The art of self discovery

I did not know what I wanted to become while I was growing up. I had no passion for any profession, and just because people believed I was brilliant and should be in the science class, I joined science still not knowing what I wanted to become in the future. I just told myself to try whatever would work, not minding whether I loved it or not. Still in my SS 2 , I didn't know what my Passion was. During a discussion, some of my friends advised me to study medicine, and I felt it was a nice idea since I was a science student and I started wishing to study medicine with zero passion for the profession.

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Unfortunately I didn't go for medicine. A family friend who was asked to get me a form in a nursing school bought a form of a course I've never heard of. I got the admission and studied a course I've never heard of, but in a school where I sat for the examination and passed. I never loved the course even till graduation and still don't. But then, along the line, I realized I started to develop a passion for computer science and programming. I didn't develop this passion early in life, not even in the course I studied, not early , just later on in life that I realized I love computers and anything that makes me think critically.

My self discovery came rather too late, a period I graduated from school. I had settled to work with the certificate I've obtained in a course I never developed interest in , then the passion came and it was an eye opener. I should have studied computer science or engineering, or any engineering courses that makes me think fast and apply practical knowledge. I remembered wanting to learn mechanics after my secondary school but my dad kicked against it, and since then, I became lost in what to do, only to discover later on that engineering was my passion.