Are we the real Adventurers?
Why did I get into this business at the first place?
The answer is simple — we loved travel, adventure, nature, wildlife, birds, photography. So, we decided to make this our career, we never wanted to part with these passions. We did not care whether we wore great clothes or not, got fancy food, paid for all essential things, how we looked or which car we had, or which drink we liked. At the fishing camp, our tharra bottle was more valuable than any single malt. Khukri or Charms filterless cigarettes were better than any Marlboro lights. Those days we just wanted to follow our passion, and someone would come along, travel with us and pay for us as well. And gave us some profit for our company.
So, tell me, did our business pay us? No na? It was our deep desire, our longing to continue with what we loved. The time was ticking, and the equation was that someone should pay for our time. So, the business was formed and a company took birth without much knowledge of accounts, growth and other mantras of business. Then we got the first-mover advantage and the business started to happen automatically, not because we were really trying hard, only because who we were and what we stood for.
Over a period of time, fame set in and to look good, the business bore silver alphabets and we got crowned as experts. This was the time we actually stepped into any sort of business. The passion took a backseat and it was then delegated to the teams to handle the clients while we became managers.
Now COVID19 has threatened our identity and our crowns and some of us may not survive that long to keep looking good. BUT this is where I want to draw a line and I want us to look back at the very basis of who we were and what we loved to do. Now that we know how the game was played and where each pawn of the chess is to be placed, what are we worried about? Let it all become zero, melt everything to ground, take our acquired identity away — anyway this is not what we were, we will be back to who we were, back to what we loved and enjoyed. What a fantastic opportunity this will be! What bliss awaits us!
And then the magic will happen again, all those people who paid for your time will come in different shapes and sizes to support you, be with you and align with what you stand for — definitely not for your possessions or for which position or pedestal you were at.
So take a deep breath and chill! Let mother earth take her own course of mending things, we go back to figuring out how we are going to do all those things what we missed the moment we got on to fast track, let’s just change the trajectory to explore that universe which waited for us and we bypassed it, without noticing it.
God, I am so excited.
What about you?