What were you doing half your lifetime ago?

[Bobje]

I was 26, working in London, living with my sister in a very nice flat, just off Russell Square.
We both worked in media and were having the time of our lives.
Little did I know, in the following week I would meet my now DH.

29, married for 5 years, one DC. Starting to feel like we were proper grownups.

Oh I love this.
I was 17, DD was 9 months old, I was being chucked out by my mum. Literally to the week. I moved into a scary flat (I'm sure I got the keys on 21st/22nd or 23rd of Aug) and I was on the absolute bones of my arse. Life was hard, and also scary.

Being able to look back shows me that actually I've come such a far way in those years. I wanted to turn the tables around for DD and I, and I did.

I was 22, just finished uni, working as much as I could to save up for a ski season for the winter. Good times!

I was 30, with a disabled toddler and pregnant with my second baby.

I was living in Islington with my then finance (now ex husband). Working in Camden and having what I now regard as the best year of my life as we had so many of our great friends living nearby and would meet up and go out or go to gigs or festivals in summer nearly every weekend. It was a fantastic time to be young and in London. And I was a size 8 and quite the fitty, if I say so myself 😆.

Finance. No. Fiancé.

I was 20 and at uni, about to do my Erasmus year studying abroad. Half my life ago would have been summer too so I would have been temping over the summer!

22 - just landed a job in international student recruitment. Travelling the world meeting interesting and talented people, (nearly) all expenses paid. Hard work but so much fun

I was just finishing the summer holidays between my BSc and MSc.

Feels like a lifetime ago!!

I was 29, and married to my first husband, with a 4 year old. That 4 year old now has his own 6 year old.

I was 28, really struggling to adjust to being back in London after years of bumming around abroad. Living with my parents, managed to get a job which I thought would be a career, and got sacked from it after 3 months. Not a great time but being sacked turned out to be a good move, got a much better job and bought a flat in London within the next couple of years.

I was 20, living in the US with my then fiancé (had moved there a year before)

Quite scary to think that was half my lifetime ago as it really doesn't feel that long ago (we broke up several years later and I moved home when I was 27)

I was 26 and simultaneously having a ball and a big mess. Pretty much to this week I left to travel to Australia with my best friend for a year, running away from a doomed affair with a married man and towards a year of highs and lows. I’d spent the summer working, partying and trying to save money. I remember thinking that 4 years after uni my life really should be more sorted, but that took a long time!

I was 22 and working abroad. I was with my ex who would soon become the father to my child.

Life was good and imagined the future we would have.

The 2nd half has been nothing like that 🤷‍♀️

Thanks for sharing, it's nice to see how many of us were at the same stage in life.

@piscofrisco I like to think we may have ran around the same circles and maybe have met, half our lifetimes ago!

@MrBeanMustBeMyDad goodness, that's a coincidence on the dates!
Happy to hear to you turned things around for you and your DD 😊
(But tell me more about the scary flat please)

@BobjeI think we probably had a chat in the toilets at KoKo once :)

Managing a large day service for people with learning disabilities, married to first husband.
The next year I would meet my second husband and have a full breakdown in my health (not related) and life would completely change.

August 1988, I was age 36 and was in hospital for six weeks with a slipped disc. The treatment in those days was traction - where they tied a series of ropes and pulleys to your hips, with weights on the end to pull your spine apart! 😬Thankfully, I had an op the following year, which was successful.

Living in London 1993, hadn't met 1st husband at this point. Having a great time in a flat share with another girl.

😁
Indeed!
I was also a size 8... <siiiiiiiiiigh>

I was 18 and would have just have got my A level results, was about to go off to uni. Head over heels for my first love. It was a great time :)

I used to go to KoKo when it was The Music Machine - my son has been in recent years. Happy days.

I was 31. In our new family home that I'm still in. Had a daughter (1yo)and was thinking of going for a 2nd child. I had just started as a partner in a GP practice. Husband had a good job as a partner in a legal firm. Life was great. 31 years later, still in big house, daughter 32, son 30, retired from that same GP practice 2 years ago. Husband died 13 years ago, remarried 3 years ago.
Some very sad times obviously but otherwise a good life and hope I have another 30 years!!

I was 27 , on marriage no.2 and nursing a newborn. A true lifetime ago!

I was just turning 18 and about to start uni, where I met my now DH a few months later. Carefree, working hard and playing hard, with a great group of friends. That all carried on for a good few years.