Errors in life

Imagine coding for 3 long hours, and when you compile it with great enthusiasm, the compiler starts showing a heap of errors. It really pisses you off, right? You get frustrated, you just put the device whatever you’re working on aside, go for a walk, watch a sunset, eat something and you try to get yourself free from that stress. And when you come back to the editor after a fall in your adrenaline levels, you start checking the errors from the top and you realize where you’ve made the mistake. You try to debug it, you take help from your peer programmers, you take help from your beloved Google and after a long battle between you and the compiler, you finally make the program error-free. You finally get the desired output.

What gave you the motivation to make the program bug-free in the first place? Why did you take it as a challenge? Why didn’t you just give it up?

The answer is, well, you know!

ERRORS.

You learn something new from every error. You analyze it and try not to make the same error again.

When someone tells that you made a mistake, it may piss you off, but eventually, you confront them, and you do whatever it takes to prove you right. 

But, the question is, do we really get to see errors in our real-life scenario?

For instance, when you realize that something’s going down in your relationship, do you get to see an error message like 

“Traceback (most recent call last):

  You made a wrong move "Yeah, I love you too!", day 2, this <week>

  LoveNotFoundError: No such feelings in you. “ 

We would love to get these kind of errors in our lives, right?

But the thing is, no one has programmed our lives in that way.

When you code a program and if it gives an error, whom do you blame?

The poor compiler?

Obviously, NO!

It was YOU who made a mistake and now it is gonna be YOU who debugs it.

Then, why do we blame the surroundings when it was you, the system, who made a wrong move in the past?

Think about it, it makes sense.

As we grow, we must remember three golden things.

Never stop learning.

Most of you may have heard this but lemme say that one more time. “If you’re the smartest one in the room, then you’re definitely in the wrong room.” Yeah, that’s solid. It’s never late to learn something new or improve your skills. There is always a better option. The key to finding that is to embrace yourself and do better the next time.

You don’t have a lot of time.

You’re always doing something. You will never be free. For instance, you’re reading this right now. But how can we manage time? How can you submit all your assignments before the deadline? The thing is, you need to prioritize productive and resourceful activities. If you think you’re so god damn free that you can examine the whole Amazon rainforest on Google earth, then something in near future seriously goes wrong. 

Every mistake is solely on you, not others.

Recall a few past events in your lives. When we realize that we’re tied up with an unhealthy group of people or a person, we don’t hesitate to put the blame on them, and in a flash, we say “I’m innocent. They made me do it. ” If you think about it, you weren’t in your senses when the decision making was going on, and that bug caused a serious problem in your life.

But, how can we debug errors in our daily life situations?

We can’t debug errors we made in our lives and reprogram them, but we have this special capability in us that even a computer doesn’t have in it - To permanently store the root cause of error in our memory.

With that, you’re always aware of that bug in your future. An error message pops in your mind whenever you try to repeat the same mistake.

Remember, there is nothing wrong to make a mistake. Without bugs, you cannot learn anything. But the spirit lies in how you analyze and debug it.

So, bugs are the greatest teachers. Happy teacher's day, bugs!

And, to wind up, I’m Sathwik, a sophomore year student in Computer Science Engineering.

Thanks for your time and patience, I hope you like this. You can reach me out through 

Twitter - @notsosathwik

and here’s my email - sathwikkothapalli99@gmail.com

I'd love to hear from you.

Signing off! Bu-bye!