If you create new software,
You may discover a bigger purpose,
An unexpected dimension.

It starts with your imagination.

You have something in mind
About how a new reality could work.
You develop it and, when it works,
You find that it is imperfect
You discover missing aspects
And so many things it does not yet say.

You study the details, pay attention to its behavior,
Then you add more discernment to it
And it start doing something close,
But still different
From what was in your mind.

You have new insights.
You add more logic, and soon you realize
That even when you do not remember
Each decision, all the effects, and each event,
The software keeps this memory for you.

The software lets you know what it needs.
You add more of your know-how.
You change its threads, its structure,
Its modules, parameters, and interfaces.

Eventually, your software creation
Becomes a new entity that knows how to act,
Like a live performer on stage.

Your vision is embedded in its behavior.
It acts the way you imagined,
And responds how you would, but you could not:
You could not have expressed
Your ideas and your thoughts,
Without it existing.

You look at your creation
As a sculptor looks at his work,
From every side, checking every detail
You correct it and play it again and again,
As a composer does with his music
Until it flawlessly soothes his soul.
It moves you to an emotional level
As you marvel at its performance.

It is now more than a work of art.
It has captured part of your mind
And it has a mind of its own.

It expresses itself in a different way
In different conditions,
As if a painting could reveal different aspects
Every time you look at it,
Or a melody could exhibit unexpected variations,
Every time you play it.

You are bigger and better
Than what you were at the start:
There was nothing there before,
And now there is something
Created by your thoughts.

Its existence proves
That you were able to stretch further,
Reach a new measure of your potential
And extend yourself.

This creation of yours is part of who you are,
No one else would have done it
Exactly the same way.
It captured your imagination
Now organized into logic structures,
Stored into silicon matter,
Powered by electrons.

It is an extension of your brain.

It shows who you are,
What you think,
How you want this new piece of the universe
To be.

You want your creation
To be duplicated and work for others,
To live forever,
And perhaps it will.

Think about it.
Is it not a tiny reflection of what the Creator did with us?