Why I started this

6am and still awake.

I had the idea of making this blog to document myself as I grow. To be honest, every minute I spend learning a new concept about cybersecurity, I have doubts. Hearing those big, intimidating terms scares me. I keep thinking: am I actually able to do this? Am I going to make it? This all seems so complicated.

For example, it’s been a few months since I started Hack The Box Academy’s modules: Linux Fundamentals, Introduction to Networking, Web Requests, Windows Fundamentals, Introduction to Active Directory, Introduction to Web Applications. And I usually get that imposter syndrome feeling. Like I don’t belong here.

But deep down, I know it’s just the hardships of any beginning. It was hard for us to walk. It was hard to ride a bike, the first time. But now? We take those things for granted. I believe it’s the same thing now. Hopefully, I’m writing this so that a few years from now, I can look back, or someone else can read this and think: “Oh wow, even Waerin was afraid when he just started.”

That’s honestly why I started this blog. I wanted to document my growth from the very beginning, not wait until I’ve already gotten the hang of things. I wanted to start before I was “ready”, because deep down, I know I’m going to make it.

And weirdly enough, even with all these hardships, I feel genuinely good every time I solve a question in a Hack The Box module. That feeling is nothing new to me. I’ve always been the problem-solver type. Since I was a kid, I’ve loved solving puzzles, whenever my siblings got a Kinder egg with a little toy inside, I was always the one who ended up solving it and putting it together. I’ve just always loved that kind of complicated, fiddly thing.

So here we are. Patch v0.1. Let’s see where this goes.