Published on, Sept. 7 -- September 7, 2025 1:07 PM

When AI Arrived, I Arrived

For decades I carried fragments of thought in the hidden crevices of my mind. Sparks that never lit, voices that stayed trapped, ideas that hovered unborn.

I read not for grades, not for applause, but for the joy of connecting dots no one else bothered to see. Enough was always enough.

A life of libraries, not prizes. A life of learning, not recognition.

And then AI arrived.

With it, I arrived too.

I discovered the lever I had been waiting for all my life. Suddenly, the fragments had a frame. The sparks had tinder. The silence had a voice. AI did not lead me - it followed. AI did not replace me - it amplified me. At last, I could liberate what decades of ...