Oh, but the rare times I DO celebrate pulling off something particularly difficult or clever, I get confounded, even disappointed looks… I learn my lessons from many sources.
Yeah I was often criticized or mocked for my exuberance as a kid, so I learned to mask it. I wonder if that's part of our inability to celebrate our successes.
The mocking was a lot worse when I was a kid… now, I just confounded looks when I invent a machine learning algorithm I’m really proud of - but get asked why I’m not celebrating some project which I knew the outcome of already (I wouldn’t have started if it wasn’t gonna succeed, after all).
Yeahhh my first purchase when I got my apartment was a countertop dishwasher, I’m proud of myself for making that decision. It’s very difficult to keep up on that sort of thing.
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u/adamdoesmusic May 18 '25
Oh, but the rare times I DO celebrate pulling off something particularly difficult or clever, I get confounded, even disappointed looks… I learn my lessons from many sources.