Life Lesson

"Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try."
- Homer Simpson

OK, though I don't fully endorse that quote. It does somewhat represent how I feel right now. So I did this project, put a ton of work into it in hopes of winning an awesome prize, but unfortunately was not one of the top three spots in the end, and not one of the winners of the prize.

The hardest part was my peers saying stuff like: "wow, Eldon that is so awesome" ... "you are gonna win for sure." So I totally made the mistake of putting myself up on a higher pedestal and getting myself psyched up to win, only to have it come crashing down in one painful swoop. K, so all the time I was telling myself "Hope for the best, expect the worst" ... unfortunately the latter half of that comment was in jeopardy given the excitement from the first half.

Was I happy I tried? absolutely. I mean if all the other submissions sucked, than maybe I would have won... but that wasn't the case, the others were gooood. Obviously even better than mine. It's more of a hindsight thing in which I wish I hadn't used so much time on it, but it was fun, and it was a learning experience. blah, blah, blah.

I'm pissed, I won't lie. But I am super happy with those who won. I just wish I was one of them.