I was wandering and wondering today on the monastery when I've realized something:

I've lost a XP point (thing that nowadays doesn't happen so often) and I've got momentaneously mad about it. That's when I've got this insight.

I mean, I'm 200+ points from "saint" (quotes here so religious people don't feel offended), and as far as I feel so proud of me to finally achieve the "saint" level, I don't feel like one. I have many MANY more things to learn with Perl before I can call myself one.

So I was thinking: "Ok, I'll be a saint in a couple of months/years and I'm sure I WILL brag about it, but this isn't really important". I mean, the important thing is that I'll code Perl better and better and I'll understand more of the language.

For me, as a self-made Perl programmer, that is more than I could ever ask, since I have an enormous respect for the monastery.

I just had to get that off my chest.

Long live the Perl Monks!

Regards,

Er Galvão Abbott
www.galvao.eti.br
Porto Alegre Perl Mongers

In reply to Zen and the art of ignoring XP by DaWolf

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