Setting Your Own Reality
Posted on 18 December 2006
I love the topic of reality; it is so subjective that I find it absolutely fascinating. It is one area of our lives where we have complete control and where we decide what is realistic to us. Of course society has a habit of imposing limitations on each one of us if we allow it to. The refrains of you’re too young, not clever enough, not rich enough etc are heard from a very early age. When somebody wants to act differently from the crowd to break the rules, to be a bit ‘out there’ they are frequently ridiculed and derided for their efforts, what a strange world we live in., Without these people there would be no fine art, no scientific break-throughs, no sportsmen and women pushing themselves to greater and greater feats, no ground breaking music, no cutting edge literature and of course I could go on and on. What our society needs now are more people that think differently, more people that don’t care what the rules say, more people striving to be different and setting their own parameters.
I was driving down to our local supermarket a couple of weeks ago and noticed a couple of people that were holding signs by the side of the road for condo sales. There was a women and a guy and as this is in an area where permanent signs are not allowed they just kinda stood there, the women reading a book the guy trying to stay awake. It was a humid day (sorry for any of you good people reading this in the currently frozen north!) and I could imagine it wasn’t a whole heap of fun doing that for 8 hours.Then further down the road there was another sign but this one was moving. On the corner of the intersection just outside the supermarket was a guy dancing! Yep, that’s what I said, he was dancing. He had an Ipod or something similar on and was twirling his sign and seemingly having a great time. I couldn’t help but smile and think ‘good for you’. To me this looks like a guy that sets his own rules in life, this is a guy that can take a boring job and turn it into a fun exercise. As well as having a good time I could see he brought fun into the eyes of some of the people that were watching him as they waited at the lights. Not only that, but how more effective do you think he was in attracting peoples attention to read his sign? 10 times? Maybe more? So he was having fun AND being more productive, how cool is that?
I truly believe that this kid will go along way in life. He’ll continue to set his own reality and have fun doing so. He may appear weird to some because he isn’t prepared to be ‘normal’ but I’m guessing and also hoping he’ll not care. I have seen him several times since and every time he is dancing, every time having fun and every time gaining my further respect.
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