What have I been doing for the past two years?
Driving to work I pass a magnificent construction, Metropolitan Towers, a 24-floor residential building. Slowly, steadily, I’ve watched it rise from foundation to the 24th floor. They started around the same time I wrote my first line of code for 01POS.
It’s been almost two years, and they’re still not done.
What have they been building all this time?
Do you think anyone is asking?
I doubt it.
The foundation has to be rigid enough to carry what’s coming. They have to earn public trust before anyone can live inside it.
If it were just four floors, they’d probably be celebrating a one-year completion anniversary by now.
But it’s not.
01POS is my 30-floor invisible commercial building designed, built, and funded by itself.
We could have stopped at the 4th floor.
But that was never the intention.
I decided where I was going. And at every floor, I stepped onto the balcony, looked out, took it in and kept going.
Up.
Up.
Up.
No one needs to tell me when to stop. No one needs to remind me how far I’ve come.
I did count the floors a few times when the noise got loud. Even though I knew I wasn’t there yet and I wasn’t at the 30th floor. It was a waste of time.
You know how well-wishers can be.
To everyone I let down
the calls I didn’t answer,
the promises I didn’t keep,
the positions I didn’t occupy,
the “I’m on my way” that never arrived,
the “I’ll send it” that never came
I chose to go up.
And anything that didn’t contribute to that mission became noise. Ignored. Sometimes unconsciously.
You know I don’t stop halfway.
You know I get what I set out to get.
You’ll have time to list everything I missed.
Because I’m still going up. Still adding floors to this invisible high-rise.
But here’s the difference
I’m roofing now.
Not the hardest part just the most visible.
The aesthetics.
The version of me you know was always there.
He just didn’t show up.
The curtains are dropping.