Week: 47
Songs to Remember: Peanuts Song (피너츠송) - Ahn Yong Jun (안용준)
I always start out in a s****y situation, but in the end I end up wanting more, because it turns out it became great.
I set my alarm (on my phone) to 7:00 AM. I also set another one at 8:00 AM, 9:00 AM, and 10:00 AM. i ended up waking at 11:00 AM. Stayed up pretty late last night, around 3:00 AM. I was planning on playing Terraria all day, but when I my mom called me down for breakfast and to go get my hair cut, I was like "Aww man...". Only 'cause I'm lazy.
Head down to eat, head out with my dad and walked to the barber shop that was close to our house, about a block down (not really sure how long a block is, but, probably less than that). When we got there, it was closed. I was like "It's okay, i can have my hair cut at the barber shop back home". My dad was like "There are plenty of barber shops around here" and so we walk to like, downtown.
I was like "Okay, fine". I've only walked those streets back in 2011 or so with my cousin (the one who took to me to Anime Expo) to go to this one bootleg card shop (like, YuGiOh). My dad and I walked like, a pretty long distance. Very long walking distance, to find a barber shop.
At first glance, I was like "Oh hey, this looks like a good place". There were a couple people there already so we had to wait a while. There was this man there, he had an already fairly shaven head. He asked for a trim or something, but also brought along his own razor and asked for a shave. I expected it to take only about 5 minutes, but nope, it took a bit longer than I thought.
After about 20 minutes, sitting there, with one guy having his hair cut to perfection and another guy having his shaved head trimmed to perfection, my dad had enough and just left. The barber dude was like "Are you sure? He's next". My dad just left. I was thinking like "What the ever-living f***, we left just because you don't like the people here?". My dad said to me "My god, what a waste of time. They take so long. Kids, spending time and money on their perfect hair instead of doing something productive" (referring to one of the dudes getting their hair cut).
I was like "What the f***", we coulda just went back home and have my hair cut at our usual place. But no, apparently we gotta have it now and today. So we're walking back, we see another barber shop and head in. I was like "Oh my f***ing god, dad, now we're going to have to wait again".
We got lucky. There was no one there, just a guy on his laptop, and yes, he was the barber. The neighborhood we're in, right now in LA, is not that great of a neighborhood. There's a lot of people in poverty, homless, run-down houses, you get it. Just, not THAT great. It's also mainly consists of people of Hispanic culture. By that I mean everybody in the neighborhood knows or speaks Spanish.
This guy wasn't of hispanic culture and spoke like, English. He seemed really friendly, he was like "Are you ready man". Made me feel pretty comfortable. He started talking to my dad a bit, having a small convo like "Where you reside, how many kids you got", etc. The dude made some pretty bootleg joke/questions like "Are you a rapper?" (in which I obviously do not resemble any rapper-esque qualities or looks at all). He was pretty funny.
He also asked me what I like, and well, I really didn't know WHAT I liked. I was like "Oh, uh, video games". He was like "Video games, huh?". He started talking a bit about, people, about, jobs, work, money. I asked him what he's doing, if he had all this money. He said he was in the process of, like, investing online or something. Can't really remembe EXACTLY what he said.
He also mentioned trading with those investments, I'm like "Oh, trading, I see". Then he mentions some business terms with trading, maybe some trading companies/strategies, I barely know what trading is, I just went along with it like "Oh yeah that, mhmm", heh. From business, he went on further to explain, how people work, and that it's not good to be working for someone, and it's not good to have people working for you.
Us humans are capable of a lot of things/ It doesn't sound too great when you say "Hey, I'm working for blah blah blah!". It also doesn't sound too great when you say "Look at me, I got 3000 people working for me!". People are like apes, working to show off in this, concrete zoo. They act and show just to get a few bananas, heh.
Jay-Z and Tony Robbins are some of the people he mentioned, who made legacies. Jay-Z, who started out as (as he had honestly said it) a "poor-ass nigga", heh. And now look at him. He's got all this money, that he's got his family and his children and his children's children and so on,that they'd be set for life. Jay-Z's made a legacy for his bloodline. Tony Robbins, an inspirational speaker, who helps others, while in turn, this would help himself as well.
He was like "What's that one word? Where one helps others and in turn, they would help them too?". I was thinking of "Symbiotic relationship" but the word he was referring to was "entrepreneur philanthropist". A person, making their own, and helps out others while and because they're making their own. "Entrepreneur philanthropist", sounds like vocabulary from my English class, heh.
I was on the verge of tears halfway through his, rant (not in a bad way, I enjoyed it and learned A LOT from it). Like, I'm not even kidding, I did not expect to hear life-changing reasons during a small haircut. Not sure why he just, opened up to me about all that stuff, not sure if he does that to everybody who goes to the shop.
And it's not even his shop even, he made an example of it by saying how the roof above his head at the shop doesn't even belong to him, it belongs to someone else, and he wants to someday make his own. Not his own barber shop, but his own, you know, business or something. Anyways, I've seen the "Humans of New York" page on Facebook, and there was so many things he said, I needed to get a picture of him, along with a quote.
After my haircut was finished, I was like "May I ask for your name?". "Tim", he replies, and shaked my hand, just like when we came in. I asked "Can I get a picture of you? It's for a project" (in which, "It's for a project" is now my excuse for taking pictures of anybody, heh). "Also, what was that quote you said, about legacies?". "Oh, umm, you have to make your own entrepreneur legacy so you won't have to work under the corrupt legacies of society".
I really liked his statement about how there were 2 kinds of people, the legacy builders, and the workers. Legacybuilders, well, try to build their legacy, while workers work to help others build their legacy. Like, Steve Jobs, or Bill Gates. People know them, but not any others who helped, create Windows, or the iPhone. Saying "I created the iPhone" is better than "I worked to help create the iPhone by Steve Jobs".
TIm also made examples of movies, like the movie "Antz" or "The Matrix". Also this video game called "The One". Anyways, we shook hands, my dad gave him a big tip, and waved good bye. Tim said that in March of next year, he'll be gone for good and be traveling, something everybody should do. So, hopefully I'll be able to see him in December during Christmas time. As we were walking out, my eyes kinda teary but I didn't actually shed a tear, my dad was like "He's a cool guy, huh?". I was like "Yeah, he's cool".
We stopped at my aunt's workplace (which was surprisingly right next to where Tim was at), said hello, stopped for burritos at this one place, came back to the house at around 3:00 PM. And well, here I am. Man, was I not expecting this at all. At first glance he's just a dude working at a barber shop, turned out to be one of the most insightful person I met so far. If I ever become successful, in doing whatever I'll be doing, in making my own business or whatever, I'll dedicate it to my friends, family, and Tim. See you tomorrow.
"You have to make your own entrepreneur legacy so you won't have to
work under the corrupt legacies of society." -Tim
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