All massive movements, incredible initiatives, and world wonders started with a quiet question. A group or single human had an idea and questioned to themselves: “What if?”
Many such questions have gone through my head and many have been forgotten as the mind cannot make all questions into movements. Everyone has such ideas. Unfortunately, most ideas do not get acted upon. However, some people get consumed by these ideas and end up reshaping the world around them.
One such question was posed to me by an alumnus of my college. He asked simply “What happened to the Prospector yearbook?” The simple answer was the school no longer made it but there was another question hidden behind the former. A quiet question I asked myself: Can it be brought back? All quiet questions get me excited because turning the seed of an idea into a tree of impact is hard. Or in other words fun. Seeing a huge tree and knowing it was a small seed cultivated by you at one point is one of the most joyous, fulfilling experiences a human can have.
The next question I always find myself asking is do I want to put the effort into growing this tree? In other words for this story, should I start the Prospector? In this case, I did not have enough bandwidth to put in the insane cultivation effort. Hence I shared the idea with my friend.
The Prospector - Part II is the story of how he ran with it.
:: Starting something is as simple as asking what if?::