Option-B is not really this bad

It was 11:30 pm. only thirty minutes before the deadline for the CS assignment. I did my best to turn it in before the deadline, however, one of my friends was struggling; the code didn't run no matter how hard he tried. He kept trying and trying, but nothing happened at all, only more bugs started revealing themselves. My friend is of this resilient type who wants to do everything himself, so he refused my help. Although, as expected, he missed the deadline, he kept trying on his undebuggable, unrunnable code because he believed that the TA might forgive him if he only turned it in after the deadline by one, two, or even three hours. That's what he thought, then. Finally, after four hours past the deadline, he quitted and decided to sleep. He told me the next day that he started writing the code all over again in the morning and it only took him half an hour to finish and submit it. To cut a long story short, he got better grades at this assignment because he only turned it late, while I missed some crucial parts of the assignment because I was in a hurry.

A lot of times, we become like my friend. We keep clinging to Option-A forgetting the there are a lot of other Options, while if we just accepted Option B, we can still achieve great results. As Sheryl Sandberg said in her book Option B, “Option A is not available. so let's just kick the shit out of Option B. Life is never perfect. We all live some form of Option B.” Option B can be regarding a career path, a college, a major, a course with a certain professor, a lover, a status quo, or a group of friends. Just as Sheryl said, option A is not always available. And it is our own choice to either keep whining about it forever or “kick the shit out of Option B.” I know that it is counterintuitive, but sometimes quitting is our best options. Some courses of action, as hopeful as they are at first, leads to nowhere at the end. And as the saying goes, we are not trees. We can change. Our techniques are just a means to an end, and we have to changes them as long as they did not help us attain the results that we wanted.