Chapter 117: SOFIA
My footsteps echoed as I walked over to Richard’s office. It was a short distance, but it felt even shorter as I tried not to hurry.
It was like after that rumination on the possibility of my future with Charlie, I was almost eager to say yes to Richard’s offer.
With every step I was reminded of what a great opportunity this was. Chances like this, a choice like this rarely come by and when it does, one just can’t pass it by.
He was offering me a chance to be a part of his life. I would be privy to almost everything about his life and work. And it’s not just that, I get to learn from him. He might be a jackass, a prick and a total douche, but the guy was still a paragon in the fashion industry. Only a fool will pass on from the opportunity to learn from him.
He was right, most would kill to be in my position right about now? And I ask, should I really tempt this by asking for more?
Is it greed, if I ask for more?
Perhaps. But one thing I’ve noticed in dealing with guys like Richard, or people like him in general, privileged pricks who think they are above everyone, is to surprise them. Show them that without you, without people like me they are practically nothing.
Especially... most especially when you are sure they need your help. Help from that person whom they think is insignificant. That’s why I applaud people who steal or make away with some of their properties at times.
Maybe that makes me a bad person, but those pricks deserve it. Most of these people have had to endure worse under them while serving diligently and these people with their noses always far up in their asses, they don’t see or appreciate. So why blame a dude for taking what he rightly deserves?
Though I cross a line in the case of those who do it to take a cut in life. People who don’t and can’t hustle for their own and seek to scheme from those who toiled and labored to get to where they are.
Those are the absolute worst because one thing I know is that whoever struggled to amass his or her wealth, will never treat others like shit. It’s usually their children, the next generation who the groundwork has been laid out for, they are the ones who often treat others like shit.
Working hard to make it in life offers lessons that these children sort of escape from. The lessons on humility, patience and kindness are lost on them because they never worked a day in their lives.