Heart & Soul

It's hard to believe that less than two years ago I was watching a video much like this on YouTube, but instead it was a demo for a university with some proprietary software. I don't want to sound flabbergasted, but I really am. What the open source and hobbyist community can do blows my mind. I think what I respect the most is their determination and willingness to power through their project no matter how may obstacles they face. I can't count how many times I have given up on a section of work for a client because it was “too hard”. Even though it was payed work, I just didn't want to continue because I knew my heart and soul wasn't there.

Heart and soul is really what drives me, and I'm sure many other developers, to do something great. I need determination and the patients to do something worth my time. The heart and soul of an open source developer is what many of us need to model after. They persist on doing something great through their system. No matter how big, or how small their project is, they care about it to its greatest extent. In some aspect we all need an “open source” project.

We are currently working on something that I continue to pour my heart and soul into. I'm not sure how it's going to unfold, and I have no idea how people are going to accept it, but I know that I care about this to its greatest extent. I am now beginning to realize, this is my “open source” project. This is the project I care about no matter how many people see it, nor how miniscule it might be in the vast scale of the internet. I hope this burning fire inside of me never dies.