Published on 12, July, 2020
Thanks to Trisha for inspiring this thread.
These are my answers to her original question (on another thread).
They can be personal, political/history etc.
Here are some of my personal ones.
1976, whilst still at school, meeting a (still) close friend.
1992, when I started to see a psycho/sexual psychologist.
1992, meeting my other close friend.
2007, starting a relationship with my now husband.
2015, when I was able to give up work.
2022, re my autism diagnosis (and joining this forum).
These are life milestones/turning points. Different perhaps from the ones we are meant to consider so.
How about yours?
Thank you to AWOL for starting such a nice thread
As far as my young childhood goes, a lot of the early memories kind of blend together in a happy mix, I remember days out to the seaside and London with my parents, time spent at my Grandma's house (who was like a second mom to me), and time spent with other homeschooled childhood friends who were oddballs like me so I could be myself and feel comfortable with and all those things but I cant really remember the years of most of them
1999 I discovered cricket for the first time, something which has been a great comfort to my brain over the years, the slow pace, the certainty and rhythm of every ball. I watched the 1999 World Cup and my mom took me to my first cricket match
2000 Joined a homeschoolers sports group at the local Leisure Centre and made some amazing friends, sadly not in touch with any of them now but we had some great years together.
2005 The year I remember being at my happiest. We had found a church that had a great youth group and I made such good friends. I felt like I really belonged with these people.Also had my first girlfriend there. I remember when Chelsea played Liverpool in the European Cup semi final, the youth leaders brought out a grainy old TV where you could barely see the picture through the static and we all gathered round and watched it together. At half time we just randomly decided to have a full contact game of rugby with a basketball in the church hall. Happy times
2014 I broke free from a really crappy relationship and had a whole summer of being free and single, I had a wonderful job helping special needs kids too which I really enjoyed and at the end of the year I met my wife!
2015 Moved in with my wife and started our first home together, a few months later my gran passed on
2016 Got made homeless through violent drug gangs in our building. My mom and dad took us in, ended up staying there 5 years. Got married to my wife in May.
2017 My life changed after I had a massive falling out with the group of lads who I had been friends for 8 years with. We havnt spoken from that day since. It was one of the best things that ever happened to me. Looking back I was able to realise how terrible they had been for me, being with them turned me into someone I wasnt and they treated me like crap. Since then I have started to be more free in life
2018 A wonderful year. I rediscovered my passion for my Christian faith, spent the year out in nature feeding ducks and being out in the countryside and attempted to do the whole Tom and Barbara self sufficiency thing. Grew three months worth of crops in the garden, sold my first article as a writer and kind of got out of the rat race
2019 My first child was born, my little boy who is my world
2021 Me and my wife finally got our dream house, a little council place in the countryside. Started building a life for ourselves in our new home
2022 A very traumatic year full of ups and downs but ended with the joy of our baby daughter being born
2023 I feel more at peace than ever, although I still have big ups and downs, and I pray that continues