Our artist Art Burshy meets many people when having drinks in his home-cafe, always ready to hear personal stories. This time he is talking to a business manager that is exhausted by work and all the problems he has to solve...
reminds him in many ways of how he was himself some years ago...creates a flashback of years ago:
At times Art felt great to be rewarded for working hard, structuring the approach, making business plans and always be there to solve issues...he was The Man to go to in times of crisis.
Somehow his energy levels (and maybe his ego a bit too) would grow when he was the one that could help others solve their issues, having special expertise, experience or skills...
These interesting issues and challenges were nice and inspiring at the start...but later often would become a burden; they would add to the tsunami of ToDo's, responsibilities, and energy-draining activities he still needed to do... and at times he felt like he was carrying the world on his shoulders...
He also discovered that:
- others were happy to screw up things in such a way that it outweighed all the lovely things that Art did,
- several people that created issues were happily leaning back and very relaxed, while Art was struggling to solve all the issues, cleaning up all the sh*t...
- after all nobody really seemed to care whether some items were resolved, and same things would repeat itself again and again...
So...how to deal with this...?
Well Art decided to let go of his reliable image and became the opposite...an artist
This allows him to be more eccentric, less predictable and... as soon as he mentioned he was an artist peoples expectations would drop dramatically...how convenient ;)
Not everyone will be happy about this, but then again Art realise other peoples happiness is not his purpose in life.
And I wonder, maybe Art is right...?
Hmm, I could have sworn that the business guy looks like Maurice in younger days. Probably just a coincidence. I'm still struggling to find a different solution to the problem.
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