A dark day, although not without comedy. Business plan a) has stalled as the property we have been basing our plans on has been somewhat cruelly given to the newcomers, who had initially retracted their interest. I have been worried all along that things were just too easy so far, so here it is; the first lesson of business. What the lesson is, I am not entirely sure, except speed is of the essence and no trust can be made in human nature to do the 'right' thing. Dealing with lawyers, we have no idea who the landlord is and why he made the decision he did, so speculation is pointless and destructive, as are the initial feelings of ill towards him/her that I had to sit with for a few long hours this evening.
Being a practical creature, I was out in the car trawling the streets to refresh my memory of all the other potential properties we had seen; taking numbers, looking up on the internet and poring over spreadsheets to compare the money side of things. It is easy to rattle off the platitudes and talk of fate; I am sad that the mental images I had been spinning and the sketch plans we have been scribbling are now the stuff of history. Now to spin some new pictures and start to imagine an amended future vision; time is still on our side and nothing else has changed in a negative way. Same plan, different location. Hindsight may let us know one day that the right decision was made for us, or we may never know.
I dislike the analogy of life as a roller coaster, but it does seem rather apt just now.
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