I have had so many excuses for not writing,
the most prominent being my day job. But all those excuses have gotten silenced
by my heart, which can’t live without writing. I hope this will be the first
article among many that I’ll write before the end of the year.
Now that’s no way to start a blog, but why
wouldn’t everyone cut me some slack? I haven’t written in a gazillion months!
So, today I’d like to talk about
circumcision. And start ups.
A few months ago, a guest came to the
guesthouse where I work. She was on the team trying to popularise non-surgical
male circumcision. And she had lots of dildos to show for it. So one evening we
got talking and ended up talking about her work. She described to me the whole
circumcision process, its pros and cons and even encouraged me to get
circumcised.
It’s just yesterday that our conversation
came back to me as I was thinking of what it takes to start a business. I realised
that starting a business is like getting circumcised. At first, you don’t want
to do it. It’s so painful and you could lose your pee-pee if the doctor doesn’t
do it well. And it takes some time to heal and be able to function well again.
And even after the guest with a bag of
dildos and a PhD convinces you to go get cut, even after you make up your mind
that you really need to get cut, you decide to nurse some procrastination. You say
you’ll do it next week, and when next week comes you push it to next week until
the year ends and you still have your foreskin.
And then you get a girlfriend and she
demands that you go have the simple procedure done or else... and for the first
time you realise that it’s now a matter of life or death. So you go to the
hospital. The procedure is over in just ten minutes and now you’re a certified
entrepreneur!
And now the pain starts.
