I'm going to post soon about ARML, but just for myself I want to make an outline of what my career in math has been like (in a kinda-sorta order of what I'm most proud of):

2015 TST Group
2014 USAMO HM
2014 Blue MOP
Gold Medal score on 2015 APMO (even if the competition was jank)
2015 ARML Top 20
2013 PUMaC Algebra Top 10
2014 ELMO Silver Medal
2015 Who Wants to be a Mathematician National Champion

and that's basically it. Objectively, I'm very happy with my career - my freshman year, I thought making JMO was an impossible feat. But so many of my friends have done so much better, and have not only done better in math but are also gods at cs/physics/research as well. In every competition, I see kids as young as 7th grade doing amazingly and I can't help but feel pretty inferior. And even those who haven't spent as much time as me seem happier, as that group of friends all do so many different things, have gf's, etc...

On the aops thread where Holden Lee posted his famous essay, there's a post that goes somewhat along the line of "the AIME qualifier wishes he made USAMO, the USAMO qualifier wishes he made MOP, the MOPper wishes he made TST, the TSTer wishes he made IMO, the IMOer wishes he got gold, the gold medalist wishes he got a perfect." And it's really true. Now that my math career is over (at least from the student/competitor side), I've started focusing on higher math and other, completely unrelated skills. And also, on improving my dismal date life . And overall, I think I'm going to be a lot happier as I wean myself away from competition. Maybe that's something to think about for anyone reading this blog post.