This is going to be a impress me. Go wild, but what I really need to see is her name and what their crowning achievement is.
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name;;
gender (must stay biologically female);;
What is their biggest achievement?;;
This will end August 23rd!
Edit;; I will only give extensions on the last day.
shibeboi wrote:Username:
shibeboi
Name:
Astrid
Achievement:
As I walked up to the stage to take my prize, I was overcome with joy. Me, an average girl, winning a national photography competition? Seems very unlikely. I was still in a sort of daze, thinking I was dreaming. But it was real, very real.
I had a love for photography since I could walk. Everything was super cool to me: the different lenses, the mechanics of the camera, the way it shifts in and out of focus, I just loved it. But as I grew up, my parents started becoming less supportive of this. They told me that I needed to get my head out of the clouds and focus on school so I could get a real job. That hurt, it really did. But I didn't let it get me down.
I convinced my parents I was on the debate team so I could go take pictures for about an hour after school one day a week. It wasn't a lot, but it was enough for me to get really good.
My parents eventually found out, and smashed my camera right in front of me. I was heartbroken. I wanted to do photography for a living, and now my dreams were as crushed as the camera.
For a while, I complied to their demands. Study, study, homework, homework. I was depressed, and failing my classes. I was usually a smart kid, so this caught my parents attention and they gave me a long lecture about the importance of good grades. I sighed, and walked up to my room to get started on this assignment, when I stumbled upon some photos of mine that Inhad saved onto my computer. I suddenly had an idea: I was going to enter those photos in competitions and earn some money for a new camera!
It was rough at my first competition. I had no clue what to do. But after a while I started getting used to it, and the judges everywhere loves my photos. I had finally racked up enough money for a new camera. I bought it, and hid it from my parents, who thought that I was studying at a friend's house while I was at the competitions.
Fast forward a few years, when I had the skill and confidence to enter the national photography competition. I had moved out of my parents' house and wasn't under their control anymore. I was a nervous wreck that day, as was everyone else. The judges walked by me board and observed it, then writing the score down on their sheets.
They announced the winners at the end of the day. After third and second place had been called, I was sure I wasn't taking home a prize. But then, I heard them announce my name for first, and I was shocked. My first year in the nationals and I had already won? It was an amazing feeling, my biggest achievement this far.
As I walked up onto the stage, all I could think was:
I did Mom and Dad, I did it.