I never know whether to celebrate minor accomplishments, or casually dismiss them (albiet in a way that other people can hear me casually dismiss them, just in case my accomplishments were, in fact, 'all that'). Please bear in mind that, by minor accomplishments, i don't mean 'remembering my car needs more water' or 'not pretending to be ill at some point this year'. I mean things that matter, like 'inventing a way in which my car would never need water ever again', or 'winning an award for not pretending to be ill at some point this year' (which I did once, as it happens).
Minor accomplishments are exactly that - at best, the little things that add up to a proper accomplishment. If you get excited about the little things, then upon accomplishing the proper accomplishments, one may implode, or spasm a bit too much. The proper accomplishments may never come into being at all; if minor accomplishments, in the wild, are confused as their more esteemed siblings, why try achieving a 'Proper' if you feel you've already achieved a 'Proper'? You wouldn't even be aware that you hadn't achieved a P Grade, not until it's too late. Confusion abound.
Inevitably, I suggest a grading system for accomplishments - certificates, logos, and points to spend on things like poorly made apparel based on the identity of grading system itself. If we come up with a mascot (say, some sort of cat in a t-shirt giving a thumbs up), then we can put it on a baseball cap and leave it at that. To be fair, we've been here before.
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