Challenge
Losing
Write about something you spent hours or days on and you ended up failing.
A beautiful finished project
I spent a month building a beautiful cabinet for our kitchen.
A month of sanding, sawing, and painting, repeating "measure twice, cut once" because my last project had finished after multiple trips to the hardware store for more wood.
And I was done.
Finally.
I mounted it in the kitchen and asked my wife what she thought.
"Did you measure it correctly?"
"Of course!"
My wife stretched out on tip-toes, fingers swiping just shy of the iron handle.
"Did you measure ME correctly?"
Shit.
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