My meteor tales

It has been like more than 2 years now since I started working on Meteor JS.

In my early learning days in Meteor JS, I was excited to learn new things. But the biggest issue I faced at that time, was Meteor was still a new framework and its community support on its own forum was not as good as stack overflow. So when I was struggling through the Logical flow, syntaxes and many more things, I bombarded meteor forum with like 30 posts (In last 1 year). I don't know whether I was fortunate or not, but I got replies on 22 posts. Now the question was, many in Meteor community complain that Meteor forum lacks in providing support. I was also one of them.

But after completing like 2 years with Meteor JS now, I have a different perspective. Now I realize the problem was never with meteor JS (Forum or community support anywhere). The problem was in me or let's say in us (developers). The forum is not a mine where you go and start digging for stuff and start getting some output, it works as a trading system. it's not some organization serving free lunch for those who need it. We are Meteor Community. We are Meteor. It can't work on take and take system. Because if we keep going there as a help seeker, then Meteor is one of the fastest growing Javascript framework, at some point we are going to see our post not getting any replies. As the community increases, the help requests increases. But what about the people who were offering help to these help seekers? They cant help us all. So i got the answer to my own question. the forum looks dead because of us. We are only going there to seek help, not to help others. That's what I learned from my experience with meteor JS.

Now that I know what problem is, I already have solution for this. I am still learning this but I am still ahead of many people who are still learning it. So, my solution is to go to meteor forum on regular basis and keep the community alive. its really painful to use words like the community is dead because of no responses. I was using such words before myself. Now when I look on myself a year back, I was a trouble creator. Now I have started Going on the forum on a regular basis, to help people. It feels good after helping someone and keeping the faith of community.

So to summarise this all, I would conclude this with this on single proverb.

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. When you're finished changing, you're finished. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself."