Well, here’s the thing… everyone has a bad day but bad day’s are always relative to your usual day. So, even though I’m more depressed today than any other day I can remember, there is always something to smile about.

About a month ago we established a working relationship with Governor Rockefeller (current Lt. Governor and republican candidate for the 2006 election). We didn’t tell anyone because we wanted to get further on production. The people that it leaked out to were really excited for us and it was already drumming up new business for us. We were going to make a show-stopping web application with all the bells and wistles. Integrated shopping carts, contributions that followed state/federal laws, blogs, media centers, multiple user accounts, email management, RSS feeds, content management, and more! We made plans to modulize all of it so that we could start developing a new niche (political campaigns).

Today we got word that Rockefeller dropped out of the Governor’s race due to health reasons.

Now, although I’m extremely upset and I wish it didn’t work out this way, I know that I would rather be in my shoes than in Governor Rockefeller’s shoes. I know that no matter what happens to this accout, there are a number of other accounts that need my focus, a number of other accounts that are still in the prospecting stages, and now I have the ability to focus on a new product.

When you get a new account it’s equivalent to winning a big baseball game, getting a surprise birthday party, or winning an election. But when you lose an account it feels like you just struck out in the big baseball game, everyone forgot your birthday, or you lost an election. To win feels awesome… but to lose feels twice as worse.

Being upset is a hard feeling to describe but when I take a step back and look at the big picture I like to think its okay. I think Butters said it best in a South Park episode a couple months ago. He said something like:

In order to know what being sad is like you’ve had to have some really good times so I just take the good with the bad