Quite an interesting and motivational story thanks for sharing and also congratulation on your ranking up. I would had loved to share my story here but as you can see I'm almost a Hero member too and I have already drafted out my celebration post so i won't want to be a spoiler. Truely it isn't easy ranking up to hero especially when you're just an average user like myself, currently I'm counting down my days too just as you were doing few months back (as stated in your OP) before the introduction of the merit system hopefully nothing new spoils my celebration