So, this morning I wake up to quite a situation. In the last two months I've met with 4 investment groups and two "angels" in the quest to ramp up my business. All agreed the business plan is a great one, and includes 3 web-based, and 2 "realtime", concerns. Independent consultants have projected profit within 1 year. And by today's standards I'm looking for a pittance. Seriously.

   But, even after getting "firm" commitments from 2 of the groups and 1 of the angels, not one damn thing has happened. And because of those assurances I've continued to spend what I can hardly afford to keep the effort going, leaving me pretty much out in the cold. And as I look around and speak to friends and family, this seems really par for the course of life in 2006. When did this happen?

   For most of my life, giving one's word, commitment, assurance, etc., meant something. To me, as I learned early and well from my father, my word has always been my bond. I never say I will if I only might, (with the exception being when I make a promise evidently foolishly based on someone else's promise to me). So why is that so hard for everyone? Is life so iffy for people these days that an assurance really isn't?

   Our president and government do it, (think WMDs, Iraq, gas prices) as do our corporate leaders, (think Enron and Adelphia). And when they push that first domino down, the rest can't help but fall. Lives are affected, and ultimately, ruined by these acts, sometimes on a really grand scale. Thousands of lives have been lost in a lie-based war. Families left grieving by a government that gave it's word. Thousands of lives were turned upside down by the Enron failure alone. People's pensions, homes, cars all lost. The trickle down from those directly affected, to their families, stunning. Clothing, food, basic neccesities, tuitons....all wiped out. Lifetimes of hopes and dreams dashed by a very few men's greed, and need to pretend to be a standing domino while in reality  in mid-fall. I try and think of these people, the victims, when my situation looks bleakest, but it doesn't help much. We're all tied together by human frailties these days, it seems. Commonality making the vast majority suffer while the few hem and haw. I'm just one small domino near the bottom. If it affects me this way, what happens to those higher, and lower, on the chain? I'm beyond perplexed as to why we all can't just find a way to be who we say we are or will be, and do what we say we will. I'm really dismayed.

   Anybody want to invest in a great business? Seems my success historically, and the belief in myself and what I'm trying to accomplish, should be worth something. If not with, (or for), me, at least say what you'll do and then do it for someone. It'll make us all better. 

        

 

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