Hello future me, I hope you're doing well, scratch that I know you will be doing well. Tell me about what you do, my wild guess is you're taking names and kicking ass because that's what you do. This article is to remind you of the beginning, yes the very beginning, it wasn't always bed of roses and I bet it still isn't, so if anyday you doubt yourself or your willpower is on a low, I want you to come back to this article for a gentle reminder of where you came from.

I graduated from the university not sure about what to do with my degree, as a chemical engineering graduate in Nigeria, jobs are not that easy to come by, I've always had interest in technology particularly AI and robotics, but being in Nigeria made it tough to delve into those interests. I loved chemical engineering, I indeed loved her, for a great part of my life she was my one true lover, but soon our love would become sour due to the fact that we were never a point of culmination.

Soon I started eyeing lady AI, she welcomed me with opened arms, treated me nicely, yes there were some rollercoaster moment in our relationship, nonetheless I stayed faithful to her , I still love her tup until the point of writing this article, but along the way I discovered that if I was to fully appreciate her I needed to improve in one area which is software development, I am a decent math student, but was a bad programmer, hence I can't provide lady AI with all the love and attention she truly deserves, so I had to leave her to pursue a journey of software development enlightenment.

I hated Java, with all my being I had absolute disdain for Java, while in the university I had an encounter with Java and it was a bitter one, but python was a darling from the very beginning, less boilerplate code, easier to understand and all the beautiful things the snake language had to offer, but if I'm to appreciate my lady better I knew I had to take on Java (for reasons best known to me), prior to my journey of software development enlightenment, I saw a whole lot of my friends living there like nomads and I said to myself "I'll never leave AI", little did I know that I'd have to embark on this journey for me to have full appreciation of my love.

Fastforward to this very day and I can tell you that I my hatred for Java has turned to absolute and undying love, turns out I encountered Java at the wrong time and in the wrong place, I guess there is an optimized time and place for everything. Java just like any other language has it's own challenges, but I don't see them as challenges, I see them as a way to better myself and to be a better programmer.

At this point, I'm doing a lot on springboot, because of my love for backend, why backend? well it's backend what's there to hate?, personally I like keeping a low profile and being behind the scenes, because I believe that's where all the fun is, along the way I picked up a frontend too, because it turns out I like seeing my work come to fruition and frontend provides me with such ability. Truth be told there are days I feel like a superstar and plenty days I feel like crap, on days I feel like crap it is hard to write a single line of code, even the simplest "hello world", but I remind myself on those days who I am doing it for, and the short answer is I'm doing it for myself, because I really want to have an impact in the tech space, so one crappy feeling is not going to stop me from pushing to make this impact, my goal is weightier than the crappy feeling. Now on the flipside the superstar feeling is as dangerous as the crappy feeling, because the ecstasy the superstar feeling provides makes it seem like you have arrived, but never forget this is just the beginning. This is a rollercoaster ride, whether you're up or down, don't stop moving.