Yes it's a VERY difficult question to answer, but also a very good and interesting one.
1999
This was probably the most defining and exciting year for me, lots happened all at the same time that year. I left senior school, I was heavy into Playstation and N64 which I loved, I'd started at the gym with my dad which I really ****ing loved, used to think I was Arnold :lol: .. pay-g mobiles were suddenly a thing, it was a craze that I loved being part of, I always loved the idea of new technologies emerging, it felt futuristic and exciting to get my first mobile phone just like my mates have. This year we entered the world of the internet with our very first family shared PC, and for the bargain price of only £1000 there was only one PC in the house, not 3 or 3 like today. Star Wars Episode 1 hype!!!, need I say more. I started at some bullshit generic college for losers for some 'extra learning' and job opportunities. Was only there for 6 months, it felt kinda just like school but where you could do whatever the hell you wanted ( within reason ), WE got paid £40 a week to attend as an incentive, so I had my first actual beer and fag money for the first time ever, oh yeah it was also the year I started drinking ( properly ) and going to my local pubs. That whole college period was a fun time, I had a laugh there with some good new mates who I'd met, hanging around, talking cars & computers, listening to music, playing pool, it was great. This year I'd also both been with and split up with my first serious girlfriend, was madly in love for 6 months then she split up with me and I felt devastated which was the first time I'd ever experienced that, that 6 months was great. Then right near the end of this year I left the college course and started in my very first properly employed job at a supermarket part-time, £2.20 an hour now we're ****ing talking :lol: .. I felt somewhat independent for the first time in my life, making my own money and being able to actually buy things that I like. This year I also turned 16 just before the new year, which as we all know was also the millennium new years eve. This was the time where I knew the most people in my life, not only did I have all the friends from my own school but I also knew everyone from my best mate's school too from hanging around with him and his mates. On new years eve with us all being only young there was around 100+ of us all out on the streets drinking and celebrating and it was excellent, witnessing at midnight what was the most amount of ****ing fireworks I'd ever seen in my entire life lol.