In further search of distraction (see other thread), I ask... what achievement are you proud of? What is it that you think you can actually tell people about and have them think it's quite funky/cool/impressive? I myself am quite a negative person (read: often quite down), but I suppose there are still some things that I can say I've achieved. On the other hand, what are you ashamed of? What do you hate telling people about? What opportunities did you mess up (not pass up) completely and shame yourself while doing so? 1) Skipped two grades in school- Back in the day when teachers thought I was gifted, they suddenly put me up two grades in primary school. Of course, I cried the first day and I later got held back at the American School of the Hague due to not speaking English but whatever! 2) I had trials at professional football (soccer) clubs when I was 12-13. I had worked really hard on my game, training and playing every single day. Gave up a lot of other things for it and it made me happy. Had to move to Houston so nothing ever came of my favourite game. I guess lack of any exceptional talent also explains this. 3) Studied at one of the top 5 (read: number 5!!) Business Schools in Europe. Of course, that being only for one year before dropping out! Am now at Edinburgh University, that being in the top 10, UK. 4) Been asked to model by a few agencies and will probably do some during the summer if time allows it (busy with university work and trying to shed additional few pounds!). I guess this isn't really an "achievement", but I guess it's quite cool. This doesn't say much anyway, as people sometimes go for weird or unique looks in addition to the run of the mill good looking but oh well. I also still want to puke when looking in the mirror and haven't told friends about it. Lol. 5) Knowing three languages (fluent in vocab and accent) and learning a fourth. I guess I've always been quite good at learning new languages (English is not my first language), and moving around a lot during my childhood also helped. I never really knew this was exceptional till people seemed shocked at this. I guess these aren't amazing achievements, I suppose I could do worse. I haven't often "gone" for things either, a lot of things just fell into my lap or I just got along with me doing something that I either do/did naturally or enjoyed doing. That's what I hate about myself, I need to go for things more, have more goals to achieve. Looking back on my relatively short life I haven't done anything at all and it's scary. Hardly ever do things to help others in a big way, etc. I know a lot of you guys can easily do better so give it a shot and post! Bad stuff: 1) Back in high school, I kinda didn't treat a girl very nicely. Went on a date with her, she called me her boyfriend. She started to like me quite a bit, and seeing that this was the first girl I had ever dated in my life (I was 17, shy, late bloomer, etc) I didn't know how to deal with it. Next thing I know, I haven't called her for weeks and just don't say anything while I'm fully knowing of the fact that she thinks I'm her so- called boyfriend. The next year at school, I don't talk to her or look her in the eye in the hallways. I'm still quite annoyed at myself about that. 2) Basically almost failed this year of university. After having thrown away a year, spending a lot of money which was hard earned by my parents, I almost wasted another one. I'm still trying to salvage it through work during the summer. 3) Wasting money. This is seriously a bad habit I developed over the past year. I have put myself into so much debt, it's quite incredible. I hardly have time to try and make money and do work for university. Doing work which will pay for little would mean going to London or something and I just can't do that right now as I have to do summer university work here. I have learned a lot from this, yet I'm still trying to get out of my problems!! 4) Going further than I would want to with a girl. I got drunk for the first and only time and pulled a girl, took her to my flat where she proceeded to undress herself. We did very limited "stuff" but I didn't sleep with her. When she took her clothes off, I pretty much became an ******* thinking only of himself and kicked her out of my flat by throwing all her clothes back at her. I then also walked away to the bathroom where I proceeded to ponder my doings. Not only had I broken my own moral code, I had also embarrassed someone else completely after only caring about that very thing and nothing else. As a Christian I was kicking myself for a long time and it took a while to get over it. 5) Making fun of someone so much during early High School that I had to be called in by the principal. Turned out he was mentally not too stable and suffered from several things. He was very traumatized by it all because he felt I was one of his only friends in school I felt quite bad, as I found so many things I said and made fun of were actually linked to some of the things he suffered from. For example, he had a problem with his arm. It made him look quite gay (I don't really appreciate gay men that are over the top effeminate) so I made fun of it without realising he couldn't really do anything about it. That's something that also confuses me. People make fun of those who are bad at sports, kinda stupid, and other things and it is perfectly acceptable. It only stops when being bad at sports is due to a handicap or when being stupid is actually due to the person having a mental deficiency. Hmmm... I think these are the worst things I've done. I guess by comparison to some people it's not much, but I'm never the type to do things in a big way. I'm too reserved. So when taking that into account maybe it counts for more due to circumstance. Also, a wrong is a wrong in the end. Oh well, you learn from your mistakes. Anyway, carry on...!!! I know I've rambled quite a bit and maybe gone a bit too deep into analysing my own character while doing this (I sware it started off as a short list-type post!!). I have been awake for more than three days. Sue me.
This is rich. Very rich. Where does one start? This sub bullet alone contains enough material for a 3 page thread. 1) You've only been drunk once in your life? Well, it's no friggin wonder you've done so much stuff. Without alcohol in my life, I think I'd have racked up a few Nobels by now. 2) You are drunk, a naked chick is in your apartment, and this causes you to want to throw her clothes back at her? Let me give you some deep psychological insight: This is not normal. 3) What did you do in the bathroom while pondering? 4) How was the moral code broken? Drinking? Foreplay? Not getting it on? The bathroom incident?
Proud: Graduating HS, studying diligently so hopefully I can get into college, sticking with my girlfriend through tough times, re-committing myself to virginity until marriage when I was 18. Ashamed: Not trying in school, having one-night stands, ever trying drugs, Never caring about anything most of my childhood I pretty much regret most of my life. Sad, but I learn from my mistakes.
I was actually thinking you might respond to that! For some strange reason, I actually still hold to the romantic idea of find "the one" and all further rubbish which comes from that idea. I guess from that also comes my want to not have sex before getting married, keeping things not done with girls until I find someone special. It's each to their own sometimes, and this is one thing I know is sometimes very unique to me. Believe me, I was ashamed of myself for throwing her clothes back at her as for her it would be perfectly normal and not wrong to want to have sex. For me, however, I did it in disgust of my own actions without thinking of her side. I thought I could hold to my ideal of not having sex before marriage yet I had come so close to not keeping by it. I was selfish in the way that I only thought of what was particular to me and not of her. While in the bathroom I only thought of what had happened during the night. I think I was sobering up by then and so therefore was trying to think what had led to the entire situation. Sorry if you don't consider my actions as normal! Yeah, I have only been drunk once in my life (20 now) and don't actually have much to show for it in terms of achievement instead of being drunk... so I guess I lose on both counts.
He got drunk and almost had sex outside marriage. If he's a Christian, obviously he broke his moral code. I wish I had your past, Ace.
Man, how tough do you find it to stick to that? I find it extremely difficult to 1) resist temptation and 2) explain to others why I'm still so "naive" (as they call it).
whoa... nice thread for another saturday night alone drinking citrus smirnoff and orange crush soda. let me finish a few off and i'll respond back. seems to work for mickey b.
Hmmm, there's not much I'm proud of about myself... Biggest thing would probably be losing 80 pounds between the ages of 17-19. However, I've got some big regrets from the past year: - Put back on 50 of said tonnage after becoming a lazy slob after knee surgery. - Completely wasted the past year. Didn't work much, ****ed off at school, didn't produce, and leeched off parents. - Being such a slut a few months ago. I shall spare you the details. - and my biggest flaw: chronic procrastination But I'll pick myself back up. Part of the problem was depression, but there's been stuff that put my pissant little worries in perspective.
damn. here we go again. depression is a muth, eh anti? i'm like an "advice god" or something because i'm good at helping others out except for myself (and i desperately need it)... soooooo, i'll refrain. wish ya the best with the weight thing, if losing it will really make you happy. normally i'd say that life's too short to deal with such trivial issues, but hell... who am i to talk? i've been 6'1" and 155 (crackhead skinny) for the past six years (since i was 18), so i don't know what it's like walking in your shoes. again... "as long as you are happy" and ok with your weight, then f**k everybody else.
That's the funny thing, when I was at my lightest the depression was at its worst. Major confidence issues and whatnot... Now I'm just pissed that none of my clothes fit anymore. Thanks for the support man! fade- LOL! That one's awesome! A winner is you!
one of the best ever, fadeaway... seriously. mike tyson's punchout was probably the best sports game ever made. memories.... sigh and you incorporated yoyao into it? instant classic! EDIT: that is mike tyson's punchout... right? don't want to lose any of my "child of the 80s points".
Yep. After the whole rape scandal they remade the game replacing Tyson with some dude named Mr. Dream. I grew up playing the original, though.
Oh my god, if I NEVER see another YoYao photoshop again, I will die a happy man after seeing this one! LMAO!!! Mike Tyson's Punchout rules....In fact, try to hang out with a bunch of guys in college without having a conversation that inevitably merges into talk about that game or Tecmo Bowl. Impossible.
fadeaway, if there was a section devoted to all-time best posts, your's above would be in it. freakin hilarious.
Proud of: 1. Been #1 in class for two year and plan to keep it for another two. Pretty good considering my school thought I'd be a drop out in 1st grade since I couldn't cut, color or paste. Well, I SHOWED THEM! 2. Haven't done any drugs...granted, I'm only 16, but I know plenty of kids my age who can't say this, unfortunately. 3. Quit drinking sodas, namely RC Cola, and have stuck to only water for over a year now. Plan on keeping it. And according to the hangover thread, if I ever get one, my fondness of water should help relieve pain. 3-4 glasses of water would be nothing for me. 4. Can't think of much else, so I'll just say that Rockets are pretty much undefeated, IIRC, when I attend a game, including the one where the snapped that long losing streak 2 years ago. That was all me, not the play of the Rockets. I haven't really had much stuff I'm not proud of. But I'll try to put something down: 1. I'm kind of lazy sometimes. EX: My coach wants everyone to go to the weight room everyday this summer. I have gone 0 times. Though I have been playing basketball everyday, just about. 2. I didn't watch the Rockets when they won their championships. 3. Uh...I'm a Cowboys fan. Maybe Parcells can change this up this year. Since I'm pretty young still, there's no telling how much stuff I could put here in a few years, though hopefully it would all be good.
Well I'm too to do anything.....but I just want to say that you have a lot of proud stuff to be proud of Ace. And your #4 ashamed thingy is odd.
Not very proud of: My mentallity during my 3 marriages...married because someone loved me, not because I loved them. I'm lazy as hell when it comes to me. I still smoke. Proud of: Ever since I acknowledged God in my life I don't rush into love anymore, and have been single for a very long time. I give 110% to clients, bosses, friends, strangers, etc. Although I smoke, I've run many triathlons and marathons in my mid 30s. RR
