What makes you proud?
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- I very literally survived the baby years of my son without killing myself or him, and now I'm still here. And that also means that I get to see the cool little boy that he's become, and that I get to tell me I helped make due to my efforts.
- I learned to whistle with fingers in mouth, which makes a) for a very loud whistle and b) me fell unreasonably proud and manly.
- I managed to buy a pretty run down house with my wife and we've rebuilt a huge part of it, so it can be a home for our family. I've leaned a shitton of things that I never thought I could do, and some that I never wanted to learn. And it have me a great excuse to buy all kinds of tools that I've always wanted but never needed. Like, I even own an old-timey scythe and 2 axes. \o/
- I was recently voted staff council member (which, yeah, k), and after that, several colleages, some of which I barely know, came up to me to tell me they were glass I made or, because they liked my style of working.
- I managed to raise a puppy without having him starve to death because I was an unresponsively piece of shit, and I was rewarded with my soul dog and just a very, very good girl in general.
- I was able to make some modernizing changes in IT at work, and that's even though I'm in public service, where things move with the swiftness of tar.
- I recently was able to set a border with someone on something I didn't want to do anymore. It was a small thing, but felt big for me.
- I recently passed my chainsaws license, so now I'm allowed to fell trees in public woods. Again, totally unreasonably proud and manly.
- I can back up my little trailer almost all the way into or long and narrow driveway. Not all the way yet, but someday.
Thank you for asking, that was actually a wonderful way to start my morning to early.
You can be proud for instilling that feeling in people, or at the very least in me.What about you, @TehBamski, what else are you proud of?
Great diatribe.
Seems like that's how it should be. Humans aren't weak. We're fucking amazingly strong... And you're proving it. Every bullet point, I was like "Yup."
Im proud. You should get more verification, but sounds like you're too busy dealing with the shit. Good on ya. You're amazing. Id like to know how it turns out.
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How resilient I've proven to be. I feel like I've been held down all my life but I got a college degree and now I'm going back for another one. I owe a lot of it to new family members.
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How resilient I've proven to be. I feel like I've been held down all my life but I got a college degree and now I'm going back for another one. I owe a lot of it to new family members.
Well shit, you should be proud.
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I rode my bike three times today. Once for fun, once to go get groceries (cargo bike), and once to go to the store again because I forgot something. Then I made a nice fire in the firepit with this lovely hardwood we got from a house around the corner who was giving it away and flame grilled some steak and peppers, onions and squash. It was delicious.
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Can't say enough good things about the Wild Robot books.
They might be interested in that, we just watched the movie.
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I'm proud of how I handled my anger over current events.
I got sick of just complaining on the internet and feeling powerless, so I volunteered for town government. It's an unelected position, unpaid, but it's in something I'm passionate about. It's tedious and slow, but we're making incremental changes to make things better. I have real influence now on my immediate area and it's helping me keep my sanity(?).
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Writing free software that makes people happy, cooking food for free that makes people happy, helping people to preserve their freedom through privacy, using their rights, getting away from harmful relationships.
In short, helping people does.
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Actually this question comes in handy for me. I really need to acknowledge my efforts more. So let's see:
- Called in sick today. Did not risk that for more than a year, because of anxiety to loose my job. Acknowledged today that atm I need this physically and mentally, could literally not work because of exhaustion.
- Made some really nice progress in therapy in the last few months.
- Even if I am under (in my eyes) a lot of pressure I march on.
- Other than work I take mostly good care of my health.
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they mean a netflix marathon
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Still happy to make it to work.
38 years on the "boo boo bus" (ambulance). I'm hoping to last until I make it 50 years.
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When I see my friends, coworkers, neighbors, community, etc just being awesome to each other. Just little stuff like letting someone else have the last slice of cake, giving someone the rest of the jug of wiper fluid after filling up, returning their carts, apologizing for interrupting or bumping into someone, preventing someone from getting scammed, etc.
