When you have worked on something for hours, days, weeks, months or even years, after finishing the project, you look at it, feeling so so proud of yourself, wanting to share it with the whole world. Like "look at this! Look at what I made! I'm so proud!" And you know other people will react positively.
But then, they don't. They critique your project, the one you spent so long on, feeling like you really perfected it, like it's the absolute best you can do, only to have people bash on it, say it's not as good as you think it is. Not even that, but saying it's barely good enough.
It crushes your soul, all that happiness, the excitement, the proudness you felt? It's gone. And all you can think of is "Was I stupid for feeling so proud of it..?"
And you really did do your best, and you wonder why it's barely even passing as good enough, when there are people, doing the same thing, with no motivation, and they just splatter some stuff on their project and they get people saying it's barely good enough to pass.
All that time and effort you spent, is compared with something someone made, who could give less fucks about what the judgement of other people would be.
And now, you sit there, feeling stupid for thinking it was something to be proud about, something to feel excited about.
It's the first thing you've felt proud of in ages, only to have it be torn apart.
Are you proud?
You shouldn't be.
