What's your greatest achievement? (page 2)

cruzanheart

My life is still a work in progress, as are my marriage and my children, so you may have to ask me again in about 50 years (I hope). So far my greatest achievements are finding my best friend and being married to him for 22 years, our children and my sense of self (that's a work in progress too, though).

Nina

Quentin

Living as long as I have...some of the stupid things I've done...it's a wonder I wasen't dead years ago...

nowisee

1) having a successful and happy second marriage and

2) being raised female jw by a thoroughly domineering father and told that i was to be obedient, silent and subservient....and dependent on the men in my life.

finally finding the courage and strength to break away and take care of myself.

have been self-employed now for the last 20 years. miraculous considering all the messages i was fed and believed for the first half of my life.

not making millions,....but definitely getting by.

hemp lover

Hmm . . . *thinking*. . . I would have to say that my greatest achievement thus far occurred about five years ago when my daughter and I filled the bathtub with spaghetti and then played in it. Yeah... good times.

sf

My two kids and seven regulation pool (billiards) trophies.

Re-adjusting my attitude.

Washing my hands of my mother.

My greatest achievement has yet to occur. That will be my death.

sKally

talesin

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understand, but you help so much, you have no idea

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Bryan

I will leave out my beautiful family as I don't consider it an achievement... it's so easy... such a great relationship and great baby.

That said, I would say my greatest achievement would be a kidney donation to a stranger. We are now very good friends and speak or email on a regular basis (he lives in Russia).

Oh, and I birthed a really cool book!

Bryan

Have You Seen My Mother

upside/down

Spending 20 years of my life in a dangerous cult...getting out alive with my family...

Being a good and loyal husband and father...

Not killing those deserving of it...

u/d(of the vengeance is MINE, if I so choose class)

upside/down

Oh yeah...and getting that shot for my avatar!

u/d (of the is it me or is it stuffy in here class)

GentlyFeral

Hmmm...

Supporting my family all by myself for 3 1/2 years, with only a GED for credentials.
Wrote a poem that was good enough for an Episcopal divinity student to base a sermon on it.
Wrote half a book of poetry and am finishing the rest.
Now I'm in the process of convincing my husband and daughter that they do have the power to make their way in the world.
My kids, too - All you parents are absolutely right!
My beautiful altar ... I dunno, you'd have to be a pagan to get that one, I guess but I'm very proud of it.
Teaching myself to cook! Well, my mother started the process when I was thirteen, but I finished it.
Learning to ~~play~~ work the stock market - that's a work in progress, but, though complicated, it's much less bewildering than I expected.
Curing myself of "default" pessimism. (Yes, I had help.)

Daunt,

First I'd have to say the ability to break myself free (mentally) of the JW's control

Now, how did I forget that one? It made all the others possible!

gently feral

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