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 wat to get involved. Stay out of other's "family business"
 
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.
 

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