Impressive for me, boring for others

I was taking inventory of my achievements so far. No one would applaud, that I know, but i realised I beat myself down for no reason.

I'm a dude working a well paid job, who started gaining a little bit of weight, in a good relationship, relatively healthy and with some good investments. The internet makes my life feel boring ... uneventful. I don't have yachts, I don't own a car, I am not invited to any fancy parties, but then i thought... Wait a minute ... That's not the entire story.

• I am the first in my family who moved abroad
• I am the first in my family to have graduated university
• I am the first in my family to have graduated a masters degree and most likely the first one to have a phd at some point in the future.
• I am one of the 2 people in my family who speaks a foreign language.
• I am the first in my family to have a black belt in karate and a brown belt in kempo mma.
• I am the first in my family who has a gym membership
• I am the first in my family to have travelled to quite a few destinations as a tourist.
• I am the first one in my family who has an investment portfolio
• I am the first in my family who drove a race car on a real race track
• I am the first in my family who completed a karting endurance race
• I am the first in my family who knows how to shoot a compound bow.
• I am the first in my family who is licenced in skydiving and most likely the first one who'll do a HALO jump at some point in the future.
• I am one of the very few in my family who reads for pleasure.
• I am the first in my family who owns a property abroad.

... And many others.

All i am trying to say is that building generational wealth starts with someone and i believe i am that someone and I'm proud to be that someone. It took a lot of sacrifices to have achieved all these. A very lonely life, a few battles with "sadness", many risky financial decisions, a large number of birthdays celebrated alone in a different country, but it'll all be worth it. If you feel like you haven't achieved much, think again. Are you sure you're not missing anything? It matters to have incremental positive impact on your family's condition and always aim to be the person that your future children and grandchildren will think of as the pivotal point in the well-being of their families. Aim to be better. Not better than those on tv and/or social media, but better than you've been yesterday and better than everyone who has come before you in your family is or has been.