Last Saturday Azerbaijan and I went to Maxwell’s Music House. It’s a small bar (behind phils!) that plays live music. I was overjoyed to watch a live band play for the cost of 5 bucks and a tolerance of $4.25 drinks (gross). I noticed that the bartender, a young guy with blond spiky hair, was rather green at serving drinks.
A day later Azerbaijan informed me, after checking out the bar’s website, that the guy behind the counter was actually the owner of the place. I went to the website to check it out myself. Apparently a 25 year old Laurier business grade had won some grants through a business proposal, and used his contacts and personal relationship with his business professors to secure $150 000.
Last night, instead of thinking of my relationships or corresponding blog posts, I thought about this guy. For the majority of my life I’ve always thought of myself as being too young to do the things I want, certainly too young to start making real money. I am 23 now, that’s not too young to do anything (well excluding marriage and fatherhood… knock on wood). I thought about what I want to do with my life, how I can get there, the natural skills I have, the goals that have been trailing me through out the years. I’ve been thinking about law school… but that really delays my adulthood another 4-6 years. Last night I thought about the prospects of Studying business. I want to acquire the skills to do business and be marketable to the people with talents and aspirations but not the knowledge of numbers or business navigation. How many people have the skill and a dream but lack the business sense to start their own business? I can make myself that resource and form partnerships with people.
The more I thought about it, the more I realized the overstock I’ve placed in my romantic relationships. Romantic relationships have a very poor resell value. You spend so much time, energy, and money into being with someone and at the end you walk away with little to nothing. Admittedly, I’ve been taking my relationships too seriously. Every girlfriend has been taken as the one. Love hasn’t been earned with time and experience, its been given out too fast and too frequently. Romance has been too consuming, I should reallocate my energy toward fashioning a career and having fun while doing it, not chasing silly pouting girls. Maybe that will include committed relationships… maybe it won’t. Maybe it will mean a completely refashioning of what I consider to be involved with someone… I will let everything grow organically as I take sight of my future goals and let my life form around my travels toward making a living.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PcD-5kaHaU
http://www.maxwellsmusichouse.ca/
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