Arik
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What was the happiest period of your life?
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Huskerguy
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Met my wife when I was a senior, she was a junior in HS, different schools. Married 42 years as of Aug. 19. She is a saint. Two great kids. I have worked extremely hard my entire life and now close to calling it quits at age 62. Best times were when we were first married - not rich but made ok money. Had the cars, motorcycles, partied, had fun. Then Christ took control of my life and everything changed. Best stretch was my 30+ years in education. Started an at risk program at a high school and helped many kids get through life. Just helped parents open a brand new Christian Classical School where I am the headmaster. I see more and more that my life has not been my own but I have been called to help others.
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I was a child of the 50's and 60's, had great parents that raised me right....left home when I was 17.
Worked a profession for 35 years that due to my career path required moving 11 times to different areas of the country. I retired in 08, then worked for another 6 years as a security contractor. During these 41 years I met all kinds of people, in all kinds of situations; good, bad and in between.
To answer the OP question: My present station in life is my happiest period, I survived a hazardous vocation and all of the pitfalls that accompanied that. I have a great wife who is also a retired LEO(so she is on the same page as I am on most things), we have kids and grandkids who live here locally, and we are spending time with them.
My parents are still alive - in their 90's, live next door and now I spend time with them & care for them, repaying them a fraction of what I owe. I am healthy, my wife and kids and grand kids are healthy - which is a blessing and should NEVER be taken for granted. I have my hobbies to keep me active and am fortunate to have some solid friends who I shoot with, ride MC's with, dive with and in general enjoy our time together.
Probably for the first time in my life I have a freedom that I have never known before....I go to bed when I want and get up when I get up....and pretty much do what I want when I want.
I had some lively times in years past, but live for today, because tomorrow is promised to nobody.
I was a child of the 50's and 60's, had great parents that raised me right....left home when I was 17.
Worked a profession for 35 years that due to my career path required moving 11 times to different areas of the country. I retired in 08, then worked for another 6 years as a security contractor. During these 41 years I met all kinds of people, in all kinds of situations; good, bad and in between.
To answer the OP question: My present station in life is my happiest period, I survived a hazardous vocation and all of the pitfalls that accompanied that. I have a great wife who is also a retired LEO(so she is on the same page as I am on most things), we have kids and grandkids who live here locally, and we are spending time with them.
My parents are still alive - in their 90's, live next door and now I spend time with them & care for them, repaying them a fraction of what I owe. I am healthy, my wife and kids and grand kids are healthy - which is a blessing and should NEVER be taken for granted. I have my hobbies to keep me active and am fortunate to have some solid friends who I shoot with, ride MC's with, dive with and in general enjoy our time together.
Probably for the first time in my life I have a freedom that I have never known before....I go to bed when I want and get up when I get up....and pretty much do what I want when I want.
I had some lively times in years past, but live for today, because tomorrow is promised to nobody.
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I can't say I have been there yet, I thought marrying the love of my life was then the birth of my daughter was then she gave me a granddaughter and I thought that was it but watching her grow makes my life happier every day.
Besides the special moments of the birth of my sons, seeing my older marry, the birth of his son two years ago- I'd have to say the happiest extended period was my junior year in college, that was 1978.
I did great in school, had an amazing summer job on either end of that year, a wonderful girlfriend, a great dog, a thoroughly crappy motorcycle (1968 HD XLCH) that kept breaking down but was fun as anything the majority of the time. I was in great shape-hit my max of 325lb on the bench press ahahaha. Great friends (two I still stay in touch with) and overall life was grand.
I did great in school, had an amazing summer job on either end of that year, a wonderful girlfriend, a great dog, a thoroughly crappy motorcycle (1968 HD XLCH) that kept breaking down but was fun as anything the majority of the time. I was in great shape-hit my max of 325lb on the bench press ahahaha. Great friends (two I still stay in touch with) and overall life was grand.
GrayGhost99
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My nine-year third and final marriage, and the three and a half years we dated but didn't live together before that. We were both sober alcoholics. We really believed we were made for each other. It was the happiest, most contented time of both our lives until leukemia took her. In January she will have been dead twenty years. I've lived alone since she left us, knowing I'd never find another soulmate like her.
The thing I miss the most is the laughter. It was a hilarious marriage.
Sorry, been thinking about her a lot the last couple of days.
Please don't be sorry, not ever. Here we are a bunch of men for the most part who again for the most part have never met and you say something that makes me realize that else feels the same as I do about my wife.
She is my second, but she is my true love. We went through the cancer ordeal after 1 year of marriage and she begged me to move on if she didn't pull through. I told her no.
I knew I could never hold another, never love another, never laugh the same. She is my everything and I thank God she made it. Every day aditional with her is special.
I am sorry your wife did not make it.
gregintenn
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I guess mine was when the kids were small. They're teenagers now, and I'm about to pinch their heads off!
I worked too hard when I was a teenager to enjoy it much, and hated school like the Plague.
I worked too hard when I was a teenager to enjoy it much, and hated school like the Plague.
When my girls were home and little. From 6 to 10 years old. My wife was younger and healthier. I was young and skinny, owned my own business, and had the world by the tail. Now I am older and unemployed. My wife's heath is slipping. The kids moved away of course. And at present we are at our oldest's house holding her hand as she slowly dies of cancer at 39 years old.
Happiest time of my life. That's an interesting subject.
I guess it would have to be the time between my 16 birthday and my 25 year. On my16th birthday an "older" woman (she was 17) changed my status from boy to man.
I was a gear head and that was the era of the muscle cars and serious street racing. I was fully involved in that and owned and built hopped up cars for that endeavor. The Albany NY area was a hot bed of that illegal street racing.
I got out of high school which I downright hated and started working a good paying job (union building construction) which gave a single guy like me a very good income to support my car and drink/girl habit., The drinking age was 18 and the birth control pill just hit the drugstores, the rock and roll music was GREAT, the factories were selling hot cars right out of their showroom. (I had a couple)
To be honest how I survived that era I really do not understand but it was a great time.
Of course since then I have been happily married for 45 years and a couple years ago my doctor declared that after 5 years since the cancer was cut out of me I was now a survivor.
Like I said in the beginning it was an interesting time!
I guess it would have to be the time between my 16 birthday and my 25 year. On my16th birthday an "older" woman (she was 17) changed my status from boy to man.
I was a gear head and that was the era of the muscle cars and serious street racing. I was fully involved in that and owned and built hopped up cars for that endeavor. The Albany NY area was a hot bed of that illegal street racing.I got out of high school which I downright hated and started working a good paying job (union building construction) which gave a single guy like me a very good income to support my car and drink/girl habit., The drinking age was 18 and the birth control pill just hit the drugstores, the rock and roll music was GREAT, the factories were selling hot cars right out of their showroom. (I had a couple)
To be honest how I survived that era I really do not understand but it was a great time.
Of course since then I have been happily married for 45 years and a couple years ago my doctor declared that after 5 years since the cancer was cut out of me I was now a survivor.
Like I said in the beginning it was an interesting time!
BigBill
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Freaking cancer sux's. My misses been through it three times and survived. I never prayed so much or so hard in my life. I been through it once. I wasn't upset when I found out I had it. Dying didn't worry or bother me.
I don't care either way. Cancer can ravage my body but it can't touch my soul. This is prostate cancer month. Get it checked. It's hitting men from all ages. Caught early like breast cancer it's curable
Been married 41years to the same woman. Funny my family didn't like her at first. Then they loved her. How stupid people can be.
Best time of my life......building 200,000lb lathes with 144" chucks that are accurate to the millionths. The three lathes I built for the jet engine manufacturing that were more accurate that the test equipment that was used to check it. I was very fussy about the quality of my workmanship. Each lathe all three had the same accuracy. I build cnc lathes from bare castings up to the time of shipping them. They were my babies.
Maybe watching my kids grow up into responsible adults. They all own there own homes, new cars with good jobs. The Apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. We guide them the best we can then they are on there own.
I don't care either way. Cancer can ravage my body but it can't touch my soul. This is prostate cancer month. Get it checked. It's hitting men from all ages. Caught early like breast cancer it's curable
Been married 41years to the same woman. Funny my family didn't like her at first. Then they loved her. How stupid people can be.
Best time of my life......building 200,000lb lathes with 144" chucks that are accurate to the millionths. The three lathes I built for the jet engine manufacturing that were more accurate that the test equipment that was used to check it. I was very fussy about the quality of my workmanship. Each lathe all three had the same accuracy. I build cnc lathes from bare castings up to the time of shipping them. They were my babies.
Maybe watching my kids grow up into responsible adults. They all own there own homes, new cars with good jobs. The Apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. We guide them the best we can then they are on there own.
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HOUSTON RICK
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My wife won't let me talk about those days before the yoke.
hoosierone
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Many times, but being with my first love at age 17 was the first time, until after declaring undying love, she dumped me.
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Black_Sheep
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Probably right now because the rewards in life greatly outweigh the challenges. Tomorrow I'll have been married to my loving wife for 35 years. My kids turned out to be productive members of society and are starting families of their own. For the most part, family and friends are in good health. Life is good...
Ranger514
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Many of us, myself included, have undergone similar pain in the loss of a loved one to cancer, or are in the process of fighting our own war with the disease. I can only imagine that the loss of a child must be heartwrenching, since it violates the natural order. I wish you strength, love, and courage in the face of the your daughter's passing.
imashooter2
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2003-2010. My Daughter making huge strides professionally and socially, Wife was healthy and strong, Mom and Dad still alive, my dearest Friends living close by, work that I loved doing...
"Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got till it's gone?"
"Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got till it's gone?"
I grew up in the fifties when there were no computers or video games. We spent out time outdoors in the fresh air. For one week, during the month of August, a traveling fair would come to town. Kids and grown ups alike looked forward to the event. Many times the temperature was hot enough to melt cotton candy but we didn't care.
The fair was a signal that summer would soon be over and we would be back in school. But for one week, it was the fair with its Ferris wheel, colored lights and the fun games that was the focus or our attention.
The fair was a signal that summer would soon be over and we would be back in school. But for one week, it was the fair with its Ferris wheel, colored lights and the fun games that was the focus or our attention.
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My nine-year third and final marriage, and the three and a half years we dated but didn't live together before that. We were both sober alcoholics. We really believed we were made for each other. It was the happiest, most contented time of both our lives until leukemia took her. In January she will have been dead twenty years. I've lived alone since she left us, knowing I'd never find another soulmate like her.
The thing I miss the most is the laughter. It was a hilarious marriage.
Sorry, been thinking about her a lot the last couple of days.
Sounds like were kinda going through a similar thing. A few weeks ago l met this fantastic gal, and we have hit it off big time. I HOPE she is the one I've been waiting for. We have the same likes on for, places to visit--and get this, she asked me where are the places that if I were to marry--where. I told her either at a Lighthouse, or in the Cathedral at Heidelberg Castle in Heidelberg, Germany. Sabrina almost freaked with my answers because, those are two of the three places she would like to wed at.
Also, I haven't felt this good about girlfriends or potential girlfriends, in twenty years. The one from twenty years go, I almost married. Another of the great things about Sabrina is she is a great Pastry Chef.
I've had her constantly on my mind since first meeting her.
captcook
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Right now!
Aticus
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As good as my life has been I kinda hope I haven't reached that "happiest time" yet.
