Life of business is funny. When you go high you go to your climax, and when you go down you go beneath the surface. After a bout term you rise again and how you come back, be in a different streak. If you've never been there in life, know that you're lucky to be one of those to make that sponge squeeze.
'Being down and broke doesn't say you're out, it simply mean you're in your downside of the cycle and crushing marbles to another upside of the cycle' [1]. One thing I've learned though is that business is about timing, knowledge, people and things, and what people do in it basically up to them how they sustain and grow it, but definitely can't do without knowledgeable people and timing of things.
When you get to my age you constantly keep looking at your back and your sides with a wish that you see someone fresh to assure you that they've learnt. 'What any old voice pray for is a young voice to find and tone their face with enough grace to last them another run as their dab duad before they dock' [2]. Business is static, only people in it evolve. All the aspects of long ago remain to date, to show.
One other thing you get to appreciate about being down, is the time you have to plan, the time that none ever got when they're up. Again, you start visiting your brain vault to search and line-up all the favours you're owed. Truth is that 'you mostly recall about favours when your precious gift is about to be devoured by shame' [3]. Favours in both life and business can buy you back dignity and stability that the next upswing cycle needs though respect for you out the air bricks. Thing is, those you did favours for are the very ones singing glories of your downfall and how you thought were something and others telling it to your face how weak and old you are, and how you now can't do anything to them. What they don't get though, is that to any bad outcome a good does emerge, that's why you shouldn't stop seeing the good in others. Just sift and you'll find that, and when you find it, stay on it in figuring what that good could do for you.
The only pain everyone in that state feels is that of "now I'm a nobody with nothing". This brings me to this stanza; "Just when I thought I had it all in my head, wake-up call showed 'twas in my hands all this time_A life I tracked did me no favours, scent of a passed glance I hoped for in fogged mirage_None in my space on the same ground I stepped on, making me realize how many of a kind we are_This day forth it's me and my own, lead home my trapped soul to corners of my own fall" [4]. That's what your soliloquy will be going about, with bags on both shoulders and in hands, everything gone, rendering your then achievements as nothing but a wiped defunct run that mimicked a marathon before it did a race. The business world is populated by loaned life addicts that forget at times that should their bubble burst, no cushion is there for a snug fall. Shame is always by your side. Life of business is uncomforting. The one next to you might be working closely against you in want of your position, making sure taps remain closed for you, so you need not let your guard down.
During that phase of your life, everyone thinks they can be better than you, do better than you, be seen in a different light than you, but the sad reality is that nothing beats time and experience, nothing beats the cast and shade of you, none beats the sedimentary you are. But with you, a worthy self availed twink who can exclusively stick with a sole as yourself may be formed into dolomite.
In conclusion: allow for yourself to conk and be replanted. What time is in a set back is a moment, and a moment is a temporary thing. A down cycle needs you to fight for it to be a passing glance. The unwanted situation is where you stay longer in and end up being flat-footed. Never relax, have a mantra of "I'm where I don't belong", and you'll soon be out of it for good. Your business carries your family pride, so keep that candlelit...
[1, 2, 3, 4] by KgeleLeso
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