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Personally 2024 was ok for me even though I was laid off and unemployed for 6 months. Ok maybe it's a little shitty.

If we're in the darkest timeline, what was the last point where it felt there was so much hope and joy in the world?

Some options commonly put out.

  • The day Pokémon Go released July 2016. So prepandemic and we went outside and and a girl told me where to find Weedles. Yep I'm in a videogame

  • The day before 9/11 or when Harambe got killed

  • When Endgame released, culmination of 10 years of marvel moments into a single movie, people cheering in the cinema. Still pre pandemic, maybe there's a trend here

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 36 minutes ago

I would say early 2010 or maybe 2009. live 3 miles from work and regularly walked it. In the morning my wife would walk almost halfway to a park and we had our dog. She would turn around and go back while I would continue on. I could take a bus in incliment weather only having to be in it for a few blocks. Sometimes I would bike up to the lakefront which was nice and scenic and stretched it to 7 miles which was nicer for a bike ride. My wife and I had macbook pros which large powerful laptops with tons of ports and osx was great and applecare was still stellar (it actually went down somewhere around this time). I worked in a research lab and what was accomplished seemed magical.

[–] lazyViking 1 points 51 minutes ago (1 children)

My last good day is always and forever today. My (or your) circumstances should never impair my (or your) ability to be happy 😁 it sounds weird, but you are allowed (it is your right) to feel happy even as your life is crumbling around you. And if you can't find that feeling, that's alright too.

[–] lazyViking 1 points 49 minutes ago

But I would suggest start looking in weird places

[–] wondrous_strange 2 points 7 hours ago

The best is yet to come

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yesterday. I can't remember the last bad day I've had. 2024 has been one of the best years of my life

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Almost same. I've had many shitty years and days, but around this time last year I said something along these lines, and it holds true now as well: This year has been great. And next year is on track to be fuckin awesome.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

That fateful day in July 2009. Parents were hit by a guy who was fucked up by a shopping list of drugs. Mom dead, the family that was quickly fell apart. She was no longer around to help hide my father's alcoholism. Not even 6 months after her death, a foul harpy of a female human latched on to him and only encouraged the worst parts of him while slowly doing everything she could to remove or erase his family.

Wrong parent died that day.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

Real sorry bro

[–] Alexstarfire 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I think you mean the day before that.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

No, the day of. My mom had made a big deal about taking pictures and making a big family brunch before she left. I was alone at my grandfather's house and getting to watch TV while playing a MMO simultaneously. Amazing day, until the phone call that upended everything.

[–] P1nkman 7 points 14 hours ago

I'm sorry this happened to you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

Not sure of exact date, but it was around 2005-2006 and I had saved up enough money to get me a lego N1 starfighter kit from star wars. Last time remember feeling genuine joy

[–] Supervisor194 20 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

July 4, 2012. The day the Higgs Boson was discovered. Everything since has done nothing but get stranger and stranger. I won't even say it's all just gone to shit. It's just to me, everything since has been... increasingly unreal.

[–] TragicNotCute 11 points 13 hours ago

I like to joke that the world actually did end in 2012 and now we’re in a weird purgatory type thing.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

My job moved me from Oklahoma to California. Took 3.5 months to sell my house but I was in Cali that whole time while my wife and daughter stayed behind waiting for the sale. The day I finally came back to get them after the sale was that day. I had never been away from them more than 2 days in 15 years. That 3.5 months alone was so fucking hard and depressing. Never been so happy to see them.

That day. For me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

May 5, 2019. The last chance to avoid a series of mistakes that ruined my life. Yes I put way too much thought into this.

[–] cornshark 2 points 12 hours ago

What did you do?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago

I don't know about good, but today was an unusual day for me.

With a blizzard setting in, I figured my best chance to get to work was on the bus. So I was walking up to where I could catch it passing various houses with Christmas lights and decorations, only to stop dead in my tracks at one particular house.

It's sole decoation was an 8-ft tall Krampus on the front lawn. It had a goat head with horns and demonic eyes and sharp claws holding a gnarled staff on one side and chains on the other. It's dark burgundy cloak had a dusting of snow on its shoulders to complete the look.

Then I was on the bus trying to digest what I had seen when who should walk on but Polar Man! He's a local superhero with a bushy beard and a mask. He helps people in distress shovel out their driveways. At one point as the bus was passing through a residential area, he got up and yelled "Driver! Stop the bus!" and leapt out dramatically to cheering passengers.

[–] j4k3 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

For me, Tuesday, 2/25/14 was a pretty good day. Normal day at the bike shop, receiving some preseason stuff, arguing with the boss over some BMC bikes I didn't think were a good deal for the shops. Ate my usual dry salad at the local joint with the pretty girl I enjoyed talking with a little bit each day. I had just started a cut phase for my push to get under 190 lbs to get much more competitive for crit racing in 2014. I wanted to actually win a race or two. That was going to be my big finish for 5 years going from 350 lbs in 2009 to 7% body fat. I felt like that was a good tradeoff for having worked for peanuts in a bike shop. Then I would get a real job at the end of summer when I turned 30... Instead I got a broken neck and back 2/26/14 from a terrible driver.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

That first day when I figured out masturbation was tops, all down hill from there

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago

I don't even remember.

[–] sprigatito_bread 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The last day I hugged my best friend in elementary school, because it was the final time two male friends could openly love one another without being questioned or ostracized... sigh.

EDIT: The last time in the region I grew up in, which seems to be more on the conservative hellhole side of things

[–] NewNewAccount 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Where do you live where you can’t hug your best friend?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

I live in Hicksville Indiana and I openly hug my guy friend and tell him I love him. I have never had an inkling that anyone thought we were gay... Nor have I ever cared.

[–] sprigatito_bread 3 points 1 day ago

Rural Ohio... I don't recommend it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

For the most part life has just been getting better the older I get so I'd say that day is still ahead of me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

May 11th, 1995

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

... i should probably talk to a therapist, huh?

Maybe middle school? Or when i broke out of food service into IT like, 3/4 months before Covid hit?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

The day before they started recording what day it was