- Joined
- Jul 28, 2018
- Location
- London
I see myself as someone who is not easily inspired or influenced but there are a few I can relate to.
1 - A friend I met at work. Though we don't speak now and she annoyingly never turned up to my wedding (could have invited someone else instead), she's a big part of where I am now. We met when I was working in retail and at university. I was inspired by the fact she was not much older than me, owned a house and had £20,000 in her bank account (I had £2,000 and thought I was the richest person on the planet). She could play the piano, produce music, sing, write poetry, help youths and was just such a massive inspiration for me to work hard. Before then, I would just work the bare minimum and never put much effort into anything. Randomly she she pulled out some receipt printing paper and wrote some inspiring words on it. This must have been 10-11 years ago and I still have the paper today.
2 - A friend I met at my first professional job. He is the person I mentioned in my top Losing a Friend. Before I met him, I had no one to really go out with, never knew how to order drinks at a bar and was lacking in so much confidence all round. He mentored me and I got promoted and progressed with my career to a point I got paid more than him. We haven't spoke in almost a year however.
3 - My wife. Met her around the same time I met the person above. She has changed and improved me as a person. Confidence etc. but my insecurities have all gone away and I am far less a prick than I was before.
Q - Have you ever stole anything?
I'm no serial thief but there are a few things that I have got away with. I remember having Halo 2 on the original Xbox but the disc got scratched to a point I could not play it. I also wanted to buy the Halo 2 headset and they were both around the same price. So, what I did was go into the game store and asked them if they had the headset. I pretended to be in limbo about whether I wanted the headset or Halo 2. I ended up getting Halo 2, went round the corner, swapped the disc out, waited 5 minutes and came back and said I changed my mind and wanted the headset. Because of the all the back and forth before, they didn't even check the disc and just swapped the game for the headset. Two for the price of one!
1 - A friend I met at work. Though we don't speak now and she annoyingly never turned up to my wedding (could have invited someone else instead), she's a big part of where I am now. We met when I was working in retail and at university. I was inspired by the fact she was not much older than me, owned a house and had £20,000 in her bank account (I had £2,000 and thought I was the richest person on the planet). She could play the piano, produce music, sing, write poetry, help youths and was just such a massive inspiration for me to work hard. Before then, I would just work the bare minimum and never put much effort into anything. Randomly she she pulled out some receipt printing paper and wrote some inspiring words on it. This must have been 10-11 years ago and I still have the paper today.
2 - A friend I met at my first professional job. He is the person I mentioned in my top Losing a Friend. Before I met him, I had no one to really go out with, never knew how to order drinks at a bar and was lacking in so much confidence all round. He mentored me and I got promoted and progressed with my career to a point I got paid more than him. We haven't spoke in almost a year however.
3 - My wife. Met her around the same time I met the person above. She has changed and improved me as a person. Confidence etc. but my insecurities have all gone away and I am far less a prick than I was before.
Q - Have you ever stole anything?
I'm no serial thief but there are a few things that I have got away with. I remember having Halo 2 on the original Xbox but the disc got scratched to a point I could not play it. I also wanted to buy the Halo 2 headset and they were both around the same price. So, what I did was go into the game store and asked them if they had the headset. I pretended to be in limbo about whether I wanted the headset or Halo 2. I ended up getting Halo 2, went round the corner, swapped the disc out, waited 5 minutes and came back and said I changed my mind and wanted the headset. Because of the all the back and forth before, they didn't even check the disc and just swapped the game for the headset. Two for the price of one!
