Counter to the insecurity thread, what about yourself are you proud of? I am proud of being on the taller side, and having a remarkably deep voice which often shocks people. I additionally am glad that I was raised by very loving, well-off parents who raised me with a strong sense of social justice and pragmatism.
Awesome thread! We could always use more positivity in here :) I’m proud of being an avid reader from childhood all the way to adulthood, which has allowed me to pick up a wide range of vocabulary along the way so I could communicate my thoughts eloquently. I’m also proud of my ability to hear multiple “layers” in music while listening, allowing me to appreciate songs in depth.
I'm a pretty good hobbyist cook and a pretty good hobbyist artist. I think I treat my close friends very well and do a good job cultivating trust and an atmosphere of openness with them.
It's funny, I'm tempted to "balance" the positives by giving caveats or other, negative traits -- an unproductive temptation I think.
I like your thread idea. :)
These days I am somewhat proud of being able to make and unmake myself in extensive ways, ship of Theseus style. I didn't think it was possible.
People seem to find me kind and well meaning.
I can fly and hover. I’ve never shown anyone, but I can do it.
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My degree, though it's not very lucrative and didn't give me good career prospects.
I'm also pretty proud of my degree even though it was actually not very hard. But I think my dissertation was a good piece of work.
What was your degree in?
>>1620
My degree, though it's not very lucrative and didn't give me good career prospects.
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I'm also pretty proud of my degree even though it was actually not very hard. But I think my dissertation was a good piece of work.
What was your degree in?
Ha! I had actually never considered before I could be proud of my degree.
I'm good at making people feel good about themselves. Also setting a fun and high-energy mood in social enviroments
I try to be a decent human being every day.
I strive to educate myself as much as I can, and avoid discussing things I don't know a lot about.
I've got the habit of reading a little bit of everything since I was a teen. At least it has opened my mind and made me more emphatic, I think.
Naturally copper orange hair and blue eyes.
Im proud I have survived this long if I'm being honest because to this day I have not broken my moral boundaries since establishing them as an innocent child. I cannot lie, I hate fat people. I grew up around hearing ideas that you go to college to make money, but I always held the belief that you need to make money to go to college. I am now 28 and having turned my life-long hobby into a second income and have now turned that second income into something primary and am finally on the verge of becoming a business owner. I hate California and want to leave. And then finally I can fulfill my burning desire to know and I will attend every college course until I die expanding myself into infinity
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I wrote five works of personal social philosophy in the span of seven years, which began on a blogger blog.
>>2073I left my shitty job to get my Master’s and become a writer. I have not regretted it for a second, even though I’m poor now lmao
Writing regularly is one of the rare things in my life that generates pride.
I am proud I have made it to where I am. I'm getting a master's in a field I care about (though probably will not work in) and am cultivating a deeper appreciation for nature, art, and literature. Much better than being the wallowing depressive gooner degenerate I was a few years ago (I am 22).
Things aren't the best, but they have been and are improving.
i've made a lot of mistakes but also in high school i helped some teachers set up cardboard boxes for paper recycling at my school, which just didn't recycle paper at all. after that other kids volunteered to make it a real program and it got in the local newspaper and everyone got a certificate.
From experience, I know exactly what kind of person I am when things get crazy. I've gotten good at disassociating from a situation enough to stay capable of making rational decisions extremely quickly, and I have a disastrously unshakeable moral compass, even at my own expense.
I genuinely attribute half of this to playing a ton of Escape From Tarkov, as stupid as that sounds. But I'm basing the claim on real life.
I'm very glad I never had a tendency to follow social trends, even since I was a toddler. I'm currently working on getting my shit together but overall I know that I have the privilege of having stood for my beliefs the majority of the time and more importantly, never forfeited my dignity. I feel like having a high level of integrity is one of the most if not the most important element of having a strong sense of identity overall, but it's not given nearly as much importance as it should. I know many people irl whose main issue in my opinion is this one, and many of their problems would pretty much sort themselves out if they actually thought about the things they've been taught to value, and whether they should keep doing that or shift that focus towards something more meaningful.
This little fella was dying on my bathroom floor, but I nurtured it back to health and released it the next day :)
I'm also a straight A student, but that has given me far less joy (and more grey hairs)