Question

story on extraordinary experience in my life​

Answer 1

Answer:

I have, objectively speaking, done a lot of cool stuff in my life. I once spent six weeks on an icebreaker in the Bering Sea. I’ve seen toucans, monkeys, and whales in the wild. I keep going to Switzerland. I was once on the local news in Kumamoto, Japan. Actually, it may have been twice. I don’t remember.

Does this sounds like bragging? I know, I’m sorry. It’s really not supposed to. Bear with me for a moment.

These were great experiences. My adventures have informed my life and how I look at the world. But I’ve become more and more likely to downplay them, especially with people I don’t know well. “That’s pretty normal, for a journalist.” “Day to day, it was actually pretty boring.” “I was an hour from an international airport the whole time.” Etc.

I think there are a lot of reasons why I’ve come to talk less about these crazy things. One is that bragging is, obviously, lame. Another is that these experiences do seem pretty normal; I know a lot of people who have been published in the same magazines as me and have seen a lot more tropical birds than I have. Everyone else who was on that ship in the Bering Sea has spent a lot more time on ships than I have.