Do you take pride in your achievements?

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Pride in my accomplishments has been a mixed bag.

For a long the accomplishments I was proud of was making it to the next level in a video game. It felt good, so it must have been a real accomplishment, right?

Accomplishments in school and work were frustrated because it just meant I got more work or the work got harder. I mostly did them to avoid bad outcomes.

Lately, I tell myself that I did a good thing the end of each meditation session.

My therapist is always telling me I don't and that I need to start acknowledging when I do something that I "should be proud of" (her words, not mine). I find it hard because I just feel like I've never done anything special or noteworthy. I'm much better at appreciating things that other people do than I am at thinking anything I do is ever good enough, honestly.

I take pleasure in achieving some goals but no pride.

I was thinking about my previous post, which maybe sounded kind of dismissive.

What I believe is that you are worthy. Everyone is worthy. You don't have to have accomplishments or anything else to show your worth. Just by being alive in the world and being a person, you have worth. And you can be proud of that, of just being you.

That's why I don't think it's a good idea to keep tabs on what you have achieved, because you might feel like you have not met up to some goal or to some abstract ideal if your ledger isn't filled with achievements.

Pride in my accomplishments, yes. Even the small ones. Sharing them with other people, no, and I don't respond to praise.