Question 1: What do you consider to be your greatest achievement? Why does it mean so much to you? (2013)

Everyone has his or her proudest achievement, be it clinching first in a competition, acing a test or something small, like baking chocolate cake. To me, an achievement means something that required effort, consistency or courage to have been accomplished, achieved or attained. In fact, my greatest achievement to date is having understood someone, knowing him like the back of my hand. I consider this to be my greatest achievement due to several reasons.

Firstly, my greatest achievement did not come to me easily. It was through gathered courage and respect that got me there. Nobody makes good friends with one another without one parties’ initiative and amicableness, including knowing where to draw the line. An example would be two cyber strangers on Facebook and one initiates a conversation respectfully yet in a friendly tone. The other would probably respond in the same tone. The same went with me. I initiated a conversation in the hope of becoming friends and this hope was not forlorn. Although these conversations started small and politely, they lasted for hours, and I was content...