Niche
Hi, I'm here to tell a story.
People, can be compared to a box of screwdrivers.
You have the ones who can (supposedly) do anything AND have a nice design. Swiss army knife? Yeah something like that. Then you have screwdrivers which can screw different bolts and nuts depending on its shape. AND THEN you have the screwdriver, that can barely fit in any bolts. It's small and unassuming, so it's hard to even twist it. It looks like crap. It can probably only ever screw in/out less than five nails in its pathetic lifetime. Yet, this screwdriver sits in the box waiting for its time when it's needed while pretty much every other screwdriver is taken out, somebody having found a use for it. Hell, some of them can't do shit but are used anyway because they look good, even though they probably break easily. Let's call that screwdriver the 'niche' screwdriver, since it can only unscrew a select few nails which don't seem to even exist.
But why are they picked over this pathetic small non-goodlooking screwdriver? Maybe they simply attracted the attention of the owner. A diamond-laden screwdriver. A screwdriver that was made completely black, A screwdriver with a fucken Winnie the Pooh on it. All these, somehow gets picked over the ugly screwdriver. I don't think I need to explain why. Despite their apparent uselessness.
And so the 'niche' screwdriver, sick of being overlooked all the goddamn time, decided to just walk out of the box and seek a nail that it can unscrew. There were several tables, chairs, desks, you name it. All chock-filled with nails, screws and bolts everywhere. And of course, it tried to unscrew all of them. Clearly you know the result: the screwdriver was unable to unscrew any of them. In fact, some were repulsed that the niche screwdriver actually tried. Others were more kind to it, but ultimately they knew that the screwdriver could never screw the. However, they told it that there was definitely a nail that the screwdriver could fit in - just not them, of course.
By this time the niche screwdriver was obviously quite pissed off. With the bolts that refused to be unscrewed by it. They were made to be screwed by others anyway. With all the other screwdrivers who got to screw them while it could not. And of course with the nails that refused to be found. But it knew it had to be patient. After all, it WAS made for a purpose. And while its purpose had yet to be found, there was definitely a nail it could unscrew.
The niche screwdriver said bye to all the previous nails. He didn't really fit with them but at least they tried to help it and stuff. And onwards it continued with its journey, to other places, searching for The One Nail.
AN: Okay I got this idea when I was in the toilet and I don't deny that it's based a bit off my life and my general frustration, but hey at least I'm not giving up. And I do believe I'm that niche. I mean, I can't do anything that other typical people can do. I do all the weird things that others don't. I don't satisfy people the way others can, and rather importantly, I just don't attract much attention even if I do something crazy.
Yet that's no cause for giving up on everything. For one, my conscience wouldn't even allow it. Another reason, I don't believe that One Nail isn't somewhere. I haven't found it but I sure do hope to find it :P Wishful thinking? Probably. But when the alternative is rotting in a corner begging for attention, I think I'll take the more stoic path.
I'm tired so I won't elaborate more. I ran out of creativity too. Hey, this is my first post in half a year. I said I'd close my blog when I got a girlfriend...I was just on a hiatus and ran to Twitter. Twitter is causing my English standard to go down like crazy since it has that annoying 140-word limit, so I felt the need to start writing again. I really feel like my calling is in writing, not in goddamn IT or eCommerce or developing mobile applications. I'm not interested in any of the three. Just another bad decision in the hundreds I've made. Well tata. Maybe I won't take another six months to get up another post.
People, can be compared to a box of screwdrivers.
You have the ones who can (supposedly) do anything AND have a nice design. Swiss army knife? Yeah something like that. Then you have screwdrivers which can screw different bolts and nuts depending on its shape. AND THEN you have the screwdriver, that can barely fit in any bolts. It's small and unassuming, so it's hard to even twist it. It looks like crap. It can probably only ever screw in/out less than five nails in its pathetic lifetime. Yet, this screwdriver sits in the box waiting for its time when it's needed while pretty much every other screwdriver is taken out, somebody having found a use for it. Hell, some of them can't do shit but are used anyway because they look good, even though they probably break easily. Let's call that screwdriver the 'niche' screwdriver, since it can only unscrew a select few nails which don't seem to even exist.
But why are they picked over this pathetic small non-goodlooking screwdriver? Maybe they simply attracted the attention of the owner. A diamond-laden screwdriver. A screwdriver that was made completely black, A screwdriver with a fucken Winnie the Pooh on it. All these, somehow gets picked over the ugly screwdriver. I don't think I need to explain why. Despite their apparent uselessness.
And so the 'niche' screwdriver, sick of being overlooked all the goddamn time, decided to just walk out of the box and seek a nail that it can unscrew. There were several tables, chairs, desks, you name it. All chock-filled with nails, screws and bolts everywhere. And of course, it tried to unscrew all of them. Clearly you know the result: the screwdriver was unable to unscrew any of them. In fact, some were repulsed that the niche screwdriver actually tried. Others were more kind to it, but ultimately they knew that the screwdriver could never screw the. However, they told it that there was definitely a nail that the screwdriver could fit in - just not them, of course.
By this time the niche screwdriver was obviously quite pissed off. With the bolts that refused to be unscrewed by it. They were made to be screwed by others anyway. With all the other screwdrivers who got to screw them while it could not. And of course with the nails that refused to be found. But it knew it had to be patient. After all, it WAS made for a purpose. And while its purpose had yet to be found, there was definitely a nail it could unscrew.
The niche screwdriver said bye to all the previous nails. He didn't really fit with them but at least they tried to help it and stuff. And onwards it continued with its journey, to other places, searching for The One Nail.
AN: Okay I got this idea when I was in the toilet and I don't deny that it's based a bit off my life and my general frustration, but hey at least I'm not giving up. And I do believe I'm that niche. I mean, I can't do anything that other typical people can do. I do all the weird things that others don't. I don't satisfy people the way others can, and rather importantly, I just don't attract much attention even if I do something crazy.
Yet that's no cause for giving up on everything. For one, my conscience wouldn't even allow it. Another reason, I don't believe that One Nail isn't somewhere. I haven't found it but I sure do hope to find it :P Wishful thinking? Probably. But when the alternative is rotting in a corner begging for attention, I think I'll take the more stoic path.
I'm tired so I won't elaborate more. I ran out of creativity too. Hey, this is my first post in half a year. I said I'd close my blog when I got a girlfriend...I was just on a hiatus and ran to Twitter. Twitter is causing my English standard to go down like crazy since it has that annoying 140-word limit, so I felt the need to start writing again. I really feel like my calling is in writing, not in goddamn IT or eCommerce or developing mobile applications. I'm not interested in any of the three. Just another bad decision in the hundreds I've made. Well tata. Maybe I won't take another six months to get up another post.
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12:43 AM
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