Your Life's Highlights

[cojo965]

So yesterday I played airsoft proper for the first time, AND IT, WAS, AWESOME. The only real downside I find though is that now my body is so achy that it's hard to get out of this chair I'm in. But that was only one of two major highlights of my life the other being going behind the scenes of the New Orleans aquarium a long time before Katrina at no extra charge. So, with that in mind, what would you consider your life's highlights?

 

[PsychicTaco115]

Definitely one of them was going to the Escapist Expo last year. First convention and it blew my mind!

Literally, there was brain all over the floor. Took them days to get all the blood out too

 

[excalipoor]

A class trip to Oslo in ninth grade. Haven't felt so alive since. Fuck, I even had genuine human interaction in my life.

 

[piinyouri]

Spoiler: Am I doin' it right?

Joking aside, I guess it would be going to Disney Land when I was young. I still have the memories and they're wonderful.

 

[wooty]

I've set foot in Japan.........that's pretty much my life's highlight and my one major life goal summed up into one small sentence.

I now need a new life goal! To re-set foot on Japanese soil!

 

[Evil Smurf]

Getting my laptop was a blast, but really knowing I'm blessed and free to live in a way that honours God is an amazing feeling. Yep, I brought religion all up in this *****.

 

[Shaderrow]

Upcoming Metallica concert here in the dark uncharted land of South Africa.

 

[Queen Michael]

The day my stepdad took me to the library and I discovered manga. It was wonderful.

 

[Euryalus]

Definitely one of them was going to the Escapist Expo last year. First convention and it blew my mind!

Literally, there was brain all over the floor. Took them days to get all the blood out too

That Miracle of Sound Concert was absolutely incredible. I was right up there in front.

Can't wait for this years expo!

OT: Idk, that concert, a 5FDP concert, and all of my favorite video games. I don't really categorize moments of my life into highlights. There are just good times and bad *shrugs*

 

[The]

Fan Expo 2012 here in Toronto was a blast. All my favourite things in one place.

Also, my vacation in Moscow was pretty cool. My routine for 3 weeks was to get up, go to the Metro, and just go to where the train leads me.

 

[dmase]

I think it's weird I can't think of a highlight of my life as of yet. I guess when I graduate from college and get into a graduate school program that will be the highlight of my life. Though I'm beginning to worry more and more about how long it's going to take to graduate... fuck BME and all the complications that arise.

 

[Goofguy]

When I graduated from college because those were the best times of my life. I'd also have to say my trip to the Swiss Alps. Did some hiking up in the mountains, so refreshing and awe inspiring.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Let see

Me and my bro attended the Pokemon touranment in Trafford Centre, Manchester. This was in the Red/ Blue era.
I went to my first anime convention with my bro in London.
Going to Disney World with my family.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Erm... not much.

Compared to the above, I've done nothing but be book smart... not that it's gotten me anywhere...

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Yeah, can't think of anything really... apart from visiting HMS Belfast, and HMS Victory and be dismayed at all the fake cannon

 

[Edguy]

I dunno, my life hasn't really had much highs and lows..

 

[Not Matt]

sorry. kind of went all out on this one. only meant to wright just one or two and they kind of just evolved in to bigger stories. click the spoiler to read stories of explosions, romance, friendship, embarrassment, fear and joy

Spoiler: matt's life. best of bundle

The barn blower
the times i burned down my house, yes daySSSS. As I managed to do it twice (when I was 6 and 16, meaning i should be careful when i turn 26). Both rendered me homeless and depressed. The second one did tear a bit at my mentality. But ashes to ashes (do dom dissssss) it has all clear up now, and i have a great now home...... which hopefully won't turn in to a bonfire
Also, I live on a farm???correction. I used to live on a farm. The entire farm burned down the second time. However, a little mini highlight in this was when the barn exploded. You see we had a room which we stored gasoline, diesel, dynamite (my grandfather worked with tunnel making before he retired and had a little bit stashed at home.) and when the barn cause fire. So did this room. Causing half the barn to blow sky high, sending bits of wood flying in all directions. It was awful but really, really epic??and then it was horrible again.

Camp refuge
I had the time of my life......well, not at the time, no, at the time it was the single worst moment of my whole entire life. But it was awesome in retrospect.
it was a camp where you were supposed to live like refuges in a wart worn nation........with an ass lode of snow.
I was beaten, frostbitten, tired, exhausted, bullied and generally treated like shit. It was a painful experience but I am glad I tried it.

Call girl
Let?s call her..............Alice! Because I don't want to use her real name.
So two years ago, "Alice" and i where friends. and then stuff happened that I didn't really understand anything off and it seemed like she controlled herself because nobody explained any bloody thing to me.
Then. 9 months later* and explains everything about why things happened and why we stopped being friends and blahdy blahdy blah. i won't go in to detail because, A: It's really personal and B: it takes hours to explain it. And after she was done talking after two hour (I am not, she did actually take two hours to explain the situation) it was my turn to talk. And so I started opening up. And there further I got in to the conversation. I started to talk about how I didn't blame her, and how I felt about it and how happy i was to finally have this information now given to me and how much [small] I cherished [/small][small]her [/small]. And after having done a monologue for about 20 minutes, i shut up and start listening for a response. And when i didn't hear anything, i looked at my phone and saw that the batteries had dies about eleven minutes ago. Meaning i had just been venting my heart to absolute nothing.
It was embarrassing to call her up and telling her this and having to monologue again. But after that. i stopped being this isolated and respective person that i used to be. Thank you Alice for helping me open up to people. In addition, thank you apple for having a useless phonebatteri.

*just want to say this right now since people tend to draw hasty conclusions when i say 9 months later. no she wasn't pregnant. we never got "close" enough for that. *

SPILLEXPO
ahhhhhhhhhhh my first convention. We never forget our first time do we? Me and my friend Dan went to the Norwegian games expo in lillestøm last year. We spent 400 kroner (around 65$) on bus and train just to get there. And another hour just wandering around the suburbs trying to find the damn convention center. When we finally got there, it was amazing. I watched a seminar about indigames, tried all the games I could find (except the krillbite studios game ?among the sleep? which ironically was the only game there I had been planning to play), I wandered through the stands just looking at stuff and making new friends, I got some pictures with a bunch of awesome cosplayers, and I won a contest at the PlayStation stand.
Later that Dan and I walked around for one and a half hour trying to find the cafe as I ran in to some people I knew from the camp mentioned above. We hung out the rest of the night

??.also, Dan and I was never actually able to find the cafe and ended up eating everything the bar by the bus station had to offer on our way back home?..and yes we did get sick.

The bender
I am not what you would call a storied drinker, as I do not really like to drink, seeing how drunk me is an insensitive, rude, sadistic asshole. But sometimes I do let my hair down and this ladies and gentlemen is my first experience with alcohol.
My story begins in the magical land of Ireland, and I do mean magical because Ireland is probably the most beautiful place I have ever been. I was walking down a street in Dublin late one night called Templar bar (that is the actual street name) and decided ?hmm, I want a drink. So I took a left turn and suddenly stood inside a lovely little pub cram packed with people. I got my older friend to order me a drink (sue me) and it was pretty good. My last memory form that night is putting the second glass to my lips thinking, ?I don?t see what?s so dangerous about drinking?. Everything from that point on until I awoke in my hotel room is gone forever. I had apparently spilled something on my shirt and I had bought my first book by Robert ranking (which now is one of my favorite writers).

By the way. I want to comment on the Irish nightlife, it inspired me, seeing so many different people hanging out. Old and young, rich and poor, ditch diggers and professors, all around one table singing the same song. I know I can never put the beauty of that in to words but know that It brought a tear to my eye. Never change
Also. Kids, drink responsibly

ALL F***ING HELL BREAKS LOOSE
I was vacationing with my family in Egypt in 2011. Which was fun. I was inside one of the pyramids and I got to imitate Indiana Jones. It was fun and new and it was just a great vacation.
That is ofcorse if you put the blind eye to the bad things I saw. One of which was a man having an overdose on the street. Another was soldiers armed with heavy machine guns beat a bunch of people who protested.
As a matter of fact. The day after I left the country, the large riot that took Egypt by storm in 2011 started for real. Thank god, I got out of it just in time. But even if I did escape the worst of it, I did see a lot of chaos and destruction. I have never been any good at putting my thoughts down in readable for. But just know that this was absolutely gruesome to watch. Yet, it is still somehow one of the best vacations of my life (does that make me a horrible person?)

captcha: bowties are cool. it's not relevant to the stories, i just wanted to remind you of the the doctor who 50th anniversary (because i am a doctor who geek)

 

[Lt._nefarious]

Sitting in a loft as a Led Zeppelin vinyl with American Civil War figures on top wail as I, while wearing a top hat, load a revolover as my friend lays out replica guns on his pool table before throwing a zulu knife into a dartboard and sword fighting with Napoleonic British officer's swords. Most surreal 6 hours of my life.

Flirting with the most beautiful and out of my league girl, who can't speak my language, and finding out she likes me. I also asked her out but couldn't make out her response through her accent and was too embarassed to ask her to repeat it, still, biggest confidence boost. In fact that day another gal confessed that she thought I was great and yet another admitted I wasn't "actually that creepy"... I know that doesn't seem like much but that's the day I stopped being a downer and started waking up happy in the mornings...

 

[SVilleca]

Hello Cojo965, among others,

I have had only a few highlights in my life so far. The first one happened when I outed a pedophile who was running an MMORPG fan site with court documentation that detailed his various convictions. I was very happy with myself regarding that.

The others include when I received an offer letter for my current place of employment in late 2011. I was quite pleased to get to work here, considering that I dropped out of elementary school.

I do want to have more, though, and am considering leaving my current place of employment at some point over the next year in order to travel the country by foot. It is a difficult decision to make, though, and I may not do so.

SVilleca

 

[Nouw]

Going tramping with my friends. Good times, good people and a damn good view.