As I have described previously, in March I came away from a conference excited and energetic about working with a friend of mine on political software, and enthusiastically volunteered to work on the mayoral campaign in my city, for a moderate candidate. Voting day was in late October, and I was confident in my ability and enthusiasm to come through for my friend and my candidate. It turned out to be a difficult summer for me emotionally and politically however, and in ways which deserve detailed description, I consistently failed to deliver.
Nonetheless, I never did completely drop the ball, and fortunately neither did my faithful friend who, to my surprise, ended up calling on me in the final week, and I was able to deliver some results in time to be of use during the campaign.
And following that, I was able to finally deliver some items which I had originally promised - eight months later, but done, and extremely satisfying. I was very grateful for the continued confidence of my friend M., as my self esteem had been crippled by my own inability to get on the ball, but guess what? It was all in my mind! It always is folks.