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

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AbsentmindedWoman · 29/11/2021 18:58

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 Confused

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

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onedancewway · 29/11/2021 20:42

It feels ages away. I was still living at home, dating my now DH, saving to move out. Now have own place, married and 3 dc

BillywigSting · 29/11/2021 20:43

I was 16, had just met dp (who I did not realise I'd still be with in 2021), hanging about in town drinking and smoking, sticking safety pins through my ripped up fishnet tights, absolutely coasting through my gcses and generally having the time of my life.

I did a lot of 18yo stuff (lots of sex, booze, weed, live music-was quite heavily into the goth/alt scene and there was always someone a couple of years older willing to sneak me in places I definitely shouldn't have been) at 16/17 which in hindsight isn't great but it was very good fun. Even if it was pretty dangerous and reckless.

I'm an awful lot more fat and boring now and don't even drink much anymore.

It feels like an absolute lifetime away and I miss it from time to time but I wouldn't do it again

thaegumathteth · 29/11/2021 20:52

I had 25 with a baby and a husband and living in suburbia on maternity leave.

I didn't go back to work and went on to have another baby.

Still in the same house with same people.

It doesn't feel that long ago but 2004 for example when I graduated seems like centuries ago.

RosieLemonade · 29/11/2021 20:54

I was in my last year of high school. Seeing the people who had the well paid job and the house and saying it's gone now has really shaken me!

MuchTooTired · 29/11/2021 20:54

In 2007 I knew pretty much everything, and thought it was all going rather well.

With hindsight, I was busy continuing the path of fucking my life up rather brilliantly, and starting the route that led me to today. I got married for the first time in 2007, dropped out of uni, gave up my city flat (and never lived in my favourite city again) and basically dossed around.

Feels like forever ago, but 2007 also doesn’t feel that long ago. I was so young and carefree, could have done anything I wanted but was riddled with MH issues which made me much to scared of living and I clung on to the wrong relationship and hiding from the world during the week and partying too much at the weekend.

I just hope my kids choose a better (and much more successful path) than their mother!

BeaMends · 29/11/2021 20:55

I was between husbands Grin

And I seem to remember that year I was particularly skint and didn't have two beans to rub together.

ParkheadParadise · 29/11/2021 20:55

Happy times
I was engaged to now DH. We were talking about building our own house which we now live in.
Dd1 was 15 and talking about wanting to be a midwife. She was alive and happy😪😪 I would give anything to go back in time just to be able to cuddle her. My mum was happy that I'd finally found Mr Right 😂😂
Dd2 wasn't thought about and definitely not planned. She's 6 next week.
Probably just as well we don't know how our lives turn out.
I was 30

ABCeasyasdohrayme · 29/11/2021 21:04

2007 was one of my worst years.

I was threatened with being reported to SS by a sonographer and midwife who didn't believe me when I said my pregnancy wasn't going well. They even threatened to have me sectioned because they said I was dillusional.

Then I gave birth to my beautiful and fragile little girl, who was just broken in every possible way, and she sadly died 2 weeks later. One of the worst times I ever had of being proved right.

The same midwife refused to give me anything to stop my breastmilk and told me to just get on with it as that's what she had to do, and, as it turns out, told the doctor not to give me anything either (he did).

Later that year my ex cheated on me, told me it was my fault that another one of my children had died and beat me up (whilst, as it turns, out I was pregnant again).

That year changed my life forever.

DillonPanthersTexas · 29/11/2021 21:07

Was living and working in Senegal.

Minceandonions · 29/11/2021 21:29

I'd graduated from Uni the previous year. All of my Uni friends dumped me in my final year so I had no friends. I was living with my now DH in a rental flat in his hometown and was so lonely and isolated I used to feel like my heart would stop beating. I worked in a series of temp jobs which I couldn't stand. I was very unhappy. The only positive - I was pretty!
No I don't miss it. My life has transformed totally and I love it and get happier as each year goes by.
Yes, it does feel a long time ago.

FourTeaFallOut · 29/11/2021 21:32

I had my eldest in 2007. Feels like I blinked.

Ohshittt · 29/11/2021 21:33

2007 I was in my last year at college and head over heels in love with a lad who I had met at work, he was in the TA then signed up to the regulars and buggered off and left me heartbroken so I blocked his number and didnt see or hear from him again for 10 years. We're married now though 😁

TuftyMarmoset · 29/11/2021 21:34

I was 11 so it's a very long time ago to me!

TuftyMarmoset · 29/11/2021 21:34

12, rather. I could probably count better back then

Holothane · 29/11/2021 21:40

Married h seems a long time ago now, if I knew now what I know now things would be very different.

x2boys · 29/11/2021 21:46

I had a baby was married and working as a nurse on nights
Nearly 15 years on I had a second child who has significant disabilities I'm still married not working anymore ended up in a housing association house ,but much happier

SuziLikeSuziQ · 29/11/2021 21:48

I went travelling and started my teacher training. God, I wish I could turn back the clocks! Just broken up from a long-term boyfriend so looking for fun. I could have gone anywhere and done anything.

Blinkingbatshit · 29/11/2021 21:52

The year I had my first dc! Started rockily- living on a building site with no hot water and a new born….but by the end of the year we had a decent home and I had my beautiful boy and had made some awesome Mum friends. Not all plain sailing but I was mostly happy 😊

TheDogsMother · 29/11/2021 22:07

@ABCeasyasdohrayme

2007 was one of my worst years.

I was threatened with being reported to SS by a sonographer and midwife who didn't believe me when I said my pregnancy wasn't going well. They even threatened to have me sectioned because they said I was dillusional.

Then I gave birth to my beautiful and fragile little girl, who was just broken in every possible way, and she sadly died 2 weeks later. One of the worst times I ever had of being proved right.

The same midwife refused to give me anything to stop my breastmilk and told me to just get on with it as that's what she had to do, and, as it turns out, told the doctor not to give me anything either (he did).

Later that year my ex cheated on me, told me it was my fault that another one of my children had died and beat me up (whilst, as it turns, out I was pregnant again).

That year changed my life forever.

Oh I am so sorry. What a terrible time for you HmmThanks
lunarlandscape · 29/11/2021 22:11

DS2 has just started school. I was run off my feet as a people pleaser (who pleased no one) volunteering for every school, church and community project in our area. I worked so many hours I once fell asleep at my desk and was an hour late picking DC up from primary school. I sorted myself out soon after that, started working part time and enjoying life more.

sbhydrogen · 29/11/2021 22:16

I went on holiday to Tuscany in 2007. I loved it!

StormyCornishSeas · 29/11/2021 22:17

I was figuring out if I really wanted to do a-levels or something else

ToughTittyWhompus · 29/11/2021 22:19

Well, until Oct of 2007 I was basically feral Grin

21, living in a house share in a city, office temping 3 days a week, bar work at night, drinking and smoking myself half to death at every given opportunity, out till 4/5am as often as possible, being very careless with my life and not giving a shit about the dangerous situations I was putting myself in.

Oct 2007 I fell pregnant. Completely changed my life that baby did. She’s now 13 and I can hear her pottering around upstairs.

KnitFastDieWarm · 29/11/2021 22:24

In 2007 I was turning 20, desperately insecure and in the process of making a series of spectacularly bad relationship and friendship decisions. I was in my second year of university and was generally to be found drinking snakebite in the student union bar and listening to lots of northern indie-pop bands with skinny-jeaned male lead singers Grin I was one year out from meeting now-DH - the best relationship decision I ever made Smile.

As of 2021 I am considerably older, wiser and happier. I’m 34 now, a mother, enjoying my career, and I feel like i’m at a really content stage of life in which I really appreciate every little moment. I enjoy the odd bit of reminiscing about being 20 but I certainly couldn’t be arsed to do it all again now!

MonicaGellerBing · 29/11/2021 22:25

I was child free, with DP (now DH) working as a secretary in my local hospital and driving a brand new flash car living the dream of long lie ins, spare cash, a tidy house and as many films on a weekend as I could fit in! Now it's mess, chaos, cleaning on repeat and doing school runs. I bloody love it!