Constant Change

Lemayian JN
Jul 25, 2017 · 2 min read

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

The first day of the second week of the Andela Bootcamp was a whole new level of challenge. Expectations are high, there is a whole new task for the week ahead yet here we were still solving the blockers of the previous week. I had to change my way of thinking…or say adapt a new way of thinking. After a long hustle of trying to get things work out on my bucketlist application, I’ve learnt one thing: “When solving problems, if the solution you provide is not a simple and smart solution then it’s a bad solution.”

Requirements are clear, that for me to proceed to this week’s challenge I have to make sure that last weeks backlog is cleared. This day, we had less coding and more bonding. We reviewed my code with my LFA after which I realised that it’s a good solution but with a very bad, or say the worst implementation. I was half way with creating system with no working method on my UI. For a while, I felt the pressure but I had to reassure myself that, “I’m calm and collected.” Of course, at Andela you can’t be all that calm.

Towards the close of business, the actual work just began: cleaning up last weeks everything. Trust me, it would feel like earth moving were it not for my code buddy who helped out with some easy stuff which to me were almost impossible. I left the dojo at 9pm with the login functionality working. The day was very fast paced that I was remembering about most of my *required* outputs when I was already at home and without internet connection.

I already clocked 3am into Tuesday morning trying to make things clear, going from one internal server error to the next, traceback after traceback. No sleep and it’s just the first day of the week. When life gets challenging, I keep on reminding myself: “If you can’t die for it, why should you live for it.” Everyday is charactarized by a new challenge and as much as change is the only constant in a sea of variables, growth as well is not optional.

When I stand before God in the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have even a single talent left in me and could say, I used everything you gave me. — Erma Bombeck

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