an entrepreneurer
He says he’s done with prison. This is his second time at this institution. He’s reading self-help books. Right now, he’s reading “Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success: Discovering Your Gift and the Way to Life’s Riches,” by Steve Harvey.
When he got out the first time he notes it was the time he wasn’t thinking about prison hat got him in trouble. If he could have just remembered all the bad, he wouldn’t have done anything to ever land up here again. Because he went back to the same situations. And eventually another round of prison.
But not this time. He’s supposed to get out next year. I asked him what’s he going to do when he does.
Very confidently, “I’m going to have a mobile cafe on a double decker bus. You know, like those one’s in England. I’ll park it in different places and people can come and enjoy the view up top.”
Initially, I’m super impressed by his ingenuity and confidence. Because I know his reading education level and it’s well below “normal.” So, I’m elated in his creativity and desire.
I said, well, then you need to do your exercises to get stronger so you can climb those stairs every day.
“Oh no, I’m not going up there, just the customers. I’ll have someone working for me. That will be easy. Because I want to have another business too.”
I didn’t hear what he said his second business would be, because I was already telling him to slow down. One thing at a time. Owning your own business is challenging.
I never want to shut down their ideas because hope is so important to make living here tolerable. But in the back of my mind, I’m thinking, they don’t now how the world outside has changed so much and the challenges that await them on the outside.
But I’m always hopeful. And I’m cheering on this fellow entrepreneur.
**just to note, I’ll be leaving out the name of the institution that I work at. It’s a state prison for reference. Images are not from the prison as no devices are allowed in.
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