The Advice.

The Advice.(Shreyanshu) I was a successful businessman, I owned a multinational company and controlled the major companies in Europe. I have a beautiful wife ‘Elian’. She loves me more than anything in the world. My life was at its ‘golden’ point. I had all the luxuries that you need for a decent life. But my life was about to change. One day when I was with my wife seeing a reality show on the 62inch plasma screen, someone knocked on the door. I saw through the peep hole a gentleman standing with a quite large briefcase. I let him in. He came in and praised me for my success. I thanked him for that but I knew it was an old strategy. He probably was a salesperson. he would first try to butter me up and then try to influence me. I was too experienced to fall in such a trap. We talked for about half an hour and he somehow convinced me to invest largely in share market(although he was not at all related to the share markets!). I was quite hard to convince and on top of that I hated the share market. I was quite convinced so I invested a little on the shares to see my luck and luckily I had a profit of about 50000 Euros. I was tempted. I guess I made my biggest mistake there. Elian suggested that I should not invest hefty amounts of money in shares. But it was too late. I already had invested about 2 million Euros in the shares and to my surprise I lost about a 50000 Euros the next day. It did not seem to be a big loss so I kept playing. I guess that was second biggest mistake. I started having sleepless nights. I was always worried about the money, but I did not lose my faith and to my surprise I recovered almost 65000 Euros the next day! I kept playing and then the day came when my life gave me the biggest shock. I lost 3 million Euros in all and also my company. I was broken down. I wept all day long which made my eyes swell. One day when I woke up I did not find Elian on the bed. There was a letter lying there instead. It said – ‘I have to go. I need to do some work and I guess its time to go. I love you.
Elian.’

I take back my words. THIS was the biggest shock of my life. The only inspiration left in my life also ditched me and went off. I should have listened to her, but I was all too tempted at that time. ‘The advice’ from the salesperson made my life a living hell. Months passed and I sat in my room broken, staring at the blank wall. Only in a matter of months from a billionaire I was reduced to a beggar. I searched for pennies so that I could survive on bread. One day I was sitting on the bank of a river. Staring at the seamless sky and then suddenly I thought that it was no good for me to live in this world. I walked up to the bridge and stood up at the railing. In a matter of seconds a crowd gathered. They all were trying to warn me but no one dared to come forward. Then from distance I heard a familiar voice, it was Elian.

She came running towards me and convinced me that I had to live. I half heartedly stepped down and then we went to a restaurant and talked. I asked her why she left me. She said – ‘I never left you. I told it was time to go. I wanted to help you. So I borrowed some money from my parents and invested it in shares. And guess what? We are billionaires, Again.’ I was thunder struck. I always thought she left me, she ditched me, and she had a stone heart, but actually she was trying to help me.

But I knew that I could not trust shares to be a source of income for me as I had suffered a lot before and I knew the consequences. She said that I should try to regain my control on all the companies in Europe, but I told her that it was nearly impossible. Then she gave me ‘The advice’ that was going to change my life, again. She told me to start a new company. A clothing line. I hesitated a bit but then I was all set up to start it. I contacted the cloth distributor and one of my friends that supplied me with models to market my cloth. I wanted to dedicate this clothesline to my wife. So I name it ‘Elianostic’. Me and Elian worked very hard to create our designs. We would drink like 40 cups of coffee. At last we completed our ‘summer collection’. The day the collection was to be shown I was nervous. My forehead was sweaty. and then Elian showed up and patted my back and said ‘it’s going to be fine, and no one would want to see you up there with a sweaty face.’ I gave a smile. The show ended we got amazing response and the designer gave us 1 million Euro to make a ‘winter collection’. In days our Elianostic became a hit! TV was flooded with our breakthrough. Soon we became a multinational company. I got a new life. I lived three different lives in the last 3-4 months. First, me being a Successful businessman. Second, being a beggar and living the life of rats! And Third, being a billionaire with a successful clothesline with my best friend, Elian.

Today I have 3 news clothesline running and I do seminars on how share market can change our lives. I warn them not to get tempted. I was living the ‘golden’ period of my life, again. I guess the advice from my woman helped me. unlike the one from the salesperson.