This puzzle was fresh and new when I started, I had a fair amount of confidence it was going to be easily solved. Answers fell onto the page pretty quickly and I was seeing how the end would go from the way the beginning was progressing. But somewhere a number didn't fit, well that's odd, but I can just keep going and that will probably resolve itself easy enough, sometimes that happens you know. Problems just sort themselves out on their own sometimes, right? But then another number didn't fit and another number that I was sure had to go in a square made another number in an adjacent square not work anymore. What's going on here? I buckle down and try harder but the more I try the more wrong answers I get. Finally, I quit trying and go to the answer section. I'm not going to cheat, just get a little help. I start erasing wrong answers, but I don't write down the correct ones, that would be cheating, I just need a reset to get rid of the wrong answers. Fair enough right? I'm human, I make mistakes right? Right. Then I go back to work, this time with less enthusiasm but still I'm going to get this puzzle done for sure. The trouble is the page is messy from erasing all the wrong numbers and the new numbers don't look so spiffy as I write over the erased squares, but, with a little more help from the answers section I get it under control and pretty soon the puzzle is complete. All the numbers are right now and I made it to the end. Not like I expected, the puzzle is tarnished and no one is giving me accolades for a puzzle well done, my head droops a little and I go on to the next puzzle. Time goes on and eventually I have completed a whole book of puzzles, some well done, most rather mediocre, a few done really badly. This puzzle book is my life, at one point enthusiastic and full of answers, but eventually tarnished and just glad to get by with whatever help I could find along the way. No greatness here, never have been great, never will be, but that's OK, daydreams of greatness don't bring greatness, Greatness brings its own set of problems that I don't want anyway, so I'll just keep on doing what I know best- getting it done the best I can with whatever help I can find.
