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The reminder

We won.

You remember I wrote about a contest called Three Headed Monkey Awards? Well it was last weekend. And we won in the category of best UPC game.

And it felt good. But I also had some friends that deserved recognition and left the building without an award.

It was also refreshing to meet with some people again and chatting and drinking and making a party from nothing.

But the thing that, since then, is always in my head is something I said. Yes, not something the professors or my flatmates said. Something I said when I got to speak, briefly, after getting the prize.

So, what I said is something like: "This does not come without effort. A lot of it. But we continue to doing it because its our passion and we love it. So <P'alante>!"

And P'alante is an expression that means moving forward with intention and without hesitation.

After this all I could think about is that, essentially, winning is just a reminder of the time and effort you put in what you were doing.

Just like failure, success or any kind of consequence. All of them are reminders, and the kind of important ones.

Just that. I've been thinking a lot about my baggage and where I come from, and how to use that into searching for opportunities in the future.

That's it! See y