Everyone of us surely had been in an extraordinary situation where in we best exhibited our best qualities.
Well, my best experience was when I was 19 years old.
I was on my on-the-job training. There was a team building activity where we had to get across 6 mountains. Yes! 6 of them. We were walking for about 6 hours knowing that we could use a four wheeler vehicle to get across that huge mountains. I really wanted to collapse at that time so that my friends would help me get across. I wanted to be that selfish.
But I thought,… a moment like that was a test of courage and determination.
Luckily, I passed the test. There was a hot spring at the end of the trail. A nice reward for a powerfully unthinkable hardship.
When I graduated distinguished honor grad at my AIT (MOS training for the military). The best even prior to that was 7 1/2 weeks before when I graduated from Basic Training.