Below is an excerpt of the Christian Mihai’s post for those who prefer to refer to the blog before reading my response.

Everyone’s trying to conquer the world or die trying. The dopamine rush, the goals, the business ventures. Always busy. Always doing. Always achieving.

By the look of things, Christian Mihai has it all together.

It’s safe for him or her to find comfort into dying trying , or to question if the phrase holds strain as a measure of success.

If a Caribbean Wiman’s goals were to die trying to be rich, would she have succeeded on the basis that she had tried? And by whose standard?

Whose success calculator is keeping a measure or tally of what it means to die trying?

Christian Mihai questioned whether some people are dying trying to hustle because it seems like the popular thing to do or if you aren’t doing this, what are you doing?

Does this mean that we are open to the thought of dying in pursuit of our goals?

What if the omnipresent were to say “ Your wish is my command” right now . How far on the trying calculator would we measure? Would we all have died trying ?

Have you ever tried to have a side hustle and a day job yet had more faith and purpose inthe day job and not your own side hustle?

Where did we inherit the psychological comfort of working hard for someone else’s goals but lacking innovation to have a sustainable side hustle? Clement Branche, A Professor of the Universe of West Indies , Jamaica insisted that Slavery had paid a monumental role in the once colonized Black Carribean people’s ability to be innovative and confident building our own empire and being our own boss, a hustler.

That trauma will not allow us to do any task unless it is supervised and measured by a reputable authority and it is heart breaking to think that this is true.

So I do not hold the view that many people will pick up a side hustle just because it is the popular thing to do, many are haunted by untapped talent, yearning to be brought to fruition, but the politics of taxes , lack of access to funding, informal entrepreneurship and a lack of education on opportunities available is what stops many from fulfilling their side hustles in the Caribbean.

I am not sure what Continent Christian Mihai is from but I know that many Caribbean people are comfortable while they die trying. Because in essence, that is all many have access to.

Dying.