Dreams & Cheers
This is a submission for the 2025 New Year Writing challenge: Compiling 2025. The new year is already here, and speaking from my experience, I know that it will not take long to feel like old again... It is like a tradition, to have resolutions for the new year and I have mine too, of course. On the other hand, I believe that, every resolution or target is in fact a reflection of a dream, or a future-self viewing. Like, your 2025 resolution might be 'losing 10kg in weight', and mostly, this is a reflection of yourself dreaming of a healthier and maybe better looking version of yourself... Therefore, every plan starts or should start with a dream, I believe. With that said, let me talk about my dreams. I am dreaming, of myself, in an unknown future; as a content writer on my blog, or platforms like dev.to. My articles about web development have already helped many developers on understanding a concept or learning something, just I have been reading and learning from others' posts for many years. I feel happy because it feels like a giving back, helping people I will never know (probably). Additionally, I feel more proficient, and I am indeed, because, to write these articles I already have made lots of studying and coding... writing code for an open source project, contributing... I like this project, and genuinely wanted to take some of the burden from the maintainers or other devs, to improve it. I am captivated by the Open Source concept. I have always admired these people, relentlessly working on these projects, building / maintaining them, putting high effort without immediate benefit, so that other people can make use of them. I believe even my small contribution can make a little difference, with a small new-feature or bug-fix. Additionally, to be frank, it is a mutual benefit, I have learned a lot to make that small code script go into production... in a tech conference, probably somewhere in Europe. I am excited because soon I will be on stage, giving a talk on either Javascript/ react, or maybe web performance, or anything, in this context. I had similar experiences (of talking on stage) before, many years ago, but this feels different. It is different. I have just seen some familiar faces from software world, the people I have watched talks from the day before, the people I have seen from previous talks/tutorials (on youtube) or read the blog posts from. These people are much more proficient than me, with years of dedicated work in web development. I feel I do not belong there, but it is too late, with some fierce courage I had sent my request to talk months ago and to my surprise it was accepted. Now I am there, just minutes before the talk, thrilled... soon to be playing flute in a concert with an amateur band... I was playing / learning flute way before but gave a break for many years and resumed playing in recent years. I love music, classical, jazz, mostly. I was not very good at it but in the recent months, I improved a lot. And now, with the band, I will be playing to a small audience (of mostly friends, friends of friends and people who came by mistake :)). It feels so thrilling. I remember the small event where I played two songs accompanied by my flute teacher (with piano), few months after I restarted. Now, this feels much huge (but it is not), I am glad that it is not solo (but there are some almost-solo partitions that I will play), and the band is amateur, too... Whatever, we will have fun... enjoying the sun set view at Lake Como, with my family, drinking coffee in the balcony of an Airbnb we rented few weeks ago. There is a nice breeze in the air, maybe not so common for a July night. We are reading, talking, listening to music, planning where to go for the next month, maybe to Barcelona, or a small magnificent coastal town by the Aegean Sea in Turkey, but I feel that, we might prolong our stay there. It feels so peaceful at that moment... Dreams are dreams. Some never come true, some do. Dreams can be converted to targets, plans, roadmaps. And plans can trigger actions. In 2025, I will continue to dream, plan and take actions, accordingly. I am not sure how much I can proceed. But the good thing about dreams is, it is already nice by just themselves. And also, it is already pleasant to be on this journey... I wish you all nice dreams, good plans and dedicated actions to realize them, for 2025 and beyond. alptekin. note: all the illustrations are either from chatGPT or runwayml .com.
This is a submission for the 2025 New Year Writing challenge: Compiling 2025.
The new year is already here, and speaking from my experience, I know that it will not take long to feel like old again...
It is like a tradition, to have resolutions for the new year and I have mine too, of course.
On the other hand, I believe that, every resolution or target is in fact a reflection of a dream, or a future-self viewing. Like, your 2025 resolution might be 'losing 10kg in weight', and mostly, this is a reflection of yourself dreaming of a healthier and maybe better looking version of yourself...
Therefore, every plan starts or should start with a dream, I believe.
With that said, let me talk about my dreams.
I am dreaming, of myself, in an unknown future;
- as a content writer on my blog, or platforms like dev.to. My articles about web development have already helped many developers on understanding a concept or learning something, just I have been reading and learning from others' posts for many years. I feel happy because it feels like a giving back, helping people I will never know (probably). Additionally, I feel more proficient, and I am indeed, because, to write these articles I already have made lots of studying and coding...
- writing code for an open source project, contributing... I like this project, and genuinely wanted to take some of the burden from the maintainers or other devs, to improve it. I am captivated by the Open Source concept. I have always admired these people, relentlessly working on these projects, building / maintaining them, putting high effort without immediate benefit, so that other people can make use of them. I believe even my small contribution can make a little difference, with a small new-feature or bug-fix. Additionally, to be frank, it is a mutual benefit, I have learned a lot to make that small code script go into production...
- in a tech conference, probably somewhere in Europe. I am excited because soon I will be on stage, giving a talk on either Javascript/ react, or maybe web performance, or anything, in this context. I had similar experiences (of talking on stage) before, many years ago, but this feels different. It is different. I have just seen some familiar faces from software world, the people I have watched talks from the day before, the people I have seen from previous talks/tutorials (on youtube) or read the blog posts from. These people are much more proficient than me, with years of dedicated work in web development. I feel I do not belong there, but it is too late, with some fierce courage I had sent my request to talk months ago and to my surprise it was accepted. Now I am there, just minutes before the talk, thrilled...
- soon to be playing flute in a concert with an amateur band... I was playing / learning flute way before but gave a break for many years and resumed playing in recent years. I love music, classical, jazz, mostly. I was not very good at it but in the recent months, I improved a lot. And now, with the band, I will be playing to a small audience (of mostly friends, friends of friends and people who came by mistake :)). It feels so thrilling. I remember the small event where I played two songs accompanied by my flute teacher (with piano), few months after I restarted. Now, this feels much huge (but it is not), I am glad that it is not solo (but there are some almost-solo partitions that I will play), and the band is amateur, too... Whatever, we will have fun...
- enjoying the sun set view at Lake Como, with my family, drinking coffee in the balcony of an Airbnb we rented few weeks ago. There is a nice breeze in the air, maybe not so common for a July night. We are reading, talking, listening to music, planning where to go for the next month, maybe to Barcelona, or a small magnificent coastal town by the Aegean Sea in Turkey, but I feel that, we might prolong our stay there. It feels so peaceful at that moment...
Dreams are dreams. Some never come true, some do.
Dreams can be converted to targets, plans, roadmaps.
And plans can trigger actions.
In 2025, I will continue to dream, plan and take actions, accordingly.
I am not sure how much I can proceed.
But the good thing about dreams is, it is already nice by just themselves.
And also, it is already pleasant to be on this journey...
I wish you all nice dreams, good plans and dedicated actions to realize them, for 2025 and beyond.
alptekin.
note: all the illustrations are either from chatGPT or runwayml .com.
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