Sometimes it's better to let it go

The thoughts of humans are quite mysterious, and it can change with time. The reason can be anything. Sometimes because of the situation it changes automatically and sometimes it can be intentional. By the pros and cons change and that change of the interest of people and was well as the thoughts. In the earlier days someone could be passionate about a thing that can also change and in my case, there also exist such a thing. And for me it’s about programming.

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In my earlier age I was quite impressed by the word hacking as well as hackers. I first seen about the hacking activity in movies, but it was something that was capable enough to make me interested. I started to learn more about it and later I understood that I need to be a good programmer if I want to be a hacker. As more as I learned about it, I became more curious about it. Later I wanted to learn programming just because of pure love for it.

In the university, I didn’t’ get the computer science subject as my major but it never restricted me from practicing programming. I had many friends from the computer science department, and I used to get books on programming from them and many times I used to do programing with them. They used to mock me by saying that I was trying to steal the job spot from them. Even though I was not from the department I continued to learn about programming and learning about it. In that time pandemic situation arrived, and I figured out my writing skills also at the same time which I didn’t notice earlier days.

Because of writing blogs, I was getting paid and from time to time I tried to improve my writing skills and for that it started to demand more time. My passion for programming was also something and because of lack of time I needed to choose between writing and programming. Programming was not paying me while writing was paying me on regular basis. So, I chose to drop the idea of programming because I felt money was the most important thing for me and I figured out that I can go far with my writing if I keep going. In a word I feel that Success in writing was more certain compared to programming.

Because of that reason I chose to leave programming and embrace the path of writing even if I was passionate about programming at the beginning. I felt bad as I needed to leave it halfway which wasn’t in my plan anytime. But I never regretted the decision and with time I felt like it was the best decision for me. Right now, AI is something that can generate code for me easily. I think that my position could be replaced easily because of AI if I decided to go with programming. But now I am still sticking with writing and it’s something AI still to replace because AI can’t give human feeling in writing and it has a long way to go for it. So, the decision to stick with writing was a sustainable one and I feel good that I took the right decision few years ago.