Ok, so I have gotten a little hateration from a few folks. Nothing major, just little comments and stuff from people close to me about my opening a bookstore. A few friends started commenting about how most bookstores don’t make any money or how indie bookstores can’t compete with the chains and stuff like that. Yeah, I know that.

Another thing that has been puzzling me: so many people immediately say, Add a cafe! Add a vegetarian restaurant! Add a coffeeshop! One of my best friends wants to set up a smoothie bar in my bookstore. I’m thinking to myself as they say all this, Well none of that is my dream. And any of those ideas makes my opening a bookstore more complicated and expensive. I wonder what is there motive for suggesting these things to me. especially when they are not doing it themselves? Is it to make me doubt myself, to add so much additional pressure on me that I quit before I begin?

One of my brothers was so adamant about the vegetarian restaurant, it startled me. He kept saying I wouldn’t make any money just selling books and I really needed to do this. I told him repeatedly, I have no interest in owning a restaurant right now. At one point in my life, I did want a veggie restaurant but not anymore. It would drive me crazy because that is not where my passion lies. I love books. I love writing. I love bookstores. So I write and I’m opening a bookstore. I asked him, why don’t you go ahead and do it? He then replied, Hey I am not even vegetarian, I’m just trying to help you out with ideas for a profitable business. I thanked him and left it at that.

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