I Didn't Even Realise...

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

Have you ever looked back at your life and realised you had achieved something you hadn't even realised? Doesn't have to be anything big, just a sudden realisation you had that made you go 'wow, I didn't even realise...'

My story:

Hoping to restart my crappy drawing again, I went looking through my various attempts to create superheroes through the last few years, and compiled a list of all the heroes, villains and assorted extras I had created. I found I had made 55 heroes and villains, plus about another fifty to a hundred support characters, depending on how well fleshed out you consider a 'character' to be.

Yeah, in three years, without even realising it, I had made enough characters to populate a reasonable superhero universe, and most of them were actually quite interesting, if not necessarily completely unique.

So what have you done that you didn't even realise?

 

[Wierdguy]

Well... not quite the same thing - but finishing gymnasiet (or college for you outlandish people!) a lot of people in my class came up to me and told me that they either regret they didnt become my friends or that something I had said or done in the past 3 years had inspired them or was something they remember clearly and with joy.
Now this struck me completly out of the blue since Im extremly drawn back, never speak to anyone unless schoolwork required it and more or less been the lone kid sitting dead silent in the back of teh class...

I guess that sometimes you leave a bigger impression than you expect...

 

[Questalace]

Shat myself... On a serious note; looking back on it taking three separate science GSCEs (English/UK qualification) with a high fever, lack of appetite leading to the loss of 9lbs in a week and migraines fun stuff.

 

[Shiftygiant]

Wow. Er, Ive used up my body weight in waste paper. Good thing i recycle.

 

[BGH122]

Shat myself... On a serious note; looking back on it taking three separate science GSCEs (English/UK qualification) with a high fever, lack of appetite leading to the loss of 9lbs in a week and migraines fun stuff.

Pff, try doing that with three science AS and A-Levels in one year, with a high-fever flu and averaging 91% and then we can talk.

That wasn't a very nice reply, was it? I blame work, I've been up for close to 30 hours. Apologies, congratulations on your achievement. Also, congratulations on shitting yourself. I last shat myself four years ago, true story. I was in the car, stuck in traffic, when an unpleasant landslide feeling within my lower intestine alerted me that getting home would be a higher priority than I'd realised. Needless to say, I didn't make it home in time.

I don't think I've ever done something worthy of achievement that I haven't consciously realised was worthy of achievement, but I guess I won't know until something lets me know!

 

[Mysten]

I may have inadvertently inspired the invention of the cotton gin during one of my many forays into the distant past using a magic time machine crafted from the finest Parisian baguettes.

Maybe that was just a dream. I'm inclined to believe the former.

 

[Questalace]

Shat myself... On a serious note; looking back on it taking three separate science GSCEs (English/UK qualification) with a high fever, lack of appetite leading to the loss of 9lbs in a week and migraines fun stuff.

Pff, try doing that with three science AS and A-Levels in one year, with a high-fever flu and averaging 91% and then we can talk.

That wasn't a very nice reply, was it? I blame work, I've been up for close to 30 hours. Apologies, congratulations on your achievement.

I don't think I've ever done something worthy of achievement that I haven't consciously realised was worthy of achievement, but I guess I won't know until something lets me know!

Tis okay, I respect your predicament and say it is times like these we were better off with fevers than diarrhea; that would have been awful in the exam hall, but humorous

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

I never realized just how much of an idiot I was in high school.

 

[SckizoBoy]

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Similar to you (sort of), I enjoy writing quite a bit, and tend to write loads and load of sketches that I smunch together to make coherent stories. Since I write at a number of locations (uni, my flat, my parents' place) and on several different computers, I finally took the trouble to collate everything I had written... man that was a lot...

Add to that was the stack of on-a-whim stuff I wrote and printed out at work (when I worked, that is).

 

[staika]

I did almost the exact same thing except I wrote the outline to about 6 different stories. In these outlines I had every character (even minor characters) written down with their personalities and how they fit in the plot, the overarching story from begining to end, and little notes about how I wanted the plot to go. And these were going to be pretty long stories if I ever written them, just about 400 pages per outline.

 

[PatrickXD]

I don't count academic achievement, GCSE/A levels are a tad easy.
So I asked my friends what I did that is/was pretty cool. Apparently I've inspired a lot of people to speak out against stuff they don't agree with, specifically in schools where their voices are actually heard. Must be all the times I've saved our asses from shitty food and forced latin classes.

 

[Sticky Squid]

Shat myself... On a serious note; looking back on it taking three separate science GSCEs (English/UK qualification) with a high fever, lack of appetite leading to the loss of 9lbs in a week and migraines fun stuff.

I did my science exams in a sort of similar condition.
I also forgot my calculator for my physics exam...

 

[blackguard89]

Interesting topic...Well Since i started university, acutally since I turned 18 life just hits you like an uppercut in the jaw.That maybe is because my family was never in a good financial zone.But I do remember my high school years
Me and one of my classmates would generally be catalogued as the Idiots, Silent, Rockers, gamers, etc in the abck of the class....Even our grades weren't too good =))

But one day before the graduation ceremony, we actually wanted to skip school and not do the whole "please write in my yearbook so i have a memory of you" stuff.Cuz we thought hey...we were never popular, so why would they care right!?!?!!

Well turns out our coleagues actually made a wall before the exit door to the class.And demanded we give them the yearbooks.And to our surprise, they actually wrote alot ....and I mean A LOT. :|

It may not be much, but I also didn't realise we left such a mark in all of our class mates memories.

It felt great to know that people actually looked up to you, when me and my buddy actually thought this whole time that they were just stuck up sissies and stuff like that.WEll I wasn't really a good example myself, I used to skip school alot.=))

 

[The Afrodactyl]

I managed to get a B in a science exam after biting off a centimetre of tongue and losing a pint of blood about 15 minutes before.

 

[Ice Car]

I never realized just how much of an idiot I was in high school.

Similarly, I never realized how much of an ignorant, obnoxious douchebag I was up to grade 6. It occurred to me I was all at one point.

I still think of it as the one event that completely changed me. I'm quiet, reserved, and tend to hate social company when I was the polar opposite before. Kind of like how one event makes you a mature being AND completely shifts your personality. I guess it sort of hit me like a pile of bricks.

 

[Baradiel]

Well, on the last day of Sixth Form everyone signed each others year books, and while everyone knew that even if you didn't know the guy you still had to say how you'd enjoyed existing on the same planet, you could always tell which ones were sincere and which weren't.

Eg: "Good Luck with Uni! I'm sure you'll do well!" = Shitty, generic response you gave someone if you barely knew them.

I had my share of them, notably less than other people because I didn't ask people I didn't know to sign it. Still, when I was reading through the responses from people I'd known for years, I was shocked. In a good way.

About half of all responses told me I was the funniest person in the year ("King of One Liners" was a particular phrase) and more than half of those comments told me I should consider comedy as some sort of career.

I was surprised. No one had ever really commented on my ability to make people laugh before. I did make people laugh. Alot. But no one ever said "You're funny." And now there was this general consensus that I had some sort of talent at making people chuckle. It's even been suggested I do a standup routine at the Prom (something I instantly declined, but you never know)

So yeh... went quite off topic, but "I didn't realise..." I'd made such an impact on people.

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

The other day it dawned on me just how much music I've written at this point, it's at least 4 albums worth.

- Looks good in blue. Panda.

 

[Detective Prince]

I've written enough stories I could put them together and it'd be longer and more tedious than War and Peace.
I've made about 30 main characters of varying gender/species...Where did my brain pull out all of this crap?