I discovered why at 33
By Newton Ray “The two most important days of a man’s life are the days on which he was born and the day on which he discovers why” - Mark Twain I embraced Software Engineering shortly after I woke up from a hunger-induced nap (another day's story!) with an idea to build an online platform that would change the course of social. That was on February 11, 2018 in my little studio apartment in Lagos, Nigeria. I was 30 already. As a journalist with Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in English Language and Literary Studies that should naturally be a mere dream, a day dream, in fact, - usually less in hierarchy in the variation of meaningful dreams - in my opinion, of course. I told myself I was disillusioned; hunger was the apparent cause. I will get up, get something to eat and get on with my life. But it’s exactly three years today, the voice of that idea has contin