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Right now, my first grade reading so well. They're a reading machine & they love doing it. I want to foster that love of reading as much as I can.

I ate healthy today, exercised and did some cleaning/organizing around the house.

Sounds really small, but I haven't done all three of those things on the same day in a really long time.

Half marathon every week

Writing free software that makes people happy, cooking food for free that makes people happy, helping people to preserve their freedom through privacy, using their rights, getting away from harmful relationships.

In short, helping people does.

I'm proud of how I handled my anger over current events.

I got sick of just complaining on the internet and feeling powerless, so I volunteered for town government. It's an unelected position, unpaid, but it's in something I'm passionate about. It's tedious and slow, but we're making incremental changes to make things better. I have real influence now on my immediate area and it's helping me keep my sanity(?).

Still alive!

I'm going through some really awful stuff at the moment, and it's hard to feel proud of anything when I absolutely despise myself, but these are things I managed to convince myself are okay:

• Surviving this. I'm working very hard to get better, I have lots of regrets and getting better isn't for the reason I want it to be, but I will succeed
• I helped start a transgender solidarity network, our first rally was the proudest moment of my life
• That time I tried to stop a coal ship from leaving port (it didn't work but it did do a lot of other important things for the rest of the protest)
• I make a really mean creamed cauliflower and I always feel super proud when I get to make it and hear all these strangers say how good it is (it's the easiest dish in the world, people are just addicted to salt)

Proud of my kid. When he was in high school he wrote a large language model to parse documents for debate prep.

He graduated with his CS degree in 2018 and got his first real job with Intel, then Oracle, and is now a respected data scientist in the AI field, his papers are cited, he presents at big AI conferences...

I mean, he's actively helping make all our lives demonstrably worse... but I'm still proud of him. :)

I rode my bike three times today. Once for fun, once to go get groceries (cargo bike), and once to go to the store again because I forgot something. Then I made a nice fire in the firepit with this lovely hardwood we got from a house around the corner who was giving it away and flame grilled some steak and peppers, onions and squash. It was delicious.

My transition progress, my friend circle and my veganism.

• I very literally survived the baby years of my son without killing myself or him, and now I'm still here. And that also means that I get to see the cool little boy that he's become, and that I get to tell me I helped make due to my efforts.
• I learned to whistle with fingers in mouth, which makes a) for a very loud whistle and b) me fell unreasonably proud and manly.
• I managed to buy a pretty run down house with my wife and we've rebuilt a huge part of it, so it can be a home for our family. I've leaned a shitton of things that I never thought I could do, and some that I never wanted to learn. And it have me a great excuse to buy all kinds of tools that I've always wanted but never needed. Like, I even own an old-timey scythe and 2 axes. \o/
• I was recently voted staff council member (which, yeah, k), and after that, several colleages, some of which I barely know, came up to me to tell me they were glass I made or, because they liked my style of working.
• I managed to raise a puppy without having him starve to death because I was an unresponsively piece of shit, and I was rewarded with my soul dog and just a very, very good girl in general.
• I was able to make some modernizing changes in IT at work, and that's even though I'm in public service, where things move with the swiftness of tar.
• I recently was able to set a border with someone on something I didn't want to do anymore. It was a small thing, but felt big for me.
• I recently passed my chainsaws license, so now I'm allowed to fell trees in public woods. Again, totally unreasonably proud and manly.
• I can back up my little trailer almost all the way into or long and narrow driveway. Not all the way yet, but someday.

Thank you for asking, that was actually a wonderful way to start my morning to early. :-D You can be proud for instilling that feeling in people, or at the very least in me.

What about you, @TehBamski, what else are you proud of?

Fixing something for the first time. From then on I actually own whatever I fixed, and if I need to repeat the same fix it becomes a normal chore. But some things (un)fortunately require many different fixes, so I get to be proud of each one.

When I see my friends, coworkers, neighbors, community, etc just being awesome to each other. Just little stuff like letting someone else have the last slice of cake, giving someone the rest of the jug of wiper fluid after filling up, returning their carts, apologizing for interrupting or bumping into someone, preventing someone from getting scammed, etc.

How resilient I've proven to be. I feel like I've been held down all my life but I got a college degree and now I'm going back for another one. I owe a lot of it to new family members.

Still happy to make it to work.

38 years on the "boo boo bus" (ambulance). I'm hoping to last until I make it 50 years.

I’m doing quite well in many aspects of my life compared to my peers, but I don’t really feel pride about any of it - I just consider myself lucky. Pride, to me, implies that the luck was somehow of my own making, but since I don’t believe in free will, that’s an incoherent concept for me. I can’t take credit for the kind of person I am.

If I had to mention something, though, I’d probably say I take pride in my work. Given the general quality of craftsmanship, customer service, and pricing in my industry, I’d say I rank fairly high - probably in the top percentages.

Actually this question comes in handy for me. I really need to acknowledge my efforts more. So let's see:

• Called in sick today. Did not risk that for more than a year, because of anxiety to loose my job. Acknowledged today that atm I need this physically and mentally, could literally not work because of exhaustion.
• Made some really nice progress in therapy in the last few months.
• Even if I am under (in my eyes) a lot of pressure I march on.
• Other than work I take mostly good care of my health.

I figured out the world of piracy which 10 year ago, I was very amateur at it.

And piracy helped me gained a lot of fun from the entertainment, and thus knowledge of movie/tv and "pop culture" stuff helps me understand a lot of the memes.

And I read a lot of stuff on Wikipedia about history, politics, and technology, while many of my peers from highschool (a few years ago) were busy on tiktok and instagram.

I now feel like I sort of understand the world better than 10 years ago which I have zero clue about wtf is going on in the world.

But needless to say, my life still suck. I have a lot of knowledge (relatively speaking, compared to my peers), but zero political power to change things... 🤷‍♂️

Not sure what good is knowing if I don't have a throne and a kingdom to sit on to, say, stop climate change.

I'm just another puddle of depression...