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Alphaboy said:
How bad is it?
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Walking is getting more difficult. I have a Pars defect at L5 with spondylolisthesis. The two pieces of bone that hold the spine in alignment are gone or might never have been there. The vertebrae moves out of line and impinges on the spinal cord. Walking very far requires the use of walking sticks. is very painful and I can't count on my right leg going where I want it to.
 
Definitely posting on the Mayberry lol.

Just finished my 5th semester of college. Umm, aside from that it was a pretty slow time for me. My self from back then would be equally happy and sad at myself. Happy I own a home and have a nice vehicle and kids and a job that pays well that I like. Sad that I never fought in the UFC or Japan. Or even won a shiny gold belt from a local Jim Bob fight League.
 
ralphc1 said:
Walking is getting more difficult. I have a Pars defect at L5 with spondylolisthesis. The two pieces of bone that hold the spine in alignment are gone or might never have been there. The vertebrae moves out of line and impinges on the spinal cord. Walking very far requires the use of walking sticks. is very painful and I can't count on my right leg going where I want it to.
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Damn, that sounds horrible. Sorry man :(
 
21 years old a the time. Wasn't really into drinking. Drank too much in my teens. Bit skinnier then.
Only had one young kid at that time. Mostly hung out with my wife(GF at the time) which I still kind of do.
 
10yrs ago was the hardest time of my life financially. Young kids, new job in a new field, and wife not working. Was soooo fucking stressed.

Younger me would feel safe knowing everything was going to be alright but at the same time would be like....help me bro, I don't know how long I can hang.
 
Engaged and living with my ex and her son in a 2 bedroom apartment, working from home and living the life.
 
Working in the oil field with my uncle as an apprentice electrician and learning a ton.

Damn, I miss when Canada was under different government and our oil and gas industry wasn’t looked at with disdain by those in power. You really could head out west and make 150k in your first year and set yourself up.

Working jobs like that is a big reason why I have the things I have in life now. I have had some privilege, yes but I’ve also worked my ass off and made a lot of money throughout my early to late 20’s. Only last year at 29 did I stop working fly in/fly out and come back home full time.
 
26, living in a shitty bedsit in Ealing, working as a disability assistant at Heathrow for minimum wage, doing a science distance learning degree that would ultimately turn out not to be used. Wasn't driving yet either. The upside is that I was on my own, and I was at least trying to sort my life out.

Life wasn't good, but I was at my worst a few years prior. As a sixteen-year-old, my younger self probably wouldn't be too happy with what he saw, but I was lost when I was sixteen anyway. I'd absolutely hate myself at sixteen, if I saw myself from 16-25.
 
Alphaboy said:
Let's rewind the clock. December of 2012. Where were you, what were you doing, how was your life?

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More importantly, what would your decade junior think of yourself today?
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I was in my early thirties living in South Florida. I was in decent shape but about 20 lbs heavier than I am now. I think my former self would appreciate me for growing as a person and putting in the work. And satisfied that I seem to be headed towards a bright future…
 
Life sucked, as Vince McMahon already predicted. But to my surprise i did not die but rather made life suck much less over time.
 
ThaiSexPills said:
Working in the oil field with my uncle as an apprentice electrician and learning a ton.

Damn, I miss when Canada was under different government and our oil and gas industry wasn’t looked at with disdain by those in power. You really could head out west and make 150k in your first year and set yourself up.

Working jobs like that is a big reason why I have the things I have in life now. I have had some privilege, yes but I’ve also worked my ass off and made a lot of money throughout my early to late 20’s. Only last year at 29 did I stop working fly in/fly out and come back home full time.
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Who cares what Turdeau thinks of Alberta. Alberta will start doing what Alberta wants, more and more in the coming years.
 
Entering my final semester of college for a double major I never utilized.
 
Preparing to resign from a job working at a college on a project, to go backpacking for 6months. Resigned on the first day back after the Christmas/NY break.
 
therealdope said:
Who cares what Turdeau thinks of Alberta. Alberta will start doing what Alberta wants, more and more in the coming years.
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Blows my mind that some people in Alberta do not support that bill. How? I’m not an albertan but my sympathy is with them as they get disrespected, mocked and stiffed for 50+ years while having their money stolen from them.

Canada oil and gas will only prosper when a government is elected that doesn’t show the highest level of hatred for the industry. Some of these clowns need to wake up and realize we’re in a global energy crisis and virtue signalling does nothing. You can promise Germany all the future hydrogen you want to but they need LNG and they need it now. We could easily crush russia if we had have developed our own industry further instead of crushing it.

Absolutely moronic. I love seeing alberta stick it to the federal government. If my life wasn’t here east, in my own little rural paradise, I would load my truck, head back out and stay there. It’s nice to be surrounded by people who want to work and prosper instead of people who are just content with doing the bare minimum to get by.
 
Just turned 40. Life started to come together, first house and nice car purchase on the same day.
 
Was 29
Unemployed, doing bunch of legal or not crap one-shot jobs to get some money, close to become alcoholic, angry, still at home with parents because no money, relationship slowly going toward breakup, occasionally returned to hang with old neighborhood people

Life did a 180° at 31
Now it's far from perfect or flawless, but holy fuck if we are far from 2012 (and worse, 2013)
 
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