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A young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2009, is this young man's birthday. Though it was thirteen years ago he was given life, it is only today he will be given a name!
What will the name of this young man be?
Six years ago, the 13th of April, 2020, I wondered how to make a Discord bot. I created a bot on the dev portal, and tried to make it work.
I was in the middle of quarantine, so I had a lot of free time to do whatever I wanted. I managed to make the bot respond with a simple message to three commands.
Just a week later, I met some people who motivated me to keep coding, and I made another bot.
And I kept trying to improve it. I had no idea about programming, and I was 13 years old at the time. And with a lot of help from people that knew how to code, and over the years, I fell down a JavaScript rabbit hole that never ended.
And that's what caused me to start coding in the first place, and every wonderful person I've met because of it and every project I've ever worked on.
Three years ago, the 13th of April, 2023, a friend announced her departure from Discord.
Also I am killing this account
I am not deleting it but I have other shit to do than sit on discord
Which means not logging in
Goodbye
On mid 2021, someone DM'd me and we started talking about Geometry Dash. Eventually, that person joined my online friend group (the one that motivated me to code in the first place) and she eventually motivated me to get out of the stagnant state my life was in.
One day, that person announced that she would stop using Discord. That being said, she still sent messages sometimes for three more months.
Eventually, she left every server, removed everyone from her friends list, and scrubbed her online identity from the internet as a whole.
The person who drastically changed my life, was gone from the internet and I had no way to contact her.
My life has been plagued with circumstantial simultaneity ever since I was 13.
Lately, I've been fearing my online presence is getting stagnant, and I'm trying to change what I do to make it different.
Maybe I should follow the steps of my old friend and drastically change what I do online.
Perhaps I should move on.