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3. I suppose probably the main one tho was the change i had made to myself over the years. This was probably the biggest accomplishment i could ever have done... When i was younger (in my teens) i was shy and really didnt want to go out and meet friends... Struggled to have any confidence. Then after one event (Im not gonna go into that) really changed me... What little confidence i had was gone and i had lost caring for just about everything. I was in my last year of school aswell. I used to skip on a regular basis and wasted my life pretty much. Then for some reason i changed, i dont even know why. I built up my confidence now to the point where maybe i could consider myself a little to confident (I dont know if that is a bad thing or not). I have a belief i never had before. I dont really know why this happened. I know for some people this may not seem like much.


I was similar a few years ago now, wanting to do so much but not being able(confident enough?/too lazy?) to actually get up and do it. Then I read a book, Clouds From Both sides, a mountaineering book by the late Julie Tullis, and it made me realise that you do only have one life and you have to get up off your backside and put some effort in to do all these things. First thing I did was trek to K2 base camp, the main "scene" of the book.

On the downside, my biggest non-accomplishment, and still feeling guilty about it, is not putting the effort in to get to Phuket to help after the tsunami. Would have been very difficult but must have been possible somehow.