Current Events > Which 2010s year was the best in your life?

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hmm, i really dunno. i guess 2011 cuz it was the last year i was in high school, which means nothing i did at the time mattered

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2010 gave me a cool job in telecommunications, but 2019 gave me even cooler video games

Tie between 2016 and 2017.

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2017 for me. Good year professionally, happy living arrangements, and I was seeing someone I considered marrying.

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Probably 2011.

I was partying a lot back then and going into the city all the time for punk shows. A lot of good times.
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2011 is when my savings first hit the 1 mil mark.
It made zero difference in how secure/wealthy I felt and nothing has really changed.

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2011

Got my first nice car, went out with friends practically every weekend, still lived with my parents cause I was just 18 but got my first full time job (making $8 an hour lol) so I had a bunch of money since I only had to pay for car insurance and cell phone data.

Great times.

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2013 or 2014, I cant remember which. It was the year I packed up everything I owned and got the heck out of Baton Rouge. Everything was great for a year or two until things changed. Now it feels like Im in a tourist trap.

2011, by far. Really incredible year with a bunch of fond memories with my friends, first serious relationship, and just everything. I'd started branching out in terms of taste in media and was constantly finding new things to enjoy. Wasn't a whole lot of drama or stupid crap going on and politics were still a joke to me. Even though I was 23, it feels, in a lot of ways, like the last year I was really a care-free "kid."

One of my good friends died the first week of January 2012. It was the first huge death I ever experienced. I'd had acquaintances and random family members/friends of the family die but never anyone I was seeing nearly every day, and not someone I had seen hours before they died.

It was a pretty abrupt end to my youth, especially because irresponsible partying (my favorite thing for many years before and after he died) is what did him in. All my poor decisions, negative actions, and inaction really started to get to me. I'd already dealt with depression and shit for a very long time by that point but that changed everything. That death is a clear delineation between being apathetic but able to consistently find joy in lots of places and actively hating life, the world, and myself with increasing dependence on alcohol and other forms of unhealthy escape just to get to another day. My youth was over but I regrettably didn't grow up, I just checked out and things got progressively worse until I almost ended up like him.

I thought the following years made it seem better than it really was but when I reminisce with friends, it's unanimously agreed to have objectively been a pretty fucking fantastic year. The crap after just make it shines that much brighter.

Honorable mention to 2013 and 2015 though. 2015 was pretty rad but that's also when my alcoholism reached a tipping point and it's hard to look back on it too fondly knowing what it was setting me up for down the road.


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2011 was the year I graduated high school but it was the worst high school year of the four years I had. 2009-10 was my Junior year and the best out of the high school years so I voted 2010. Got my Associate's Degree in 2013/2014ish but I didn't enjoy my time at community college.

Dark years were 2014-2017. Had trouble with my life in general around graduation. 2016 was also one of, if not the worst year of my life.

2017 was pretty good in that I got some help getting a job which was a struggle to find after graduating community college. One of my cats died in 2017 tho so yeah, kinda sucked. 2018-2019 were decent I suppose.

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Not sure. 2010 was the year before I developed schizophrenia. But later years were better I guess

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