On Monday, 19 March 2018 at 00:08:58 UTC, Manu wrote:
On 18 March 2018 at 17:00, Manu <turkey...@gmail.com> wrote:
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I want to just justify my apparent over-reaction... I think I'm
not
the only one that feels this way fairly often.
Something that seems trivial only invokes over-reaction of this
nature
when there is sufficient emotional energy behind it.
In my case, that is represented by investing a decade of my
life into
something based on the promise (**wishful thinking?) that it'll
get to
the point where I want it to be as a tool to do my work... but
then
slowly awakening myself to the reality that that's actually
unlikely
to happen, and the longer it takes, the less likely that
eventual
reality becomes.
Perhaps it's breaking a delusion I imposed on myself years ago,
but it
still produces a feeling of being robbed of time and energy.
Anyway, I suspect I'm not the only one that reaches this point
and
tends to feel this way. I've seen a lot of good people come and
go
after they 'burn out' in some way. Patience is finite.
There's no action item here... just wanted to share a
reflection, and
perhaps there's some takeaway for the community with respect to
priorities?
Perhaps the community simply has different priorities than you?
For example, my Android port has never gotten much use either,
which is fine as I primarily did that work for myself.
Nevertheless, you have to think of D as like working in a
startup: if you see something that you think needs doing, you
have to drive it yourself or it will never get done. Pretty much
the same for most any OSS project too.
