Hello, and once again thank you all for taking time out to help all of us MBA-wannabes

I'm working on this HEC question: What do you consider your most significant life achievement?

I would like to write about my decision to leave my job last year in order to spend time traveling and ultimately decide to pursue a European MBA. It was a difficult decision to make because until that point I had been rising quickly in my sector and job function, but knew that I was not challenged, did not have the opportunity for international exposure, and did not have a clear path to my goal of working in business development in emerging markets.

My question: is this a bit, well, corny? While this was very much a big deal to me, I worry about how it reads. But I also can't think of anything else that I would consider my greatest life achievement--listing my professional achievements may make me seem a bit vapid, and unfortunately my industry was such that I worked far too much to volunteer.

I also worry about if this will culturally translate--I know there are many places, particularly in Europe, where time off of work is easier to come by--I don't want the impression to be that I'm writing about a holiday as my greatest life achievement.

Thank you for your input!