Patience

I have had this dream of becoming a developer (and an entrepreneur) since I was a little boy. The life struggles made me take several different paths, but I'm finally making this dream come true. I have been studying and working with code since 2019, but only recently I started to feel like I really knew what I was doing. One of the mistakes I made was trying to learn fast. In order to finish a project as soon as possible, I often left lots of concepts partially understood. Then, the next time I needed to use it, I couldn't remember it properly, and felt frustrated and an impostor. I didn't believe I was making any progress and I always had that feeling of not being good enough.

Your biggest dream will find you, no matter how long it takes

But, for some reason, I kept trying. Eventually, I realised: there is a place for me here. I belong here. And by "here", I mean the coding ecosystem. Suddenly, some bits of code once crypt and obscure started making sense and actually were really easy to understand. I started remembering patterns of code used for building certain tasks. Things started seeming familiar. I started feeling at home. I felt like my biggest dream had found me. And I started seeing that this was my game, and my mission, and my why, and my ikigai. I am just starting this journey and I intend to build lots of awesome things, as a developer and as an entrepreneur. And I will share this journey here. Would you join me?