You made me cry. Thank you, Gloria. Thank you so much for verbalizing everything that I think about tech. It was your heart speaking, and you're such an incredible human being. I'm a Software Engineer from Brazil. I'm black and lived in poverty, and being an introspect and being (most likely) neurodivergent, programming felt just natural to me. I was living in Germany buying everything online on Amazon and crying alone at night, but decided to come back to Brazil to be with my parents after COVID-19. I never felt so happy in my entire life. I found my Self.

I want to change the world for the better. I want others to listen. We need to change our consciousness as a species, but I feel hopelessness. The ancients said you have to give, first. But everyone (including me) is just obsessed with mimetic-inflated ideas about money, career, purpose. We don't have time, everything is burning.

Humanity have lost it Self. It doesn't respect the natural laws that created it, and it wants to feel "separated", like... we write things like "we came into this world". We didn't came, we grew, just like a fruit grows out of a tree. We're part of it. I hope we change soon, but I don't care anymore. (In the sense that I accepted that, maybe, Homo Sapiens should be extinct). I now we are more... I know we can be! But there's so many bad people out there, making poor decisions and killing each other with verbal arrows and guns — I just give up.

I'm just: "Another stranger and afraid, in a world I never made".

Be well! Wish all the best ❤️