[LIFE] My developer life - 1: stuggle and success

I'm 19 and I've been in love with programming since I was just a little kid in kindergarten.

Now, if you don't mind, I'll tell you my life story.

In the kindergarten, after lunch, we had to go to sleep, so we'd be able to regain energy to run around and play outside later. But as you might imagine, I was never the kind of kid that'd go to sleep, so instead of sleeping I'd play by myself. The guardians at the kindergarten didn't like that, because I was loud and was disturbing other people while they were sleeping, so they've shown me a room, in which there was a computer. It was a loud white machine, that was slow as hell, but it was my first PC that I've ever seen, so I was fascinated. I tried to work out what that machine was and what it was supposed to do, and when I figured out how to work with it, it changed from a white boring box to a magical box. At that moment I felt my life changing. I started learning how to type, write texts, tried to figure out what every program does and also figured out, that there were some things that were made weirdly and I'd like to change.

Back then I didn't have any knowledge, all I've known was how to move a mouse and use a keyboard. That was in early 20s, so the OS was probably windows 95. Later that year, the guardians at the kindergarten told my parents that I've spent a lot of time behind a computer screen, and I liked it, so my mom decided that she's going to get me a computer. Well, it wasn't MY computer, but our household just got a new member. I was ready to use it almost instantly, but first we had to connect it to a monitor, mouse and a keyboard. When a guy, who came to install our PC, started working on it, I was looking over his shoulder all the time. After he left, I decided to use the computer, came to the PC, pressed the power button and... nothing. That was the most discouraging I've ever felt in my life until then, but then my mom came and pressed the button on the monitor and... boom, it was working.

That really was the most magical moment I've ever experienced in my life so far. I finally felt the freedom that the PC brought to me.
But then, as you probably expected, something didn't go as planned. Parents.

To be continued...