Secrets

One of the best things about accomplishing something impressive or admirable is the validation you get from bragging about it to friends, family members, Instagram followers, and the barista at Starbucks. But what if you&#39;ve achieved something you&#39;re proud of but you can&#39;t tell anyone because it feels embarrassing, shady, weird, personal, or just wouldn&#39;t get the respect it deserves? Or what if you&#39;re just too humble to brag*?? (*wtf is wrong with you?!)May I present you with: anonymous internet forums!!! A place where it&#39;s not only acceptable but encouraged to brag about your secret achievements. Because even humble people deserve external validation.<h2>Someone <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kf7at2/whats_your_biggest_flex_that_youll_never_tell/" target="_blank">asked</a> Reddit: &quot;Whats your biggest flex that you&rsquo;ll never tell anyone?&quot; These 27 people reveal the things they&#39;ve done that they&#39;re proud of but only we can know about:</h2>1.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/posikid/">posikid</a>:<blockquote> was out on a date with a hot girl. after dinner her car wouldn&rsquo;t start, &ldquo;pop the hood i said&rdquo; i saw an engine .. i&rsquo;m pretty sure, not a clue what ever else i was looking at. she looked at me and i punched the battery with the side of my hand and told her to try again. car f**king started! i felt like fonzie, got so laid </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>2.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Abby1416/">Abby1416</a>:<blockquote> I haven&#39;t used heroin since September 24, 2020 and I managed to get out of bed today </blockquote>3.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/mydogisacloud/" style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">mydogisacloud</a>:<blockquote> I wrote a popular and successful fanfic years and years ago. I still live on that high </blockquote>4.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/im_f0e/">im_f0e</a>:<blockquote> Once I was in the passenger seat of my car while my wife was driving down the freeway. A truck driver and me locked eyes and started communicating using hand signals (waving and such) he was drinking a up and go and gestured in a way that was asking me if I wanted one. I obviously said yes and we both rolled our windows down, he threw it to me and I actually caught it! We both laughed and I have never enjoyed a drink more in my life. It was a had to be there moment that I remember fondly but no point telling anyone really lol. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>5.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Peko1One/" style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">Peko1One</a>:<blockquote> Paid off 40k in debt during quarantine due to no more daycare costs for 3 kids, and better paying job for the wife. Also dropped body fat from 14% to 7% using my ghetto ass home gym while everyone was complaining about the quarantine fifteen. Went from having one family meal a week to almost daily. I don&#39;t tell anyone this obviously because there are people going through tough times, especially family and close friends and I can empathize with that as it hasn&#39;t been completely smooth and there were some stressful moments. But I am proud of what my wife and I were able to do in a relatively short amount of time but haven&#39;t shared any of this at the risk of alienating anyone </blockquote>6.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Chahles88/">Chahles88</a>:<div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> I secretly enjoy everyone&rsquo;s shock when they first meet my wife. I&rsquo;m not insanely attractive. I&rsquo;m a nerdy scientist. My wife is a doctor. She&rsquo;s funny, driven, she&rsquo;s smarter than me, she&rsquo;s 5&rsquo;9&rdquo; and could very well be a model, in fact she&rsquo;s been approached numerous times to move to NYC. </blockquote><blockquote> We&rsquo;ve known each other since second grade, started dating in college. My high school/college friends are still baffled that I &ldquo;casually married the most attractive girl we knew in high school/college&rdquo; Because we both have insanely busy schedules, We can go months or years without meeting each other&rsquo;s&rsquo; coworkers. My favorite reaction from mine is &ldquo;that&rsquo;s your WIFE?!&rdquo; </blockquote>7.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/qatest/">qatest</a>:<div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> I got accepted into Mensa and then immediately realized I don&#39;t want to hang out with the type of people who join Mensa so I never went through with it. I&#39;m too embarrassed to tell anyone I took the test </blockquote>8.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/jbartlet827/">jbartlet827</a>:<blockquote> I bought some then relatively worthless Apple stock because I thought I&#39;d be able to eBay the stock certificate with the rainbow apple logo when the company went out of business. My investment guy just thinks I&#39;m really clever. I&#39;ve not corrected him. </blockquote>9.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/barno42/">barno42</a>:<blockquote> I finished a tube of chap stick without losing it once. </blockquote>10.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/JosePrettyChili/">JosePrettyChili</a>:<blockquote> I was in the grocery store and saw an older woman standing in the aisle comparing what was in her cart to what was in her wallet, obviously counting to see if she could afford everything. Based on her body language as she walked away I could tell that the answer was no. So I took a 20 out and walked up to her and said, &quot;M&#39;am, when you were over there just a second ago this fell out of your wallet.&quot; I handed her the bill, and just walked away so she wouldn&#39;t be embarrassed if she figured out I was lying. I did hear her say thank you, so I half turned and told her &quot;you&#39;re welcome, have a nice night.&quot; It was only $20, but I think it made a difference to her, and that felt amazing. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>11.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/happydayswasgreat/" style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">happydayswasgreat</a>:<blockquote> I<span style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">n real life no one really knows. I&#39;ll be 4 years sober in March. 42f. Very happy. Not going back. #1 decision every day. </blockquote>12.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/_dontjimthecamera/">_dontjimthecamera</a>:<blockquote> In my public speaking class I had to give a speech on procrastination. I wrote the speech an hour before class. In my feedback notes I was told I had great preparation. </blockquote>13.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Ill_pick_later/">Ill_pick_later</a>:<blockquote> I keep light up sketchers under my bed to walk around the house at night. </blockquote>14.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/CloudsTasteGeometric/">CloudsTasteGeometric</a>:<blockquote> I beat morbid obesity...which spiraled into a violent battle with anorexia, which I also beat...I eventually went on to get into modelling, weight lifting, and more. Compare pictures of me now, with pictures of me from 5 years ago, with pictures of me from 10 years ago, and they all look like completely different people. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>15.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Ridert99/" style="font-family: BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Fira Sans&quot;, &quot;Droid Sans&quot;, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em;">Ridert99</a>:<blockquote> I can count all of the syllables in every sentence during conversation. Then I can tell the person I was talking to the amount of syllables they had just said. It&rsquo;s due to a weird response from my social anxiety. I don&rsquo;t tell anyone irl because it&rsquo;s just weird and out of place to do so. They would call me crazy. I even have some common sentences and phrases memorized so I can take solace in the fact that I already know the syllables. </blockquote>16.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/frick-you-fricker/">frick-you-fricker</a>:<blockquote> I saw Elton John in Vegas. Red Piano Tour. During Benny and the Jets (I can whistle extremely loudly), I nailed the whistle part that is on live version of the song that plays on the radio. He smiled. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>17.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/PM-ME-YO-SKINNY-ASS/">PM-ME-YO-SKINNY-ASS</a>:<blockquote> At one point I could sing along perfectly to we didn&#39;t start the fire. I still know most of the words but I&#39;m always so embarrassed to sing in front of other people lol. </blockquote>18.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Papazotic/">Papazotic</a>:<blockquote> I have a no gag reflex......this will go to my grave.... married man with 3 kids </blockquote>19.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/whatcubed/">whatcubed</a>:<blockquote> I have enough old, valuable Magic the Gathering cards to buy a car. A new, really nice car. I don&#39;t tell anyone IRL because they&#39;re from when I was young and collected them, and my current social circle would think it&#39;s kid/nerd stuff and wouldn&#39;t understand. Doesn&#39;t get me down, though. Current plan is to hold on to them until they go up enough over time to match my mortgage balance, then use them to pay off my house. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>20.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Theoboi63/">Theoboi63</a>:<blockquote> I intentionally don&rsquo;t step on ants just because they&rsquo;re cool </blockquote>21.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/onthenextmaury/">onthenextmaury</a>:<blockquote> I saw a lizard in the middle of a busy road. I bent down on the side of the road and called for it as I put my hands out and he ran straight into my arms. I carried him to safety and didn&#39;t think anything of it until I heard a stranger behind me go, &quot;Did y&#39;all see that shit?? She&#39;s a lizard whisperer!&quot; Man I wish there was another witness because I bet I looked cool </blockquote>22.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/zombieggs/">zombieggs</a>:<blockquote> I ran over a half marathon at night for five months everyday, I shouldn&rsquo;t be proud because that was my lowest point mentally but I was. I wanted to add that it was because of an obsession with exercise, for those who were confused as to why I don&rsquo;t want to be proud of it. It wasn&rsquo;t healthy and f**ked up my body for a little while </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>23.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/whiteshadow88/">whiteshadow88</a>:<blockquote> Woman in my office had a fairly long piece of TP attached to her shoe and I stepped on it and detached it from her shoe. I felt like a super hero. I still feel like a superhero about it. </blockquote>24.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/shipoopi29/">shipoopi29</a>:<blockquote> I&rsquo;m on level 4,000 in candy crush </blockquote>25.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/PM_meASelfie/">PM_meASelfie</a>:<blockquote> When my girlfriend and I worked at the same bar, I threw a coaster at her like a frisbee. It arced over her and like twenty customers only to land perfectly on the neat stack of other coasters like 50 feet away. It was so f**ing cool but nobody noticed except one customer who I later had to kick out for taking a nap on the bar. No point in telling anybody, but I look back fondly on that moment. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>26.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/milescowperthwaite/">milescowperthwaite</a>:<blockquote> I pulled over when I saw a house on fire one morning. Ran over and a woman was crying that her child was inside. I ran into the smoke and fire, down a hallway, followed the crying. Found the child and carried her outside to her mom. I waited with them until the FD arrived, then left. Was late for work and got yelled at. Didnt say anything to anyone. </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

27 people share the thing they’re most proud of that they’ll never tell anyone about.

One of the best things about accomplishing something impressive or admirable is the validation you get from bragging about it to friends, family members, Instagram followers, and the barista at Starbucks. But what if you&#39;ve achieved something you&#39;re proud of but you can&#39;t tell anyone because it feels embarrassing, shady, weird, personal, or just wouldn&#39;t get the respect it deserves? Or what if you&#39;re just too humble to brag*?? (*wtf is wrong with you?!)May I present you with: anonymous internet forums!!! A place where it&#39;s not only acceptable but encouraged to brag about your secret achievements. Because even humble people deserve external validation.Someone asked Reddit: &quot;Whats your biggest flex that you&rsquo;ll never tell anyone?&quot; These 27 people reveal the things they&#39;ve done that they&#39;re proud of but only we can know about:1.) From posikid: was out on a date with a hot girl. after dinner her car wouldn&rsquo;t start, &ldquo;pop the hood i said&rdquo; i saw an engine .. i&rsquo;m pretty sure, not a clue what ever else i was looking at. she looked at me and i punched the battery with the side of my hand and told her to try again. car f**king started! i felt like fonzie, got so laid 2.) From Abby1416: I haven&#39;t used heroin since September 24, 2020 and I managed to get out of bed today 3.) From mydogisacloud: I wrote a popular and successful fanfic years and years ago. I still live on that high 4.) From im_f0e: Once I was in the passenger seat of my car while my wife was driving down the freeway. A truck driver and me locked eyes and started communicating using hand signals (waving and such) he was drinking a up and go and gestured in a way that was asking me if I wanted one. I obviously said yes and we both rolled our windows down, he threw it to me and I actually caught it! We both laughed and I have never enjoyed a drink more in my life. It was a had to be there moment that I remember fondly but no point telling anyone really lol. 5.) From Peko1One: Paid off 40k in debt during quarantine due to no more daycare costs for 3 kids, and better paying job for the wife. Also dropped body fat from 14% to 7% using my ghetto ass home gym while everyone was complaining about the quarantine fifteen. Went from having one family meal a week to almost daily. I don&#39;t tell anyone this obviously because there are people going through tough times, especially family and close friends and I can empathize with that as it hasn&#39;t been completely smooth and there were some stressful moments. But I am proud of what my wife and I were able to do in a relatively short amount of time but haven&#39;t shared any of this at the risk of alienating anyone 6.) From Chahles88: I secretly enjoy everyone&rsquo;s shock when they first meet my wife. I&rsquo;m not insanely attractive. I&rsquo;m a nerdy scientist. My wife is a doctor. She&rsquo;s funny, driven, she&rsquo;s smarter than me, she&rsquo;s 5&rsquo;9&rdquo; and could very well be a model, in fact she&rsquo;s been approached numerous times to move to NYC.  We&rsquo;ve known each other since second grade, started dating in college. My high school/college friends are still baffled that I &ldquo;casually married the most attractive girl we knew in high school/college&rdquo; Because we both have insanely busy schedules, We can go months or years without meeting each other&rsquo;s&rsquo; coworkers. My favorite reaction from mine is &ldquo;that&rsquo;s your WIFE?!&rdquo; 7.) From qatest: I got accepted into Mensa and then immediately realized I don&#39;t want to hang out with the type of people who join Mensa so I never went through with it. I&#39;m too embarrassed to tell anyone I took the test 8.) From jbartlet827: I bought some then relatively worthless Apple stock because I thought I&#39;d be able to eBay the stock certificate with the rainbow apple logo when the company went out of business. My investment guy just thinks I&#39;m really clever. I&#39;ve not corrected him. 9.) From barno42: I finished a tube of chap stick without losing it once. 10.) From JosePrettyChili: I was in the grocery store and saw an older woman standing in the aisle comparing what was in her cart to what was in her wallet, obviously counting to see if she could afford everything. Based on her body language as she walked away I could tell that the answer was no. So I took a 20 out and walked up to her and said, &quot;M&#39;am, when you were over there just a second ago this fell out of your wallet.&quot; I handed her the bill, and just walked away so she wouldn&#39;t be embarrassed if she figured out I was lying. I did hear her say thank you, so I half turned and told her &quot;you&#39;re welcome, have a nice night.&quot; It was only $20, but I think it made a difference to her, and that felt amazing. 11.) From happydayswasgreat: In real life no one really knows. I&#39;ll be 4 years sober in March. 42f. Very happy. Not going back. #1 decision every day. 12.) From _dontjimthecamera: In my public speaking class I had to give a speech on procrastination. I wrote the speech an hour before class. In my feedback notes I was told I had great preparation. 13.) From Ill_pick_later: I keep light up sketchers under my bed to walk around the house at night. 14.) From CloudsTasteGeometric: I beat morbid obesity...which spiraled into a violent battle with anorexia, which I also beat...I eventually went on to get into modelling, weight lifting, and more. Compare pictures of me now, with pictures of me from 5 years ago, with pictures of me from 10 years ago, and they all look like completely different people. 15.) From Ridert99: I can count all of the syllables in every sentence during conversation. Then I can tell the person I was talking to the amount of syllables they had just said. It&rsquo;s due to a weird response from my social anxiety. I don&rsquo;t tell anyone irl because it&rsquo;s just weird and out of place to do so. They would call me crazy. I even have some common sentences and phrases memorized so I can take solace in the fact that I already know the syllables. 16.) From frick-you-fricker: I saw Elton John in Vegas. Red Piano Tour. During Benny and the Jets (I can whistle extremely loudly), I nailed the whistle part that is on live version of the song that plays on the radio. He smiled. 17.) From PM-ME-YO-SKINNY-ASS: At one point I could sing along perfectly to we didn&#39;t start the fire. I still know most of the words but I&#39;m always so embarrassed to sing in front of other people lol. 18.) From Papazotic: I have a no gag reflex......this will go to my grave.... married man with 3 kids 19.) From whatcubed: I have enough old, valuable Magic the Gathering cards to buy a car. A new, really nice car. I don&#39;t tell anyone IRL because they&#39;re from when I was young and collected them, and my current social circle would think it&#39;s kid/nerd stuff and wouldn&#39;t understand. Doesn&#39;t get me down, though. Current plan is to hold on to them until they go up enough over time to match my mortgage balance, then use them to pay off my house. 20.) From Theoboi63: I intentionally don&rsquo;t step on ants just because they&rsquo;re cool 21.) From onthenextmaury: I saw a lizard in the middle of a busy road. I bent down on the side of the road and called for it as I put my hands out and he ran straight into my arms. I carried him to safety and didn&#39;t think anything of it until I heard a stranger behind me go, &quot;Did y&#39;all see that shit?? She&#39;s a lizard whisperer!&quot; Man I wish there was another witness because I bet I looked cool 22.) From zombieggs: I ran over a half marathon at night for five months everyday, I shouldn&rsquo;t be proud because that was my lowest point mentally but I was. I wanted to add that it was because of an obsession with exercise, for those who were confused as to why I don&rsquo;t want to be proud of it. It wasn&rsquo;t healthy and f**ked up my body for a little while 23.) From whiteshadow88: Woman in my office had a fairly long piece of TP attached to her shoe and I stepped on it and detached it from her shoe. I felt like a super hero. I still feel like a superhero about it. 24.) From shipoopi29: I&rsquo;m on level 4,000 in candy crush 25.) From PM_meASelfie: When my girlfriend and I worked at the same bar, I threw a coaster at her like a frisbee. It arced over her and like twenty customers only to land perfectly on the neat stack of other coasters like 50 feet away. It was so f**ing cool but nobody noticed except one customer who I later had to kick out for taking a nap on the bar. No point in telling anybody, but I look back fondly on that moment. 26.) From milescowperthwaite: I pulled over when I saw a house on fire one morning. Ran over and a woman was crying that her child was inside. I ran into the smoke and fire, down a hallway, followed the crying. Found the child and carried her outside to her mom. I waited with them until the FD arrived, then left. Was late for work and got yelled at. Didnt say anything to anyone. 

One of the best things about accomplishing something impressive or admirable is the validation you get from bragging about it to friends, family members, Instagram followers, and the barista at Starbucks. But what if you&#39;ve achieved...