How does one grow, when everything around tends to fall apart? How does one achieve fame, wealth and keep given promises, if everything around him speaks against it? How does one keep believing there is possible an exit? How does one can write a blog post if his computer display is dark as hell and must be ‘powered’ (and I use term power very vaguely here) by a table lamp, set on his lap?
Well, the answer is quite simple. Doing the thing he needs to do. My computer could be broken down and my skateboard torn to pieces, but I’m still doing the stuff I told I will be doing – today I sorted out a bunch of slap issues and there are some exciting news coming your way after the lenghty fly of thought.
The unexpected breakdown of everything got me thinking about an issue we’ve all stumbled upon. The problem of any kind has always been a friend, but mostly a foe, for everyone everywhere. The problem is the natural antipole of the success and the world, generated to maintain a balance, tends to keep these two together. Our actions are filled with these ‘pests’ and some may even say that a life with no problems is the point to reach for any human being. True, impossible and silly. The problem is our foe and is mainly considered of a bad thing to happen, but we’ve all learned that an object or a thought always has its’ pluses and minuses. As previously stated, in some cases it may be our only true friend.
To reach for a problem free life seems right in its’ purest form at first glance. Bad is bad and we don’t need that. But let’s distance ourselves from the black and white, dipping in a little gray. A great type of people to look at are people who like to consider themselves artists. Artist by definition is something of a rather weird type, when inspected by a mind of normal, rational person, and because of that the term itself is widely used as an offensive term. Artists are people who, instead of physical job, have chosen to live their lives by different standards, reaching for moral satisfaction, ‘free’ lifestyle and distinctive whole being from the usual citizen. Artists are people who have found an other way of living life and overcoming problems by simply not accepting the attitude of the mainstream factory worker. They are people with a magnificent way of living life, rising the great emotions from, it seems, complete nothingness. What a magnificent way to overcome a problem of moving your muscles. What can be more blissful than selling your geniusness, sleeping long hours and doing what you want to do with life!
A world without problems stumbles to continue its’ natural processes and ends its life in complete stagnation. A problem is the cause of action, a problem is the why of anything out there. It’s something to be adored, not hated. I’ve written about this in my last bogpost – the fiasco of skateboarding happened to be the best thing that had happened to [Bli:p] in weeks – I finally sat down and did something. It moves us. It let’s us get things we’ve always wanted to get. Why don’t people get it and think of a problem from that point of view. But, from the other side, a person Morris dancing in joy ‘cause his car broke down would seem a bit weird.
And as promised. After ruling out some plans for the cargoh store, WHICH ACCEPTED MY SUBMISSION, I was left sith one problem. My printer was out of ink. A problem of a rather small, unimportant matter made me take back my words and open with a new way of making slaps. We’re going hand-made. Yes, when the slaps appear in the Cargoh store, you will be able to buy an authentic piece of [Bli:p]s’ and actually slap a piece of glue, paper, Mtn 94 and a bit of creativity onto a wall of your or worlds’ room. The packaging issue was sorted out – for now I’ve thought of these wonderful combinations – Free Ad Space (packs of 10, 30 and 100, 320mm by 70mm in size), Persona Non Grata #1 (packs of 30 and 100, 700mm by 900mm in size), Persona Non Grata #2 (packs the same as the previous one, 110mm by 300mm in size) and an interesting twist, featuring a number of every before mentioned sticker, selling at a highly lower price because of it’s humongous size. Quite exciting, ain’t it?
And in other news – The cargoh store has allowed me to open a store for my [Bli:p] and finally start selling things. My laptop is down, but in a matter of days it shall be sorted out and the work on my store started.
Stay tuned!
