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A Flower Stand for My Success12/17/2018 I may have to say this beforehand before you ever pity me: don’t. You do not have to pity me about everything that I am about to tell you because I am not sorry either - I basically do not care. The story I am about to say is just something that I had to do: the story of how I anonymously sent myself a grand opening flower stand via delivery because no one would do it for me.
In this competitive and dog eat dog world, you must be careful of everyone. Me, I had no friends because I was having a hard time trusting people. I had been betrayed before by many people, you see. In fourth grade, I have a “friend” whom I cherished a lot, trusted a lot and told secrets to about my dysfunctional family. The next thing I knew, she had been stabbing me at the back, and has been spilling all my secrets to everyone. I had always been a quiet, brooding child - I never play with my toys, much less a doll. All I do when I was very little was play the piano, paint, or read books. When I was a teen, everyone was in a way, glorifying me because I was always at the top of my class, I am pretty, and you can say, untouchable (not referring to that outdated Hindu caste system). I rather have classmates who talk to me but it was only about school work - none other than that. They never made an attempt also to get to know me, and I to them because I think it is pointless. When I graduated and was about to choose a career, I chose to be a chef. It was during those days that I really experienced how it was to strive and have a hard time. It was really a rigorous training and it was then that I felt rather humbled. Even when I graduated that time, working hard to enter five star restaurants were incredibly difficult, so when I finally got into one, I rejoiced. After getting ample experience, I had thought of opening my own restaurant in Singapore. I made the preparations, hired my crew and oversaw the designing of my own restaurant. There were several anxieties like what if no one would like my restaurant? What if no one comes to the grand opening and what if my food is actually not delicious? When I had my grand opening, I wanted everything to be right which brings me suddenly the dilemma to having little to no friends, and the establishment being plain. And so to ensure to add a bit of colour, I decided to order a flower stand for grand openings from this store called Xpressflower to be delivered tomorrow. I got the Phenomenal Success one, arranged by the best Singaporean florists. When the grand opening of my restaurant arrived, I never expected a lot of people would come to eat my food and express their congratulations. When my flower stand arrived, I actually felt happy because it was like a gift for my hardwork, from none other than myself.
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