A Matter of Pride
#250915 - 03/08/06 09:20 PM
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hohoyumyum
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What is the one thing you've done that you are most proud of?
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Excellent Thread
#250917 - 03/08/06 09:38 PM
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Bevvy
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The one thing I did that I'm most proud of is making it on my own. After high school, my mother refused to send me to college. She sent my two brothers, but I had to stay at home, get a job, and pay her rent. It was a tough lesson, but I learned responsibility well. I worked since high school, non-stop, while taking night courses in secretarial skills. Over 40 years, I advanced very slowly in the legal secretarial field, finally doing some paralegal work and making real good money. I worked for companies that offered excellent benefits, including profit-sharing, and it's those wise investments that I'm living on today. When I became engaged and wanted a wedding, even though I was the only daughter, I was turned down, my mother claiming they could not afford it because of all the money they were spending to send my younger brother to college. I paid for my own wedding, such as it was, with my own money. My gown certainly wasn't much, but I remember paying for it over time; it cost me $90. It was 1967.
While my older brother became a nuclear scientist and second-in-command at NASA, my younger brother did not fare nearly as well, and all of his weddings I am sure were paid for for him. My brothers had financial help, both of them, and even got an inheritance, while I was cut out of the will and ended up with nothing from my family.
I'm very proud that I ended up as well as I have, because I did it ALL on my own, with absolutely no help from anyone. And, ironically, I turned out happier than any of my family. I have myself to thank, no one else.
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Bevvy, you're such a cool person! You deserve all the happiness you have now and then some!
I'll have to think about my answer for this thread.....
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Well beside my son who is the most thing I am proud of I would have to say being an educated person. I have always loved going to school ( I know geek) and I am proud to have a bachelor's and master's degree. I am even getting revved up to take more classes this summer to renew my teaching certificate. I just love learning knew things. That's why I love teaching because to be a good teacher you have to stay current on all sorts of things. And I swear I have learned so much being a teacher.
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Mine is actually a very simple thing. I was in my highschool choir and every years we had 2 solo concerts. I was listening to one of the girls practice and she started crying because she was so scared to sing in front of everyone. She thought that everyone would hate it. When she was finally on stage singing, and looking terribly frightened I leaned over to the person next to me and said "Standing ovation, pass it on." When she was done, everyone stood and shouted and whistled. I didn't think of it again until our retreat at the end of the year. We had a candle lighting ceremony and when it was her turn to hold the candle she told us that when she received her standing ovation she knew right then that there would never be anything that she couldn't do. We weren't really friends and I've haven't spoken to her since. It's amazing how much effect we can have on a person without them ever knowing you even noticed them.
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Becoming a religious Jew. It isn't easy to "give up" eating shrimp, wearing funky clothes, and covering your hair with a wig isn't easy. But I LOVE being Frum as we call it (religious) and I love being close to G-d and learning/living His Torah.
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That is BEAUTIFUL!!!  I'm proud of you too! *hugs*
P.S. I've been meaning to ask you...what does hohoyumyum stand for? I'm trying to decide which to call you 
Thanks for sharing and for such a wonderful post!! 
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Giving life to my two beautiful little girls! And completing my Bachelor's Degree while going to school full-time, working 40 hours a week and raising two kids. Of course that was years ago before my fibro roared onto the scene. 
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I am proud more than anything of my daughter and my wonderful husband. I didn't have any example of a working marriage in my life as a kid. None at ALL, so I'm proud that we've made it work so well sofar. And we see nothing in our future that will ever make us rock the boat that far.
And, of course, I'm SO VERY proud that I get to be a teacher. I fought so hard to make it through school, all the while, basically raising my younger sister because our mom had neglected our emotional (and some physical) needs. My sister was, all the while, addicted to drugs. 
Meanwhile, I was working 6 days a week, till 2-3 AM, to pay for university myself (I did live at home but still...) and I am the first UNIVERSITY graduate in my entire family!
We're talking IN HISTORY! Still am, actually. Thank you, thank you.
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Edited by Shannon! (03/09/06 04:18 PM)
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You deserve every morsel of happiness you get.
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I loved Richie, aside from the fact that when I met him he had had 2 strokes and could only say a few words, couldn't use his left arm, and dragged his leg a little. Even when he got to be in a nursing home, in a wheelchair and wearing diapers, I loved him in a way I never have loved. The day he died a big part of me died, too.
The other thing is having the nerve to contact my half brother and say "Hi, you don't know it but I'm your sister". He had been bothered by the fact that his mother would never tell him who his real father was. We were both close 50. He lives in CA now, but we are very close. He e-mailed me this week that the brother he grew up with is dieing of cancer and doesn't have long. He lost a baby brother when he was 12. If I hadn't written that letter he would be the last one. Now he still will have two siblings.
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Gee, thanks! Um..... I didn't mean to complain about my situation; I thought we were talkin' in this thread about the one thing we're most proud of.
I didn't have it so bad; I had a father who loved me dearly and would have done anything for me if he could have. Unfortunately, my mother prevented that. Having a father like mine is something few can experience, so I was a very lucky little girl. I wish I could have had him with me longer than I did; he died 34 years ago, one of the most difficult times of my life because I lost the only one who really and truly loved me.
Okay, here I go again. Sorry about that.
Now, ladies, how about YOU? What is the one thing you are most proud of? Speak up! Don't be shy!
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I survived! I love to tell!
I lived through neglect(not severe, but i babysat every day at age 9...while Mom drank);
emotional, verbal and some physical abuse; and raising my little sister, all to end up happy and well adjusted. Well with the help of therapy and drinking myself through age 16-25.
Now I'm blissfully blessed with a loving husband and daughter(the light of my life) AND got a teaching degree to give back to those kids who live in the same poverty that lends itself to what I went through. I'm, well, just a leeetle bit proud of that.
But I already posted it above,LOL!
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One, the strength to stop cutting myself (though that wasn't just me, I also had the strength and support of my best friend and my boyfriend
Two, will happen in 100 days, when I graduate with my double BS degrees in biomedical and electrical engineering. I've done it all with no help from my parents, through TWO IBS diagnoses, and now my thyroid, adrenal gland, and fibro problems.
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Friendship is thicker than blood. ~Rent
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hohoyumyum is the first screen name I ever used for anything years ago and I still use it for a few things. It doesn't mean anything. I was eating a Hostess ho-ho when I created the account. Of course I didn't know then that the very thing I was eating was hurting me so much. Now I keep it because no one else has a name like it.
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YAAAAY, Shannon!
#251221 - 03/09/06 05:45 PM
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Bevvy
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Now THAT's a success story! I love it. I think the tougher someone has it as a youngster, the stronger they are as an adult. I do believe in tough love; it certainly worked in my case and in yours. You ended up a responsible, caring, loving, beautiful woman.
Thanks for sharing.
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Take care,
Michelle
...the greatest of these is LOVE. (I Cor 13)
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Dag grl, I was a cutter too. Sep-arated at birth...!
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I guess I'm proud of the fact that I tend to "get" people when others don't. I can't explain it, but I can watch a situation and come away with a completely different attitude than others, its like I can sense why a person acts the way they do or whatever, and so I feel some compassion for them and rather than treat them in some ugly way, try to connect with them. That is especially true with children and as a teacher I appreciated this fact about myself so much when I saw other teachers totally "missing" stuff and arriving at wrong conclusions. But now as a Mom it is priceless. It happens with adults too, though. Dh calls it my spooky intution.  I think I'm just more observant in the sense of emotions/motives, etc - now ask me what someone was wearing and I'll have no clue!! So I guess you can say Im' proud of that, or at least that I like that trait about myself.
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I know exactly what you're talking about. I can do the same thing. It comes in very handy being a Nanny. It's like an intuitive understanding of the people and things around you.
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You're right. Those of us who go through so much and survive emotionally, end up soft on the ooutside but tough on the inside. Says my psychologist! I took that as the greatest compliment.
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It's important. sometimes I could see myself being a criminalist? No, that's not it. Like a psychologist speaking to inmates, and almost understanding why they are who they are. Hmm, a profiler. You know, like in Criminal Minds.
Maybe it's also an over-abundance of compassion too, ladies!
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I am proud of several things in my life. First I am very proud of the Mother I am to my children, involved, always there for them and always putting them first. I am also proud of the fact that I have been married for so many years. My Mother has never been able to stay married and was not a very involved mother. Something I worked very hard for because I definitely didn't learn by example.
I am also proud that I am a caring person and have, as my familiy used to say, a kind heart. I have passed this on to my youngest daughter which makes me feel very good when I see how she treats others.
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