Year One

It's been one year. Yes, I have finally become an "experienced" software professional. Yesterday marked the completion of one year of life in the "real world", a life radically different from the college life we had. I still remember the night of June 21, 2004. I came back to my hotel room, depressed beyond measure. I told my parents that I dont want to go back. Maybe the experience wouldn't seem so bad now (now that I an "old hand"), but then, my first taste of the real world was bitter indeed. And thus started a 3 month ordeal that in the end, left me hopeless, ready to give up on this cruel cruel world. Then things started happening fast, and before long, all signs of my former life were eradicated. The memories took the longest to disappear but even they eventually left, leaving me with happy memories and experiences. And here I am now, 22, and still going strong, stronger from all the countless hardships that life threw at me in just one year. I know that I have a long long life ahead (oh I tend to be optimistic about my lifespan) and what I have dealt with, as of now, is just a small taste of things to come. But Year One has served to make me stronger and more capable of withstanding 'the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune'.

"I think I am ready to do this.. Finally..."