When was the happiest time of your life?

[Krinku]

Alright escapists! I have a rather...odd question persay, but when were you happiest? Was it when you were a teenager? a child? Perhaps even now?

For me it would be when I was 10 years old. There just wasn't a day that went by where I didn't feel happy and now I'm all like "uuuurgh this world sucks" doomed to pessimism forever.

 

[Kolby Jack]

Hmmm. Tough question. I have a very positive outlook on life, so even though I do get mad and ticked off and annoyed and depressed, they don't stick to me for very long. While I'm not all sunshine and rainbows (people like that creep me out and get on my nerves), I have a general blanket of contentedness that permeates my day-to-day life.

So, if you are asking which moment in my life was the happiest? I'd be hard pressed to remember any specific one.

But if you're asking what time period of my life I was happiest, it would either be childhood (when ignorance and innocence allowed me to be happy), or today (when inner peace and acceptance of others are the choices that have made me happy). I'm happy because I choose to be happy, which in my opinion is the only way to really be happy anyway. And it's not because I purposefully lie to myself that the world is better than it is, but because I accept that the world is what it is and embrace the things that make it great.

After writing all that, I just realized how Buddhist I sounded.

EDIT: Here's a quote I just made up based on my spiel, which I'm quite proud of.

"Anger, sadness, elation, and confusion are reactions, but happiness is a choice." - Me!

Learn it, live it, love it.

 

[Dango]

Last summer, when I wasn't worried by anything and spent all my time relaxing.

 

[crudus]

It was about 2½ years ago now. I was in college, had a lovely girlfriend, acing classes, surrounded by friends, D&D every week. It was the best time of my life. Now I pretty much have the opposite of that.

 

[Strain42]

When I first had sex

Kidding, kidding of course...that day was actually really awkward and weird.

I think honestly it was a certain point in the spring of last year. I had just started college, I had a job that I loved, my famous webcomic series was starting to wrap up, I was making some friends, even a really awesome beautiful girl (see first line of post...) I had my car, my health, my folks were proud of me.

Spring of 2010...life was pretty good for me.

 

[Ham_authority95]

About 1 1/2 months ago...my next happiest time will probably be 3 weeks from now because I'll see my girlfriend again.

 

[TiefBlau]

With any luck, I haven't had it yet.

 

[Wuggy]

Around 4 years ago, when I last had a girlfriend. That was awesome.

 

[Enamour]

1st of January this year. Tron plus massively potent shrooms; my mind was carried away by the actualization of a god figure... and lot's of pretty lights. The mall garden after the movie was pretty cool too. Only thing that spoiled it was the grower who crawled around on the grass and obviously tripping while we were in public view, while I watched APC's Weak and Powerless music video in the movement of a tree.

Best 5 hours of my life by far.

Protip: If your grower has to resort to offering you extremely potent shrooms in exchange for hanging out (cause he doesn't have his own friends for good reason) with him... consider it. Then get him the F away from the public.

 

[TheHecatomb]

Don't really know, but yesterday was pretty awesome indeed. I started the day by buying my first car [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v380/Necrophagist/hahaa.jpg], which I then used to drive to school (like a boss) where I was graduating about half an hour later. Spent the afternoon with some friends and teachers at school drinking beers and talking about all the stuff that happened, bringing up memories, you know the drill. Then we all went out to a Chinese wok restaurant and had a great time yet again.

 

[Sariteiya]

This is gonna sound Mega Cheesy, but thus far it was in High School, when we were putting on this campy play called "Jolly Roger and the Pirate Queen."(I directed) I love theatre, and I was lucky enough to be working with some of my best friends. I've never found anything since that compares with the joy and feeling of accomplishment that came from that time in my life. A lot of my friends still talk about that play, and have pictures from it sitting in their facebook accounts (This is about 5 years later.) That's my favorite part really, that I got to give so many other people a great set of memories.

 

[TwitchierGuitar]

I was beaten at least once a week for something I didn't even do until I was about I think 12.
So my childhood's out... Can I just leave it at "whenever I get paid"?

True story, BTW...

 

[Eleuthera]

Almost all of 1995-1996, or the summer of 2001. The first one was highschool, which for me at least was a great time (nothing terrible after that, but not too spectacularly good either). The second was the summer I travelled around the States with a friend, which sadly is been 10 years now

 

[MorsePacific]

To be honest, I think now is the happiest time of my life. I'm in a relationship with an amazing girl, I just finished high school and I'm off to college in the fall, two weeks ago I moved into a brand new house, and I have basically all I could ever want at the moment.

So, yeah, now.

 

[Michelle90]

The happiest time is my wedding time i think...The moment that i wear my wedding dresses

 

[Amos the famous]

Getting published in an anthology. I think I'll feel even better when I publish my novel

 

[Jedoro]

The first time I actually fired a gun. Call me crazy, but that's probably my best experience in life so far.

 

[NotSoLoneWanderer]

Is it bad that i cant think of anyone clearly defining moment?

 

[Gaiseric]

The first time I actually fired a gun. Call me crazy, but that's probably my best experience in life so far.

Same.

A few months leading up to my 16th birthday I started bonding with my grandpa and he showed me his guns and for my birthday he arranged for me to learn to shoot. After that he gave me his 16 gauge. Those several months were jam packed with awesome.