5 years ago, I was assaulted.
I was working on a website at the time. Changing colours (Lemon Glacier or Rocket Metallic?), adding elements (popups or no popups?) and generally just making it look siiiiiick.
I was having a blast, working all day and also well into the night while pounding coffee and listening to obscure electronic music. It was all going well until I hit Command+R to refresh the page on my MacBook Pro.
Instead of beholding my beautiful website, I beheld an error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ā;ā in /public_html/wp-content/themes/generatepress/functions.php on line 182
Shit.
I refreshed the page again.
Same error.
Shit.
Ok, one more time Johnā¦
* presses Command + R with bated breath *
I stared at the circular loading frisbee in the menu bar as the browser tried to load my website one more time.
Annnnnnnnddddddddā¦
Same error.
Shit.
Shit shit shit shit shit.
Iād just spent days and nights building my website and now Iād broken it in all of 3 seconds.
Worse yet, I didnāt have a clue what Iād done wrong š¤¦āāļø
So I searched Google. For hours.
But even after hours, I still had no idea why it wasnāt working.
Eventually, I decided to investigate the functions.php file since it was mentioned in the error.
I looked through it carefully, hardly expecting to find anything wrong with it.
And lo and behold, there was NOTHING wrong with it.
At least, thatās what I thought at first.
But then I looked closer.
And closer still.
Thatās when I saw it.
A stray semicolon, hanging out where it should never have been hanging out, like a shady dude hanging around in a dark and secluded parking lot late at night.
It couldnāt be.
āThereās no way thatās the problemā, I told myself.
No fucking way.
I deleted the misplaced semicolon, saved the file and held my breath.
When I refreshed the pageā¦
ā¦it was back!
Iād saved my website šŖ
After that experience, I gave this semicolon a fitting name:
The semicolon of death.
While it was frustrating as all hell when it happened (because I had no idea what was wrong and therefore no idea how to fix it), once I figured it out, it all made sense and I breathed a sigh of relief.
Discovering the world of nervous system healing was like that too.
Iād struggled with various frustrating issues for so long without really understanding what was going on. I was told to work harder and be disciplined and meditate and ājust let it go manā.
But that didnāt work.
Then I discovered the world of nervous system healing and everything started making sense. I finally understood why I was the way that I was and more importantly, how to fix the problems.
It was a compete paradigm shift… and my life has never been the same since.
If youāre ready for a paradigm shift of your own, sign up to Rageheart when it opens in January 2023 and discover the weird and wonderful world of nervous system healing.
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Cheers,
John Wood