I Still Think I Am Right

When I was doing design in school, for my FYP I was doing a residential project where it was marketed as a dwelling for a rich author. Therefore she lives alone in a giant house where I incorporated a indoor garage. She would be able to drive her car into her house, and then turn right into the kitchen, or turn left and up the stairs to the second storey, or walk down a short corridor straight ahead to reach the waiting and living room area.

My lecturers had snorted, and said that driving your car into your house is SUCH A SILLY IDEA. Who would do that?

I reasoned that you spend 1k on your handphone and you wont leave it out in the rain, why wouldnt anyone want to park their 100k car indoors if they can help it? And gloat about it?

Dont argue! They warned, and insisted on me removing this design element.

I refused, and argued for 4 weeks with them, until I felt so depressed about my project, my concepts, my ideas and I had no idea how to continue with the project.

(I eventually finished the project, with the garage intact, but entire project not fully developed because I'd spent weeks arguing with lecturers why my idea will work!)

Up to this day, I still think I am right, only that I regretted that I'd never completed the project.
Given me now, 3 short years of ID experience to my name, I know how to do the project in a way that it would look 10 times better, and if I have the time, and the energy, I would want to redo the project, and close this chapter to my life. Forget about how inept I was. And move on.

But what brought me to blog about this? This.