Yesterday, my website broke.
And as anyone who has ever built websites knows… there’s a million things that could’ve caused it.
Fortunately, it was still functional, just all of my theme settings were seemingly erased or there was some major facelift that messed everything up.
Now for context, my previous settings were in place for several years. And, as the saying goes, it wasn’t broke… so I didn’t fix it.
But, once it did break… rather than wreak havoc on everybody and anybody who could’ve been involved or spend a handful of hours trying to troubleshoot the exact (sometimes ridiculously minor) issue… I simply looked at it as a signal for it being time…
…Time to take a fresh look. Time to upgrade from where it was several years ago. Time to question everything about the user experience and re-create new settings from scratch.
Because while the pain of having things break is that you have to fix them… sometimes that’s the excuse you needed (and didn’t know you were waiting for) anyway.
P.s. How To Stay Calm When Things Break – A Buddhist Teaching.