Chennakeshava Gudapalli

Chennakeshava Gudapalli. Born & brought up in India. I love beaches and bike rides. The entire idea to make a blog arrived during a trek to the Himalayas, an unforgettable experience. I used to play video games. I still do play games, but with life, unfortunately no save and restart option.

I like solving problems and thinking about stuff for the most part. Programming is a means to do both, and I ended up as a software developer. I work at Zoho currently, on Identity & Access Management domain writing enterprise software. Java is my daily language for computers, I can understand other languages as well. With people, I am fluent in English, Telugu, and Tamil. I can pick up any new language if I get some hands on time and a reason to learn, read, and write it.

If you are looking for my socials -> LinkedIn / GitHub

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I don’t know what else I could convey from a single page of text, I don’t have a summary for ya… Also, why do I think or feel whether someone assumes nice or not nice about the About. Weird, isn’t it?

Why restrict myself to a false dichotomy; a cognitive dissonance rooted deeply since birth perhaps

If you can make sense of this, glad you could.

And below is something I wrote for myself after living & surviving for 25 years.

They are a traveler.
I got to see their arrival,
and experience the momentum of their journey.
Just like everyone else;
They traveled short, while others traveled longer.
Life is a road with stops, we carried our bags.
They got down when the time came.
Just like everyone else;
I got off others’ journeys when the time came.
If we cross paths ever again, we will drop by.
Just like everyone else;
I shaped my destination, shaped by who traveled with me.
Just like everyone else;

And to end with one of my favourite blocks of text…

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate;
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking oneself
so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We were all meant to shine as children do;
It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone.
And, as we let our own light shine, we consciously give
other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
— Marianne Williamson