My proudest moment of 2025 was my son pushing through his GCSEs, whilst having a chronic illness and struggles with family issues. He received outstanding results in August and that was the proudest moment of 2025

Looking at how much evil is happening in the world, how many diseases there are every year, and how many people die every day, including very young ones, I am happy that I survived another year and still have the chance to fulfill my dreams.

In 2025 I made more room for happiness - played more with the dog, got outside, put my phone away when I’m with family. Life feels lighter when you enjoy it!

My proudest and happiest moment of the year was my son coming through a horrible accident. He fell of a bike and the handle bar hit him in the stomach which ruptured his pancreas and lacerated his liver.

He was so brave throughout all the stay in hospital and he made me so proud everyday. Bringing him home was the happiest I felt all year by a country mile! 

Spending time in Spain and enjoying the great Spanish culture.

My greatest moment was being able to take my daughter abroad for the first time and seeing her face as we boarded the plane.

My proudest and happiest achievement this year is how far i have come, from struggling to leave the house to having concert & festival tickets for next year already booked - i genuinely couldn’t have done it without my boyfriend but knowing i can do the things I've never done before and make new friends has made me happier than i have been in a very long time. Im so proud that i have gone from barely talking and panic attacks even thinking about leaving the house to making friends and going out exploring new cities and bars with no fear. Happy new year, im gonna make this one even better ❤️

My biggest achievement was quitting my addictions, changing my diet and improving my health by ten fold :)

my proudest moment of 2025 was passing my driving test so I can finally take my two small daughters anywhere they want to go.

Meeting nephews from Australia for the first time in 20 years

My happiest moment was finding a way to help my little doggo not be so frightened of fireworks. He used to pant & shake whenever fireworks went off, but a chat with a very helpful vet got him some tablets to help calm him. He still doesn’t like them, but there’s no panting or shaking any more 😊

After retirement and obtaining an allotment, harvesting all the hard work of the year was so satisfying, especially the produce for Chrsitmas

My proudest and happiest achievement of 2025 was getting a new job as a neuroradiographer at the Walton Centre. It felt incredibly rewarding to see years of hard work, training, and determination finally pay off. Working in such a highly respected specialist centre has been both exciting and challenging, and it’s pushed me to grow in confidence and skill every day. Being part of a team that makes a real difference to patients with complex neurological conditions has reminded me why I chose this career in the first place, and starting this role has been a real highlight of my year.

My proudest moment in 2025 was my 20 year old daughter being offered a place in pilot school for BA. She has always wanted to be a pilot from such a young age, we could never of afforded to pay for her to do this, but she kept following her dreams, and was offered a place on the BA pilot apprenticeship course. 

My Proudest moment this year was when I received an email detailing that I had been accepted to the Step Up To Social Work. After finishing uni during covid I had just been doing odd Jobs and working for various agencies, felt like I had no purpose and wasted my time doing a degree to not get a job to do with it. However after various examinations and interviews, I made it through and could not be happier. All glory be to God. I could not have been prouder !

This year I moved 3 hours away from my home in the south of the UK up north to be closer to my mum. She takes care of my very elderly grandparents alone and I wanted to help where I could and spend more time with them all. I was proud I was able to move all that way and find a new job after my contract ended at my job down south. I’d love to play the new fire emblem game on the Nintendo switch 2 when it comes out around February 2026 but affording a new games console is pretty hard right now - thanks for the opportunity ID

Luisa 

Launching my new business.

My happiest moment in 2025 was a trip to Madeira to compete in Masters Athletics, meeting new friends, one of whom invited my friends and I to her yoga retreat in the Madeira Mountains where we spent a wonderful evening wtih amazing views, doing yoga, sauna, pool and enjoying a nourishing meal. 

Travelling to America, on my own, to see my youngest son marry a wonderful lady, with his 6 year old son (from a previous marriage) by his side. My grandson clearly adores his stepmum.

I’d not been able to travel to see them for a couple of years and it was so good to renew that relationship properly - one that is kept alive through WhatsApp video calls.

I'm not a traveller by nature, so it takes a lot to get me to go to the other side of the world on my own, but it was definitely worth all the stress! I wouldn’t have missed it for the world, despite leaving my terminally ill partner in the care of others so that I could go. Our fantastic neighbours were such a help and reassurance. 
Definitely the highlight of 2025 for me!

Happy New Year everyone. 

My proudest achievement of 2025 was making a major career change and successfully passing my first certification exam on the path to becoming a Platform Architect. It was a huge step toward the future I want to build, and seeing that hard work pay off was incredibly rewarding.

My happiest moment of 2025 came in the early hours of the 31st of December.

It had been a terrible year.  In January I had been swimming in one of the lochs in Shetland.  It was bitterly cold in the water.  I should have been wearing my wetsuit, but was braving the cold in my budgie smugglers and a woolly hat.  Suddenly I felt a sharp pain in my leg and was dragged under the water.  I forced my eyes open despite the incredible pain to see a shark gnawing on my half-torn off leg.  I blacked out and when I came to there was one whole leg and one leg that was just strips of skin hanging down from the hip.  I had lost everything below the hip, the knee, the foot, the lot. There was plenty of blood in the water, but I managed to scramble to the bank and pull myself out of the water.  I knew some first aid so ripped the elastic from my budgie smugglers to fashion a tourniquet to stem the arterial bleed.

Somehow I managed to struggle to my car parked close by.  I dragged myself into the drivers seat, but the car having a manual gearbox meant that I needed a foot to press on the clutch pedal, and that foot was missing, and the stump of my leg wasn’t long enough to reach.  My remaining right foot could work the accelerator and brake pedals, but that was no use without the clutch.  I was beginning to rue the day that I had turned down an electric car, which had just two pedals.

It was 10 miles to the hospital, and no-one around for miles at this time in the morning.  I had no choice but to hop there.  Four hours later I passed out as I crashed through the hospital door.  From then on I was unconscious until a week later when I woke up in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.  I was connected to an array of drips and electronic monitoring machines.

I was in the hospital for a month before I started the physiotherapy, which I felt was unnecessary as I had proven my ability to hop 10 miles to the hospital.  Nevertheless I went through the motions and was then fitted with a prosthetic leg.  

A couple of weeks later I was let out of the hospital and was doing my best to get around on the fake leg.  All of the routine things that we do were so much harder: having a shower, riding my unicycle, dancing, doing star jumps etc.  

I fell into a deep depression, hardly able to motivate myself each day, so it was a miraculous life changing event when I woke up early in the morning on the 31st of December 2025.  The blankets were poking up more than usual so I looked under the sheets, and you will never believe what I saw… my leg had grown back overnight!!

We saved up and bought a car :)

After 5 years at university and 7 years post graduate training, I finally became fully qualified in my job in 2025!

My happiest achievement of 2025 was when I found out how to achieve inner happiness without any physical matter, it does sound easy but more that 80% are deeply struggling to find this. There is 400% increase in mental health services for children (in last 10y) and 80% increase in adult mental health service. The secret is easy to find but hard to accept.   

My happiest achievement this year was saving up enough to take the family to Disneyland Paris, and making beautiful memories that will last forever.