The first time a saw a dead body, was when I was in second grade and the bus came to get me to school and we passed the upper half of a guy who was cut in 2 by some gangs (the lower half was a couple of blocks below my house and they found his penis in a bag), it got some news. I saw another one like that in our way back home from the beach some years later.
Once when when I had 13 years old we heard the scream of a girl, there was a drunk guy (really strong) trying to rape her, My neighbors and my family defended her with broom sticks and chains, he was really hard to take down and we were really scared, the guy had hit her in the head with a stone, we cleaned her wound in my house, there was a lot of blood.
I’ve seen guys break into the cemetery a couple of blocks from my house to dig graves and pull bones to sell to medical students to pay for their drugs. My friends and I had guns pointed at us a couple of times, once it was just because we yelled at a guy that he had his lights off, he stopped in the middle of the road, we saw the gun and ran from it.
And here’s a picture of a dead guy, right next to a birthday party of a child, just to show how common this shit is here.
And then people call me a “pessimist” because I won’t lie about the situation of my country, because I don’t deny it, because I choose to face the truth and facts and act upon them and place my strategies on those facts.
Being an entrepreneur is not trying to be “Mark Zuckerbergs”, neither about trying to make a business look “elegant”, The true bred entrepreneur is the one who goes and get shits done.
The Entrepreneurial Boom didn’t started because our generation decided that they “were too cool for a job and decided to follow their dream”, it started thanks to the crisis of the 2007 and it was do or face your luck in the streets, the first round of entrepreneurs understood very well that NOBODY IS COMING TO SAVE OUR ASS! And then they took responsibility and action in their hands.
Sure, there’s a lot of cool stuff in the entrepreneurial path, but also a lot of struggle, a lot of hard truths not many people are willing to face nor accept. And many of those truths might depress you or rob your energy if you’re not strong enough.
Many ask me how the fuck I’m not afraid to contact big people in the industry, or try new shit, or how to have the strength to do the things I do while everybody else thinks “I’m an idiot” for doing it.
And this picture is the answer, because I am very well aware that there are BIGGER AND MORE SCARY SHIT than a “no” from a possible client, or a “no” from someone I want to interview.
Because no matter how good I am doing, I don’t forget that out there, there are things that deserve more fear than rejection. No matter how hard the problems I’m facing as an entrepreneur are, these kind of memories in my head will always be there to remind me that if I don’t do this shit, then THIS WILL BE MOST LIKELY MY FUTURE.
And guess what, I have some memories which are scarier than this picture, and that shit scares the hell out of me much more than any fucking problem in my entrepreneurial path.
Life has amazing things happening, and many of those great things are in your reach, and they’re easier to get than what you thin, hell, just imagine that me, living in this country, with these kind of condition, have been able to connect with great people through the world and I’m having an interview with Brenda Chapman (creator of Brave) in 2 days! Life has great things indeed, and they’re easier to get than you think.
BUT, life and reality also have REALLY TERRIFYING THINGS. Situations without any hope at all. Today I give you a glimpse of those things, if you want to be able to crush the problems you have as an entrepreneur without them taking a blow to your emotional estate, then my recommendation for you would be FIND BETTER THINGS TO FEAR, FIND HIGHER QUALITY FEARS.
Problems in entrepreneurship doesn’t scare me, hard truths in entrepreneurship doesn’t scare me, but my future without entrepreneurship in my life, the life that awaits for me if I stay as a cubicle worker…. that shit scares the hell out of me…
Keep Hustling my friends,
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