<center>*“A tree has roots in the soil yet reaches to the sky. It tells us that to aspire we need to be grounded and that no matter how high we go it is from our roots that we draw sustenance.”* 
    - **Wangari Maathai**</center>

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Money and power can change a person. When both, or one of the both is achieved, even a dimwit starts thinking that they are now untouchable...

Now, why shouldn't that dimwit start to brag and show off a bit though? Because when the "incapable dimwit" was broke, everyone talked trash, no one supported his/her ideas and approach, and people around them made fun and pulled their leg with every chance they got.

The arrogance doesn't always come from the source of success, but instead, I say it comes from all the negative energy the disbelievers and doubters had thrown towards them. You can't just beat a person down when they're weak, and then expect them to be nice to you when they've become somewhat capable. 

Some will choose to be arrogant, not to everyone, of course, and some will just distance themselves.

I am the not-so-successful dimwit, who chose the latter...

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A man has to go through a lot when he doesn't have an adequate amount of money in his pockets.

The more money he has, the more "respect" he gets, and the more both he and his work are admired.

If only people were just as positive or at least helpful during his downfall and struggle, maybe he could've reached the point of "success" a bit earlier; yet, if not earlier, at least he'd consider himself fortunate enough to have such supportive people in his circle.

During my early 20s, I heard a lot of trash talk coming my way; just when I got out of death's bed. 

After fighting a deadly disease for over a year, the first thing I used to hear was about the gap that I then had in my higher studies because of this disease. As if this whole disease was my fault. Soon came the matter of a job or income source, and how I was becoming a burden. Fortunately, all that negative energy was absent in my own home, it would mostly come from relatives and other people that surrounded us. 

I knew I wasn't at my best, but I was trying, and I was patient, but no one saw the effort, and none trusted the process, they just wanted results on the spot.

*Faith and trust in the process, with a hint of patience, goes a long way...*

Soon enough I joined the office in 2019, I started gaining traction. But we all know what came afterward(hint - the word rhymes with Ovid) and whatever I had built and collected was all gone. We were back to square one again. And to be very honest, it was much worse than where I had started from.

Fast forward ahead, after a stagnant 2020, and a 2021 and 2022 of absolutely 0 income, 2023 has decided to shine onto us a ray of of hope. It wasn't the best year for business, nor was it stable and consistent, but there was growth, and some vital development. 

Now, as I'm slowly gaining traction again, I see many of those naysayers popping up, like houseflies on a hot pot of food. Some come with their unsolicited sugar-coated compliments and words of "wisdom" and positivity. Little did they know, that I've got my fair share of "wisdom", faith, and optimism from my own struggles and experiences, I don't need reassurance from another verbal source; especially from those who doubted, and looked down on me. 

And I've made up my mind long ago, to distance myself from such people.

It's not like I don't wanna rub it in their faces, or be a tad bit arrogant, I am human after all, one with some underlying anger issues still, but behaving that way would just be juvenile. So, maintaining distance is the better option I'd say.

The way I see it...

*The fewer the people, the lesser number of cheap dramas I have to watch and tolerate...*

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