Proudest Rebel Without a Cause
Somethings are hard-fought and endearing: that time you studied your ass off and aced the quiz, that time you worked so diligently to ask that special person out for coffee you cried, and that one time you crossed the finish line to the cheers of your loved ones. Some actions you'll be forever proud of.
However, not all actions are intentional. Sometimes, you just stumble into an action and it happened to have turned out GREAT.
For example, I once attempted to brake a world-record and it is forever immortalized on the Internet. Did I set out to achieve this dubious honor? Pfft, no. If asked about my top 10 proudest moments, would this action be listed? fuck, yes!
I am, of course, referring to the (almost) world-breaking important day when 905 DragonCon attendees all danced to Michael Jackson's Thriller! (practice video with me seen here -->
We had a pre-test in World Studies where we had to label every country in Africa. 12th grade. I didn't know many at all. I filled in the few I knew (South Africa, Madagascar) and labeled all the remaining countries Kenya. Then I wrote on the top: Kenya Give Me a Good Grade?
The teacher showed it to the whole class at the start of the next day. 10 years later, my brother met a guy in grad school who said, "Your brother is the guy who wrote Kenya for every country in Africa. 15 year after that, another classmate said the same thing to my then-wife in a Target store.