We just saw the Olympics. What the greatest individual accomplishment of your life ? (outside of children, family, etc.)

runn wrote:

I don't know if this is my greatest accomplishment but I'm proud of it.

I'm a HS teacher and XC coach. I had a student last year who was a smart kid but from a lousy home and didn't apply himself. Acted like he didn't care, dyed hair, too many piercings, the works.

One day I went ballistic. Just up one side and down the other about how he wastes his life and has the potential.

I bucked the norm of treating him with kid gloves and ripped him to shreds.

Another teacher told him I did that because I cared.

He started working in school, got his grades up and this year, joined my XC team.

I don't think he'll ever be very good but I don't care. I hope I made a difference in his life.

very cool

Ran NY Marathon

Rode bicycle across the USA

Got Masters degree

3 Bike trips around Europe

Mutiple school records in HJ while in college

I was a 2-time NCAA champion and former national record holder (D3). That's probably my claim to fame, but not necessarily what I'm most proud of.

Raised $50,000 for a local teenager with medical problems by organizing a 5k & 10k race. Plus it was a real race with nice prizes and a great course and not just a charity walk.

Got a 98 on the Miller Analogies.

Sad to have that be the "greatest"...

Congratulations for almost finishing a marathon...oh so close.

haaaaa wrote:

FINISHING THE 26.2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My greatest achievement was leaving America and working around the world for close to 4 years. I came back and realized:

(1) The stupidity of the south (I'm born and raised southern)

(2) The stupidity of people who criticize foreigners

(3) How dumb religion makes people

(4) How bratty Americans are right now

I'm not sure how to stomach it all. I wish I didn't travel now because I'd be a much happier person. But, it's still my greatest achievement.

Beat Ted Poulos in a footrace

1967 wrote:

250 at Edson Range

I qualed. Went back to MCRD. JDI broke two ribs and my jaw. Hospital 1 month. Transfer to NTC. Came home a sailor. Finished 4 years. That was when I was 1/2 the weight I am now ;-)

Snuck a super 8 camera into a concert, filmed some of John Lennon's last live performance.

MSG Thanksgiving 1974, 12th row. Yoko was in row 20.

Joined AA & got sober

asfasdfasd wrote:

My greatest achievement was leaving America and working around the world for close to 4 years. I came back and realized:

(1) The stupidity of the south (I'm born and raised southern)

(2) The stupidity of people who criticize foreigners

(3) How dumb religion makes people

(4) How bratty Americans are right now

I'm not sure how to stomach it all. I wish I didn't travel now because I'd be a much happier person. But, it's still my greatest achievement.

I understand your viewpoint. Living and working in different places, not just traveling, exposes you to different philosophies and ways of making a living. Somewhere along the way, you might stumble upon a group of people that are just happy to be alive and have an income and support their family and contribute to their community. Then you come back home with all these new perspectives, while everybody else has stayed the same. You realize that you might have outgrown what your home offered and it might be best for you to go somewhere else. And they might not ever understand what you experienced and what you learned about the yourself and the world.

I get through it by enjoying the day-to-day process of living even with the humdrum of an office job. I spend time outdoors every day and get into the woods once or twice a month. I sleep with my window open so I can hear the bugs and birds and frogs come alive at night. I cook myself a good meal once a week. I plan future adventures.

marched on vietnam moratorim day

19 year old soon-to-be FHM cover model (her country's version). Standing up in the shower cause her time of the month was winding up.

sad but true wrote:

dddd wrote:

Disgusting.

don't knock it till you try it.

maybe he has and he got helmet mud....

I love Chinese shadow companies like Nike, Walmart, Home Depot, Target, Pet Smart, Toys R Us, Dollar General, ...

Dollar Tree sells a pack of four Fine Dry-Erase Markers for $1 plus tax which I use for Calculus and Physics studies.

iwerasnfkd wrote:

Beat Ted Poulos in a footrace

Walking on at Oregon and setting an Oregon school record.

I've accomplished a ton in various arts and industries and I am proud of that.

Maybe others can relate to this, rather than accomplishments, the two things I am most proud of are having traveled and lived in other countries and cultures -- and becoming the most cultured person in my family. I think it really takes something to go out and meet the world, and do the research to understand and appreciate it.

I am the most uncultured, ignorant jerk on this board.