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Jetfire March 14th, 2016 7:05 PM

What's your greatest accomplishment?
 
I'm a very goal orientated person and I love hearing accomplishments.

Whether it's personal, academic, financial, professional, health, fitness, etc.. Name away your greatest achievements!

JJ Styles March 14th, 2016 7:10 PM

I won't be saying any gaming achievements because there's a subforum for that but I'll fire some shots.

Well, I don't claim myself to be intellectual, heck I consider myself a borderline mix between a lazy scumbag and a tactical genius, but I recently got dean's list GPA a few terms ago and i was so happy about it since I was never the student who could get honors during grade school and high school. I always thought that i could do well academically if i focus hard, while still popping domes in League.

Also, surviving obesity and overcoming it during my grade school years.

killer-curry March 14th, 2016 8:53 PM

Staying alive for 17 years.

Sothis March 14th, 2016 8:55 PM

Graduated college twice on the honor roll :>

gimmepie March 14th, 2016 8:57 PM

I'm not really sure, I've done a lot of things but I've never been a huge achiever I guess? I suppose my greatest achievement was probably the charity show I put together a few years ago. I did a lot of the choreography for dance acts from my studio and most of the behind the scenes planning. We ended up raising about $3000 dollars for orphans in Burma and I'm hoping to do bigger and better shows for other charities in the future.

Crystal Berry March 16th, 2016 12:40 AM

As stupid and terrible as this probably sounds my greatest accomplishment in my opinion would be when I got my entire table at the school cafeteria to laugh at my jokes, so loud that it was crazy. x)

But now I'm dead inside because I miss the memories and my friends. Q_Q

pkmin3033 March 16th, 2016 9:30 AM

My degrees. 1st Class Honours in undergrad and Merit in postgrad respectively. The latter was substantially harder (mostly because I had to write a 15k dissertation largely unsupervised) but I found the former more satisfying at the end of it, strangely.

Of everything in my life, those are the only things I will very happily boast about. It's been five years since my undergrad and I still feel awesome for having finished it with that result. So yeah. Easily those.

Kikaito plush March 16th, 2016 10:37 AM

Giving birth to a baby girl

NightKrow March 16th, 2016 10:44 AM

Has to be getting invited for interview by Oxford University. That's an achievement in itself, but for someone as awkward and introverted as myself to get through it without feeling too bad about how I'd done, it's amazing.

I didn't get a place at the end of it all, but we don't talk about that. I'm probably going to go to Bath University instead, depending on how my exams go.

starseed galaxy auticorn March 16th, 2016 2:23 PM

Becoming a writer. The reason I think this is because writing has helped me discover myself as I grew older. I've learned that with it, I can express myself in ways that many people would never realize. I'm not exactly the greatest writer, but I do feel it's a great accomplishment of mine in becoming one though.

Arylett Charnoa March 16th, 2016 2:44 PM

Not losing my mind.

No seriously, I am proud of that. I'm not joking at all.

The things I have been through... the clusterfuck of feelings my own mind has put me through... it has been more than I can properly explain. I lived most of my life this way, watching friendship after friendship dissolve into a horrid fight, or disappear completely out of nowhere, and having my family only discourage and make me feel even more powerless. No help, no medicine, no counseling for most of my years in this existence. All of that was a scant years ago.

Constant mental breakdowns, some minor, some really damn intense... and somehow, I couldn't manage to kill myself. I just kept going. Somehow, even with no life or hope in sight. No skills, and no way to navigate this world.

Then things slowly got better. I got my medicine and my therapy. I used my ability to speak here to find someone who could help me live. Mentally and financially. It doesn't seem like a big deal to others, but it is to me. The fact that I could be good enough for such a person, and the fact that I could survive up until I met him... it is amazing to think about. I was so awesome that someone was willing to guarantee my future, to work to support me... wow. He cares about me that much. I must've done something right. I even made him happier, I opened him up, I gave him something he never had before. A true friend. I consider that a huge accomplishment too.

I'm still unstable. Not as much as I was before, but I continue to fight. Every day is a testament to my achievement. Because every day, I have to restrain these poisonous emotions. Every time I laugh, or manage to shake off a bout of intense anxiety, anger, or sadness... I know I'm strong. I may not be able to work, or ever truly achieve a more conventional goal (I still strive to become a great artist though, and to also finish my story I've been working on forever. I have ambition, guys!), but I can still survive and be happy. And to me, that means more than anything.

curiousnathan March 16th, 2016 5:06 PM

I scored in the top 1% of my state in year 12, and now I'm studying in the best and (arguably) the hardest course in Melbourne. :)

Treecko March 16th, 2016 5:51 PM

Honestly, the highest thing I've achieved was making it through high school and getting my required 12 years of education. I had a lot of struggles throughout high school to even pass my classes, arrive to school on time, and to do my school work and almost didn't pass so I say that's a high accomplishment.

Somewhere_ March 17th, 2016 12:29 PM

Probably my pottery club. We make ceramics bowls to sell and give the money to a local charity- we just made a partnership with the charity and we may hold events together. I just raised over $500 for charity for our first event! Next year I hope we grow because we have had a lot of setbacks this year, and started very late.

Nolafus March 18th, 2016 12:45 AM

These questions are always hard for me since I don't really keep tabs on big things I've done.

One would probably be my first novel attempt. It wasn't all that good, but I proved to myself that I could stay dedicated to a story and write it out. Getting started on a novel is the easy part. Actually continuing once the initial excitement is done is so tough because you get to a point where you swear you have nothing left for this idea, but if you continue past that point, you start to get your momentum back. Completing that first idea gave me the confidence to give this writing thing a real shot.

Another one would probably be dropping out of college. Not exactly the proudest moment of my life at a glance, but it was the first time I actually stood up to my parents and did something for myself. I had spent my entire life pleasing other people and trying to be this perfect child, and dropping out after my second quarter was the moment I decided that I was someone worth fighting for, and I've never looked back and regretted it.

Aslan March 18th, 2016 2:42 AM

Being accepted into one of the best high schools in the state and getting offered an interview for a scholarship are two accomplishments I'm very proud of. I'm also proud of myself for managing to getting through some of the rougher parts of my life and becoming much more confident and outgoing around other people as of recently. :)

Charlie Brown March 18th, 2016 2:54 AM

Last year I was 19 and State Manager for the world's largest youth-run NGO which was pretty cool! Ran and facilitated at conferences for 200 people, led heaps of organisational development and expansions in the country, fun times fun times! The other day I was sitting in a lecture and this person came and sat next to me and said that she recognised me from one of the seminars I ran and that she went to Argentina to volunteer with my organisation and loved it and I was like aksjdfh it's so trippy getting recognised by randoms on-campus haha.

Margot March 20th, 2016 2:28 PM

I had a lot going on with my life, both personally & health wise, my final couple years of undergrad. But I managed to graduate with my BA all while working almost full time and taking the highest amount of credits you can take a quarter. I also had a full-time job secured before graduating which I was really proud about.

Also, even with really bad anxiety, I gave a debate in front of over 100 people for the 2008 Presidential election my senior year of high school. I didn't stutter over my words, forget my talking points, or anything. I got an A :)


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