A tribute & a lesson learned

Every day is a learning experience. Every day we fall, we get hurt, we learn and we end up becoming stronger and better people. Today, I learn another lesson - that it is one thing to have a vision for yourself and it is another to have the guts, strength and courage to move towards that vision. Moreover, the fact that you become a catalyst to a chain of changes.

One person left the BI/DW team and today was his last. It seemed surreal to think that a person like him would leave. Someone who I will always remember not having been able to properly spell his family name correctly and he doesn't even know I can't spell it right yet :p. But seriously, he is someone who I thought had a lot of things going on ahead of him, a person who seemed to know where he was headed, what he wanted to do, and I thought that he saw himself in a longer term in the company. I guess, he saw himself a bit further than what I saw myself in the long run.

Long term goals, visions of the future - its funny how easy it was to formulate your goals before you experienced life's hardships (aka work) as compared to the dreams the young college graduating student used to dream. That doesn't stop one from dreaming though, it just adds some challenges (aka constraints) to your previously perfectly balance formula of the future. As from the movie, the Matrix, the Architect exists to balance the equations in the matrix, the Oracle exists to unbalance them.

Life is a matrix of equations. As we grow older, we try to balance out our equations continuously trying to perfect every equation. We could be using a great deal of different Numerical Methods in doing that too, thus resulting to each of us approaching perfection at different O(x) times where x = the sum equation of the numerical method used. But then, as perfection is reached, we gain experience and with experience we add additional factors into the equation unbalancing them and adding more arguments in what would have been the efficient program.
Life however, can not be defined or put into just a number of equations. Just like a team can not be exactly defined over time. As that cliche goes, nothing is permanent but change, and change is always good. It is both a learning experience and a challenge - a push out of your comfort zone.

To my officemate, a reliable DBA, a good friend and a big brother to everyone, the best of luck and my highest salutations to you! You are once again taking a step higher in the stairs we live through as life. Congratulations! :)