When I decided to have my own store I was not aware of the sacrifice I would make. I thought that it would be easy like my mind was saying "Make one and just leave it." I was stupid to think that having a store would give me an easy and better life. Now that I've been managing it for more than a year I couldn't help but laugh to myself. I was wrong because there was not a single day that I can say I am free to do things that I wanted to do.
Just imagine, I barely enjoy the relaxation of the weekend or even just a single day during Sunday. Sometimes I barely remember the saltiness of the sea and the good feeling that it gives. It is completely opposite from the things I imagined. Even so, I am slowly learning to adopt the kind of life I am having right now. Even though my lifestyle is completely different from what I used to be. I am starting to enjoy it and at the same time accept the fact this is my life now.
Early in the morning, specifically at 5 in the morning, I woke up to open the store. Sometimes there were customers already waiting outside the store to buy and sometimes there were not. But when I open the store I don't just sit or stand inside the store to wait for incoming customers. I prefer and display the items to sell. After it, I sat and waited for customers to buy.
Yes, I can use my mobile phone anytime. I entertain myself through watching videos and then pausing the video when someone buys. Then return to watching again but reading, I'm sorry but it's hard to digest words when your mind is caught up to something and that is facing customers from time to time. At first, I felt like I was mad because even reading, just not writing for now I couldn't do. It's funny that there were days I regretted having a store.
I get easily annoyed and sometimes I intentionally do not entertain customers. When I remember what I did earlier these days when I started the store. I thought I was stupid to act that way unlike now that I accepted the kind of life I have right now. Even so, I still think that having a store is very tiring especially when you focus on it to grow.
I woke up at 5 in the morning and then I closed it at 10 in the evening. I was hoping to take my time outside after closing the store. I wish to spend time alone, feel peaceful and feel the world fully while I have the time to do so but I can not. When I closed the store, after minutes, not an hour my eyes were closing as well. I do not have the time to listen to music because when I do, only a single track I could not finish it. When I am conscious it's already morning so I get up and open the store and then welcome the morning. I am ready to face another day because this is My Everyday Life now.
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ABOUT ME
Paul is the name but prefers to be called mrnightmare that feels like living in the dream. A country boy and a dreamboy (dreamer) who likes to stay in a small village even though it means abandoning the future to become a seaman. The passion is writing but not sailing in the vast ocean. Don't wonder if the face will not be shown, this is better where the words can flow smoothly. Come, you can tell me your stories and I'll tell you mine. Together, let's explore the world by broadening our thoughts. If you need a shoulder I can lean you mine and I hope I can lean yours. The world is fun when living is not being alone but with someone.
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