How many good years have you had

[Homicidalheathen]

Where the whole year, you were TOTALLY SATISIFIED in love, carreer...health...and spirituality. Where everything went so well your heart swelled.

I can honestly say 3.

2 when I was in my twenties and 1 in my 40's.

All the other ones pretty much sucked cause shit happens. Or they were just 'ok.' Maybe some parts were good, but over all....not so much.

will be turning 44 soon and I think its sad I have only had 3 good years where everything went well...no car accidents...job losses...freaking out of ex's, that sort of shit.

I hope I see others that have fared better

usually when things are going well something bad happens to end things for a bit.

[Michiko_Dreads]

So Far ZERO

[Head Wreck]

i don't see any year as a perticularly bad year.

i guess the year where my mothers health took a turn for the worst trapping me here but otherwise i haven't got much to complain

[JaneDead]

it's sad to say but over all i have not had any "years" of happiness in my adult life. there are definitely good aspects to my life in regards to my children and family and friends. but the last time i had TRUE happiness is when i was a kid. :/ that fact is really sad, i know. i have hope though. i know the future will not be as ... blah as the past. i just know it won't be.

even at some point when i was REALLY happy about some things much else was just awful. so for one year i had some happiness with something/someone but the other stuff going on was really pretty bad. that good made up for it but that good is also gone from my life too. *shrugs* some things just aren't meant to last...

[Black Jack (1)]

For me it would have to be my entire child hood cause you can't regret doing the little things unless you didn't actually. So far in my adult years only about two of which was due to financial means but not entirely. Nonetheless this isn't even 33% of my life yet so more to come that is certain.

[phee]

There are good and bad in every year...

[taysteewonderbunny]

Wow, I'm just too happy to have a good day to worry whether or not I'll get 365 consecutively. Should I feel gypped? Nah. But if I ever do have a "perfect" year, I hope I'm not in a coma.

[Msterbeau]

Not enough. Yet.

[punk_princess]

I've had 3 good years and i'm almost 28 yrs old. Hopefully I'll have a few more in the future.

[freydis]

There are good and bad in every year...

+1

[Onyx]

Where the whole year, you were TOTALLY SATISIFIED in love, carreer...health...and spirituality. Where everything went so well your heart swelled.

I have thought about this a bit, how to respond ... I can't say I've ever had a year or even a month where I've been totally satisfied with all of those areas. I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing. If I'm totally satisfied I stagnate.

Living things need growth and something to reach toward. If a relationship isn't growing then it's dying, same with your relationship with yourself and your spirituality. I hope to keep growing in at least some way until the end. I don't even resemble the same person I was a few years ago, but I like me better now than then.

This year it's meant hitting bottom in a lot of areas and rebuilding from the ashes yet again, but sometimes hitting bottom is the only way to move forward.

[Msterbeau]

I have thought about this a bit, how to respond ... I can't say I've ever had a year or even a month where I've been totally satisfied with all of those areas. I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing. If I'm totally satisfied I stagnate.

Living things need growth and something to reach toward. If a relationship isn't growing then it's dying, same with your relationship with yourself and your spirituality. I hope to keep growing in at least some way until the end. I don't even resemble the same person I was a few years ago, but I like me better now than then.

This year it's meant hitting bottom in a lot of areas and rebuilding from the ashes yet again, but sometimes hitting bottom is the only way to move forward.

+1

[Winter Steele]

I have thought about this a bit, how to respond ... I can't say I've ever had a year or even a month where I've been totally satisfied with all of those areas. I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing. If I'm totally satisfied I stagnate.

Living things need growth and something to reach toward. If a relationship isn't growing then it's dying, same with your relationship with yourself and your spirituality. I hope to keep growing in at least some way until the end. I don't even resemble the same person I was a few years ago, but I like me better now than then.

This year it's meant hitting bottom in a lot of areas and rebuilding from the ashes yet again, but sometimes hitting bottom is the only way to move forward.

I totally agree with you ! In life you take the good and the bad. Life is like a roller coaster Anxiety about what will be; fun and excitement in the moment; and depression and regret of mistakes we have made. I have had 3 - 5 great years of my life of more ups than downs.

Every move I have made has been a learning curve in the education of life.

[StormKnight (1)]

Where the whole year, you were TOTALLY SATISIFIED in love, carreer...health...and spirituality. Where everything went so well your heart swelled.

I can honestly say everything has never been satisfactory for more than a few months of my life at a time, and even then, things weren't in sync so everything fell into place. I have been betrayed by almost everything; love, career, health, and spirituality, that while I may have had one aspect that was enjoyable, I was dining on the ashes of what was left of the others.

Love: I have never gotten this right. Love of my family faded when my father died. So little does the family matter, that the "family" holidays barely register anymore. While in training, I usually pulled call on those holidays, in favor of selecting days off. The love of someone special I have always been betrayed, either by the fact no one wanted to wait until my training was done, wait for me when I would wait an eternity for them, or they found someone else to satisfy their needs or wants. I tried; I tried to be there for them, asking what they want from me, trying to change to meet their desires, because I thought they were worth the effort of change. But in the end, I could not make love stay. It faded into that cold, dark place. Karma came back to bite them, from what I hear from other friends, as the relationships they favored ended in as more fire and brimstone than when I was left behind.

Career: I was ready, if the military finished training me, to be career military. I would have been one of the first people of a FST (Forward Surgical Team,) A team of 5 people that carry 70lbs of equipment on their backs to deploy just behind the lines and support an emergent operating room and 2 ICU beds for 48 hours. It is basically a mobile battalion aide station. If I went down during that time, I would go knowing that I would be taking care of my friends, fighting all the way; a good death. When I left the service, the level of sacrifice dropped, and I was not expected to give my life for my patients. While residency gave me some moments of joy, there was no way I could make a year total of satisfaction.

Health: I have always been in conflict with my body. There was a time in my life I managed to keep it in reasonable shape. Yet, despite that, the medical condition manifested. I was betrayed by my body. That which is supposed to give us healing and regeneration has now become a risk of my death if untreated. I am now returning to making the body back into reasonable shape not only to keep healthy, but it will keep the condition treated. But that betrayal of my body I can never forgive, and I will fight it with as much effort as I can for the rest of my days.

Spirituality: Perhaps the most beaten. Religion was strong with the mother, to the point of zealot. She had me down that path of "love for all" concept. But when my favorite sister came after us younger ones in the last great custody battle, I saw her beaten by the mother in the name of her deity and savior, the path she was sending me on. I felt betrayed by the mother, that she would invoke those names, representing total love, against a member of the family. It is also one of a few reasons I will not tolerate violence against women at all. I was the only one who made it out with my sister that day, though the other two made it out later. We drove to a park we knew of, and cried in each others arms, betrayed by our mother and the faith she followed. Despite the grandparents trying to bring me back into the religion later, there was never any rapture with it, no comfort in it. In the end, I found my own truth in duty, a code of honor that I critically evaluated through study and philosophy and ethics, and my own will to succeed. Most likely if looking at it from the outside, it would be Shinto/Bushido, with the IDIC tenets built-in.

Good years? Never had them. Good moments? Quite a few. But to have a length of time of contentment measured in years breeds stasis, and the only way to be progressive is to be dynamic, to grow, to overcome, to survive, to thrive.

[Simon Bar Sinister]

So much depends on time's perspective. Late '88 through mid-'95 was the most decadent period of my life and, if you'd asked me this question in early '95, I'd have said "the last 6, for sure!" Looking back over a decade later...ugh.

I'll say 1991. The year my niece was born. Nothing could ruin that.

[pheramoans]

^{I don't think i've ever even had a truely good MONTH yet.}

[TitsMcGee]

None really. I've had good days here and there, had a really good 5 months once, but that ended badly.

[Guest greyhalo]

I don't think anyone really has an entire year where everything goes great. We're challenged every day. There's a little bit of good and bad in every week, month, year. Sure, some years are better than others, and some years totally suck, esp. if you're dealing with significant loss. But, I always have fond memories of the bad years too. So, I can't really estimate how many have been good. Overall, I'm pretty satisfied with my life.

[TheGimp]

i don't think i have ever had a good year really ive had a good run and had a few good months however

[jynxxxedangel]

As much as life throws me a loop-- EVERY year is a good one, only because I search for the little bits of sweet in my life. Every day has a sweet spot. I love sweet lemons, rather than sour grapes. I delight in finding the beauty in everything. Once you've been down as far as I have, there is nothing left but good, sweet, and beautiful.

[honeymustard02]

I would have to really say that there's been a few bad years.

But for the most part I've had a pretty decent life. Everyone has snags but I've had few.

I can only hope it keeps going up.

But then again the higher you are the harder the fall.

[amalthea23]

I can't include health, since being chronically ill, I'd be knocked out of the game, but the past 7 years have been the best of my life.

[Brenda Starrr]

The last 2 years of my life have been amazing (minus the passing of my Dad). I'm here in Detroit, which is where I actually WANTED to be, and I'm happily married. It's about time....

[Bernadette]

A year is a long time, and I tend to remember life defining moments moreso.

But I'd have to say 1989 was particularly BAD.

1999 was GREAT.

With ups and downs in between and since. Nothing too noteworthy, but all that shape me as a person.

So, I'm hoping 2009 will be even more FANTASTIC!