Passion in Products

When you go to bazaars, there are usually rules understood by all of the people involved.   

1. It’s first come first serve when it comes to the actual good items.
2. All of the items can be easily replicated but the seller will act as if it’s one of a kind.
3. All of the items were probably the rejects from China or Japan.
4. The prices are more than triple what they are actually worth
5. The store clerks don’t really have an understanding of the value of the product. All they want is the sell. 

However, during the Cultural Festival at our school, the vibes were different. The people there seemed to actually care about what they were selling. To be honest at first I thought it was a quick cash grab from the students of a rich school but once I bought a bow and stick (not arrow because that would be dangerous) for only fifty. The man that sold me seemed very adamant that I pick the good one. I went there with my friends and they were looking at these bead creations and I, being the child I am, started to look for the famed bow and stick that everyone told me about. I found it, and while I was browsing the man that was selling approached me and said “No, no, wag yan ito…ito…” and he picked out this bow that I, being the unobservant teenager I am, cannot differentiate from the other bows. He explains that the wood of the bow was better quality than the others, and the curve was better cut and the string was better tightened. I was amazed.

It also amazed me that people sold actual vegetables there. It would seem to be a bad business strategy to sell actual produce in a school full of young people. However, I saw the charm in it. It’s promoting their harvest and their hard work. In the end I didn’t buy one (not sure if the travel would be easily if I carried a squash with me) but friends that lived close by did. And they told me that it was different than buying from supermarkets. I did but some hot tsokolate from them, though. It was amazing, and I agree with them. Maybe it was because it was made with love, maybe it was because theirs is actually made fresh without artificial stuff put into it. Who knows?

To sum up, nothing can really substitute pure passion and love for your product.

For this one I’ll recommend an indie game that it’s obvious that developers put a lot of love in them.

Cuphead – Everyone knows this by now but this game is beautiful. It has the aesthetic of early 50’s cartoon with the platforming prowess of Mario Maker. All of the graphics were hand drawn by the artists and took all of the details in the 50’s cartoon to make the game as immersive as possible. You play as Cuphead (and Mugman of you play as co-op) who just gambled all of his money to the devil’s casino. In order to pay it off you must collect the souls of those in debt to the devil but ran away.

Put passion in all the things you do, yeah?