I was talking to a fellow Escapist, and I mentioned how I work with Mexican day-laborers and at a used game store despite being 16, not spending my money on a gaming PC so I can buy my ticket back to my home city of Chicago and afford all the presents I intend to give my friends. And I realize how much it sounds like I'm bragging, but I just feel incredibly proud of myself, since most of my younger years were spent stealing my single mother's money to feed my multiple addictions. I'm doing something selfless for once in my life, and I feel like I might be a halfway decent human being for once in my life.
I'm nihilistic towards humans at times, believing that we're just inherently evil, yet that makes us interesting and gives us room to improve, otherwise we'd just be sitting in a dull grey
sludge, making no effort to change ourselves. But there are times that I want to see exactly how good humans can be. Unironically.
So, Escapists, what have you done that you feel truly proud of?