… I’ve forgotten what I’ve started fighting for.
It’s always easy to sit and do nothing when things go wrong. It’s easy to just let the problems exist as they are or to hope that someone else will take a crack at solving things all on their own. It’s hard to make that initial effort to get issues resolved and put everything back on track so that once again all is well.
In working on a TinyOS crash course for my adviser, I ran into a problem when installing everything on Windows. There appeared to be a bug in the source code, which would make compiling programs difficult. I could just let this bug be and hope that someone else will fix the problem and wait for them to check in a corrected version. Living with the bug in place would make Windows TinyOS programming pretty miserable. Then I realize that this is the reason why I am here. Instead of letting things be and suffering, I can try my best to fix the bug and make things work again.
Sometimes I must give to those which benefit me, whether it be to those who provide open source projects or to others who have made my life what it is. To stay the course and overcome difficulty, there are times when I must remember that this world is a two way street. When things come unglued, I must contribute in order to make the world right again.
Even if the problem beyond repair and things cannot return to how they once were, I can say that at the very least I made a solid effort.
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