Weekly Question! July 14, 2013

Inspiration!

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Hey everybody, this past month I have been going through some hard times. The only thing that has helped is having hope and remembering what I have. Lately people have been putting me down and making me feel worthless and every time I am upset I think "What am I deeply proud of?" My answer to this is how well I have raised my two brothers, I graduated, I don't have any children yet, I don't do drugs, I don't lie, and most of all I am proud that I have went farther in life already than most of my family. I have done wrong, I am not perfect, and I have made many mistakes. I've hurt people, I have lied, stolen, done drugs, and I have failed many times, but after all this I still have pride in myself. Only because I took those punches, picked myself up, and said "Is that all you got?"

I asked this question to many people and the best answer in my opinion was "I'd say my culture, heritage and country :)" Not many people now a days are proud of who they are and actually mean it when they say it. "Sometimes we are hated for the color of our skin or our beliefs, people will see you and judge you before they even get to know you, be proud of who you are and where you came from, you are special and don't let anyone tell you or make you feel otherwise." This quote explains it perfectly.

Here is some of the other answers I got:

"My writing :) I probably shouldn't be but I'm proud of it anyway so there's nothing that will change that ;)" (I don't agree for myself because right now my writing sucks compared to what I want it to be. I wasn't surprised by this answer since after all it is Wattpad, but I was surprised nobody talked about their writing besides one other person."

"my mind" ( I am totally proud of my crazy mind and so was this person. They told me so.)

"I'm proud of the fact that I can talk to anyone and everyone ranging from old people to toddlers B| All strangers :P Once I just sat down at a guy's table and started talking to him(note* that I did not know this person and vice versa) JUST because I thought he was cute :P" (I think this is half good, but half bad because it is good when you can relate to everybody and not shy like me. Bad though because what if one day that stranger just kidnaps you or kills you)

"I'm most proud of my girlfriend" (This is totally effing sweet. I wish my boyfriend would say that!)

"I'm proud of my confidence otherwise I wouldn't be on earth" (Can't exactly explain this, I don't know if it is too personal or not, but the reasoning behind this is wonderful.)

"I'm proud of my hair:)" (The person didn't explain this to me, so I have no idea what to say except interesting.)

"The thing that I am really proud of is How many songs I've written." (I have always wanted to write songs, but I never could find the right words."

I'm proud of my best friend and our crazy attitudes (I wish I still had friendships that I could say this about. I have a relationship though about to be 4 years.)

"Over 50,000 Xbox 360 Gamer Score" (Yeah so my boyfriend is an xbox fanatic and he doesn't even have that many gamer points, but GO you! You must be awesome at video games.)

Scree skiied a 400ft drop in about 4 mins without breaking anything, or anyone... (I don't know what that is, can anybody look it up and explain it to me? It sounds awesome though!"

I actually found a couple famous peoples answers to this too which I thought was pretty cool.

"If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman."

-Marilyn Monroe

"I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill."

-Thomas A. Edison

When you are having trouble writing think of what you're proud of and hopefully inspiration will come.

What are you deeply proud of?

(THE FIRST PERSON TO ANSWER MY QUESTION EVERY WEEK WILL GET A FULL STORY PROMOTION. YOU WILL FIND MY NEW QUESTION POSTED EVERY MONDAY AS MY STATUS ON THE PROFILE @CHRISTIANBOLEN9593. GOOD LUCK!)