Fuzzy Bus

I was abroad in Johannesburg investigating a new company which will help the company I work for gain more customers when I notice some young teenagers set up a table outside several luxury hotels Johannesburg offers to the business travelers. These teenagers placed on the simple six foot table several eye pleasing colorful jars filled with various toiletry items necessary for that weary business traveler who might have either forgotten to pack some lotion or used up what they did pack.

Teenage entrepreneurs. I was amazed at their ingenuity and dedication. It must be profitable for them because I watched them, while I waited for a service car to pick me up, set up every morning and with an alacrity of enthusiasm. While riding in the service car being taken to the company I was here to do business with, I couldn’t help think back and wonder why I didn’t take on the challenge to be different than the others, to be a teenage entrepreneur. Instead I took the usual route and worked at a fast-food restaurant saving up my money; playing it safe as it were, instead of having the courage to make an attempt to bring those dozens of ideas and dreams I had has a young teenager into fruition.

Even though now, I don’t have my own business, back then I know if I started my own small business, like those teenagers I watched selling jarred toiletries, I possible would’ve made more money than the minimum wage I was earning flipping burgers and probably made a career early on in my life and a career I enjoyed. I wouldn’t have had to rely on my parent’s allowance and achieved an unimaginable independence that would be attractive to the opposite sex.

The experience of having made my own money and building up my own business would’ve also built up my confidence about who I am and built up the confidence to achieve my many other dreams. Well, currently, as I arrive in front of the company I’m here to do business with, I can, at least, have admiration for those teenagers that did have the gumption and confidence to make their dreams come true.

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