What was the best year of your life?

BEST


1999 - Settled in my small Texas town.   Life was so easy.   Everything around me felt perfect.   Felt like my existence with satiated with everything I need.   I didn't really need a lot, just a TV, the teen culture around me and a sense that this was neverending.    By 2000.... I also had the internet and the early days of MSN, too!  1999 is the ultimate teen culture year.   This is why teen culture is still a large part of my existence, because I started my life absorbing the year 1999.   People who peaked in another year is obviously gonna have a different viewpoint than me.    I think besides 1982... I can't think of an American year that future generations are gonna look at as the starting point of teen indulgence.

Also '99 is generally considered a great movie year, vs '98 which is mostly just a good year according to film buffs it doesn't really stand out.   I will say Jordan retired, and that gives some credibility to 1998 as a better year - but I personally moved on fast.   I simply grew less interested in sports.


2000 - The best.   I was part of a girl group.   My friends were kinda the cool kids on the block.   Laura was really pretty.... she had locks down to her booty and a lot of girls tried to compliment her to break into our club.    Brittany was the bitchy and mean girl and the leader.   She once took her dad's locker wrench, broke into a girl's locker, smeared it full of jello and swore us to secrecy.   Erin was emotionally strung, needy, unpredictable in her emotional swings.   I guess she adopted her friends' characteristics less and she was kinda her own girl.   Anyways.... our clique was so awesome.   I was kinda the only guy.


2009 - I had a really strong relationship and my life revolved around basically that for a whole year.   Our summer vacation was both expensive and unforgettable.   It was across the Texas beach strip.




WORST

2001 - I moved.   It sucked.   My existence sunk into oblivion.   It plucked me away from my girl group, and the high school life I never had.   Just a sort of "I don't care about anything" period.   Just depressed.  Except I watched movies.   This is where my movie fandom was born.  Maybe the good thing to come out of this.


2010 - I broke up with my '09 girl.   I flunked out of school.   Then I hid myself in my parent's basement.   My mom then chopped up my mattress and forced me into an ultimatum, to do something with my life.   I complied and went away, skipped myself out of the country.  I have no idea what went on in culture in this year.   While everyone was digging The Social Networks and the Inceptions and the Tom Bradys and Aaron Rodgers.... I had no clue until later.   I didn't watch any movies, and I didn't even watch the Super Bowl or any football.


2012 - I had come home from my extended vacation after the ultimatum from my mom.   But building my life back up was not easy.   I had not a penny to my name.   I had just come back into the US and had 12 dollars short of a greyhound bus ticket.   But I went into a CD shop and pawned some of my old CDs and was able to make it back home.   I guess it's not a bad year when you look at it this way, but I just remember the emotional struggle / life struggle this year.   But it's all silly 12 years later.   I'm not broke anymore.



And yeh.... I guess I still believe it lies ahead.  I feel like 2024 is my year.

1692 - Salem Witch Trials, persecution of atheist scumbags, the very beginnings of Punk Rock played on broom handles and washboards and 100% Proof alcohol when consumed made everyone seem a witch anyway. There was so much going on really.......

1911 - New Orleans. Brothels............Voodoo....Blood sacrifice...........Death..... the 1st time......whew

1992 / 93 - Denzel Washington loses the Oscar to the GOAT - just like he should have ........the only diappointment in it for me is that he only got to do it once (see what I did there?)

1984 - Come on - Zen Arcade, Let It Be, Reckoning, Double Nickels On The Dime,  Ronnie Raygun, a whole country on the verge of nothing........also 100% alcohol made in bathtubs using dirty socks and a funnel, I was the inspiration for Madonna for her song Like A Virgin which is a whole other story ..........I mean there was A LOT of sex but it was with girls in my case

It’s pretty much impossible to compete with my childhood years, but since I’ve hit puberty, 2 years come to mind:

2022. Went on a trip throughout Europe on a research grant. Wrote a senior thesis that I’m proud of. Got my first real experience teaching, where I designed an eight-week course and taught home schoolers. Worked two jobs that I really enjoyed, as a museum docent and in the archives of my school. Very rewarding year.

2019. Year I graduated high school. Started my college experience. Went overseas for the first time on a trip to Ireland with my family.

The year you were born?