Right now he is living the good life in Paris! How lucky he is. Actually he is very busy at an internship. Yet he is still lucky to be in one of the worlds grand cities.
It's been eight days since we submitted our application, so I asked Wael if he was having any feelings of anxiety or thoughts about it.
This is his reply:Well actually, i'm starting to get worried too. In french there's an expression "j'ai la boule au ventre" which literally means "i'm feeling a balloon on my stomach" and it's used to express the extreme worry and stress.
Lol, I thought that was so funny and also so cool he wrote it out in French! Yep me too. My stomach aches! Here I thought since I suffered last year and the final outcome was, you did not get selected. I thought maybe I'd be free from the anxiety, butterflies in the stomach, the endless yo yo thoughts of "Yes, were invited! and No we didn't make it! plague my brain, and this makes my stomach hurt.
I've am keeping myself as busy as I can building, creating, learning, doing all things startup, and yet I cannot suppress these thoughts of wonder. Not only are Wael and myself going through this, but every team who applied for the Winter program are most likely suffering some type of wanting to know anxiety.
Truly, you cannot push it out of your mind. An opportunity so grand to help us build a company that will affect the lives of perhaps every connected person, dances in the head. Yes, there are many, many accelerators, but this is the one we applied to right now, so this is the one giving us stomach aches.
I like how the Eiffel tower looks golden, and it also looks to be an upside down Y. Hmmm, maybe that's a Good Luck wish from Paris.
To all the other teams that applied, Wael and I hope to meeting at least some of you soon, in another grand city, San Francisco! Yes, I like it when the yo yo effect lands on the side of, HAPPY. As the Hunger Games movie quote says "May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor"
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