How Curiosity Pulled Me Toward Open Source

For a long time, open source was something I knew about but never truly touched. You know how it goes. You see GitHub repositories with thousands of stars, dozens of contributors, complex folders everywhere… and your brain quietly says: Maybe later Later can last a very long time. For me, it lasted until recently when I made my first ever PR in OWASP. It was actually a pretty small one. I changed a few things in BLT Monitor. But it counted. And this is that story. My Background I'm Shubhang, currently pursuing my Master of Computer Applications from Pune. My recent work involves building automation workflows and full stack systems using Python, LangChain, FastAPI, and React. I built things. Learned things. Broke things. The usual. But there was always this quiet awareness in the back of my head that everything I was building lived in my own little bubble. My repos. My ideas. My comfort zone. Open source kept appearing on the edges of that bubble. But honestly? Large repositories are in