Setbacks

And Silver Linings

2 min readJan 30, 2025

Have you ever been in a project and right at the most critical part of the development phase, everything goes wrong?

Your colleague who is critical to the dev process falls ill?

Through a series of unfortunate and regrettable mistakes, Windows needs to reinstall and wipe the data from your storage?

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Well… If only the only problem was that my PC needed to reinstall windows. No, when we merged our changes to the main branch, the main branch overwrote some of our progress for the last few days. Thankfully, we recovered our progress but the funny thing is there always seems to be something that goes wrong right at the most critical parts of development. But I’ve noticed that these setbacks are great opportunities where we can learn to overcome our doubts and come up with solutions.

Windows failing to boot with an Orange screen with white lines (never seen this before in my life)

Personally, I was worried that all my data for my Trailer Making Elective was completely and utterly wiped out but in fact it remained intact. Finding this out after 24 hours spent fixing my Windows PC was truly was the Silver Lining. In the midst of “it’s so over”, I found within me an invincible “we’re so back”