The stories you end up telling with pride are often from the hard years, not the easy ones.

Pride comes from having been tested, which is why the easy stretches leave you nothing to say. A year where everything went smoothly produces no story at all, while the year you got through something hard gives you a point of comparison and something you genuinely know about yourself. That is not an argument for seeking out difficulty. It is a reason to notice what you are already in.

If this is one of the hard ones, keep a short record: what happened, what you did. You will want the detail later.