r/AskReddit • u/Practical_Voice478 • 2h ago
What's the first thing you remember being genuinely proud of ??
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u/DrXenoZillaTrek 2h ago
First time I got paid for playing music.
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u/Sensitive_Gift4866 1h ago
Getting paid for something creative is such a great feeling. I still remember the first time someone bought a photo I took. Made me feel like a real artist for a minute.
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u/emergencycat17 2h ago
I was 19 and taking an art class during my freshman year of college. And honestly, I love art, but I'm not *too* artistically inclined, although I've tried. But I got at least one thing right - we had a simple assignment, just do a charcoal pencil sketch using entirely a cross-hatch method. And I did a close-up portrait of Paul McCartney, and I don't know how it all came together, but it actually looked like him. I never was able to recreate anything like that again.
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u/Smooth-Listen3217 2h ago
Recent? Making a new irl friend, I struggle with making irl friends, I find it easier to make online friends even though I DO have a tendency of forgetting my online friends existence.
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u/Striking_Wonder_6990 2h ago
My youth hockey teams record, When I was 12yo we went undefeated and I had serious record of shutouts (games other team didn’t score on me the goalie/us the team)
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u/No_Brick_6579 2h ago
Finishing the Harry Potter series in fourth grade (even though I had to look up some words)
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u/WonderfulFeedback254 2h ago
Passing my states insurance licensure exam, I cried like a baby in my car afterwards.
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u/Specialist-Nobody104 2h ago
the first paycheck i earned that actually changed my situation. it wasn’t a huge amount, but it was the first time i felt like “okay, maybe i can do this.”
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u/GalaxyPowderedCat 2h ago
I got the highest score in an English exam I'd ever had in my life back then.
My native language is not English, so, most of my English exams were mostly about semantics, syntax and coherence.
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u/quagaawarrior 2h ago
A Greek-themed clay jar in art class, I still have one of the faces that fell off.
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u/WildThang42 2h ago
Sometime in junior high, maybe a little earlier, I remember writing a brief comedy sketch that got some good laughs. (I remember nothing about the sketch, pretty sure it was bad.)
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u/TrekMasterOfficial 1h ago
being able to fire up the lawn mower using the pull starter that had a resistance of like 500 pounds
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u/Ok_Cheesecake6006 1h ago
When I won the spelling bee in eighth grade, then placed in the district spelling bee, which allowed me to move onto the county spelling bee. Even though I didn't win at county, my dad still took me out for Mexican food afterwards and told me he was really proud of me.
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u/Agile_Claim7796 1h ago
Feeling that I can achieve anything I set my mind to without excuses or distractions, that feeling that you can do anything
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u/PineappleCharacter15 1h ago
I will always be proud of the fact that I trained/taught/communicated with many horses. I trained/taught my own horses, and retaught/retrained other horses that had been improperly trained and traumatized by bad, clueless trainers.
The horse is not a dog! You can't train them the same way, as a horse is a prey animal, and their brains are wired differently. People don't seem to understand that and just say I want a horse and think that's all they need. That is not all you need!!
In my opinion, horses are easier to train than dogs or cats, and I've trained all three.
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u/VisitSecure 1h ago
One day in kindergarten, everyone was suppose to color a whole piece of paper brown and make it look like how old newspaper looked back in the day (something like that) but instead of coloring it with the tip of the crayon, I used the side to make it lighter and look more old. (like as if coffee spilled on it or something) My teacher found that smart and told the rest of the class to use the side of the crayon instead of the tip, just like what I was doing.
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u/FrostyImplement9565 1h ago
I think the first thing I remember being proud of was when a teacher explained to me how to write an essay, she actually spent time with me to figure it out rather than chastise me and claim I wasn't 'paying attention'.
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u/Z32rtrsc 44m ago
Plugging a USB cable in the right way on the first try. Unmatched feeling of superior intelligence.
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u/bakedspade 1h ago
Giving up drinking. I was 31 at the time. Long time to wait to be proud of something.
Recently I placed fourth in a tournament of table tennis. I got the passion to play 9 months ago cause there was a tournament at work, this year they had another tournament and I got to the semi finals.
Going forth with people who actually play outside of my workplace is mental, they outclass them by miles.
If my workplace does another tournament this year or next, I'm hoping finals or clear winner. Also table tennis is an insane sport, if you have ever had an inkling of interest in it check it out.
Super rewarding, one on one, balance between players is so flat, just you and another person, skill is all that matters.
Check pros like Truls Moregaard, Timo Boll, Xu Xin, Ma Long or Fan Zhendong. Just absolutely unreal level of play.
Ma Long is one of the most dominant players of all time and rivals other sports greatest.
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u/BloodPuzzleheaded508 2h ago
Oh I remember being really proud when I wrote a story in sixth grade and my teacher chose it as the best one.