Best Moments of your life

[Japher]

Dashi: Nicely written there.

[MRT144]

now i got one, first and only time i chewed tabacco

[Dis]

I'm sure it involves sex in some fashion

[Japher]

1. Getting married.

2. Graduating from college.

3. Getting a good job.

4. Soon to come; rubbing it in the faces of my HS teachers at the 10 year reunion. Yeah!

[Barley]

I'm sure it involves sex in some fashion

Bah

You know when you have that nagging doubt when you forgot something.......

Make that 4 things for me then lol, thanks Dissident.

[MRT144]

I GOT ACCEPTED TO THE ART INSTITUTE! IM IN BABY! UHHHHHHHH NA NA NANA!

[Tiamat]

I've had several. The birth of my daughters, winning the lottery and recently getting married to my soulmate.

[Tuberski]

1. Birth of my daughter.
2. Getting married to my current wife.
3. Divorce being final with my first wife.
4. Getting out of the Navy, Honorably.

ACK!

[PLATO]

Originally posted by TheStinger
birth of my son

Without a doubt!

[Dinner]

I'm not married and I don't have any kids so there go the easy ones... Still, here's a few in no proticular order:

-Graduating from college and having all of my family there; a few of whom are no longer living.

-Saying good bye to my friends and family as the Army shipped my out to Kosovo.

-Buying my first car.

-Going on my first date.

-Losing my virginity.

-Finishing a half marathon (I'll finish a full one someday).

-My first solo flight in an airplane; you sit there and then it suddenly hits you... no one else is in the plane but you.

-Meeting the most beautiful girl I've ever seen but not being able to speak to her because she didn't speak English. Insread we pointed at stuff and tried to use one of those phrase books in the back of a lony planet guide. It was fun but to this day I wish we could have communicated better; it not like anything would have happened but for some stupid reason I still think about her once in a while.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Tiamat
I've had several. The birth of my daughters, winning the lottery and recently getting married to my soulmate.

Careful, he might just be after the lottery money.



(Sorry, that joke sounded worse then I ment it to...)

[OldWarrior_42]

Most married people with kids will put having children as the number one thing. I do as well... all three of my daughters.

It is just a feeling you have to all experience just once, at least in my opinion.

Things behind the children being born... wedding day, building our own home, trip with all 5 of us together at Disney World, graduation days.... list goes on. Far outweighs the bad days.

[johncmcleod]

Ah, jeex DaShi. You got me all emotional about it.

Getting out of the last day of school is great. Going to my family reunion at Nags Head, North Carolina. Worst was that day last April that I got rejected.

How much did you win in the lottery? How many tickets did you buy?

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by Oerdin


Careful, he might just be after the lottery money.



(Sorry, that joke sounded worse then I ment it to...)

Yes well......it was only $10,000.00 and that was about 10 years ago so it's a safe bet that it's already spent and then some.

[molly bloom]

Swimming with my partner on the Great Barrier Reef in 1998- I had seen the usual nature programmes growing up in Great Britain, but never imagined that one day I would be on the reef, in amongst the vari-coloured coral, touching sea cucumbers, garupas, watching clown fish dart in and out of underwater forests. The prodigality of colours in the corals, in the fish, the sunlight flickering on the water- and to be there with the person I had loved for fourteen years.

In 1994 we went to Telegraph Cove on Vancouver Island- we took a boat out to stretch of water where killer whales often came. When we arrived we were fortunate to see a pod of four, a mother whale and three sons. They leapt full out of the water, slapped the surface with their tails, came to the end of the boat and just peered at us- great enigmatic stares, fathomless. I felt very small, very human and priviliged.

My friend Alison died when I was in my second year at university. I received the phone call late one afternoon, a disembodied voice telling me there was some bad news, that Alison was dead. At first I could not take in the news, it didn't seem possible- Alison was young, healthy, she was fun, vital, a lover of life. It couldn't be her that was dead. Little by little, tears came and then the pain. Great wracking sobs, and I wasn't sure if I was grieving for me or for Alison. The train journey home was the longest journey I've ever made, the walk to Alison's parents' house the longest walk. I saw people behaving normally, and could not understand how they didn't know that Alison was dead. I reached her house, saw many familiar faces through the window, but knew that one was missing.

'Sit down', 'a cup of tea?', the comforts of hospitality, saying 'hello' and trying not to think of why we're all here. Keeping my eyes on the floor, not looking people in the face, and then ashamed as tears come again, the heat of blood rushing to my face, the tremors of suppressed sobs, and Margaret, Alison's mother, a strong voice, telling me it was all right to cry.

We never found out why Alison died- she had been to a party, had a couple of drinks, eaten some chilli, fallen asleep and then never woke up. There was a coroner's inquest, he found no evidence of poison, no drugs, no embolism, no haemorrhage, no disease, nothing to offer the comfort of scientific cause and effect. Simply, one day alive, one day dead. It took me a long time to get through the clinical depression that followed.