English Essay

Mahmoud El-Assuli

Mrs. Jennifer Wilson

English-1010

13 February 2015

This I Believe

The ‘I believe story' that I am going to examine in the paper follows the story of a business man who is facing serious trouble in his business. This is after debts in his business adding up over the time and bankruptcy was coming up as expected. The business man was overambitious in his business after developing modest business plans and going out to take up huge loans without promising ways of repaying his creditors. The suppliers were also threatening to take legal action after Mr. Talal failed to pay for the things he had been supplied with.

Heavily troubled from his current mess, Mr. Talal went to the park and sat down on a bench trying to reflect and possibly find the way to proceed concerning his situation. As he was was deep in thought on how best he was going to save his company from bankruptcy, an old man approached him and said, "I can see something is bothering you." After listening to the business man, the old man was moved by his story perhaps relating to his situation he told Mr. Jemeza, "I think I can be of some help". The old man then asked the business man what his name was, he then reached for his briefcase pulled out a check book and wrote down some amount before shoving it in his hand and saying: "Take this money, we will meet here exactly one year from now, and you will be able to return it to me at that time." After the encounter, he turned around and he disappeared just as just as he had appeared.

Mr. Talal looked at the check that was handed to him with the amount of five hundred thousand Riyals, Riyal is a Saudi currency. Even more shocking he soon realized that it had been signed by King Abdullah, who was one of the wealthiest men. Mr. Talal in disbelief sat down and wondered about this miracle before examining how he was going to solve the problems and debts he had with the money he had got. Instead of cashing in the check, the business man kept it in his safe. He did not want to be premature with the business decisions he made, so he took some time off to reflect on his existence to better draw strength and on how to find solutions to the issues that his company was going through and to save it.

The business man soon was refreshed, and with a new found hope he started getting his business back on track but he still did not cash the check. He started seeing profits coming into his company and even picked up more deals that made him clear of all the debts that the company had. After a few of months, he was back on his feet making profits as he had been making earlier.

After the exact one year period, the business man went to the park just as the old man had requested him. He was carrying the same check he had been given by the old man because he wanted to return it. As the business man sat on the bench the old man appeared, and just when the business man was about to talk to the old man his story and hand over the check, a nurse came running and held on to the old man. The nurse said: "I am glad that I have caught him." She then explained: "I hope that he has not been a bother to you. He always runs from the house and tells people that he is King Abdullah." Talal was taken aback with the events that were happening and also he wondered how for a whole year he has been working so hard in trying to bring back his company to its feet while he thought he had a half a million riyals.

For the business man, he was still coming to terms with how he was capable of pulling through the problems and debts his company was in and going back to being successful. He realized that it was not the money, but the believe in oneself, good planning and hard work.

In this story the belief that one can bring back the his business back from its downhill by the business man was the major goal of the story. Many times people believe that money is the solutions to all the challenges they might be facing in life, but lack of good planning and mind frame on might easily lose all the means they have. As they saying goes a fool and his money soon get parted. The confidence of being able to find ways out concerning the debts and problems that had hit the company was the greatest achievement that Mr.Talal realized.

The check that was given by the old man was just an idea of lost confidence that Mr.Talal suffered. This was in terms of providing guidance so as to achieve what was needed in the company. I also believe that the pressure the business man was facing slowed him from rightfully figuring out what was the best solution for the company’s problem.

Confidence was restored mentally by knowing that he had the security to salvage his business from the downhill that had happened. This has showed the motivation that he had lost after the company had jumped into debts and other problems in the company. Since the time the businessman was given the check by the old man and after looking at the name that was written in it, gave the business man a boost of confidence which he had lost. The low self-esteem suffered by the Mr.Talal had made him have the belief that he could not get through the issues and difficulties the company was in. If an individual has got low self-esteem, then the level of confidence of the person is also translated in everything they do

Confidence is brought about by the type of esteem a person and must begin with a self-assessment. For a person to have self-confidence, they must behave accordingly, believe in oneself, plan effectively and put the right amount of work to achieve the goals. In conclusion, confidence gives a person strength to do something that they might think it is impossible to do..