So, your last 5 years of life
 

Ok, it;s time for one of these rare sentimental and actually intelligent threads from me. I was just sat here listening to a song (What's My Name - Rihanna) and it reminded me of sitting in my room back in Exeter high as a kite (when I smoked weed) and walking in the snow, lying in it then coming back into my room with the blue (christmas) lights and messing around on TiBB and hosting The Mole 3.

It was so weird to suddenly realise that this was two years ago, I was at the start of my planning in getting to new Zealand. So much has changed.

In the last 5 years I've done so much, been so many places, changed for better and worse at various times, learned and forgotten a great deal, and crossed and shared paths with so many people.


This time 5 years ago I was in my third year of uni, actually I would have been in Portugal working on my dissertation, I was engaged, and I hadn't yet encountered TiBB.

This time 4 years ago I had been on TiBB 5 months, had broken up from my fiance, been made redundant as the business I managed had gone into liquidation which in turn meant I had to delay my Australia travels by a whole year as I had to spend all my savings to survive until I ended up getting a new job, I had graduated with a 2:1 and waved goodbye to a great lifestyle and some great friends. I moved from Totnes, to Paignton, to Torquay, back to Totnes and then to Exeter.


This time three years ago, I had finally made my savings back up and would have been leaving for Australia in 18 days! wasn't really well known on the forum as much as now, despite being a mod and I kind of left with no real big deal (except Marc who could barely live without me, who I forgot left for ages and only really came back onto TiBB properly to be in Mole 3 and then stayed :love: and glad he did). I'd made the mistake of going back to my ex, we had a fight and he gave me a black eye and chipped my tooth, lesson learned there, although I felt the lowest I had ever felt in my life.

This time two years ago, I had just got back from one of the most epic years of my life in Oz. Backpacking, travelling, chilling, just amazing. The people I met, the things I did and the places I saw were just incredible. I remember coming back and it was so cold and I was so jet lagged, I needed a wee at one of the London stations and didn't have a 20 pence piece (only Oz coins) and had to ask some little old lady for one and she gave me two, bless her. I came back to TiBB at what seemed to be a rather awful time full of fun sponges who liked to spam and bicker, and I remember trying my hardest to bring fun back to here (even though it pissed some people off, like me editing titles, lol) and I managed to somehow after a few weeks of being back and knowing very few people get to #15 in ML. My female friend got punched by a squaddie when I was out and I had to go court and testify, the wanker got what he deserved.

I also got to run my first TiBB game in the form of Mole 3, and it was so amazing ( and a lot of bloody hard work) to be a host of such an enjoyable game, and it was a really good cast of players.

This time last year I had moved to Bristol about six months before and was on my serious saving and working 60 hour weeks to get me to NZ. I was in the planning stages, had no social life, infact spent most of my free time not working on here high as a kite being a dick and messing around (which I miss immensely, fond memories), making silly videos, TC, games and just general banter with everyone. (Oh and my mass fall out with Scott). I remember my job sucked, one of thew worst jobs of my life yet the tips were so amazing so I tried to plough on through and get to the end goal (thank you btw to those that helped support me on here ad tell me to not give up). I was also quite drunk a lot iirc, which led me to Plug quite a lot and then to make more drunken videos.


And this time now. I'm here in Auckland. Travelled around NZ and had an amazing time. Got an amazing job, which offers great opportunities for what I want in life currently, I've quit smoking weed for nearly 8 months and it's been two weeks of not smoking after a bit of a health scare (which apparently is what it took for me to finally quit after 14 years) but quit I have! And I've started writing my poetry again and sending it off! :amazed:

And I'll be travelling again soon. Wow. Five years goes so quickly and so much happens. I keep remembering so many memories the deeper I think about it. The next five years should be exciting (even though I turn 30 (gulp)).


I'm not drunk btw, just felt the need to share that with you all. I promise you won't get any of this sentimental mush for another good 6 months. ;)

so do we tell about the last 5 years of our lives? yours sounds as if it was very very busy. mine hmmm 5 years ago, well i moved into my current house after my partner inherrited a bit of money we moved here as it was bigger. i love the house but i liked where i used to live better. i hated my neighbours then and i hate my immediate neighbours now. i packed in a job i had done for 9 years as it was taken over by contracters and they were ****e to work for. i mated one of my doggs she had 3 pups but 2 died we kept one. i then lost 2 of my dogs. we got kennels built outside and the pup and my mad dog went to live in the garden. then i went to work @ a solicitors but i was only there 2 weeks as i developed chrones disease wihich took a few months to diagnose in which time i lost 2 stone in weight and hardly ate becoz i cudnt, then i got put on medication and began to feel much better and got another part time job which i loved, my social life looked up then my sister came to work with me and it was good. 3 years in january my gran died aged 96!!! i was @ that job for 3 years and just left in oct due to once again being taken over by ****ty contract cleaners. when we bred those pups with only having one left we bought another one to keep her company. 2 years ago we bred off my mad dog nikki she had 9 puppies 6 boys and 2 girls she had a c section and didnt take to them to i hand reared nine puppies (whippets i race them as a hobby) sadly 2 of them died one @ 6 weeks and one @ 10 weeks. i kept 2 who live outside mad dog came back in.in oct of this year my mam passed away. last may my niece had a baby girl. on wed i kind of start a new job but its only 3 hours once a fortnight @ the minute. im going to see a fortune teller on thurs just to see wot the future holds for me.

Oh, yeah, that was the intention of the thread, I kind of forgot to say that, just rambled about my life, lol. You seem to have had an up and down five years too. Sorry to hear about your mother, she's in a good place though with your gran. Good luck with the new job and you need to let us know what the fortune teller says. I've never been to one before.

This time 5 years ago I was in my last year of school, now I'm in my last year of uni. People dying and course changing drama aside, it's been a pretty good five years. I've seen Take That live 14 times, I met one of them! I've been to England so many times I've lost count, had epic times with my friends here and in England, I've read books and laughed loads and baked too many cakes, overall I've been really happy and that's nice.

What a wonderful thread, i'll give this some thought and post a little later today :)

Wowee! some turbulent times there, i'm so pleased that you both are now at a good place.
It's funny how you do look back on even the blackest of times with fondness sometimes.
Hmmm, 5yrs ago.... I was in a job I hated with people I loathed.
My sis was ill (undiagnosed coeliac) and doing a masters but always made time to come round and cheer me up.
I felt very trapped but she convinced me to go to college, I thought it mad at 36 but in 08 took a mature access course 5 GCSE's in a year!
My daugher was doing hers at the same time so we helped each other, it was great!
I passed all 5 with a-c grades, having a big head about that (haha) I decided to do a foundation degree in 09 and graduated in october last year.
I was so proud of myself :)
This year I have done some further training and am now desparate for a career!
My daughter went to uni last month and I miss her like crazy...
I still have the boy here though (yey)...lol
So yeah, thats it discovered TIBB in jan and have been the bain of your lives since :D

Wow congratulations for doing that, Kizzy, I think that's fantastic! What exactly did you study? But yeah I think it's formidable that you chose to go back to school :)

5 years ago (2007) - I was a bit of a rascal, I had just gotten into 8th grade and I got into trouble all the time with the teachers at school. I had just started at a new school and I was right in the middle of the 'popular' crowd. Definitely wasn't a nice kid though. I was very much against alcohol and drugs though, just attitude wise I was very stubborn and arrogant. :bored:

4 years ago (2008) - 8th grade going on to 9th grade. I had a great year. I named myself 'the lucky kid' cause everything went my way - I won a plane ticket to Japan and a Nintendo DS in two separate raffles. I remember that's the year when I first really got into TV. And that was the year where my lovely Rachel won Big Brother 9. She was inspiring to me, and after watching her on the show, I was inspired to become a better person - someone who was more considerate and caring. I also had my first girlfriend in 2008, well like a 'real' one.

3 years ago (2009) - This year really wasn't all that eventful. I guess though it's when I started to learn more about myself, whilst being confused about myself too. I wasn't really sure about my identity. I signed up to TiBB then too, but being confused about who I was and all, made optimal effort to hide my identity. I think it was the first time in my life where I started to feel drifted away from my friends and the 'popular' crowd. I just didn't want to ruin my life with alcohol and all that.

2 years ago (2010) - I got addicted to TiBB, so I left the site for a good two years. I got way too into it. But that wasn't all. 2010 was just a really difficult year as a whole. It was the worst year of my life. And to avoid my personal problems, I spent so much time on TiBB. It was the year when I had many family emergencies, which weren't easy at all. I lost the presidential elections at my school which crushed me because my opponent was such a malicious person. I first realized that I might be interested in guys too and was very confused. At the same time, I was dating a girl, a wonderful girl. But because of all my problems I was stuck on TiBB, began drinking alcohol with some of my friends, skipped school etc. And then she broke up with me. I then realized how much she had actually meant to me. I spent the rest of the year trying to fix myself to win her back. It wasn't until 2011, until she actually spoke to me again though..

1 year ago (2011) - Was a good year. I wasn't on TiBB for the whole year but I shaped my life around. I became the closest with a guy called Dan who is now my best friend. I worked really hard in school, determined to get into a good college. I got back together with the girl that I had loved for so long. One crazy thing that happened though was that I was in Malta with my dad and we almost got killed in this crazy wave thing. It was really scary, and since then I've really grown to appreciate every moment in life.

This year (2012) - Has been amazing, just as good as 2008 if not better. I got accepted into an amazing college in the US. Dan became my best friend, and such an ally for life. I lost my grandfather but I let that be a positive thing and let it inspire me to carry on trying to be the best person that I could be. I did start to smoke weed, but I think in general I just became more open in life. When I say smoke weed though, I only mean once in a while. I then had to leave to college, which was very difficult - going all the way to America. But coming here has been extraordinary. I feel as though I've grown so much as a person. I work hard in school, I play sports, I try to be nice to everyone, I'm the freshman rep of my dorm, I have a job as a store model in Abercrombie and i'm seeing a guy called Austin - i'm trying that side of life out. It's weird cause it's new, but it's really nice. I'm excited to see how life continues, and it's crazy to see how much that has happened in the last 5 years.

Thanks for such a great thread, Ukturtle :hug:

5 years ago I was 14 and in Year 10(Probably my fave School year)...oh the good days :(

You've had a few rocky years but you've made it!

What made you so interested in Australia and NZ, Ben? Also sorry to hear about your partner, that sounds like it must've been extremely difficult for you. I'm really glad you're in a better place now.

Five years ago I was working in Washington DC. In fact I was just coming to the end of my stint over there and I got back just before Christmas.

Every so often I have a good thread. :hugesmile:

But it's interesting to put it down to see about our lives. So much happens and comes and goes, it's so easy to forget everything that happens to shape us to who we are and who we become. At one point in time we all feel as if our lives are crap and at rock bottom, but life fixes itself in the end, sometimes we just have to give it a gentle nudge to encourage it.

Glad to see this year is going well for you, and you too Kizzy, great to see you went back into education and want to do something with it.

Nay bother about my partner, we live, we learn (most of the time).

And honestly, I've always wanted to travel the world since I was a child. My grandparents on my fathers side travelled all the time after they retired early and every summer i would spend a week with them and they would show me all their travel slides. I was captivated (my sisters however were not). Funnily enough I had never been bothered about Australia, it was always my intention to hit NZ, but when applying for my visa I saw that Oz had better opportunity for work so I figured I'd try there first. Best decision of my life, it was amazing.

I plan to hit Antarctica one day as it looks spectacular and so I can claim to have been on all seven continents. :hugesmile:

I think that's absolutely true. After rain, always comes sunshine. I think the saying goes something like that :p I also think the bad moments in life are actually extremely important - they help you appreciate the good moments and also help shape you as a stronger person.

It's crazy to think how quickly time passes by. Isn't it weird to think that Hira being on Big Brother for example was 2 and a half years ago? It feels almost like yesterday. I think that's partially also to do with the internet and the fact that we can re-watch stuff from the past, as though they did actually just happen. It's always interested me to think, how our conception of time would be different if media and the internet didn't exist!

To have your will power and just go for it :love:

What interests you about NZ though? It's just so far away, even though I love travelling, I would be feel very hesitant about going so far. Antarctica does sound amazing though. I've seen photos from my friends going and stuff and it looks spectacular - so different from any other place in the world :blush:

Like, I know it's completely unrelated, but yesterday I was watching Piers Morgan's Life Stories... With Kelly Osbourne, and it was on about the song Changes which her and Ozzy covered. That was six years ago, but once I heard it again, it was like it was released yesterday. Life goes so quickly.

I love England, beautiful country but I'm not one to be tied down for too long in one place. Too much to see and not enough time to do it. New Zealand just looked so different and had so much varying nature and scenery to offer, which over time will no doubt be destroyed by humans. I aslo don't have much connection with my family, so leaving them behind and being far away has never bothered me (luckily).


I was listening to t.A.T.u. - 'All the things she said' yesterday, that was ten years ago!

Ha ha ok yeah I understand the later part. I'm really close to my family so I suppose that would be a little different for me. Is it true that New Zealand is quite similar to Wales though? Sheep and all? :hugesmile: I think personally I like to stick to one place because I like staying in my comfort zone but I think it's so cool that you're up for adventures like that!

Ben I'm not being funny or anything but I'm not reading that essay :idc:

What a difference 5 years makes eh lads?
It is crazy to sit there and think, I don't recognize that person back then...who were they?
It was public services I studied raph, which is why I get quite defensive of the police and fire service haha!

What an awfully nice person you sound :love:

my 5 year of life

19 year old - last year of wgcc
20 year old - job center/
21 years old - training couers/ask to marry my ex
22 years old - my fist work placement
23 years old - working at red cross

Wasn't that released in 2003?

Omg :shocked: I thought it was 2006, I think it was because that's the date it was uploaded on the YT video I watched. Nearly 10 years! Just doesn't seem real!

5 years ago I was in 6th form, probably my best times. After that it all went horribly wrong

Yes it must have been Xmas 2003 as I was pregnant at the time and used to get all emotional when I heard it

Yep 2003 it was, madness.

A great song tbf

5 Years ago was a pretty boring year
4 years ago, was the year my eating disorder surfaced and got quite bad, resulting in my being 4 stone, and having to go to hospital and all that terrible stuff :L
3 years ago, i was recovering, and actually doing quite well
2 years ago i got my first ever boyfriend, and everything was fine, we went out for like 9/10 months..
1 year ago, pretty much i discovered he cheated on me :l, and we broke up, i also began my gcse exams, and a few months ago, i got excellent results

And now i'm Doing my AS year in college, very happy at the moment :D, predicted 4A'S and i'm just working hard and enjoying life :p

This thread made me think and realise how much I've changed as a person over the last 5 years. I don't really fancy stating stuff because I've done things I'm not proud of (no, not handjobs in public bathrooms) but wow... realisation.

It's always interesting to see everyone elses business though :evilgrin:

I guess I was in year 10 this time 5 years ago, year 10 and 11 were pretty good but I was a bit of a dick at times and got in a fair bit of trouble, sixth form were probably my favourite two years, widened my social circle a lot, got on with pretty much everyone and life was just generally really good. Didn't really appreciate that all till I went to Uni though, my first year and a bit here has been pretty good and I'm actually studying stuff I'm really interested in but it's not been the best years of my life like a lot of people say it is for them and while I've got some pretty good friends here I'm still much better friends with people from back home. This weekend I visited one of my old mates from home in Cardiff where he's at Uni, it was his birthday so pretty much everyone went down and it was a class weekend going out and drinking again with all my old mates, has made me really look forward to going back home for Christmas again now. Not sure I've changed all that much as a person, bit more mature now I suppose but I don't think I'm that different to how I was two or three years ago

Wad it blowjobs? :bored:

no it wadn't.

i cant even remember yesterday never mind 5 years.
r years ago i think i was having a threesome with a hobit and a orc somewhere in mount doom trying to get to the ring lol

This thread's great, it's interesting to read all your stories :) good idea Ben!

yep that why hes the mod

Hmmmm.

So I started sixth form five years ago, and at that point I'd just put on loads of weight - I was heavier and bigger than I am now - which wasn't great. But at the same time there were loads of house parties, and we started clubbing for the first time, so that was pretty cool :D

The next year, I kind-of flunked my subjects because I really wasn't enjoying them, and ended up with one A Level (an A in English Literature) and a couple of AS levels. At this point I started to realise that I was definitely more than a little bit attracted to guys :laugh: but for some reason I stayed in the closet... and I also had kind-of fallen in love with one of my male best friends but yeah...

Start of 2009 I decided to come out and tell my friends, and also the guy that I was in love with him. That was... in retrospect it went really well. He obviously didn't have mutual feelings, but he was really okay with it and although things were a little awkward for a month or two we carried on being good friends. But uh... I dunno, I was a bit messed up back then. My family aren't the most tolerant or liberal of families, so I found it difficult coming out to them. My mum always sort-of knew, and she seems okay with it most times, but occasionally when we argue over something petty she'll bring up something awful like "I'll never give her grandchildren" or something :crazy: I told her I was bi so it was still a possibility :laugh: but yeah...
Then in May my oldest brother died. The last time I saw him, I was going through this phase of taking night walks, and I bumped into him at about 2am on Torquay's main high street... he was doing the same. It was weird, and after he went into hospital I found it difficult to go see him. He was diagnosed with some form of leukaemia... he was addicted to heroin for the best part of twenty years, and despite attempts at getting clean I think he was just surrounded by bad people. So yeah... at the end of May my mum told me the doctors were talking about turning off life support, so I went to see him, obviously, but... I just found it horrible, I'm useless in those situations, I don't know what to say, and my mum seemed disappointed with me because I just really wanted to leave. In retrospect I can see her point but I'm just not good at dealing with grief at the time.

So obviously that was a huge blow to family life... my mum's been diagnosed with depression ever since, since he was her first born, and yeah... in a way though it's made us all a lot closer.

A couple of months later - September to be precise - my dad went into hospital randomly (I didn't even know he was ill), and my mum woke me up the next morning in tears saying he died. I still haven't really processed that to this day. It was so unexpected and our relationship was so awkward - they were separated, he was an alcoholic, we always got on but were never like... the type of father/son to go fishing or whatever :p But yeah, that one just floored me. Later in the month I got drunk with the best-friend-guy and fooled around with him and I don't know... at the time I was not in a good place, and I kept mistaking all of these small gestures from him, and silly things like sharing a bed, as something more. At one point I just messed things up and we had this massive fall-out, and I didn't speak to him for about a year.

So 2009 wasn't good at all. But one thing that did come out of it was that I went back to college to try and make up for better grades, and I met a handful of really cool and interesting people there.

2010 was somewhat improved. I started writing more, I was getting good grades at college, and towards the end of the year I kind of patched things up with the friend, because we have all these mutual friends from way back to 2004, and the same friend circle, so I felt guilty because I'd made it hard on them. I'd also completely betrayed his trust so, I felt guilty there... and after a couple of really awkward and angry communications, I invited him to this Christmas get-together I'd arranged and we just sort of naturally made up again... it's been pretty good with him ever since, but we're nowhere near as close as we were before 2009. I don't mind though really, because it's helped me get over him :spin2:

So yeah, things were a bit quiet because all my friends had pretty much gone to Uni already :laugh: I became best friends with this girl though who's still my best friend (Greg and Mark met her hai/) and that was a big bonus because she's lovely and sweet and caring and everything. Mid-2011 I got the rest of my A Levels and the results were so good that I ended up in the local paper with my photo :pipe: So I enrolled at Bath Spa in September...

First year of Uni was pretty amazing for the first term, constant parties and clubbing. But in January it was made clear that we'd have to move house back home because our house was condemned, because my landlord (coincidentally my uncle) was a neglectant prick who didn't give a **** about my mum or the house... blamed the problems on us kids (like mould? give over). So my mum was constantly in contact with me, and at this point was when her depression was diagnosed, so obviously this panicked me and I took my eye off of my studies... so yeah, ended up failing first year.

Have since got back in on appeal, though, am now living with some amazing people, and am pretty bloody happy overall. :)

Mine is mainly school because yeah

5 Years Ago (2007) - I was in Year 6, I remember it well it was just easy work and playing games in the playground like technology didn't even exist :love: I'd only been in Dover half a year at this point (I moved in like May 2007) and it was still weird not being in London. Anyway, I was ridiculously camp and annoying and strange but I was very well liked in primary. :joker:

4 Years Ago (2008) - I moved to a new house after only a year, in the middle of nowhere with crap internet. :bored: And in September I started Year 7, er let's pretend it didn't happen. It was all so exciting being in a new school but I was really irritating and a total mess and didn't make many friends. I was with my class in every lesson and it was weird being in a new environment with new people. At this point I was really horrible to my best friend I think and never did any work, always in trouble.

3 Years Ago (2009) - I loved this year because I started going to my drama group this year and met the best people, but they're all going to uni now :( This was the year I met loads of other people in my year and they mainly hated me but whatever. I became best friends with someone and we were inseparable for the whole year. Erm, I met my "girlfriend" at this time as well and eventually we started "going out" (using quotations because no way is it real when you're 12).

2 Years Ago (2010) - Amazing year. I'm not sure if 2010 or 2011 were better, it's pretty much even. I had arguments with basically all my friends and met other people who were mainly twats. I didn't do much work at school and started getting "popular" as the year went on which meant I was in loads of trouble. This was the first time I watched Big Brother as well. I remember spending the whole Summer obsessed with BB11 despite it being pretty bad looking back.

1 Year Ago (2011) - I'd kill to relive this year. Since most of it was year 9 I took nothing seriously and pissed about all the time. My class were all close by this point and we rickrolled teachers, had food fights, caused teachers to cry etc. the list of things goes on. I signed up to TiBB and spent far too much time trying to make friends on here, but I was still "loved" by loads in real life and managed to balance online and offline well. I did loads of new things this year as well and although I spent loads of it arguing and having fights with people I only ever think back on this year as it being amazing.

Now (2012) - Idk what happened but everything went wrong with GCSEs starting. People started hating me, I got sick of real life and started spending way more time online, especially when Plug happened. I became lazier than ever before. I was more addicted to this site than ever for a bit and basically I barely remember anything from this year. Most of the memories involve video games and I have to look at what songs I added to iTunes in a certain month just to remember what even happened in that month LOL. Now I'm better with everyone but meh, we're all too depressed about the future and spend 90% of the time talking about old times.

Oops essay

edit: I have a really dull teenage life looking back LOL