The most memorable gift I receive isn’t just memorable because of the gift itself, but because of the doors it end up opening to me at the time.

It was Christmas 2009 and I was still in school and have been months being amazed at my friends iPhone and how it measure the device movements when playing. It was incredible but I knew it was too expensive.

So in those years, my country Venezuela wasn’t in a bad economical shape as it is now, so my dad was able to afford an iPod Touch as a surprise gift for me! For those of you who doesn’t know what an iPod Touch is, it was just like an iPhone but without phone capabilities and way cheaper.

After that, I started to get involved in online communities about this devices, met incredible people and even ended up being a moderator in one Spanish forum! And the learning, I learned everything about iOS, every tweak, tip, trick there was, I even started to jailbreak friends devices! It was a fun time!

So I started to build sort of a geek reputation and people started to “hire”me to do little jobs related to computers and fixing their issues. Even today people still know me for that.

And it all started thanks to that iPod touch I received in Christmas 2009.

Looking back, is crazy to see how many repercussions a simple gift can have.