My heart goes out to you. I too lost a business I spend so many hours of my life building. Long story - but I still meet customers who lament that I am not there anymore but who only came to my store when they needed lots of service and shopped elsewhere for the bulk of their shopping (it was international groceries :)
they bought coffee somewhere else and asked me to grind it for them, or bought meat somewhere and wanted me to cut it on the meat saw - which takes forever to clean 🤪
I am so glad that you are able to move through the bitterness - and you are right. Sometimes, we need to be mad for a little bit and lick the wounds.
All the attitudes you are describing I have seen and it is so sad. We all could live such an abundant life if we shared. But that is such a big topic.
Glad that you are writing and selfie playing with us (and to share the abundance a bit, I sponsored you into SBI yesterday :)
ohhh SBI parties thank you <3 That's pretty funny (not 'haha' funny) and typical of people to say they miss your store that they wouldn't spend a few extra bucks to support. That is a big topic, and I mull over and move through it a lot, trying to make sense of that sort of self defeating behavior . We lost ours because the herb kratom is on the radar for the pharma companies- its been gaining traction in the US and it has a history of pissing off opiate pushers (the thai government banned it almost 100 years ago when they were trying to push opium on their overworked , no rights laborers, it is now legal there again ). I don't feel like I set out to take on giants , I think I just see things that are valuable and , well so do the these giants lol. I wish I had gone into the soap making or meal prep business... no politics in soap as far as I know ;) I joke that I've obviously been burned as a witch or a heretic in past lives and just keep coming back for more punishment lol. At least they only destroyed us financially this time, I guess we are moving forward from in that regard lol
also have you heard of @dustsweeeper? It tops off your low votes so they are paid, so if people like your comment and its under 0.03 it tops it off, you send them 1 sbd at a time and its worth 72 top offs ;)
Yes, I have and have a link to them in the prompt. it is such a good idea. Before I found out about the rounding to zero if the reward is under 0.03 I wated a lot of votes!!
yeah me too- wasted plankton dust floating in the wind lol