Personally 2024 was ok for me even though I was laid off and unemployed for 6 months. Ok maybe it’s a little shitty.

If we’re in the darkest timeline, what was the last point where it felt there was so much hope and joy in the world?

Some options commonly put out.

  • The day Pokémon Go released July 2016. So prepandemic and we went outside and and a girl told me where to find Weedles. Yep I’m in a videogame

  • The day before 9/11 or when Harambe got killed

  • When Endgame released, culmination of 10 years of marvel moments into a single movie, people cheering in the cinema. Still pre pandemic, maybe there’s a trend here

  • PetteriPano@lemmy.world
    5·
    11 hours ago

    I’m not talking about substances, but things just don’t give the same highs as they used to.

    Getting a new Nintendo game as a kid and you’re giddy all the way home, reading the back of the box.

    Last time I bought a game I had been looking forward to for years it was lying in a drawer for a month before I even installed it.

    I had my first kid this year, and it’s probably the best thing to have happened to me in the last few years. But I don’t think the joy I felt compares to that new NES game as a kid. I wish I still would get that kind of highs.

    I’m pretty sure the last good day was sometime in 1996.

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
      6·
      10 hours ago

      as a child we experience everything for the first time. this grows neural paths and releases dopamine. colors are more vibrant, food tastes better.

      as we age our brains get used to the dopamine and we look for ways to increase its production. sex, drugs, illicit activities, etc.

      you will never recapture the way you felt watching the dinosaurs in JP inside a theater in 1995. you will never stare at a color in bewilderment of its vibrancy again.

      find new experiences that could blast your brain with dopamine instead.

      buy a hooker. smoke crack once. gamble $10k at one sitting.

  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
    2·
    10 hours ago

    When I got my first actual Job shortly after my 27th bday EDIT: 2022 December. And was convinced I would turn the company around with my hard work.

    Well, I sure left an impression, but it broke me, as I realized now that I had a job, how much I lost before I got there, and that money won’t fix that. I started getting worse at my job as a result.

    The poor mental health also lead to some poor choice of words on Reddit that got me several suicide care bot messages and a permanent suspension.

  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
    5·
    15 hours ago

    I would say early 2010 or maybe 2009. live 3 miles from work and regularly walked it. In the morning my wife would walk almost halfway to a park and we had our dog. She would turn around and go back while I would continue on. I could take a bus in incliment weather only having to be in it for a few blocks. Sometimes I would bike up to the lakefront which was nice and scenic and stretched it to 7 miles which was nicer for a bike ride. My wife and I had macbook pros which large powerful laptops with tons of ports and osx was great and applecare was still stellar (it actually went down somewhere around this time). I worked in a research lab and what was accomplished seemed magical.

  • 🐋 Color 🍁 ♀@lemm.eeEnglish
    151·
    1 day ago

    Yesterday. I can’t remember the last bad day I’ve had. 2024 has been one of the best years of my life

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      11 hours ago

      Yeah I’ve had rough days and great days, but even the bad ones have been more inconvenient than anything else. The good has more than compensated for the inconvenience

    • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      Almost same. I’ve had many shitty years and days, but around this time last year I said something along these lines, and it holds true now as well: This year has been great. And next year is on track to be fuckin awesome.

  • totallynotaspy@fedia.io
    30·
    1 day ago

    That fateful day in July 2009. Parents were hit by a guy who was fucked up by a shopping list of drugs. Mom dead, the family that was quickly fell apart. She was no longer around to help hide my father’s alcoholism. Not even 6 months after her death, a foul harpy of a female human latched on to him and only encouraged the worst parts of him while slowly doing everything she could to remove or erase his family.

    Wrong parent died that day.

  • Supervisor194@lemmy.world
    271·
    2 days ago

    July 4, 2012. The day the Higgs Boson was discovered. Everything since has done nothing but get stranger and stranger. I won’t even say it’s all just gone to shit. It’s just to me, everything since has been… increasingly unreal.

  • KingJalopy @lemm.ee
    311·
    2 days ago

    My job moved me from Oklahoma to California. Took 3.5 months to sell my house but I was in Cali that whole time while my wife and daughter stayed behind waiting for the sale. The day I finally came back to get them after the sale was that day. I had never been away from them more than 2 days in 15 years. That 3.5 months alone was so fucking hard and depressing. Never been so happy to see them.

    That day. For me.

  • promitheas@programming.dev
    6·
    1 day ago

    Not sure of exact date, but it was around 2005-2006 and I had saved up enough money to get me a lego N1 starfighter kit from star wars. Last time remember feeling genuine joy