Introduction to the book-study laying before me

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C-day (reference to D-day) has now finally really arrived. I had to clear out a few fundamental C-questions lingering within my inquisitive, critical, perfectionist, maybe slightly autistic?, mind, before I felt able to put my teeth into the real meat. Yes I already started studying in Sololearn, but I had so many other things going on, not in the least trying to earn a living, that it seems now that I was mostly trying to convince myself that I was studying C. I did work hard for it but I constantly found myself being interrupted by daily duties and social distractions.

Luckily, about  a week ago, I found the support I need two ONLY and FULLY put my mind on C, from two persons very close and dear to me, and I am eternally grateful to them for making it possible for me to follow my desire for knowledge and my decision to finally produce some proper income to pay all my debts and give to my loved ones too, so that they may prosper.

Due to my age I have absolutely no time to lose, but also due to my age (and henceforth experience),  I am now able to pull this off where that, during most of my life I was running around like a chicken without a head. Whatever the reasons for that were - I would have to contemplate it, I KNOW that I now have the means to become a master in C. I sense that this always has been my destiny since I first touched a Commodore 64 in a local shop when I was 9. It seems I accidentally got stuck in side alleys due to some family-background related causes. But of course all is written in the stars so I really had to work out those things too before I could really answer to the call. Now I can only pray for long life and the time, space and freedom to pursue this goal. Thanks to the support of my two benefactors I can make it true. Now only the support of the divine so that I may be healthy and have full control over my time, and I will reach the point where I wish to be.

A slight handicap I am having is that I have made the oath to type with ten fingers always, and I am used to type quite fast with just a couple of fingers. This will, at least in the beginning, slow down my pace, but in the long run it should greatly enhance it.

My pace will be slow in general because I will use two books simultaneously: the original K.N King's C Programming: A Modern Approach and Manual E. Bermudez' Study Guide on the same book. This might be over-kill, but I have set out to become a Master, not just a poster boy, of C. I want to understand C thoroughly, not just superficially. This is also why I stood still for two days with it's history. I want to breath in C and be able to breath it out, without hardly the need to even think about it.

Our current times are all about superficial consumption of calculated units of short-lived pleasure and throwing away what gave us pleasure to move on to the next consumption. The faster the better, pleasure now! But true pleasure is derived from in-depth experience and appreciation for less and small. True pleasure comes slowly and lasts long. This is exactly why I want to learn C.