What have you achieved in your life?

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Chasmcfc

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I’m Asking what you actually achieved in your life whether if it be against all odds .

Whether you and your loving wife/partner
Have brought up law abiding citizen’s
Or they Achieved outstanding qualifications in School or College, university.

Or just anything you Consider a Achievement.

Would had in my school life I was told by various teachers i would never achieve anything.

This was a common comment back in my childhood to many pupils.

I will share what I see has an Achievement what I would say was against all odds .

But would be interesting in your Stories
First.
 
Managed to house , feed and educate 4 children and so far remain in a happy marriage with no financial difficulties. Sounds basic but I expect a high % of people around the world would be grateful to be able to do the same. We often forget how many people out there don't even have the basics. Work often takes me to India and seeing the poverty out there makes you reflect on what we have here.
 
I was The Broadway Jacobs cream cracker champ around 1992.

Oh, I was also a single dad to my son who is thriving, but that’s nothing compared to said cracker challenge. ;-)
 
I did win the u16s snooker competition in 1996 then went and played up Leeds representing the snooker club against the other clubs u16s winners and won that also.
Other than that absolutely nothing.
 
Honestly? Making it into my 30s despite thinking I was going to die several times - either via illness or by my own hand - in my 20s.

Back in 2019, very early 2020, I was ready to give it all up. My mum and dad, my girlfriend, all my friends, any future. I was in and out of hospital, on feeding tubes. Weight still falling. My head fucked up by a mad eating disorder. I was being left behind by my own life, big time. I just wanted the world to stop turning and the only way to make it stop turning was to end it all.

Then the world actually did stop turning without me doing anything. Covid happened. I spent 2020 and 2021 putting myself back together, gradually turning myself sane again. I've gone from a BMI of 15.9 in early 2020 to a BMI of 26.1 today, and obviously every step of that in between. I have survivor's guilt because such a horrible time ended up being a huge positive for me, though.

Since the pandemic, my girlfriend has become my wife and we've bought a house together. I got a steady job - it's nothing much but it puts food on the table and gives me enough time to pursue my hobbies in the evening. I put all my weight back on (and then some, as you've seen). And I gave myself enough reasons to keep living if the weight ever falls off again.

I was planning to just let my weight get so low that I wouldn't be able to get up anymore. Then I got given a random chance out of absolutely nowhere to work on the loudest part of my brain, and I've seen and done everything I've seen since. With my wife, City under Pep, with my glorious friends, with an amazing second job I had for 2-3 years that allowed me to interview and write articles about some genuine icons in my life.

Never kill yourself, is all I can say.
 
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Honestly? Making it into my 30s despite thinking I was going to die several times - either via illness or by my own hand - in my 20s.

Back in 2019, very early 2020, I was ready to give it all up. My mum and dad, my girlfriend, all my friends, any future. I was in and out of hospital, on feeding tubes. Weight still falling. My head fucked up by a mad eating disorder. I was being left behind by my own life, big time. I just wanted the world to stop turning and the only way to make it stop turning was to end it all.

Then the world actually did stop turning without me doing anything. Covid happened. I spent 2020 and 2021 putting myself back together, gradually turning myself sane again. I've gone from a BMI of 15.9 in early 2020 to a BMI of 26.1 today, and obviously every step of that in between. I have survivor's guilt because such a horrible time ended up being a huge positive for me, though.

Since the pandemic, my girlfriend has become my wife and we've bought a house together. I got a steady job - it's nothing much but it puts food on the table and gives me enough time to pursue my hobbies in the evening. I put all my weight back on (and then some, as you've seen). And I gave myself enough reasons to keep living if the weight ever falls off again.

I was planning to just let my weight get so low that I wouldn't be able to get up anymore. Then I got given a random chance out of absolutely nowhere to work on the loudest part of my brain, and I've seen and done everything I've seen since. With my wife, City under Pep, with my glorious friends, with an amazing second job I had for 2-3 years that allowed me to interview and write articles about some genuine icons in my life.

Never kill yourself, is all I can say.
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Well done you.
 
Well, I'm still here, relatively unscathed. I guess the high-spot, beyond dragging up two kids to some level of respectability, was in 2019. We'd just won the PL at Brighton and I was asked by someone at City to do an interview with the PL Productions team.

What I didn't know until 2 minutes before the interview was that it was going out live, globally, to an estimated 100m people. I'd done plenty of media stuff before that but that was scary! My knees were literally shaking.
 
Achieved fuck all myself but i have four great kids & raised them as a single parent after my Wife decided she didn't want to be a Wife or Mother anymore.
My kids have all achieved far more than me, three of them are graduates with good careers & the only one who isn't a graduate has her own business & is a wonderful Mother.
I'm proud of them all, mostly because they are kind & decent people. I now have four Grandchildren & they are fucking epic
 
Chasmcfc said:
I’m Asking what you actually achieved in your life whether if it be against all odds .

Whether you and your loving wife/partner
Have brought up law abiding citizen’s
Or they Achieved outstanding qualifications in School or College, university.

Or just anything you Consider a Achievement.

Would had in my school life I was told by various teachers i would never achieve anything.

This was a common comment back in my childhood to many pupils.

I will share what I see has an Achievement what I would say was against all odds .

But would be interesting in your Stories
First.
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Is it writing 'Snooker Loopy' ?
 
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