Greatest thing to happen to you in 2014?

[Misty Rose 3,217]

Personally the greatest thing for me this year was keeping up the beautiful relationship I have with my boyfriend. Some other things happened towards the end of the year, but this relationship is certainly the most special to me

 

Despite some struggles we both shared we managed to make it through this year together no matter what. He's the greatest person I've ever met and the person I love the most in life. I honestly wouldn't know what to do without him

[Astral Jackpot 57]

Well this past year has been somewhat of a rollercoaster, I started off the year by getting a girlfriend so I was happy until she broke up with me a few months later. Went into a bit of depression stage until I realized hang on a minute she was a total b@!#% to me and eventually had a big change in my personality were I realized why am I so shy?, why do I just let people treat me like dirt?, eventually became a bit more confident. With this I decided to express myself more by starting to play trading card games thus making one of my friends play which in turn made him want to invite more people to play so I now have a group of friends I do stuff with. One of those friends happens to be a total douche but still he's a douche in a nice way. I then stopped hanging out with some of my online friends as much because we all weren't really friends that much anyway, we always fought and stuff but we stay in contact. Then started my school year planning on not going to my school formal until I asked a girl I had a crush on to go and she said yes, once I got to the formal she basically just left me and hung out with her friends but I thought meh. Decided to do a bit of drinking and I felt like strutting my funky stuff so I started boogieing down. It all was good then got invited to a few parties that I was looking forward to until suddenly my dad who has been fighting cancer for over a year now took a turn for the worse and sadly passed away, definitely the worst part about this year because I looked up to him so much but I remained positive. I overcame the depression that followed and proceeded to go to my friend's 18th and started to dance on the dance floor once again. And that was that.

Oh, also rediscovering my brony fandom and finding this forum 

[Haruhi-chan 488]

Discovering my fangirl crush and new found hero... PelleK! 8D He's the sweetest most kindest most cutest most hottest with a gorgeous voice, adorable accent... *goes on forever* So yeah. ^____^ He makes me so happy that I just... omg... <3

[n0body555 334]

Getting my first job, and basolutely loving it

[Derplight Sperkle 1,017]

The two best things for me would be joining this site and getting with my current girlfriend, Ms Britty Witty

[Jackleberry 1,927]

Being able to build the 'Walrus', my gaming PC. I've been wanting a good one since around 2011-2012, and now I finally have it, put together almost entirely by myself (with some help). It's not the greatest rig out there, but it's eons better than what I had before.

[Christmasy Britty 2,553]

well the number one thing that happened to me was finding this wonderful man Derplight Sperkle that has made my life so amazing and wonderful cheers to this wonderful man and the wonderful year that will start with him

[Shmixil 16]

For my birthday, my father took me to Valve HQ. However, I did not see the magical beard of the one and only mighty Gabe Newell. 

[Panne 1,342]

I got a girlfriend and escaped graduated high school

[Burning Question 69]

Man I love and want to be with proposed to me.   Best year ever!

Edited January 4, 2015 by Burning Question

[Shou 100]

Best thing that happened? games, games, and more GAMES!, WoD, Persona Q, Smash Bros, and Pokemon! Had so much fun in 2014 playing these games alone and with close friends. Oh and I got strait As in my college classes, that has not happened since like 4th grade lol.

[Phoenix Flair 332]

Short answer:

The greatest thing to happen to me in 2015 was that I got an A in my Survey of Lit I class.

 

Long answer:

 

Deciding what I want to major in has been the toughest decision of my life. I still haven't worked it out properly. The only thing I was sure of when I started school at UW was that I wouldn't study English. What an incredible waste that would be. I'd never find a job, I'd never make any money. But writing is my life, and even if I wasn't going to major in it, even if I wanted training in a more practical skill, I just wanted to see if I could do it, if that really was my area of expertise.
So I signed up for Survey of Lit I, which, as it turned out, was like a literary history class, summarizing the evolution of English lit from Beowulf to Shakespeare. I quickly figured out that class was ABSOLUTE HELL. No kidding. I love reading. I love really, really boring books that most would turn their nose up at. I love fantasy and classical styles. We got to do all of that, but the catch was that, when we analyzed the books, we could only do it from the point of view of each work's time period. I HATE THAT. I hate being told what to think, and having to give everything a thumbs up, to appreciate everything by someone else's standards. I hate outsourcing my opinions to stupid sources from "experts" in the field. The first essay I turned in, I got a B on. A really low B, too. Which for me, in an English class, is absolutely unheard of. A B? Are you kidding me? Just because I want to have my own opinion, because I might have snuck a little bit of a contemporary standpoint into my analysis? Screw you, Professor Anderson! I don't need this!
That was a bad time. I mean, English was all I ever looked forward to in high school, middle school, and elementary. I'm pretty much good in every subject, but I hate most of them. English was my passion. To be given tangible, quantitative proof that maybe I wasn't as good as I'd been led to believe was kind of heartbreaking. For a while I just kind of moped, running on auto-pilot. And then we got our second essay assignment, a big old research paper. I hate those. I had resolved to do it half-heartedly, scrape a low B in the whole class, and then never take another English class ever again. I could write in my spare time, but I would never have what it took to be a real professional.
Except then something wonderful happened. I. Got. PISSED. Like, really, really mad. I mean, seriously, I'd been writing since I was six, I'd been working my hardest, I'd read every story in every class I'd ever taken and I knew them inside and out, backwards and frontwards and sideways, who the HELL was Anderson to tell me I wasn't good enough?! I do my best when I'm mad. I got a 5 on my AP Lit test Junior year when I had a fever over 100 degrees, and a 5 on AP Chem with another equally nasty fever, a fire drill, and a nosebleed, all because I was mad at those freaking tests. And that wasn't anything compared to how boiling hot I was when I was working on that research paper. Looking back on it, I was totally overreacting. Like a lot. Oh well. It did the trick. I think one day I worked for eight hours straight on that thing, weeks before it was due. I searched boatloads of data bases, read dissertations and essays and studies and wrote outline upon outline, and read the assigned works over and over, and when I finally shoved all that crap together onto one Word document and hit print, I was so tired and mentally exhausted I was shaking. But I was still really mad. And I was mad when I studied for our in-class final, and I was mad when I took the test, and I was mad when I drove home and I was still pretty mad when I went online a few weeks later and saw that I had earned myself...

...an A?
I have a natural ability to memorize facts, and a real talent for analyzing, and as a result, there's not much in school I have to work for. So when I come up against something that's actually tough for me, it's like I don't even know how to deal with it. I don't study, and I don't ask questions, because I'd rather just back out. Earning that A was the one of the hardest things I'd ever done.
After that, I was doubly sure I'd never be an English major. It was too frustrating. The next semester I signed up for all Computer Science courses, and I felt better about that. I was turning a little further away from my childhood dream, but at least I had that little shred of reassurance. If my practical aspirations don't turn out like they should, I've always got that security of knowing that when push comes to shove and I'm caught between a rock and a hard place, I can still write like nobody's business.

 

[abstrusesketches 11]

Might sound a little sad and I'm usually not in the mood for this sappy stuff, but for me the greatest thing that ever happened to me in 2014 was actually making some progress in my fight against depression.. words cannot describe how amazing it felt to actually be happy for the first time in years!

 

2015 is going to be awesome