Zen and the Art of Debugging

Total Record = 24, Records Passed = 23, Records Failed = 1. Damn...a bug in code!
The first time I saw a report like this I looked around me helplessly trying to reach out for someone to help me. My heart started racing and my head went blank. What would happen now? There was a bug in code! The whole world would come to an end!

5 years, millions of lines of code and thousands of bugs later when I see the same report, I smile to myself, take a deep breath and say “here we go”. Finding the damn bug becomes my sole purpose in life. The world blurs out. Everything else ceases to exist. It’s just me vs the software. I eventually trace down the misbehaving lines of code and after giving them a good reprimanding fix, the whole world is at balance again.

Now, only if I could apply the same philosophy to my life. When something about me bothers me or affects my mental, physical or spiritual balance, why can’t I focus on finding it, fixing it if I can or removing it if I can’t? Life would be a lot simpler wouldn't it? I'm sure debugging myself would be a lot more difficult than debugging software, but most of the time my pholosophy is just brood about it rather than focus on resolving it. I wonder how long it will take me to acquire the skill of debugging myself. I hope I can someday. It will help me find peace.