The flower was to be bloomed – Sahan Atulugama

Spending many hard days

With the sun, rains, storms and winds.

A flower needed to bloom,

With hopes held high.

I use to watch the flower,

Waving with mild winds

As if it is telling me…

“I’m going to bloom tomorrow,

Please come and see me my friend… ”

As the time went by…

Dusk filled the vicinity,

With gloom hidden beneath a rusty sky.

Whistles of birds, voices of the squirrels, faded away…

The Darkness engulfed the night.

It was almost calm and quiet

Till winds grew up inviting thick showers

I went to bed, since tomorrow was close…

In a few minutes, I was far asleep…

The alarm rang, time to rise and shine…

I got up to give the sleep a rest,

To wander with the morning songs…

Of robins, starlings and sparrows.

And as I stepped out, there I saw

Garden was with leaves spread everywhere

The air was thick and the sky was dark

I wandered along the garden paths

To see the flower that invited me

To enjoy the color, the fragrance it promised me

Anxiousness and uncertainty

Were the two thoughts, started ruling me

I saw no flower but just the stalk

Waving with the wind nature has brought

The flower lied dead, with mud on the ground

To hopelessness and helplessness it was bound

An epiphany I had, let me share with you

Life’s but an actor acting when told to

Whatever may be the rhapsody we bring…

We sing the song until the song is sung…

The Start of Adidas

Christoph Von Wilhelm Dazzler was a shoe maker in the city Baravia, Herzogeaurach Gemany. Pauline was his loving wife. She spent her time in a laundry washing clothes to earn their living. This family had two sons namely Rudolf(Rudi) and Adolf(Adi). Both were schooled in the same city. Everyday, after school, Rudolf use to go to the factory which his father worked and help him in his work. He learnt all about shoe making at helping his father in the factory. Adolf spent time with his mother than his father in the laundry but he was not washing clothes. He was making shoes.  

Soon after schooling, Rudolph found a job at a renowned porcelain company.  While Adolph started his own shoe making business. In 1924, after World War I, Rudolph gave up the job at the porcelain company and joined his brother in making sports shoes. This family shoe business prospered gradually. This business was carried out in mother's laundry. Since the electricity supply was not reliable at the time, they had to use pedal power taken from a stationary bicycle to run their equipment.

Adolph persuaded a US sprinter Jesse Owens to wear Adolph's shoes in his sprint. Jesse agreed and he won 4 gold medals in that Olympic Tournament. That paved the way for Adolph's shoe company to boom. Dazzlers were selling around 200,000 shoes per year just before world war II. 

Unfortunately World War II started. Rudolph was a strong Nazi follower. Dazzler factory was destroyed by the American soldiers since Dazzlers' factory was used to produce anti tank weapons. The attack's on Dazzlers was reduced after Kathe, Adolph's wife convinced that they will produce only ​sports shoes. This broke up the brotherhood between Rudolph and Adolph. 

Rudolph went and started his own shoe factory named Rudi, which after a while became "Puma". Adolph's factory was known as Addidas, formed by the name "Adi" and "Daz"zler. Later they became rivals in sports shoe industry.