I realize it’s sort of strange a conclusion to come to so relatively late, but over the last few days, I think I’m on the verge of learning this:

Don’t give up.

There’s been a few moments, at work especially, where I’ve watched other people do this: They formulate some really good concept, get really excited about it, then when someone questions it, or says that initially, it doesn’t sound totally awesome, they completely abandon it, and start again from scratch. Three times in the last three days, I’ve heard this happen to one idea or another, and I was on the verge of doing it myself out of a sense of profound frustration.

But the point is that questioning doesn’t mean your idea is bad. Not being able to explain it properly the first time doesn’t mean you won’t get the point across the next time. If you know an idea is good, that it’ll work, that it can and SHOULD be done, that you don’t just fucking quit the first time someone says, “Maybe that won’t work.”

I guess it’s sort of strange. Maybe it’s that I’m so used to having ideas vetted by “Authorities” that when someone who has some authority says, “no,” I say, “ok,” just out of habit, even if I shouldn’t. So, yeah. I don’t know what the moral is, I suppose, other than that if you know something’s the right thing to do, don’t fucking roll over and die the first time someone puts up even a minor obstacle. While I’m talking about this issue in regards to my personal life, I’d *really* appreciate it if the Democratic Party would learn this lesson right fucking now.