Comments on: Part 2, the Reality salesman makes a house call

By: Deb

Deb — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 17:39:20 +0000

Michael, we tend to focus on the thing in front of us which is the most important to get done NOW. In doing so though, we miss the really important moment that is happening to us at that special moment. Then because we are not paying attention, we miss it. I’m sure you have heard the saying” Stop and smell the roses”. Well, literally, stop and smell them. For tomorrow they will lose their aroma and you will have lost your chance to enjoy something really wonderful. Maybe you don’t like roses. That’s OK too, but then take the concept of the saying and apply it to something else in your world that you truly do love. Find the one thing in your life that touches you so deeply that you will then find again your imagination and hold fast to it, because it truly helps you through those tough times that make us lose it in the first place. I hope you find it.

By: gokmen

gokmen — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 17:46:12 +0000

@MB
that’s a very easy thing to do. very easy. I’ll describe the feel of a robot in a single sentence: Just let me finish watching this last picture of reality, that I myself is lacking in it, just few more seconds before I leave my tube, please.

By: gokmen

gokmen — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 17:20:18 +0000

You are absolutely right.
I concur, knowing from myself..
Being stuck in the life soap opera causes all kinds of attitude problems towards one’s self, to others, everything around..

By: From Québec

From Québec — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 20:09:54 +0000

Post-Sciptum:

You see, David, if Jon ever comes back with a Part 3, of ” the Reality salesman makes a house call”. I could write back to the Reality salesman.

I could decide either that:

– He accepted my invitation to the biggest event ever organized on this Earth.

– Or I could decide that he didn’t come.

Either way, it would be fun to write to him again.

By: From Québec

From Québec — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 19:47:47 +0000

@ David:

Nah… It will come back. Imagination never dies. In fact, nothing really dies. When you go to see a movie and it says: The End”, that’s propaganda. It’s a lie, it is not the end of the story. Life is a never ending story, a gigantic soap opera with 8 billion characters in the script.

I could take what you have just written for instance, and write a story with thousand of different outcomes, and future possibilities. I could start with something like this:

“When David discovered Jon site, https://outsidetherealitymachine.wordpress.com/

He was feeling down. But Jon’s short stories intrigued him, made him laugh and he enjoyed them. He admired his skill. He became a regular reader of that site. As time went by, he felt something was changing inside of himself……….. etc., etc., etc.”

A good practice to develop your imagination is to take any story, even one like the Little Red Riding Hood and to try to continue it. What happened after the big bad wolf ate the grandmother? 1,000 of possibilities comes to mind. Or take Pinocchio story and continue it.

Just try it for fun, you will be surprised by the outcome.

By: Michael Burns

Michael Burns — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 17:04:47 +0000

What does it feel like to be a robot, I honestly don’t know.
In a few hundred words can you tell me.

By: outsidersinsides

outsidersinsides — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:23:55 +0000

Brilliant!! Made my day!!

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 09:44:51 +0000

Thanks Jon. There is something subtly cohesive about the dialog. More complex upon reading it again though it might read differently later. It shifts for me. I like this series. It coincides with where I am at with the exercises.

By: David

David — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 04:40:05 +0000

I’m too damaged already, It’s too late for me to use my imagination, if I even have one still. I used to enjoy my life when I was a kid, life was more exciting…but puberty and school wiped all that away quick. Now I feel like a robot, I barely have the will to live any more.

By: From Québec

From Québec — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 00:01:03 +0000

Dear Reality Salesman,

Happy to see that you are still around. I would like to invite you to the biggest event ever organized on this Earth, that will take place at the Louvre Museum in Paris, on October 17, 2015.

Thousand of the most famous artist painters, from all times, have agreed to gather for a once in a life time art presentation. Among the list of the coming painters to the event, figures, : Pablo Picasso, Salavator Dali, Vincent Van Gogh, Jean-Michel Basquiat, William Blake, Gottfried Helnwein, etc.

Of course, we will invite the Press and art critics from every country to give us their opinion on these paintings and their significations. I think it would be very interesting to have your opinion on this unique event.

If you wish to attend, please contact me at the following email address:

R136a1@Dorado.com.

Hope to see you there.
Sincerely,
R136al