A man stopped in my store today and left a saving souls booklet. In church we call them tracts. He never even took the time to hear how I felt or what I believed. Sadly, he didn’t know that I used to pass out those same tracts every Sunday. I don’t know why some people get upset when you start investing into yourself and the people around you. It’s like they’re enjoying a life with basic critical decisions while you suffer trying to follow the laws of fundamental business. It’s like they’re enjoying seeing you as someone who has lost their way when actually you too are trying to save souls. Human nature is weird. People are weird. I honestly think people need to rethink how they think. A business is important in so many ways, but why are so many of them going through hell? Business teaches you about accountability, service, leadership and responsibility, but the life of a business owner is hell. You face physical, and psychological torment everyday because not everyone thinks the same but it’s your choice. The truth is that I gave myself to the public for years and just decided to steer my own ship because it seemed like that’s where my life was going. Ironically, after taking the leap I found out that other business owners felt the same way. Mentally alone in a room trying to keep serving and providing a paycheck for the people who give you their time. If customers did have a clear view of my life they would see a man who has always loved the story of Christ, a man who has always tried to see the good in others. I, like many other business owners and entrepreneurs will never be perfect, but if we continue to be beaten and battered financially then the American dream will fade. The American dream is not always about money, but the basic principles of independent thinking and ownership. If this involves being persecuted, demonized, and shunned upon then why not be happy alone. It hurts, but if you had to shovel the dirt out of a pit with your bare fingernails constantly left alone in a room finding happiness in a book, you’d be just as disciplined as me too. If that customer only knew that deep inside there’s a man tormented at the ways of the world. Fed up with societal norms fighting everyday to provide a service. The truth is that just like those saving souls, there’s a man curled up in his bed praying for God’s blessings every week but even that is never enough for someone else’s agenda or beliefs. Sadly, that man sitting in a room happy alone is me. A man terrified of his past getting up everyday trying to work to motivate others to do the same. The mindset of an entrepreneur has seen failure over and over again. He or she jumps all while losing the fear of failure everyday. Some even face jail time never to give up on the ability to live the American dream. The nightmare is that it may seem like an entrepreneur has a lot, but deep down inside he or she is a human dragging the world through a limitless test of how far the mind, body, and spirit can go.
Limitless, failure and…
“Triumph!”
Another friend lost, another family member gone, but the show must go on.
The Sad Truth about Entrepreneurship
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