Our Untraditional Market Place
As we go into the healing of a "growing phase" of our community, I wanted to share how I have come to see progress here.
I look out, and up the street, and see a shop with an Australian flair, their unique side of the universe and culture that they share with us, as their shop reflects the traditions and and lifestyles they know and love.
I see, next door to them a store with a Canadian shop keeper. Then there is a Scottish feel to the next window down the street. Across for that one, the adventurous ones who share their love of sports or travel, with their display showing beautiful snowcovered mountains with people skiing. Then the displays from some U S shop owner,
Look, someone is helping get some boxes from the street into the shop next to that one. Some one else is helping a neighbor with a droopy awning to be more secure. They are busy exchanging greetings in many different languages, getting the day started in their respective shops.
The street is long, there are many windows and shop fronts with all sorts of wares and opportunities for living a better life. The origin of the country proudly proclaimed. Many different lands, all different ages, young tech guys, still in school to retired individuals who are working hard to build their shops and share with the world out there. Each shop keeper is dedicated and loyal and hardworking and honest.
As the view from the street goes from one season to another, the view shows a neighborhood of continued growth, with the understanding and our tolerance of each other and out different lives, interests, habits, traditions, wants, needs and dreams. I see such a blend of different cultures, each bringing out the best in all of us. We all know that to survive and survive well, we must help, respect, be kind, and encouraging to our neighbors. We will survive better together and in unity, loyal to the base we build from.
I see the shyness of some of the new shopkeepers as they unveil the colors they have chosen to "paint" their interior, the banners they have chosen to hang, the products they have chosen to sell, the education to help their customers understand how to properly use these products- the obvious desire to help their fellow man with his needs.
Next door another shopkeeper has brazenly thrown open the door to vivid colors with sharp contrasts, The product is proudly displayed in a boisterous manner. There is loud music, and people coming and going, smiling and chatting.
Across the street there is a more somber window, with it's door open, the shopkeeper standing in the doorway dressed in "business" attire, flicking a feather duster about.The wares stacked tastefully for customers to see and buy.
Yes, it is with pride that I view the scene before me! Makes the learning more important, knowing that one day soon I will be joining the others and throwing my shop doors open. Thank you for all your help and support- Won't tomorrow be fun, and it will be so interesting to see what the "street" looks like in this warm summer morning sun~~~~~ Wave to me as you stroll by,
Sami
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Beautiful and so warm story, Sami. ;) I will waive to you as I stroll by. ;)) I am looking forward to see yr shop open soon!! Have a fantastic day!! ;))
Jewel, I too am looking forward to getting my doors open! Thanks for reading my story. Have a great productive day
Sami
This was wonderful! What a beautiful street! I feel privileged to walk along it with you all.
Better than waving as I pass you by, I promise I will stop to say hello when your doors are opened. And I hope, if you are not too busy organizing your wares, that you will do the same for me. :)
Thanks, Sami. Have a lovely day!
Bee, thank you for reading my blog. I do think this is our wonderful street, and our coffee breaks are the time to read emails.
Sami
I might be spending a little more than my coffee break, hehe. There are so many interesting things to stop and look at!
Hi Sami, you paint a beautiful picture that triggers the imagination to see the street as you described it. A brilliant analogy of the community.
Congratulations on a wonderful and inspiring first blog post.
Here's a wave as I pass your unique shop front :).
Lis.
Thank you Lis, When my store is open, maybe we can have coffee. I appreciate the kind words.
Sami
That's a great analogy Sami. WA is a huge shopping centre populated by shopkeepers and customers from all over the world. This is one of the best 'first post' I've read in a long time. Thank you for sharing. ~Marion
Hey Sami Great words we are a melting pot of Knowledge here and as you say every shop is different even us Aussies ...lol... but we are a community and a great one at that ... cheers John
its like Ozmosis Sami it will all develope for you at a natural rate, going great cheers John
John, I am hopeful- the learning part is so slow- Of course having to start at the bottom, I am grateful for the community support. Helps make sense of the lessons sometimes.
Sami
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Lovely story Sami and heartwarming to read how ordinary people are embracing their own opportunities and working hard for a better life for themselves and their families.
But a lot of them have a predicament we don't share.....business hours and location. Shop owners can't up bricks and open up somewhere else and mostly they keep regular opening hours and close on public holidays.
Us, we'll we have no such restrictions Sami and when you open your store it'll be open 24/7/365 all over the world. See the potential?
Good luck Sami
Mark
Hi Mark,
Thanks for stopping by, and yes the idea of open doors 24/7 is the biggie for me- I have had the other- self employment, had bosses- time clocks! Grateful for my opportunities, but so ready to go another route!!
The network does away with the isolation that one feels when going into business somewhere new, where you know no one. And a new field that you are learning.
The street I wrote about is one to visualize, and visit, not live on!
Hope you have a productive day,
Sami
Going to sleep and waking up 8 hours later to find out that somebody has bought your product/service on the other side of the world or going away for a few days and coming back realising that you earned more than you spent while away is what should be spurring us all on to achieve that level of income.
Great stuff Sami
Mark