The last few months? One big blur.

Wake up (late). Guzzle some coffee. Push code. Fix one thing, break two. Hop on calls. Eat whatever's fastest. Scroll mindlessly. Sleep way too late. Repeat. 🐿️

I was deep in a project building a full-on dev ecosystem – deploy platform, AI workspace, Trello-style board, you name it. It was exciting, sure. But it was also… draining. Like running a marathon on a treadmill that never stops.

Then one Sunday evening, something super ordinary snapped me out of it.

I stepped outside and saw a group of kids playing in a pile of sand in front of my house. Just sand, sticks, and wild imaginations. They were building castles, naming towers, laughing like they'd just conquered a kingdom. 🏰

I stood there for a few minutes, just watching them – and suddenly felt something I hadn't in a while: nostalgia.

I used to do that.

As a kid, I'd build things out of nothing, spend hours asking weird questions, imagining wild scenarios. No goal. Just play and wonder.

That moment stirred something inside me. And then the rain came.

No really – like heavy city-shutdown-level rain. 🌧️

Work paused. Roads flooded. I was stuck at home for a couple of days. And for the first time in months, I had silence. Time. Space.

That's when I remembered something I had bookmarked forever ago: Sophie's World. A beginner-friendly intro to philosophy.

Around that same time, I'd been learning bits about Stoicism – reading about Marcus Aurelius and how he handled power, problems, and personal stuff. 🧘‍♂️ Came across Machiavelli too. All of it was interesting, but scattered.

So I thought: let's do this right. Start from the basics.

I picked up the book.

A few pages in, I was hit with a question:

"Who are you?"

I froze.

It's such a simple question, but it felt huge. Not "What's your name?" or "What do you do?"

But… who are you, really? 🤯

I closed the book and just sat with that question for a while.

And that's how the journey began.

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🌟 Growing Up Means We Forget to Wonder

There's a line in the book that says:

"The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder."

That hit hard.

As kids, we ask questions all the time:

🧠 Why is the sky blue?

🛏️ What happens when we sleep?

😢 Why do people get sad?

But then we grow up. Get busy. Get used to things. We stop asking.

We start functioning instead of wondering. Performing instead of pausing.

And I realized – maybe I hadn't stopped being curious… I had just buried it under routines and backlogs.

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🤔 So… What Is Philosophy, Really?

Honestly? I used to think it was all vague quotes, complicated books, and men in togas asking questions like "Does this table exist?"

But reading Sophie's World made me see it differently.

Philosophy isn't just about big thinkers. It's about pausing. Observing. Asking the kind of questions we usually skip.

Like:

🧐 Why do I live the way I do?

🪞 What do I actually believe?

💡 What really matters to me?

You don't need to be a genius. You don't need a PhD.

You just need to be honest. Open. Willing to sit with questions, even if there are no quick answers.

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✍️ Why I'm Writing This

This isn't a guide. Or a deep dive.

This is just me, a developer with a busy brain, who paused one day – and started asking why.

Maybe you're in a similar loop.

Maybe your days feel copy-pasted.

Maybe your curiosity is still there, just a little buried.

This series is for you.

Let's start wondering again. 🌱

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🔮 What's Next?

In Part 2, we'll talk about myths – not just the ancient gods, but the stories we tell ourselves every day.

But for now, I'll leave you with the same question that pulled me in:

Who are you?

Not your job.

Not your to-do list.

Not your routine.

Just… you.