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Ars Longa, Vita Brevis
Art is long, life is short.
One of my greatest fears is leaving this world without ever adding to it something meaningful that changes people’s lives for the better.
For many years I thought this would be my experience with Software Engineering. I wanted to make an app that makes life easier.
Everything has already been done before.
There are no more original ideas. There’s a pretty good chance that anything you try to create has already been done before. We live in an age of ingenuity: People create art and art changes lives. This is the way it should be. But for many people that chance will never manifest.
I decided to create with my words instead. I had stories living inside my mind even before I started high school. To this day, some of those stories have not been told before by other people or in different angles. Writing is the only avenue left to us that we can create something genuinely new.
But even that has its limitations. You will not create a winged fire-breathing scaly beast, and won’t name it a Dragon.
Even if you do create something truly yours, people need to have a point of reference. So they won’t call it a Dragon, but they will say it’s like a Dragon. That defeats your purpose.
