AuthorSharon Eden-Smith (@sharonedensmith) is the entrepreneur who established Eden-Smith Music. She will be posting blog articles about the business of... ![]()
A number of years ago, I took a tour of a potash mine. The drive above ground took over an hour to get to the mine itself. Upon arrival, we were loaded into a high speed elevator. That elevator descended 1 mile underground.
The city that existed within the earth was spectacular. Every piece of machinery that I had ever seen on the surface was inside the ground, plus all the extras for mining the potash and keeping the workers safe. The venture capital required to start a business of that magnitude was mind boggling, not to mention the constant profit/loss tabulations that had to be made to ensure that, that underground venture did not go under. At one point, our tour guide took us down an abandoned tunnel. The potash seam at that location had dried up. Many of the surrounding tunnels were being swallowed up by the earth. They were getting smaller. Our tour guide told us that we were underneath a lake. People were literally boating and water skiing on the surface of the water above our heads. There was a whole ecosystem teaming with life up there. We were underneath it. Our tour guide stopped at the circuit breaker controlling the lights for the area. He cut the ignition to our vehicle and asked us to switch off the head lamps on our hard hats. He wanted us absolutely quiet. He stepped out of the vehicle and pulled the circuit breaker. Everything went black! There was not even a singular point of light off in the distance. The rods and cones of my retinas had no stimulus. I just shut my eyes. There was nothing to see. I had become the blind mole underground. The greatest pain was from my ears. They had never totally been without sound above ground. In the completeness of the silence, my ears sent out tendrils, searching for some noise, any noise, no matter how minuscule. When they found nothing to grab onto, they turned inward to the sound of my breathing and my heartbeat. I focused on the steady rhythm of both. I listened to see if I could hear the flow of blood in my body. I wanted...needed...something to listen to, anything. Finally, the lights went on. We all started talking at once. The time in the darkness and silence seemed like forever, though it lasted for no more than 1 minute. Satisfied and chuckling, our tour guide re-entered our vehicle, started the engine and drove us back to the elevator, waiting to take us to the surface. There are times, as an entrepreneur, when I am back in the abandoned tunnel, a mile underground, underneath the lake, sitting in the darkness with no sound. Those are times of waiting. I am neither completely active, nor absolutely inactive. The time for whatever needs to be done has not yet arrived and what existed before cannot continue to be. These are the moments just before a transition or they are the transitions. They can be uncomfortable. I have learned, not only to accept them, but to relish them. They are my points of rest, my times for restoring balance. The lights will eventually go on. The silence will be broken. When that happens, I will need to be ready and rested to take Eden-Smith Music on the next phase of the entrepreneurial journey. Yes, I am an entrepreneur who loves being 1 mile underground.
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