Confidence Breakdown. As I stood up from my chair, I walked across the white board which imprinted a genuine piece of invention. The logic behind the equation was clear and it missed a missing piece of the puzzle. The red color on the white board contrasted with the plain background. The thought was to clear up the equations and restrict the values to zero which just went vague with the Denominator of 0. A piece of this crafted equation was messed up pretty badly. "Whats going on? Just the last leg. Finish it damnit", I said to myself.
Just from a little distance my colleague shouted, 'lets call it a day!'. I generally drove back home with him and two other guys. I immediately replied back nodding to his statement. I desperately needed more time for this.
Nearly ten minutes went down since he stated to leave for home. I was still at the same piece of the problem but what got worse, the crawling to the last leg of the race was taken aback with a pits stop in midst. I erased a few numbers without even thinking of the consequence. 'Ahh... I wished for it to complete before we left', told my friend. He just smiled back. 'Well I think you shouldn't break your head on the problem at the end of the day', he replied. Somewhere he was right.
When you so desperately want something to work, you would do anything for it. I couldnt keep myself resting and believing the problem wasnt figured out.
I knew the final solution, I was inventing the path to it. I thought of it just as I hit the bed; right before catching sleep; moments after I woke up. There was this faction of time, and it struck me: I was forgetting the earlier part of the equation, the numbers were fading. I started to look more confused on the problem. As an analogy, think of closing in the dark spaces without anything stated there. The purpose for you being there is unknown. So how did you reach there and what lies ahead? I was smirking at myself. This was rock bottom of my confidence!!.
When I reached back at my desk, I was at the same place but the things had
changed. I made myself realize one thing, 'I have hit the worst of this. All I can do is bounce back from here'. A food for self regaining.
Whether I got the solution to my equation became a different story after all.