What were you doing with your life in 2007 and does it seem long ago to you?

[AbsentmindedWoman]

That was the year I first moved to London. Feels like a lifetime ago, but also when I hear "2007" it seems like that shouldn't be as long ago as it is

What was your life like then? Do you miss it? I miss being so young and all the potential opportunities!

Most of 2007 was a rubbish year for me, but the last couple of months were good and I often think nostalgically of them.

In 2007 I was a carefree, single 28 year old, living the good life around London.
At the end of 2007 I moved to the Cayman Islands where I've lived ever since. One husband, 2 children, 2 dogs, multiple house moves and purchases later and yet I can remember 2007 so clearly in my mind's eye.
It feels both a lifetime and yesterday ago!

I was celebrating my 51st birthday and it feels like last week. It's all relative, I suppose. I still find myself being shocked that 1980 was more than 40 years ago.

I was with DH but not married, both of us working stupid hours in junior City jobs

We thought we were sooo busy and tired then… and then we had kids

I was a young, busy, single mum to my then 5-year-old. On the one hand, times were tough. On the other, this was one of the happiest times in my life. I absolutely adored being a mum (still do, of course!), and yes, a single mum to boot definitely had its perks. I was young and I still felt like the path ahead of me was full of hope and promise, though I also felt old before my time and riddled with worries (I think that's just being a parent!).

I was as high as a kite. Life was glorious. I had just had my much longed for 4th child, my career was peaking, plenty of cash - took all 4 DCs skiing for the first time. Then 2008 the sky fell in. Lost my much adored and young mother (56) suddenly in tragic circumstances. Spun into depression, lost my job, marriage hit the skids, major financial issues…..things are all good now but 2007 was a highlight even if I didn’t realise it that my world was just about to implode.

Owned my own home, had a career and a well-paid and interesting job where I got to use my qualifications and experience, DF was still here. All gone now. Yes it feels like a whole other lifetime ago.

@AbsentmindedWoman

That was the year I first moved to London. Feels like a lifetime ago, but also when I hear "2007" it seems like that shouldn't be as long ago as it is

What was your life like then? Do you miss it? I miss being so young and all the potential opportunities!

Leaving high school. Starting uni. Turning 18. Newly driving. Out 2/3 times a week. Working 2 part time Jobs. Meeting great friends I still have now! One of my best years

I was in year 8, the only academic year in secondary school with no major exams so I was LOVING life!

It was the year we moved out of London, after more than a decade, with a one year old who is now taller than me...

I was 21, and I honestly cannot remember.

I had a 6 year old and a 2 year old. I started a job I had been working towards since pre DCs.

I was pretty worn out juggling childcare and work. DH was working long hours. We were quite stressed and probably didn’t enjoy the small DCs as much as we could have. DS was a terrible sleeper and water. Hard to imagine now that he’s a strapping almost 17 year old who hoovers you food!

I remember 2007. It is etched in my memory when so much went wrong I honestly thought someone had cursed me.
It started off with my phone suddenly dying and then the fridge breaking.
Dh’s father died and his mother and brother didn’t tell him till after he was buried. Even told him that he was fine when he was talking to them when in fact fil had already died.
Every single electric appliance failed several times.
I was taken to court over something I had paid and had the receipt and a letter thanking me for my payment.
Unfortunately because of the postal strike I didn’t get to find out I was being taken to court until after the court case. Ended up having to pay about £400 into the courts to stop a county court judgement and then claim it back from the company. I ended up out of pocket by about £140 for solicitors cost as apparently I should have told them I had paid and then they wouldn’t have got a solicitor. Finally on New Years Eve we had to bury dcat.
There was so much more that happened.

I don’t think Dh will get over what his family did.
I now am aware that when ever my phone randomly stops working and then the fridge breaks it is the start of a terrible time unless I threaten whoever is looking down on me and messing with my life that I will come after them

It is like a different life time

Ah I started Erasmus that year, and that was probably the best year of my life! Seems like yesterday in many ways, but also a lifetime ago (I say with a newborn and toddler running me ragged - not quite the same as the all night parties and cheap beer, sharing a room with my best friend in an old soviet hotel!)

At this time in 2007 DS1 had just turned 2 years old and DD was 2 months old. It was a busy time! Now they're teens (and I have a DS2 as well) and it's all a bit less manic.

Working my first proper job, had a boyfriend (I’m only into women now!), going to the pub every Friday after work

It feels forever ago but also at the same time I can’t believe how long ago it was

14 years ago. I'd not long got married, and in that year started a wonderful new job. We were still in the EU, no one had even thought seriously of Brexit, we could still dream about moving to Europe. Finances were bleak even then, with no chance of buying a house in the area and uni fees going up. The public sector was in the process of being destroyed, and the very concept of a res publica already seriously attacked. People still remembered other ways of doing things though, organisations still worked without being totally reliant on magic black box computers, and social media was barely getting going. The tech world hadn't yet destroyed women's rights or the biological fact of sex. Yes, it was long, long ago, another world away.

I was in Year 8 at school…just starting my emo phase

I was 30 and getting divorced from my first marriage and still shell shocked from it. The marriage not the divorce. The divorce was easy

2007 were very happy times. Had a 6 Yr old dd, 3 Yr old dd and new born ds.

2021 and my girls are 20 and 17. My boy is forever 10, 4th anniversary of his passing coming up on 2nd January.

Feels like a lifetime ago.

No doesn't seem long ago at all.
I had a very exciting life with a good job, Socialising, friendships before the recession.
1998 till 2007 were my best lived year's. Life never went back there, had DD 2009 switched to pt evening work.
Sorry children

@MuddlingThroughLife I'm so sorry.

Doing a huge house renovation in London and trying to live in it with small dc and a baby. Madness. But I was very happy - house was in a location we loved and I was on mat leave on full pay. Now in a different house, and even the baby is nearly grown up, but have very fond memories of that time.

Had my first proper job and had just started seeing my now husband. We are now married but live in a different place and have different jobs. He is the only common denominator!