r/CongratsLikeImFive

I’ve never written a story longer than 2-3 pages before. When I was a kid I started writing a few different chapter ones of books, but I never made it past chapter one. (Spoiler alert: I have ADHD). But this time is different. For some reason, I’ve suddenly overcome this block and I’m 39 pages into this random idea I had for a Jurassic Park fan fiction. It sounds so silly, but I’m actually hugely excited for this accomplishment and what it could mean for my future writing endeavors! 😍

Hey friends!

I'm absolutely losing my mind with excitement. In the past few years, I have taken my writing very seriously and achieved some small accomplishments that have kept me going. But nothing like this!!

Today, when I woke up, I received an email saying I was one of the recipients of the Boston Writers of Color Literary Awards. I still can't believe it! I work so hard, but when it pays off, I get a serious case of impostor syndrome.

I am over the moon and truly feel proud of myself. I didn't have many people to tell, so here I am! My heart is full, and I feel very, very lucky and grateful to have been chosen.

I live in a very bike friendly city and recently made the decision to get an e bike instead of a new car after my previous car was totaled. Today was the first day I commuted via bike to work and it felt so. Fricking. Great. I wasn’t paying an arm and a leg for gas, I was moving my body, just all around a really excellent experience! And to think I was so nervous about doing something new!

Three years ago, I dropped out of university half way through third year. For two years I had the option of going back, but starting my third year again. Officially dropped out during the second year, and finally felt like I had space to breathe.

Have been working full time since, and had a health scare at the start of the year. We're improving, but things aren't great. For a while there I didn't think I'd be able to go back to work.

Decided it's finally time to give it another shot, I felt ready. I applied late, didn't expect much. But I've just been accepted to the #2 university in my country for the course I want to do!

I don't have anyone close to share it with, but I'm proud of myself. Time to try and make something of myself, being the first generation of my family to pursue higher education. I'm going to be older than anyone there, and while I'm a little scared, I feel like this is a chance to start over.

Thanks for your time :)

I've realized that I've done so many things this year that I never thought I would! I have always been too scared to start things because I've always been worried that they'll flop and I'll get too discouraged to do it again. But this year I thrusted myself into the following:

On April, I finally took the leap and created a webcomic. My biggest dream in life is to create comics and I feel like I'm actively living it now. (13 year old me would be so proud! ;w;)

Next, I submitted a fairy house into my town's annual fairy festival. It didn't win any prizes, but it was nice walking around and seeing how many people interacted with and enjoyed my work.

And now, I'm making more friends than ever and am participating in ArtFight for the first time. I'm really excited to see how that all works!

2026 was and still is filled with so many new things and I'm proud of myself for finally taking a leap of faith and trying new things! 😄

(I have been at a normal weight before but the weight loss was much more rapid and I had nutrition deficiencies. This time, it took a year and a half and was slower. But, I feel much healthier, am losing around a pound a week, and exercising daily!)

In addition, I’m also saving money from cooking more and eating less, and have started to budget every dollar.

I always wear sweatpants and decided to finally try actual normal jeans cuz I was outgrowing my current ones. I didn’t really like the feel so I found some slightly softer stretchy ones. The only other time I put on a belt was at prom (and the belt was too long so my dad had to come and cut it)

I’m not very good at doing anything, so even though the belt feels a bit unnatural at the moment, I feel slightly more normal.

I still got a bunch of stuff to worry about like college next year and summer jobs, but ig this is just the first step.

Somehow I'm always getting new jobs right after getting fired lmao. I will NOT be late anymore to jobs. I WILL be a fast learner. I will not get distracted so easily. I Must keep this job.

Im not good at keeping jobs but Im gonna try my damn best.

I've been homeless for a while now, I used to do SW. Ever since I changed my ways and started crochet, jewelry making and practically using other ways to make money then my body, (not in a bad way) but in a "I can stop being controlled by men with money" type of way and felt relief. Since then, a stalker, I have no idea who, because they use my own face and name for everything. They twist my past, say horrible things to make it look bad(they are talking of 18 year old me btw. I'm 24 now!), they harass my friends who are homeless and even disabled, they constantly want me to not have any help so I am stuck starving and stranded outside. But I haven't stopped posting my book, my handmade shop, and continuously trying to make better connections and find genuine people. Today, I finally made the step to report their cyberstalking to the FBI crime page. I'm hoping they at least do something. Twitter reports do nothing bc we know Elon doesn't care for his users. I just feel good now that I told someone and stopped being scared of this person.

I've been at this job for almost two years. I had no idea what I was signing up for. I wish I had done my research but at the same time this was a career switch and my first job in the new field. I had an unpaid internship before that and a year looking for a job before that. So there is a chance I would've accepted anyway.

But even with all the shitakes I went through I held on tight hoping and trying to get resume worthy experience. Meanwhile among all the other issues with this company my boss has been straight up abusive. After months of therapy and getting better and then starting to go down hill because of my manager, my therapist recommended fmla. I finally got the experience I needed these past couple of months. So recently when the abuse got worse, I finally went for it. I went to my psychiatrist, had to explain all the shitakes I went through and how much it's been affecting my mental health and well being. They ended up giving me two months and I was able to choose a start date. Well I got another long message about how incompetent I am from my manager so I went ahead and said tomorrow. I didn't realize it would actually be effective tomorrow. Let my manager know today and I heard from my colleague that he was raging at their one on one. Guess he won't be getting the two projects I came up with on my own as a junior and that got approved by his boss. I know he was hoping to get a bonus from it. But I'm incompetent so toodle doo.

Anyway, since it's fmla I couldn't really tell anyone that this was likely my last day.

I feel like I left a burning building or an abusive person in my life. One of my parents is heavily mentally ill and is basically abusive. I can't really leave them behind the same way I could with this job so it was nice to be able to do that in this case. Just walk away and abandon the manager in their rage and abuse.

Baby steps.

Took until 24 but I finally have friends in class!

Never had friends growing up and was bullied for no reason.

Now I’m the only girl in my class, but three boys have adopted me and I never knew being seen felt this way. I love it so much and I’m so grateful.

They’ve helped me realise I’m pretty too! It felt weird to be complimented at first, but I’ve learnt I can accept it and say thank you 🩷

I was quite upset when I realised I was the only girl, but I never would’ve cried if I knew what was to come!!

A very small victory for me, but there were many many many factors into why I wasn't able to get it done until just now. I've been so embarrassed about not having it at my age and I finally did it ^_^ I feel so much more independent now

Someone messaged me today to say they used our broker verification database before booking their car shipment — and avoided a company with 11 open FMCSA complaints.

That's the whole reason this exists. Congrats to that being a real thing that happened!

One person. One avoided scam. Worth every hour of research.

Long story short- been living off fast food and bad grocery store picks for WAY too long. Ended up moving to Texas to live with my girlfriends mom after escaping from an horrendous living situation with a verbally abusive drunk roommate and for our first dinner here in Texas we had bourbon glazed salmon with roasted potatoes and green beans. I can't express how delicious this meal was. I also can't express how refreshing it is to know i won't come home to getting yelled at and harassed by someone. I'm finally able to breathe freely and focus on beating my cancer diagnosis, get healthy, and get back on my feet.

Cheers y'all ❤️

It gives me immense pleasure that my coffee turned out amazing.

I don’t usually cry from shots but these were painful ones and I still didn’t. 🥲 My arm hurts. Please congratulate me

I just got my final exam grade back for the spring semester and I passed!

I finished the fall semester with a 92% average for my nursing course and a 99% average for my secondary course.

I just finished the spring semester with an 86.1% average in nursing and 98% in my secondary course.

Since I started school, my daughter has turned 1, started to talk, started to walk, and is growing so much into herself. I’m so thankful I haven’t had to give up immense amounts of time with her to study.

One year to go and it feels like constant memories to be made 🥰

On Saturday night I was texting my older brother. He's about a decade older than me so very much in a different stage of his life, though we do have a couple of overlapping hobbies (Like MtG). He's spent a lot of time in the food industry and is working towards opening his own restaurant in the near future, so he mentioned that he was preparing for a pop-up he'd be doing the next day.

Now, I've always been a bit of a picky eater. A lot of it has been texture issues or certain "feelings" in the food that have made me gag once it enters my mouth even if the taste itself isn't that bad, so I usually fall back on a lot of comfort foods when I cook for myself. I'm not opposed to trying new things but working myself up to try more than one new thing at a time is a lot, I only recently accepted mayo into my palette and it's still on a tight leash.

Despite this, I decided to go and support him, I would have been heading to my grandmother's around then anyway so I just had to leave a bit earlier in the day to avoid overbooking myself. It was at a coffee shop about 20 minutes away from me so when my brother spotted me, he called me out of the line to take my order (I don't drink caffeine anyway). After looking it over and making my choice, he offered to make it simpler for me but I asked him to make it how he'd make it for anybody else, if I ended up not liking it, that's on me.

It was a steak and egg soft-shell taco, pretty much. It had salsa verde and Cholula, two things I'd never tried before, as well as cilantro, which I did not remember if I'd eaten in the past. He went to the back to prepare and I watched a bit from the counter, though I was mostly wandering in a small area to avoid taking up space for people picking up their orders. I can only imagine what was going through his head knowing he was making it for me. Sat down when it was finally ready, took my first bite and I liked it! It's not the kind of thing I'd immediately jump to if I saw it on a menu but if I wasn't dead-set on anything else I'd definitely consider it as an option. Ate the whole thing save for a little bit of beef that was tough.

I let him know I enjoyed it and he refused to let me pay for the food. He ended up texting me later to tell me he felt accomplished and that I was the hardest customer to impress (which I attribute to him knowing I can be picky), I know he's probably going to be thinking about me enjoying what he made for a while and I hope that helps him feel more confident as he continues to work towards opening up his own place.