tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1258454526082041659.post4496772968596817817..comments2013-09-25T12:07:28.302-07:00Comments on Big Geek, Small Town: FLASHBACK - So... where do you envision yourself in five years time?Mario Covonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04914923829532207817noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1258454526082041659.post-47174243213559850702012-05-20T04:25:55.851-07:002012-05-20T04:25:55.851-07:00Hi Fred,
Thank You for sharing your thoughts with...Hi Fred,<br /><br />Thank You for sharing your thoughts with me. I too used to feel completely frustrated with my life and where it was going. You need to just grab the bull by the horns and believe in yourself and most importantly, not be afraid to fail! I feel now that losing my shop wasn't necessarily a bad thing, that I have learnt from my mistakes and am enriched by the people I have met and the friendships I have forged. My twenties were the decade for me to experiment, my thirties will now be the decade that I succeed... hopefully :)<br /><br />Just go for it. Tell the stories you want to tell and get them out there. You will have a supporter in me!<br /><br />Thank You again for reading and responding.<br /><br />My Best,<br /><br />MarioMario Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01323907596740241614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1258454526082041659.post-47896961271235881592012-05-20T02:46:14.145-07:002012-05-20T02:46:14.145-07:00Hi Mario!
It's great to read your comments on...Hi Mario!<br /><br />It's great to read your comments on the life of a geek who became a comic shop owner and how it is difficult to maintain such business alive.<br /><br />I have known such adventure from a friend of mine, in France, who like you, has started his business at home, then has opened a small store and, unfortunately, failed due to the rate exchange between the French Franc and the US dollar - it was really expensive in those times... AUGH!!!!<br /><br />Like you, I am broken (thanks to a nervous breakdown due to my jobs in the high IT fields and the so "friendly" colleagues who stabbed you a knife in your back...), I can no more work, and I want to write stories.<br /><br />Before I wanted to draw, like Rob Liefeld (with feet!!), but I am mentally locked. So, I read comic books (no more prose books except some SF and Fantasy magazines).<br /><br />But I really want to write all the stories I have in my mind and it is a real challenge for me to write something without being distracted by something, because I can no more stay concentrated, thanks to a deficient brain swimming in a huge bath of strong medication, and I have no more willpower - it is extinguished with all the hard efforts I have made in these harsh years of my jobs life.<br /><br />I cross my fingers that you will reach your goals, and, as you have said, then I could say: "I was there, at his debut!!!". That will be great!!!<br /><br />Who knows, you can be the trigger which can "unlocked" my mind and help me to write again - yup, I have co-written a lot of IT books and I have written a huge lot of IT white books.<br /><br />2012: the year of Mario C. :)<br />2013: the year of the Judge Fred MANSON. :)<br /><br />Keep going!!! You have a reader of your comments!!! (Thanks to the Bleeding Cool BS!!!)<br /><br />Friendly yours,<br />Judge Fred MANSONJudge Fred MANSONnoreply@blogger.com