The seed of entrepreneurship.

It’s Thu Jun 25 2009 and I am at home. The state of mind is fertile and it’s a good opportunity for writing a blog. I will express my inner thoughts using lots of simile (a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.”). I will also name some similes for better imagination. :-)

Of late I am noticing a small seed of entrepreneurship, comparable to a yellow mustard seed, developing a bright green “3 mm” stem with two tiny leaves. This tiny seed was present from 2-3 years but it was dormant. And the changing favorable landscape has made it grow to a tiny life. This is like God deciding that, “Ok you can take a try to become a life form.” Well, I am the small seed of entrepreneurship.

Let me describe the landscape. It was a small monolithic island, with no lakes or shrubs. Few months back a volcano erupted bringing in fertile soil from the bed of the ocean. A small geyser emitting hot water is slowly turning to a small lake. Now the water is cooler, earth warmer, sunny and moist. The condition is favorable for new life forms to originate.

Living creatures that were confined to the cliffs and crevices have started surveying the new place. I am lucky that I have some friends helping me. There is a queen ant (my mother) with her army of followers. She is hard working and she is surveying the work of the other worker ants. They are digging tiny tunnels and this is bringing fresh oxygen to the new soil. There is a humble frog (my father) who is selective in eating and destroying the insects who got attracted to the green tiny growth of the seed. There is a tiny stream of the flowing water (my wife) making the soil wet and giving me the confidence of survival. There is a small baby monkey, (my son) who has immense energy and endless desire to learn something new every day. It’s an inspiration for everyone to learn.

Now let’s come to the seed. He has no idea of what he will look like after some growth. There are no other mustard seeds in the vicinity that can set any example. There are many dangers lurking that will eat the seed in one pick. There is no guarantee that the favorable landscape conditions will continue. More volcanoes will erupt and it will rain badly. The seed can be washed away and die.

But the seed is optimistic. He believes in the one in thousands chances that he will grow. He has faith on his Karma and knows that the conditions will be favorable for him for the first bit of growth. And then he will learn and adapt to the changing circumstances. He knows that he will blossom soon to have bright yellow flowers.