Post Your Success Stories!

[Narz]

With all the fear and worry in the world I figured it'd be refreshing to start a thread where people could post their success stories. Doesn't matter how big or how small your achievement, how brief or lasting, just share, it pays to focus on the positive for a change.

Tell us how you landed the job or got the girl or saved Christmas, whatever. I feel like being inspired.

Oh yeah, by the way, I came to a realization (really something I around knew but didn't think about), that everyone is just doing the best they can, everyone's got different views and philosophy but in the end they are all just trying to live life the best they know how. So if you really want to talk about philosophy or ideals or the "right" way to go about life, tell it through examples of success in your own life.

Also, if you want you can tell about a success of someone you know personally also.

- Narz

 

[napoleon526]

Don't have any outstanding successes so far...

 

[cgannon64]

I won a silver medal in at the city level for the Scholastic Writing Awards last year for a science fiction short story I wrote. It was pretty much about the personal effects that cloning could have. It was pretty cool. I didn't enter this year; not enough time. I became kind of discouraged from writing last year when I lost my ENTIRE story collection. About 20 stories gone, maybe 100 pages worth of work down the drain. I'm going to start again, though, I miss it.

I didn't get the girl lately - in fact I lost her - but that's a whole other thread.

 

[gael]

This is a bit of soppy one.

My biggest success has most definitely been landing my girlfriend that I'v had for the past 2 and a half years.

Before i met her I was all ideas and no action.
Shes a true inspiration.

 

[Narz]

Thats cool Gael! Having a supportive girlfriend really makes a big difference. Where'd you meet her?

 

[andrewgprv]

I'd say my biggest success was breaking out of my childhood brainwashing and conditoning and finnally accepting myself.

I grew up in a strict mormon household. I went to church every sunday and to church activities on wednesdays and tuesdays it was the church run boy scouts. My parents were both very religous as well as my neighborhood, my city and state. I lived in a mormon world, an ultra-conservative bubble. In my youth I was taught great virtues like chairty and responsibility but I also was taught thinkgs like those who are not of my faith are bound to hell, and atheists are Satan's minoions, that sex before marrage was a horrid crime and Gays are equal with murders. I grew up in this weird perception of reality for 16 years. It was all around me it was all I knew. It was ingrained into my head from infancy. I like my peers followed blindly accpeting what I had been taught. Eventually though being the inquisative person I am I questioned things, and thank God I did. Eventually my questions found answers I didn't like and eventually after a couple years of mental turmoil I accepted to myself that my church was not the one true church of God. And only a few months later I was able to break free of years of denial and self-loathing and accept the fact I was gay. Now I live with the man I love and I am no longer a member of the mormon church and life couldn't be better.

 

[gael]

Originally posted by Narz
Thats cool Gael! Having a supportive girlfriend really makes a big difference. Where'd you meet her?

A couple of my mates spotted her and her mate at a club. I was the only one with a flat, so they invited them back to my place for a party. Her mate was a bit of a pig, so while they walked a head of us, we debated who was going to 'get' here.
I was so drunk it took me about 15 minutes to open the door.


I made her laugh.
Apparently it works.


True romance.

 

[philippe]

great story andrew and im very happy for you
my succes story:
I was the boxing bag of school,nobody cared about me
I couldnt take it anymore and i ran away from school only to return back with a greater fury then i ever had,i stormed to a random person and punched him so hard he needed to go to the hospital,i did tehn several attacks on everyone before being stopped by like 10-15 men.
since then i became hard,tougher,with news of my mothers deadly sickness i became even harder,and since now i am relatively popular

 

[EzInKy]

I don't think I've had anything that I've considered a great success...but I sure have had many, many little ones. I'd say the most exhilirating is seeing a lethal heart rhythm convert to a normal one with a drug or a shock.

 

[Narz]

I didn't think this thread would do very well.

By the way, I like your story philippe, 0% sap factor!

- Narz