around for me and it's been getting better ever since. I voted 2019.

No idea, I dramatically changed my outlook on life and can't even remember tge depths of what my old one felt like

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2012

The Avengers
Moonrise Kingdom
The Dark Knight Rises
Looper
Lincoln
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty
Django Unchained
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Hard to say. Im making better moves for my future this year, but I had the most fun in 2015.
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They've all been pretty bad. Lost my dad in '10, my big sister in '17.
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King Rial posted...

They've all been pretty bad. Lost my dad in '10, my big sister in '17.

Sorry to hear that
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2019. I feel like I'm getting my life together now.

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2012 was big turn around point.
2016 was probably the worst year of my life tho
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2018, that's when I jumped into the world of crypto and discovered Chainlink and the insane potential of Ethereum's smart contracts.
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Until 2013 I was a bullying target in my Primary School
2014 nothing happened that I remember
2015-16 I was both bullied and sexually harassed. I went to Europe in '16 but shit almost hit the fan right before then, and then I suffered a few (ASD related, turns out) meltdowns and got sick while in Europe. I don't care that I went to Disneyland my throat was dying the entire time. Also 2016 just has the reputation for trapping us in the bad timeline so
2017 - One of the worst years of school I remember. Had another big meltdown in front of my entire year level. The teachers trying to shield me was...awkward.
2018 - Nothing special happened here outside my diagnosis. School after Research Project was great, though.
2019 - Finally donating all the hoarded stuff in the house and it's making me feel good so...this year wins.
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I don't like dwelling on my personal past. I like where I am now.
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2015 I ate so much ass that I got full. Good holidays that year.

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2011, easy. My dad was still alive, I had just found Steam (and, by proxy, Terraria - that game sucked hours out of my life), and I helped found and run a site that thousands of people visited and I got to personally talk with and interact with a ton of new people. I even had a little relationship going.

It was such a good year for me that only really got bad by the very end of December. Dad passed away the next month.

The small span of November 2015 to the new year of 2016 was really good, too. I had moved in with a friend, got a new job, and things felt good again.

And, I guess, 2019 was okay, too.
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maybe 2017 for my personal favorite. it was an exciting year cause that's when I moved to Alaska. easily the biggest life event for me of the decade

power rankings, from best to worst: 2014, 2013, 2012, 2016, 2010, 2011, 2019, 2017, 2015, 2018

that is to say, a dip from 2010 to 2011, a meteoric rise from 2011 to 2014, declining from there and crashing in 2018, and making modest improvement in 2019
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For me this is asking which year of my 20s I liked most. Hard to answer.

2010-2012 I was still dicking around in undergrad. Lots of drinking, smoking, vidya with the boys. A couple of friends moved out of state, but it was close enough that me and another buddy visited whenever he had the vacation days (couple times a year). But I really didn't appreciate the freedom I had at the time. These might have been a highpoint otherwise.

Late 2012-2014 was a definite low point. My parents stopped working and goofing off in college caught up with me so I worked 2 or 3 jobs at a time for these years. Productive but rough. Kind of figured out what I wanted to do.

2015-2017 went back to get a graduate degree, these were great times. Learned a lot, enjoyed the coursework, interned in DC and that was fun but expensive.

2017-2019 I've been climbing the career ladder in my profession, and I should feel great. But I accumulated a lot of debt paying for grad school and still supporting my parents. Different expenses keep coming up and eradicating my savings as my parents are getting older especially. And I kind of stopped having any hobbies after life slapped me in the face. So I'm feeling overwhelmed and don't have any outlets really.

I guess honestly grad school was my highpoint. That's kind of why I think I'd have enjoyed undergrad more if I'd understood the alternative better lol

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2012

Graduated, got married, got first real job.

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2019

The year that gave us this gem

https://imgur.com/a/q6Y5uau
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Ranking them since it allows me to analyze myself:

2011
2010
2014
2015
2012
2013
2016
2017
2019
2018

The worst year isn't even that bad, just kinda uneventful + some health problems that eventually cleared up. All in all, not a bad decade. Kinda disheartening to see the last four years are at the bottom of the list, but it makes sense since I have very fond memories of high school and college. My work isn't bad, but it makes the days seem more homogeneous.
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JustMyOpinion posted...

ledbowman posted...

2012

The Avengers
Moonrise Kingdom
The Dark Knight Rises
Looper
Lincoln
Skyfall
Zero Dark Thirty
Django Unchained

Kinda sad that the quality of your life is defined by movies.

So I guess yours is defined by naruto figures
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Cringe. i'll take that as a yes
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It is pretty weird to rank your personal years based on what movies came out

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AwesomeToTheMAX posted...

It is pretty weird to rank your personal years based on what movies came out

Yep that's what i do
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JustMyOpinion posted...

AwesomeToTheMAX posted...

It is pretty weird to rank your personal years based on what movies came out

Qft

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Deadpool_18 posted...

Hard to say. Im making better moves for my future this year, but I had the most fun around 2013-2014.

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Pretty weird to judge a man so passionately about something that doesn't have anything to do with you.

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People judge other people. Deal with it.
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JustMyOpinion posted...

I judge you for defending ditching a dog in the middle of nowhere. It's natural to judge others when they say stupid things.

What? Lol

Bestoffuture posted...

People judge other people. Deal with it.

And Im joining in. That's how I deal with it. Judging those who judge others. Just my preference

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2015. Traveled a bunch. Finished writing my first book (took two and a half years). Made a bunch of music. Banged a lot of chicks. Worked like 12 hours the entire year. It was awesome.

Its hard to pick. Personally I think 2011-2015 was my better years. 2015 onward has just been.. yeah.

2019, 2018, 2016, 2012, rest

2019 i got in a really good healthy relationship, went on vacation for the first time in years, went to my first concert, and got to experience my best friend's girl giving birth and becoming an "uncle"
2018 was just a solid no complaint year, made a lot of changes, and refocused my life
2016 i turned my life around from being a carless, throwing college down the tubes idiot.
2012 i graduated high school i guess?

Rest were meh
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2017 because Hollow Knight releases
I guess this year is close since I got engaged
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The first half-3/4 of this year was really good.

The past couple of months have been a little rough but bearable.

So probably this year. Started work at a new place, get along well with coworkers, been more social, and me and my wife are in the best (still bad though) place we have been financially throughout our marriage. Things are looking good for next year as well, though work has been a lot harder the past couple of months and I haven't had a raise in about 2 years.

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10-17 were all good. 18 kinda sucked because diabetes snuck up on my real hard. im not real close to my dad or his family, turns out its rampant on his side. had no idea i was at risk, was a healthy weight and didnt really eat that poorly, genes just fucked me.

19 was fine i guess...
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Either 2012 or 2017.

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2013, by far.

Freshman/sophomore year of college meant that I had a lot of new freedom, got comfortable at my first job, lots of great games that came out that year, lots of hype when I picked up the PS4 at midnight, good Black Friday deals, good Pokemon release, great year for music, all of that.

2019 in comparison is in my bottom 3 so far. Sure I got my master's degree and nothing was particularly bad for most of the year, but I got into an accident in August that put me in the hospital and led me into a two month legal battle that I just got out of this week. Lots of uneasiness during that time by far and that's a major chunk of the year feeling like shit.
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2017

Had two awesome trips that year. The first was the Abel Tasman Coast Track in the South Island of NZ with a couple of friends. Extraordinary forests, beaches and inlets there. Later that year did a trip up the Australian east coast for a bit over a month. The scenery was just as spectacular, especially in places like Byron Bay, Fraser Island, Noosa, etc. Met so many interesting people (many of them were British and German, they especially love Australia).
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