What are you most proud of in your life?

As I get older and reflect on the things I’ve done, I see the increasing number of experiences and accomplishments but I can’t really say I’m “proud” of any one thing in particular. That’s probably because I don’t look too deeply at the details surrounding things like that, and I don’t usually attempt anything I would consider grand in scale to everything else in my life.

This question is making me reconsider those little achievements and accomplishments, looking at them deeper, isolating the elements that make them important to me and then comparing them to the rest of the details of my life at that time.

I can’t pick just one thing though. For many people just graduating college should fit this question. College is tough! Especially these days when the cost of living makes it hard to attend classes and hold down a job that makes enough money to survive. My college experience lacked some of those hardships (though I did have others) but maybe I should still be proud of it.

Other things that come to mind: so many smaller things on the day-to-day scale. Catching a stubborn horse, figuring out how to build something that wasn’t made of LEGO’s, getting my motorcycle running when I needed to rebuild the carburetor, managing to get a small Excel Office Script working with a Power Automate Flow. Most of those are actually fairly recent, but they’re similar to other things that have happened over the last 15 years.

Suffice to say, I can’t pick just one thing to be most proud of, because I don’t assign such a great value to those moments. They weren’t things I invested years of my life working toward accomplishing, but they’re mine all the same so I guess that should be enough for me to be happy.