#32

When arsenal won the league at white heart lane in the invincible season was a pretty happy moment, especially with the spuds fans celebrating the draw :smiley:

Doing a foreign tour in a band was pretty great - single and full party at an age where i could actually enjoy myself for 7 days straight.

but really i suppose having children counts for some happiness, or failing that watching The Boss with my now wife was a very happy evening.

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#33

I thought I was happy in mine, and I was for ages. I’m sure you were too. It might not have been the happy ending you thought you might have had, but don’t let that detract from the good moments you did have.

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#34

yeah I know. I’m completely in love with someone else who is amazing but still feel sad on occasion about what might have been…

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#35

Think I may have been happy once actually, and to my disappointment it didn’t feel like something in its own right, just the absence of feeling bad

#37

2004-6, when I first started dating my (now) wife. I was doing my PhD which in retrospect doesn’t feel very stressful. Going to tons of gigs, hiking in the Canadian wilderness most weekends and generally having lots of fun.

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#38

I really loved being 18, it was a good age for me

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#41

Ooh with songs though i can conjure up loads of happy times. Weird how that works, off the top of my head I’m stumped, but with a song i can remember it all

They got away - built to spill, moto moindo - staff benda bilili: 2010 summer. Summer before my dad died. Went on walks with my parents in the woods, listened to my ipod while they walked ahead chatting to each other and id just feel fond and full of love for them. Nature walks are big in my family and i will always remember that summer fondly even tho i was like this guy at the end
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and took the bus home at the end of the trail while my parents went all the way back to get home and told me off for being lazy

Also the summer of pokemon go in 2016 was great - drove to the beach with my ATDs one day and we were so excited to catch pokemon by the sea, went on a seaside holiday trip with my mum and brother and we had so much fun playing. I love pokemon so much and that game was the first thing i truly enjoyed in years at the time

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#42

I’m not really sure to be honest. I’m not sure I’ve had a prolonged period of happiness, nor unhappiness for that matter.

I guess the period of March 2002-June 2005 was a pretty carefree and fun time. This is between our wedding and the first child being born. We had disposable income and no real responsibilities, so just had a load of fun with gigs and travelling. I don’t want it to make it sound like our daughter being born killed our happiness, far from it, but it obviously made life that little more challenging.

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#43

Don’t really look back at periods of my life and consider them to have a different emotional tone or anything. I’m mostly pretty happy now compared to the rest of my life.

I do fondly remember the Christmas break of 2010 though, or maybe it was Easter. I was in uni halls, and literally everyone else had gone home to their families, while the snow had come down and frozen, and the whole city had run out of grit. In my head I spent the whole time walking along these perilous paths with my massive headphones on, listening to NosferatuD2 or Perfume Genius. I know it wasn’t, but it felt very meaningful.

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#44

maybe xmas 2007

had an entire month off uni and only a tiny essay to write, spent the entire time seeing my best friends

perfect balance between being young and not having any responsibilities and being an adult and being able to do what i wanted

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#45

April - August 2018.

Relationship with Her Indoors was taking off, I’d quit the job I hated and was doing a full time web development course that I’d saved up years for. It was sunny literally every fucking day. I was so interested and so invested with what I was studying, meeting loads of cool people on the course, not worrying about money because I had none but also barely any expenses and somehow a credit card (that one came back to bite me), cheap dates all the time with the Mrs, just walking in the countryside or hanging out in her house. England kept winning world cup matches and I don’t even like football but It’s Coming Home is a goddamn bop and the atmosphere was amazing. Felt full of energy the whole time, barely needed any sleep, lived right near town so I was walking everywhere and Charli XCX had just released Pop 2 and I was blasting it on repeat all the time. After the course ended I went on a trip to Cologne and Berlin with all my friends and Green Man festival with Her Indoors and then came home and had to get a job which was grim and I’m still paying off the debts I racked up but it was an amazing time and also I got a sick new job and probably lifelong relationship out of it.

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#47

Absolute bangers tbf

#49

my best friend from uni was here for a stag at the weekend and i managed to meet up with him a couple of times, and i enjoyed reminiscing about our time living together from 2007 to 2011

i hated my course and basically just hid from all academic responsibility more and more as time went on, and the summers often felt long and lonely, so it wasn’t a perfect time in my life. but looking back i was really happy when i was at home living with good mates and being able to just hang out with them all the time. going on trawls around all the good pubs in town on random weeknights. sharing all our CDs with each other and getting each other into stuff.

my current living situation is alright and all but i sometimes hanker for those days. don’t feel like i was making the most of them towards the end, became a bit more antisocial and spent too much time on the internet. if only someone told me i’d be doing that to my heart’s content for the next decade anyway.

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#50

Summer 2014. Worked full time at a bar after graduating. Was dead in the day, watched every game at the world Cup while chilling out with the regulars. Worked with some good mates and my partner on the weekend, drank on the job then would go to someone’s flat most Fridays and Saturdays after shifts. No responsibility, cash in hand, easy life.

Glad it was only a couple of months mind cause the absolute state of my body through it

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#51

2006/07 was amazing. I had a very active lifestyle and was very sociable. It went downhill after that though when my partying got way out of hand around 2009. Fortunately after 8 year spiralling down the hole of depression I think I’m currently experiencing my happiest time since then

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#52

August 2001. I had just discovered for the first time drinking and weed.

I was care-free, no responsibilities, just working in the week to save up enough money to get out of my head on the weekend.

Now I feel some responsibilities. My mum hates me drinking, and my dad doesn’t like seeing my mum upset so it upsets him.

I would like to go back to August 2001 when I was truly care-free. When I felt no guilt for getting out my head. (Also I was slimmer then.)

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#54

Aww that world cup was so much fun (although June 2014 is still The Worst Month Of My Life :tm: )

#55

I think if I go out walking in the middle of nowhere with no aims I have happy days so maybe do that more but maybe I’m happier doing that with people

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#56

Same period for me

Off during the whole World Cup, BBQs every day, sat in the sunshine reading before the matches started, swapping Panini stickers with friends, it was lovely.

#57

World cup!

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