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I've finally did it.
After ten long years of playing, I've finally beaten the game.
I can now officially look into anyone's eyes, walk into them and say with all the confidence: "I defeated the Ender Dragon."
...in 1.8.9, but that's the story for another time.

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Since Beta 1.7, I've made tens of hundreds of Survival worlds, but I've never come close enough to even finding a stronghold. I'd either forget about the world entirely, or ragequit after walking into a lava ocean in the Nether, or corrupt it by upgrading to a newer version and lose all my progress, or find another excuse not to do that. Like, in most of them, I haven't managed to find even a singular diamond vein, let alone crafting the Eyes. But this one is a different case. After crafting a whole set of enchanted diamond armor and tools (including a hoe; Yeah, I'm a weirdo) and brewing some strength potions, I launched my first Eye in the sky, and then...
I got The Feeling. Not just any other feeling I had every single day, but The Feeling. The Feeling that I'm reaching something I could've never reach in my life. The Feeling that I'm about to become something more than an average Minecraft player. And that Feeling completely took over my body and gave me the power and the will to proceed further and further. I literally spent a whole hour locating and finding the End portal. Filling the frames, one by one, The Filling became stronger and stronger, so I could almost see it, smell it, feel it.
My paranoic half wanted me to backup my world in case I fall into the void and die without any memory of my revolutionary world left, while my even more paranoic half was afraid about my files not working properly after I do that, but I still did the backup - and God, do I thank my past self for that. The second after I spawned in the End on an open platform and tried to bridge to the main island, the Dragon charged at me and pushed me off. I immediately logged off and reconsidered all my life choices.
On second take I used my Power II bow to shoot down the Minecraft boss (I suck at aiming, so it took me almost two stacks of arrows) and watched it blow up into thousands (as it seemed) of EXP orbs. Then I read through the entire End poem, cried about it for a while, drank some Redbull and logged off.

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I still haven't fully accepted the fact that I've beaten Minecraft in Survival with no cheats. It took me ten long years to experience The Feeling on vanilla Minecraft, and I'll probably do it again sometime. At the time, I'll probably defeat the Wither while I'm at it. Thank you for listening!