In spite of the joys of being able to use your mind to bring pleasure, you can, as mentioned before, bring sorrow. It’s normal to feel pain to some extent. This is a normal mechanism of defense. If you put your hand in boiling water, by the time you would react to the pain, or see blisters, your finger would be covered in blisters.

That’s where the brain kicks in, and saves the day. It immediately, or more exact in a fraction of a second (10 to the power -3 if you’re math-friendly, retracts the finger. This saves it from being destroyed.

Ok so that’s normal, what’s abnormal, then ?

Well think about the things that bring psychological pain.

Things you think you want, don’t, but force yourself to believe you do.

How’s that work ??

Simple. Everybody plays the lottery, and everyone wants a billion dollars. They have no idea what to do with that money, they don’t need it, and here’s the pitfall. If they don’t get a billion, 1000$ isn’t good enough.

Sound like you? Sorry, life doesn’t work on an “all or nothing” basis.

Another common pitfall is people don’t pace themselves. You can’t run a marathon directly, without proper training. Most surely you would collapse or die. Now that isn’t much fun, is it ?

Take small steps, baby steps even, especially when trying something new. Even baby steps counts when you go into the right direction!

That’s the only way I eventually got the hang of programming in C++.

With small steps.

Today a bit, tomorrow a bit more, so on …. and we can achieve almost any goal.

It’s not important to rush and succeed by any means. The journey is more important than the destination, no matter where you are “going”.

And as that old Chinese proverb states :

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with ones step”