failure

The famous quote from Edison about his success in finding multiple ways of how not to so a lightbulb pretty  much sums up my todays progress working on the writing platform. In a sense I didn't make any progress on it today despite working on it for several hours. I did however learn a lot about modern JavaScript and how not to do things.

Admitting you have failed is hard. And even after you have accepted it yourself and spoken it out openly its not easy to discuss about it. It's so easy to get defensive or only look at the good sides. At least publicly. On the other hand it's too easy to go through those negative things in your head and disregard the good things.

The balance is somewhere there in between. You need to admit not everything went as planned. But there is always something good never the less. At least you tried. There is no bigger failure than not trying. Or giving up after just one try.