What accomplishment are you most proud of?

What accomplishment are you most proud of?​


I was about 25 and walking along the seafront, when I heard a woman screaming.
I was only about 20 feet away, but could see that the pram with her baby in it was rolling down a slope into the sea.
I ran after the pram and retrieved it and the baby from the water, and the mum, crying, explained that she had just come out of hospital after surgery on one of her legs and couldn't run after her child, but the gratitude pouring out of that young womans face I'll never forget.

I never, ever saw that young woman again.
 
I see this is an old revived 2023 thread.

As someone with a significant list of impressive accomplishments, I have no interest in exposing many of them to the general public that would otherwise affect the way others treat me on a community web board like this. In other words, I prefer anonymity.
 
David777 said:
I see this is an old revived 2023 thread.

As someone with a significant list of impressive accomplishments, I have no interest in exposing many of them to the general public that would otherwise affect the way others treat me on a community web board like this. In other words, I prefer anonymity.
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you know what David unless you're going to tell us your the secret King of England or the secret President of the USA... or that you gave birth to sextuplets I doubt that you will be treated any different on the forum...admired possibly, treated differently? no...
 
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B...those were major accomplishments! Bless you heart for saving those children. That they felt comfortable enough with you to tell you speaks volumes about who you are. Some children don't even tell their parents because they feel they can't!

My biggest accomplishments were;
~Raising a great son who is a good man, mostly as a single mother.
~Elevating myself within the office where I worked for 28 years, to ultimately be able to retire early from a career in public health.
~Releasing two self produced, multi-genre albums of original music. One in 2003 the other in 2024.
It is important to note that I received encouragement and help with each of those accomplishments.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
B...those were major accomplishments! Bless you heart for saving those children. That they felt comfortable enough with you to tell you speaks volumes about who you are. Some children don't even tell their parents because they feel they can't!

My biggest accomplishments were;
~Raising a great son who is a good man, mostly as a single mother.
~Elevating myself within the office where I worked for 28 years, to ultimately be able to retire early from a career in public health.
~Releasing two self produced, multi-genre albums of original music. One in 2003 the other in 2024.
It is important to note that I received encouragement and help with each of those accomplishments.
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The children confided in me because I treated them as people worthy of being listened to. Too often I see adults ignoring their children when the child has something to tell them.
Children learn very quickly under those circumstances where mum and dad continually are telling them to "Be quite"
I know no adult wanted to listen to me when I was a child. They wanted no part of what I had to say, even though the majority of them knew there were gross shenanigans going on.
Adults did not want to get involved. Stay out of other's "family business"
 
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Bretrick said:
The children confided in me because I treated them as people worthy of being listened to. Too often I see adults ignoring their children when the child has something to tell them.
Children learn very quickly under those circumstances where mum and dad continually are telling them to "Be quite"
I know no adult wanted to listen to me when I was a child. They wanted no part of what I had to say, even though the majority of them knew there were gross shenanigans going on.
Adults did not wat to get involved. Stay out of other's "family business"
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Sadly, you are so right in too many instances! Worse yet, I've heard about too many time when parents or a parent knew about the molestation and did nothing!
 
I've quit smoking and drinking. I got a values in action award from work. I've survived two divorces and managed to make it on my own. I'm an abuse survivor (not the violent kind) but may have well been. I showed up every day and went through all the bs to work through covid in the hospital kitchen. I bought my first car by myself (despite it being a lemon). I have lived with Tourette Syndrome since I was 9 yrs old and managed to have a decent enough life.
 
Fritz said:
I've quit smoking and drinking. I got a values in action award from work. I've survived two divorces and managed to make it on my own. I'm an abuse survivor (not the violent kind) but may have well been. I showed up every day and went through all the bs to work through covid in the hospital kitchen. I bought my first car by myself (despite it being a lemon). I have lived with Tourette Syndrome since I was 9 yrs old and managed to have a decent enough life.
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((you))..and me ..and everone who survived abuse, and didn't resort to crime.... ... are super heroes ....and we should be rightly proud of ourselves 🤗
 
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I'm proud of myself for raising my daughter alone from when she was the age of 8... I'm not proud I've been divorced twice, but proud of myself that I didn't stoop to the low lying tactics the exes used to cause the end of the marriages....or the same lies they used to try and avoid paying alimony....and I'm proud of myself how I dealt with lawyers for 4 years all by myself

I'm proud that I survived childhood abuse ..

I'm proud that I'm a survivor, and have proved that once again at age 70, by surviving a Multi roll over car crash...


I'm proud that I dealt with lawyers all through the pain of my recovery when dealing with the denials of the 3rd party who caused the collision


..and I'm proud that in the last 6 weeks since my divorce I've managed to do much of this including "'burying'' one car and going out to buy a new car all by myself...

I'm giving myself a well deserved Pat On the Back!(y):love:
 
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Bretrick said:
I feel so sad for the children. So often, they are threatened by the perpetrator not to tell that they live in fear.
I suppose these children trusted me because I listened to them and reassured them that the bad person will never touch them again.
Having been in that situation myself I know how best to approach such an issue.
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I have heard that is why children are given anatomically correct dolls so that they can show what happened. This is pretty nifty because they don't break the not tell promise but they can show you exactly what happened.
 
jimintoronto said:
I got my driving license at age 17, in 1966. Fifty seven years later, I have yet to fill out an accident report. Over two million miles of accident free driving of cars, vans, transit buses, Ambulances, tractor trailers, and military tracked vehicles in all types of weather, here in Canada. I was a licensed driving instructor/examiner for Metro Toronto Ambulance for 6 years. Every person who was hired by the department had to pass my driving testing before they could drive any department vehicle. I failed some people because they were not capable of driving properly, despite the fact that they were medically qualified as a Paramedic. Jimb.
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You aren’t one of those guys that drive 10 miles an hour below the speed limit, are you? Those drivers don’t have accidents, they cause accidents. I was with the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) for 37 years and never had an accident, except for the PIT maneuvers I had to make. They work, but it’s difficult to avoid having damage. Sometimes, my vehicle had only slight damage and a few times, the vehicle had more damage. It really depended on the speed we were going.

PIT= Precision Immobilization Technique
 
What I am most proud of is that I managed to stop drinking alcohol at the age of twenty two, never touched another drop.

That resulted in the end of several generations of alcohol abuse, not only did it better my life but it improved the lives of those around me because I became a role model of accomplishment. I will state as fact that most of the other things I am proud of in my life probably wouldn't have happened if I hadn't stopped drinking.
 
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You aren’t one of those guys that drive 10 miles an hour below the speed limit, are you? Those drivers don’t have accidents, they cause accidents. I was with the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) for 37 years and never had an accident, except for the PIT maneuvers I had to make. They work, but it’s difficult to avoid having damage. Sometimes, my vehicle had only slight damage and a few times, the vehicle had more damage. It really depended on the speed we were going.

PIT= Precision Immobilization Technique
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I've watched those PIT manoeuvers many times on Youtbe carried out by the US plice.... it's an astonishing , and brave thing to do.... and altho' the UK police have indeed carried out PIT manoeuvers, they only do it fractionally compared to the US because our roads are very narrow generally speaking, just enough space for 2 way cars, so the likelihood of killing innocent people use the PIT would be very high...
 
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David777 said:
I see this is an old revived 2023 thread.

As someone with a significant list of impressive accomplishments, I have no interest in exposing many of them to the general public that would otherwise affect the way others treat me on a community web board like this. In other words, I prefer anonymity.
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Okay, but it's not necessary to announce you've chosen not to participate in a thread.
 

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