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Reading your comments bb.
It definitely is not anything related to work or academic achievements.
The absolute fondest memories are the ones which creep up unexpectedly. You don't notice at the time, but look back and think "damn I'd give anything to go back there right now"
For me that's probably Christmas eve traveling in South Africa with my then girlfriend, now wife. Holiday had just begun so moods absolute high. Work totally silent given the time of year. We'd spent the whole day doing stuff we enjoy together - hiking up Table Mountain, being outdoors. The good stuff, not even expensive. Then having a great meal my the waterfront and just hitting back cocktails (one of those instances where the chat flows like water and you don't want the conversation to end; can't explain why). Never been more in love with someone.
Anyway I can't recommend enough South Africa by the way. Incredible value steak, cocktails, a lot to do.
Yeah South Africa is a nice place to visit. I've surfed J-Bay there and have also visited Cape Town and Stellenbosch.
It's more of a place than a moment but at the end of college and several summers right after it I was part of a house down the jersey shore. It was a big old three-story Victorian with a wrap-around porch and about 20 steps to get up to it. Five bedrooms. 1.75 baths, 20 dudes (not counting part-timers who had to figure out how to split weekends) no heat, a 30 person flip-cup table in the basement and an outdoor shower. All one block from the middle of town and two-ish blocks from the bars. The good news was that the lead paint kept the asbestos inside the walls.
We were so very obviously a blight on the town, but we had three lawyers and an FBI agent in the house. We gave the next door neighbor several phone numbers and use of one of our parking spots, so she never would call the cops. (we had many, she had none) We didn't allow women to live in the house, barely even serious girlfriends, because it would be awkward given that there was an average of four guys to a room. That meant that we ended up with a "women's auxiliary" though, which included the county district attorney.
We were so untouchable. It was unbelievable. There are so many INSANE stories.
Care to share a few of your favorite stories? I'd love to hear them
Whoops, cross-post.
I don't even know where to begin, and I need to go to bed. We had a "shoe rule" where if you fell asleep with your shoes on anything was fair game. I made that mistake once, but luckily only got an ear worth of toothpaste. A housemember's younger brother came down with a friend once though, and didn't properly lecture him. He apparently passed out on the living room couch and got a reverse mohawk and one eyebrow shaved.
I was safely asleep in my bedroom upstairs, but I saw the aftermath. The only solution to that situation? A close buzz of your entire hair and shaving the other eyebrow, which has to absolutely suck hungover at 11am on a Saturday morning.
Oh, and he was almost the last one up while sleeping on one of the living room couches, so this was a very public 'haircut of shame.'
Since I already got SB'd I'm not going to add, just reply. This wasn't "Jersey Shore," we were an amazingly well-oiled machine. There was a clipboard with a chore-list on it. Other then some obvious hierarchy, like getting the beer cans off the front lawn ASAP the deal was as you woke up you signed up for a chore and did it. The later you woke up, the worse that the chores that were left were.
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Two stand out - one is an obvious cookie-cutter response, the other one less so. Off the bat, getting married - the specific 'moment' was three days after the marriage, when it first kind of hit me that it was all real. I remember a really nice dinner we had in a house overlooking the Burrard Inlet - a family friend kindly let us have part of our honeymoon in his swanky house in the Cypress Park neighborhood of Vancouver. That dinner, an evening pool dip, and watching the sunset with my wife really just ripped home the sentiment of wow, I found my person. An amazing feeling that I hold to this day, reiterated with every passing moment I spend with her.
The second, less-than-conventional. Was nearly a decade ago as I found myself in a stale rehab facility after speaking with a nurse. Going in I was terrified, ashamed, and confused - a small conversation with a nurse finally drove home the point that I wasn't alone and I had the potential to become the person who I always wanted to embody. Not preachy, but I'd like to think that young kid would be pretty damn proud of what happened after. A ten-minute conversation with that nurse was the first step of thousands that elevated me to care about myself, my health, my mental, and ultimately shaped my life into what it is now. Inspiring, eh?
Didn't know what was an oversstep versus kindness, so I unfortunately held off on reaching out to thank her until a couple years after my stint only to find out that she had moved facilities and the center couldn't provide contact info. I do really wish I could let her know what effect that conversation had on me. Wild to think about.
Wow man that first story sounds amazing. You look for those moments your whole life and appreciate those moments the rest of your life.
This is a bit more shallow than most, but getting into my dream school and seeing my dad cry with joy has to be up there for my favorite moment. I've also had so many amazing days (not as much moments) with my friends that I wouldn't trade for anything. Beyond that, there have been moments while I was praying that I felt an immense calming presence and joy that is well past what I could ever explain.
That one girl man…
Only if she’d know how much I died in her details…
Every look
Every smile
She was truly special to me but by the time I realised, it was to late… :(
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