Paths

You really never know where your path may lead to. Planning is an art form, it is not meant to be a rigid guide, the goal is supposed to remain as the only constant while the road there should be flexible. Changing daily as variables and input comes in from the environment. The only way to know what got you here, is by looking back, connecting the dots, and trusting the process.

My goal has always been grounded in this need to pass down something. This something was an amalgamation of a form of parenthood I needed, love in the language I speak, and financial freedom to create or teach.

More importantly, I want these ends to be reached within justifiable means. No shortcuts, no ethical barriers breached. So whoever I meet and whoever I raise can understand, by example, a definition of success that empowers not via wealth alone. Wealth is simply a byproduct and to prove such a theory would be such a beautiful, living and tangible, life lesson to share. Ending a generation of trauma once and for all.

I am a firm believer in the butterfly effect. Especially after seeing it in action for the first time in my life. How small authentic selfless decisions on the internet in 2022-2023, can snowball into something larger than ourselves. This beautiful thought of how 1 simple action by ordinary people, simple selfless actions that comes from the heart not requiring a return of some kind can give life.

I have always been a contrarian to Silicon Valley’s culture growing up, the destruction it can cause always made me a black sheep amongst my peers. Going to University of San Francisco led me to people who thought similarly. From COVID onwards I returned back to my roots and circles. Not realizing I was sharing a unique paradigm, that was rejected relentlessly, until the destruction was seen once more towards the end of 2024.

But, life has returned, opponents have now become friends and time is being given or shared. My alma mater, University of San Francisco, has this mural of a phoenix in the courtyard that I always enjoyed passing by on the way to class. Rising from the ashes after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and a following fire that destroyed the campus. The school rebuilt and has now, since then, become a quiet but relentless force in social justice, nursing, and computer science.

And now looking back, no wonder I share values between all 3 of these specializations. Defending, healing, and building. Now… that’s a life worth living.