Why closures finally clicked for me after 2 years

Closures aren't magic, but for two years, I genuinely thought they were dark sorcery. If you've ever felt utterly baffled by how a function remembers variables from its parent scope long after the parent has returned, you're definitely not alone. This is about that "aha!" moment when JavaScript closures stopped being an abstract concept and started making actual sense to me. My journey was a mix of copying code, using frameworks that subtly abstracted them, and nodding vaguely when someone menti