My brain has given birth to an idea. Now what?

I have taken many moments to think about how I have gotten around to knowing or learning of the existence of many things that are in this world and this is currently my biggest challenge.

This is similar to the knowledge I have that, the sun will rise and eventually set given that I give the world some time to do it’s thing but being able to put it into words as to how the universe does what is does is a complete mystery to me.

In the same breath, my brain has built a product that, for one is one of the most authentic tastes of where I come from, the Eastern Cape and most natives from back home are aware of the product and how amazing it tastes and secondly, this product has not been available around Gauteng province ever since I has been able to spend some time in the Gauteng province.

For the life of me, my biggest challenge right now is being able to let people who were natively from the Eastern Cape, people who have had experiences from the Eastern Cape and any other person who would love to get an experience of my home town without having to spend the time traveling to know about the product that reminds me the most of home. To spread the awareness to the people who would love to travel by using their tastebuds as the vehicle.

I guess in some circles they would this process, marketing and this is currently the biggest challenge in my life.

This is my starting point.

I now owe my brain the completion of a task to test and experiment if the idea that it has come up with is really an idea that may come to life.

It Hurts!!

8 months later, my first business has died and now I need to liquidate the assets I got to start the business.

I have been putting off doing this for far to long and it just hadn’t yet clicked as to why? It just dawned on me the reason why it has taken this long for me to do this.

My realisation is that this feels like a death of a loved one and having to liquidate forces me to come face to face with the fact this person I gave birth to has died and with that all the dreams and aspirations that I had appended to the future success of this business. I now need to be able to go through all the good and bad memories that I has able to create along with this business and it hurts!

HURTS SO BADLY!!

The great things about it is that to be able to hurt me this bad is that it had to have lived. I can take solace in the fact that I was able to bring birth to it and even though I would have loved to see it mature and be able to thrive without me, that unfortunately is not what reality has for me and this business.

So I cannot do more that appreciate the time I had with my business and all of the lessons it was able to help me go through. Even though it was not able to mature, it did bring growth to me as a person and I will forever be grateful for the opportunity that my first business gave me.

Peace and love to you.

R.I.P!

Unemployed with my First hire!

To say that it was a cluster of fucks would be putting it mildly!

For almost a week I have been feeling under the weather while trying to run a business that demands my full strength and mental awareness and this has been one of the few challenging things of my life. No mater how hard I tried I just felt capped with what I could physically do, which felt like 30% of my capacity.

Nonetheless I soldiered on untill I remembered that, “this wasn’t why I started a business in the first place”, killing myself to help people was not why I signed up. So I got someone to help me out for the day. Technically I just wanted to see the person and vett them to evaluate if they would be someone I would be able to work with.

WHAT A SHIT SHOW IT TURNED OUT TO BE!

It cost me so much money to have this person around. The amazing thing that it managed to revealed to me is how terrible my communication skills are. It has me reevaluating every aspect in my life, to try check on how bad my communication was and how it may have possibly destroyed my past relationships (possibly all of them). Crazy!

Anyway, I felt pissy the whole day. That I had just spent all this money to get help from someone and it just wasn’t helpfull AT ALL. I had the immediate knee jerk reaction that, “I don’t think that getting help is the direction I would like to take for my company.”

Eventually I calmed down and started to reevaluate the concept of having someone to help me as having a good divident paying stock. Where getting in on the trade at a shitty price will first have the stock price plummet, then it brakes even, then it’s value will start rising and will eventually only start paying dividents after 6 months to a year. So maybe looking at this as my first share of this divident paying stock that I have the opportunity to shape into whatever I would like to see become in the future.

It then also dawned on me the high potential of freeing up my time to do other things while, keeping the consistency and the mind share of possible customers. Let alone how much more the potential would be if there is a bigger capital investment made. I am also aware of the deep possibility of being screwed over so I would need to keep in mind risk management at all times.

I definitely want to get to play with this idea a lot more which is also very dependent on the direction that the people around me want to take this business. Questions like, “am I providing a service for them that is helpful?” arise

I definitely am on to something or just clean out crazy. I would also love to hear your thoughts on how far off the rails I may have gone or towards a useful idea. Share with me you thoughts and idears by leaving a comment.

How am I feeling today? 25 May 2021

Today I am feeling down! I have been sluggish and underperforming the whole day and I was not able to make any money the whole day today. It felt weird! Not being able to make money unintentionally! When I pre plan a day off, I essentially etch into my head that, I will not be making money and then I come to peace with it. This is not what was happening today.

That being said, I have not been feeling satisfied that I am not making money while trying to build things to make me more money (there is a beautiful word for this unfortunatly it eludes me). It feels like a catch 22 moment. I believe that not having somebody to help me and take over the reigns while I am not around is starting to cost me more that just simply not being around or being around all the time. This feeling is greatly amplified now that I am currently under the weather.

My heart has come to the conclusion that I need help and trying to run a business by my self is both fun and exciting while simultaneously also a heavy load to bare. There is simply too much to do all the time, complaining about all that needs to be done doesn’t get the job done and doing all that needs to be done alone leads me to consistent burn outs, and those are never fun!

I guess the next step in my journey is to figure out, how to get help from someone else who isn’t related to me, has knowledge of things that I don’t have, has time on their has and will not want to charge me an arm and a leg just to help me out a bit? Such complex and convoluted problems I create for myself! ( I promise I am laughing and not crying.)

So far, I have realized that, talking to a person that already shares a similar sentiment and ideal as you is far easier than, having to get a person to believe in you, then building sentiments and ideals into said person. Even more amazing is when a person has a vested interest in what you are doing, they skew a majority of their decisions in favour of the things that will give them a kickback. Basically people need things to serve them before they “support” something. HUMANS ARE SELFISH! THEY NEED THEIR DESIRES AND WISHES SERVED BEFORE THEY “STAND BEHIND A PRODUCT/SERVICE/PERSON”.

I tried my hand at short term investing nasdaq 100 futures cfd and S&P 500 futures cfd assets today. I lost too much money chasing and giving space for the assets to breath and “bounce back”. Sometimes it is just easier to cut losses and sometimes protect how far you have come by not accepting to take a step back in what you are currently involved in. Ok now I am just ranting incoherently.

Slowly uncovering the world around me and most importantly the world withing my head that I have seen, has tried to kill me.

My brain has been secretly trying to kill me!

Four whole years!

I think about it now and it feels like a distant dream that, at any moment, would cuddle up beside me in an attempt to strangle my joy every single chance it gets.

Calling this period Limbo feels appropriate.

I had the clearest vision of how my life was set out to be. I had internalized and shaped into my identity who I was to be through the career I had chosen to follow after having recived the go ahead from my parrents for the choice. I, in turn, fantasized alongside them as to how I would be a working class citizen with my own house while they were knee deep into thier retirement, the occasional visits I would have once I had carved out some time in my schedule.

After having a challenging first year in University where nothing was what I had expected, it never dawned on me that I did not have a vast toolbox to deal with issues that effected my emotional state of being nevertheless I know the solution was putting my head in the sand and grinding through.

The second year, sure enough, I stayed true to myself and I put in the work and it payed off. Things had picked up from what they were from the previous year. I had passed everything I needed to pass for the year and I was happy for myself even though I knew that the performance felt lower than what I knew I could put out but it was better than what it was beforehand. At this point in time, the conversations I was sharing with my Father were staring to align and we were able to share what our ideologies about life and wealth creation and wealth retention. I was staring to bloom into an adult that was able to voice who I was and my ideas without limitations. I was becoming.

The third year I was in University was a time when I had gotten around to qualify to take all remaining second year modules. I was feeling strong and confident of the year ahead of me. For what felt like something that manifested from nowhere, I recived back to back calls from my Father with the hopes that I wasn’t busy so he would tell me something important and given that it was a time where I was of one mind, school, I was naturally annoyed at having some great secret being kept from me.

A few weeks down the line I recived another call from this Man. Remembering that I had owed him a conversation and what felt like something I didn’t have a choice in, he went on to break it to me that he was from a major operation where they removed his lung because he had lung Cancer. Lung Cancer!? Only now you tell me?! Instantly my mind crashes and I just don’t know. I don’t know how I feel. I don’t know what this means for him. I don’t know what I can do help the situation. I don’t know how to feel. I don’t know what I feel. I don’t know what this means for me. I had been currently watching Breaking Bad and the character, Walter White had also been diagnosed with lung cancer and had also gotten surgery to remove a lung. I draw questions from the show and ask about the progression of his illness and the measures that were taken.

The most confusing feeling of hearing a hopeful voice that is in pain and fear all at the same time. It sounded like my Father had a fear of breaking this news to me. How can this Man whom I look up to be afraid of informing little old me of such information? Torn was one of the feelings I felt. All this is is happening March/April of the year. To say the least, it wasn’t a good year.

I just want to run away!

This is a very dangerous state of mind to be in because trying to run away from your own mind is like fighting the wind, it is pointless and you will burn out before you put a dent on your opponent. I wasn’t aware of this and abandoned my quest for education and rather went on an adventure to run away from my own mind in any way possible. I tried it all except for taking to someone who would have a better viewpoint and understanding of what I was going through but I was too proud to seek help because, “I solve my own problems”. 0/10 would not recommend running away from your own mind and problems. It is a masive waste of time and energy. Just find someone to talk to and to cry to just to deload and take things from there in trying to accept your new situation in life.

I used drugs to cope. F.Y.I, there wasn’t any coping. Infact it only felt like the pain I was running from was compounding and comming closer to me. A negative feedback loop had began.

I felt like shit, did drugs, felt better until I remembered why I was doing the drugs in the first place, the did more. Was pumping out shit performance in school, did drugs to numb that until I remembered why I was doing the drugs in the first place, felt like shit then did them even more. Negative feedback loop on steroids. A person allows a vast number of things to turn bad when they are deep in this terrible loop.

Thoughts of suicide were never far off! Just the idea of switching off the pain by ending it all.

My fucking brain is trying to kill me!

And mind you, things haven’t even started to turn bad.

Music and Earphones

Sheasha geza was the first song that came to mind at that point in time. find it on you tube if it has not been taken down yet. but anywho the words that resonate with me at the moment are not even close to the words that are expressed in that song.

A new conflicting fealing has arose in me. The simple idea that I am not the only person who might and is going through exactly and at times even worse that what I might be going through at the moment.

fuck the usual literal structure of how things need to be writen and presented to the world because that happens to be the boarded gate of where all things tend to come to an endlike the very introduction to this one show called “Euphoria” where it seems to show the glorifed use of drugs but to clearly show how some of how all of these celebrated drugs are used as a method of coping with yourself and the people around you.

so I have been off my specific meds that I have been (supposed to have been) using but I have never enjoyed taking from my youth days. maybe one needs to rubb shoulders with death a few times befoer one gets itbut you end up not giving a bleep about what happens next.

Just Hold On About The Music and The Earphones!!.

coming from a 2 day drinking bender just before a 3 day full lunar effect of not being able to get a wink of sleep in the process I have been starting to hallucinate or rather envision myself hearing things I should not be hearing from songs that I feel like I am well versed with but there are nuances within some of these songs that one happens to resonate with. It is very creepy at first then somehow my body starts to resonate with to the point that it may as well be the only song I listen to until I feel like fully committing to rubbing my shoulders with death it’s self, BUT.

the full idea and thought of, can be full filling until I have my earphones on and I try to assimilate with the pain of what that artist might be going through. it has alway inrested me in how an artist may be able to fill up a whole stage *stolen*(Casper Nyovest) but still drop such harmful hints ti the poeple who may have been by the side of thst artist but had missed the minor imprints left by this one person in pain who is able to make a whole movemnt of people move in rythimic succesion to thier jams **EXAMPLES WERE MADE. NOT AN ATTACT TO ANYBODY!!** AT ALL!!

JUST ONE RANDOM HOLISTIC VIEW OF WORDS IF HOW INFLUENTIAL THEY CAN BE.

MORE RANDOM THOUGHTS LATTER

I am hurting

As per usual, I find myself back into the toxic cycle of feeling like crap and self loathing. The idea of going yet down into this “rabbit hole” feels so familiar that I so happen to feel like it is the only solution I have. Funny part about it is that I do not want to go down that route anymore because it has only managed to bring me more pain in the long run rather than help me heal. Also a quality of mine has been one of having difficulties in seeking for help with my problems and also not being able to openly share some of these problems with the people I find close to me, under the disguise that I would be causing too much of a hassle and worry around myself. also knowing how people react by later asking about your problems in passing to figure out if you are dealing with them happens to further remind me that I am not the only person going through painful events and that does make me feel like whomever was lending me their ears was just waiting for their chance to belch out their own problems to someone who would listen.

Thinking back to most of the conversations I have had over the years I can honestly say that there has been one person whom I feel I was able to openly share with and not have them impatiently waiting to say some generic motivational speech but to try look at it with a rather logical approach and if that didn’t work, would go straight ahead to telling me off. Which is something that is frowned upon by people who are expecting the world to kiss their boo boos and reassure then that, that is in fact the end off the world. OK saying just one person has been like that is a lie because now I recall at-least 5 other people but I don’t speak to them as often as I should if I was really trying to get over all that I am feeling with the help of the people close to me.

I have tried to look into the all guiding truth of life, Religion. I found that it has not been much help for me because I know that I lack the conviction of full fledged faith believers and I try to put some logic into things I try to learn and I find a lacking in the logic department when it comes to faith and that is just it. By it’s very definition, faith requires me to let go of any empirical knowledge and just take it as it is. clearly simply letting go has proven to not be one of my strong suits for if it was, then this whole post would not exist would it? Such an ability to me seems to be such a fundamental advantage that people have and at this point not one I would get to reach anytime soon.

I do not know much in this land of existence unknown. Simple questions like why am I here? Do I have a greater purpose on this land? Or do I want to have a greater purpose so that I too will be able to post images of networking platforms so that my peers and any other stranger that happens to brisk past my posts can indulge my need for social verification aka LIKES? Some of these questions, I have the answers too but like every broken person, I am yet to face the answers. One thing that I am absolutely sure off is that I want to write-off all of my past pain or better of deal with the to completion similarly like a bad debt. For no good business would be able to continue running if it solely lived on all bad debt collected.

Off We Go

Exactly like most of the people on this earth, the moment we feel like we have a ton of thoughts in our minds and a limited amount of people we can talk to, about these ideas, we turn to the trusted internet. I am no different. This is just my attempt to try to reconnect and reconcile with my mind for the improvement of myself and my future interactions with my mind. Having spent numerous hours watching anime I can confidently conclude that, even though we have thoughts and opinions about subjects and we feel that they are absolute in their correctness they usually aren’t and if they are they are largely subjective to our own past experiences and memories. Rest assured that my opinions are nothing but correct and if you feel otherwise, well, correct me because I do not want to be left behind if there is a teachable moment that I was too “right” to see. I also have this grandiose idea that someone will stumble onto this and will share it with the world at the same time this is something private I should be writing for myself.

Disclaimer. I was told at a young age that my writing and concept visualization was rather interesting just that my brain seemed to move about 5 words faster than what the rest of my body as able to put out (fingers and mouth) also how I seemed to have more than one concept going on in my head and that would lead to sure confusion within the readers head. As stated before, misfiring circuitry. But I will try stay true to that, an unfiltered look into the workings of my brain. After all the criticism has died down I would like you to think of this as the greatest hits of my brain, a sample package or those vivid moments of life where the begging or the end of the memory is not important but it sure did leave a noticeable mark or something like that.

This will be confusing, rough to read and possibly even more tough to write but I should try to solder on as this is my attempt at healing. I hope I don’t choose the route with less emotional payback. *Sigh*