Decisions

Today my room is a total mess.

Boxes, books and what-nots are scattered all over.

The sudden intruders were stuff moved out of Newton Study Center-Sucat.

Newton had been my first business venture.  It’s main services were review programs for students aspiring to go to premiere schools.

I opened up a franchise in Sucat in summer of 2008. It had been 4 grueling years of keeping the business afloat.  Grueling in the sense that some of my weekends were booked because I had to work for my venture.

If only a consolation, I found a way to channel my passion to teach, by being an instructor in some of the review classes.

Last month, with much pain in my heart I pulled the plug.

I guess my dad’s medical emergency which happened 2 weeks after I opened the business, was a portent of things to come.

With my finances bleeding out to pay for the hospital bills, I barely had enough operating capital to keep the business afloat.

It was out of pride that I trudged on to have the operations running. I was hoping that things would eventually turn around. In due time, the required volume would come to cover the fixed cost.

But salvation never came. And the losses I incurred got bigger and bigger.

I guess my head knew back then that it had been a futile battle.

I gave my heart the chance.

But I realize that sometimes no matter how painful, decisions have to be made by the mind rather than the heart.