A Poem

On occasions/often (delete as appropriate) while you code you will come face to face with problems that seem insurmountable. There seems as though there is nothing you can do, everything is going wrong, and you can't face your monitor.

For when this happens, read this poem, and it might bring a smile to your face and give you the motivation to tackle the problem head on, and just maybe, prove yourself wrong, and do it.

Somebody said that it couldn’t be done,
    But, he with a chuckle replied
That "maybe it couldn’t," but he would be one
    Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
    On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
    That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you’ll never do that;
    At least no one has done it";
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,
    And the first thing we knew he’d begun it.
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
    Without any doubting or quiddit,
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
    That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
    There are thousands to prophesy failure;
There are thousands to point out to you one by one,
    The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle it in with a bit of a grin,
    Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
    That "couldn’t be done," and you’ll do it.

                                                by Edgar Albert Guest

I am going to frame this and have it next to me for all those moments when it seems like it can't be done, when in fact it can.