Share your moments of fulfillment.

[username n/a]

You know that moment when all the hard work you did paid off, when the hours of work you did seemed worth it, when the whole world fell below you knees and everything seemed to stop for that split moment when you had the tingly feeling in your stomach.

Here's mine:
First a little background. Do you remember that one kid in your class, the one who never did his homework, skipped school, acted like he didn't care and thought none of the teachers care about him. Even know he did know deep inside that they did and he was just trying to make excuses for never doing his work. Well that kid describes me.

The state of Michigan requires that every student must take two years of foreign language, well being the metal head I was I of course took the most "metal" language I could, German. From the first day I waled into that classroom I thought this would be easy, that I could treat this like any other class, not do homework barley pass tests and quizzes and the teacher would still put up with my crap, always trying to make me care. Well in short I was wrong. We had homework ever night tests Evey week, it was the hardest class I had ever taken. After about three week after school had stared I still wasn't doing my homework, still getting Cs and D's on my tests, and for the first time in my life I realised A teacher had given up on me. I realised he didn't care if I failed his class, he didn't care if I did my homework. For all intensive purposes I was one extra test to grade. He never yelled at me, he passed over me when we were going over homework. I could see the disappointment in his eyes. I remember the moment I realised he didn't care, I felt dead inside knowing that I made a man who devoted his life to teaching children not even notice when a kid did his homework. Well from that moment on I devoted all my time to passing that class, always doing my home work getting 56 out of 56 on my tests, actually caring how I did in school and the effect didn't just take place in German, it carried onto all my classes. One day we were going over homework in class and my teacher called on me.

"Robert, number funfundzwanzig" He said

"I'd like a piece of cake, please"

Ich mochte ein stacle of tarte, bitte." I said in a voice that lacked self confidence

"Sehr gut, Robert" He said with a slightly cherry tone of voice

At that very moment I felt on top of the world at though nothing could stop me. Confidence that I had previously lacked had pumped trough my veins. Those three words he said mad all the work I did feel like nothing. Knowing that he cared gave me a high never before experienced. So thank you Herr. Bennick for all you did (or didn't do).

[Fontaine]

how sweet.

[L-A]

There's a part of the brain that deactivates during our teenage years. Basically, it's the part that associates "work" with "result".

Congrats on getting it back.

[flakeh]

Ah, Sehr guter Benutzername.

You sound exactly like me. I took german and was like " Whoashi....This is cool...I wanna learn it!" and actually did good in that class. Now I'm in third german and its savvy.

Congrats on your new found confidence, Wanna sell me some?

[KeithBMI]

That sucks. I was never required to take a foreign language class.

[Scarlet Fire]

I just fixed a major computer problem that has been plaguing me for months, It made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

P.S. It turned out to be entirely my fault in the first place.

[bassteban]

I found my dremel tool. It had been lost for weeks. YESSS.