The problem with big ideas, the dangers of fame and showbiz & the upside of suicide.
Agarth and the golden sword
Agarth with the disappointed look in his face took his sword and went back to his forge. His idea was creative and unique but he had not considered its weaknesses.
Agarth had emptied all his resources to come up with the invention, its rejection meant the end for him.
Agarth, stranded without a home, unable to cope with the cold mountains, had nothing left than to quit life and throw himself into the lake. So on this fateful day, Agarth took himself to the lake and started introspecting.
Tom and his blue cat
During Every holiday period there is an inter-quarter football competition that brings together capable Yaoundé 6 young footballers to vie for the championship. The winners of this competition head back home with the sum of 1 million fcfa.
The Etoug-ebe contenders (Oswald and his team) had no budget when they went in for the competition; they later realized that they needed a sponsor for nice jerseys, sport shoes and other competition material. This made them send letters of appeal to every major elite in the quarter but received no favorable reply. When everything seemed lost, a benevolent young business guy named Tom opted to sponsor them. Tom at that point had just created a clothing line and wanted his brand to soar, making this an opportunity for him to help others and equally popularize his brand. Hence, he assisted oswalds team and the team started bearing the name of his clothing line, let’s call it BLUE CAT.
since the group had good coupé décaler dancers, tom started connecting them to events where they were animate and be paid at the end. Finally, he took them to challenge vacance and this decision made his brand to get to the tipping point.
However, Tom was unsatisfied with his popularity limited to only in Etoug-ebe and Yaoundé to some degree, he started nursing feelings of conquering the economic capital Douala.
The paradox of fame
Two days later, tom was called by this friend that a meeting with the top investors had been scheduled.
Once there, he noticed that not only he (tom) was invited but other business men who were searching for the same thing as he were present. They were served with wine, juice and beer to chill out. Few minutes later the investors made their entry and ordered each and every one of them to switch-off their cell phones, it was time for business. As the other guys were enjoying the drinks, Tom was honing his pitch.
Just of a sudden everything changed, the plasma TV on the wall became a giant mirror, the table had changed and its contents equally metamorphosed. Tom and everyone in that room got paralized as the investors were speaking and promising the benefits they will get for working with them. On the giant mirror were being displayed the images of popular Cameroonian artists who had reached an agreement with the said investors; they were evidence of how popular you could get in no time by agreeing to the proposed terms. Even the drinks on the table no longer looked like drinks. Tom was frozen at this point, not knowing what to do. All he can recall was that he was so hypnotized that he could do anything there without thinking.
When the time for the taking of vows came, something strange happened in that room. Tom says, he had definitely switched-off his cellphone, but as things were getting more tense, he received a phone call from his mum. The sound of his cell phone destabilized the whole setting and things came back to normal. As he was leaving the room to answer his mum’s call, he saw how furious those investors were due to his disobedience. When he answered the call, his mum said; “ if you love your life and want to see tomorrow leave that place”. Tom ran for his dear life, narrated the story to his mum, who happens to be a deep church lady and she had pleaded that tom not take the road of fashion because she saw that coming.
Three days later and for the two weeks that followed, Tom got ill and had terrible dreams during those moments, it was bad to the extend that Tom had to be taken to different churches before he finally got delivered. The worst was yet to come, after sometime while coming back from church, after he had given his testimony, he and his mum had a terrible car accident. Tom didn’t sustain any injury, but his mum was terribly wounded.
Seeing what was happening, Tom called all those to whom he had sold or even given any cloth item to and pleaded on them to burn them all. That is how blue cat got eradicated.
The bad dreams persisted and Tom got so disenchanted with life that he started nursing feelings of suicide.
The Upside of suicide for Agarth and Tom
When agarth was done reflecting and was about to jump into the deep lake, he started looking at the fish. Then he felt something strange, an idea came to him. He realized that Vikings usually attract sea sickness while travelling on boats for long periods of time. His idea was to create a potion that will cure the Vikings illness. Hence, he started experimenting, mixing fish and fish and eggs with other stuffs and trying out the portion. After few weeks he visited the duke’s house again and presented to him, his new big idea. Luckily there were Vikings that day that were to travel and the duke gave it to them for trial. This time it was a success and people started coming around the world to buy agarths portion.
This time his creativity and unique thinking served him well. It was when he was so close to death that he developed what made the rest of his life worthwhile.
Tom
Tom didn’t get to take action on his suicide attempt, but he shared his feelings with his pastor. They worked on his disenchantment and during this period, Tom received Christ. This made him see life from a different angle and he spares no efforts in living this new life. Everyone now calls him Pastor.
But tom told me he hasn’t abandoned his goal to establish a broad clothing line. He has always wanted to own his brand, just that this time he is engrossed with coming up with dresses for pastors. This has given him peace and much more money than Blue cat.
synopsis
Never lay all your eggs into one basket and never consider your one big idea as the best idea you could ever have. Test your ideas with the realities of the world outside you and always practice critical thinking, it may bring up your one big idea.
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Leslie Micheal Ace
www.the1untold.wordpress.com
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