RWP wrote:So I stepped up my game! My goal is to fold 500 of these origami roses! 500?!?! Yes, 500 and I made sure that I have enough time to complete this. My financial goal is to earn $125 so I can purchase the different types of origami paper (which I recently found out is much more than I first expected).
What's she going to do with 500 origami roses?
Why don't you just list that as one of numerous possibilities, depending upon how much money that people pledge to support the core concept - which is helping you to make a girl that you like to smile.
Why would I, to use myself as an example to illustrate a point, want to pledge any amount, at all, so that you could subject yourself to spending the amount of time necessary to fold 500 origami roses? I would rather pledge to have you create 500 different origami objects, not so that you could create an army of paper rose clones.
Marie Osmond sang a song titled, "Paper Roses," if I remember correctly.
Not that that matters, of course, but I thought of that, just now.
Not to belittle your affinity for origami roses, but what is far more likely to appeal to a far greater number of people is the underlying story. If you only like her, then why 500 of anything? Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote a great poem which poses the question: How do I love thee?
You're a brave man, if you intend to use crowd funding to surprise the object of your like-limited affection with five hundred origami roses.
So, is it friendship that you're trying to sell the public on? Or is it romance? Or is it love?
Either of the three can form a strong foundation for a crowd funding project. How do you intend to make your story stand out from the rest? By impressing either the girl or the public with 500 paper roses?
Whether the roses in question be real or paper, it's what they symbolize that matters most. And what, pray tell me, do these roses - whether one or five hundred - actually symbolize?
Is your goal to raise one hundred and twenty-five dollars? Or is it to make this girl smile?
Somehow, I get the feeling that it's not just her smile that is at issue, here. Of course, it costs you nothing for me to be wrong on that specific point.
You concluded that buying her a rose was a bad idea, yet you then concluded that inundating her with hundreds of unreal roses was a good idea?
Maybe it is.
Maybe.