Imagine you’re in a room with 1,000 people in some fucked up game. Everyone has a number on their head between 1 and 10.
You cannot see your own number and you not allowed to look. But you can see everyone else’s number, and your goal is to partner with the highest number you can.
GO!
So What happens?
Nines are surrounded immediately. Half of them are really just upside down sixes pretending to be nines, but it seems to work for some of them. The rest are doing the best they can…
Imagine you are a ONE!
You’d think you stink!
You can’t pretend to be anything good. Even a lousy two or three looks attractive to you — but you can’t even get that!
So you become…
NEEDY.
To everyone…
…10s are never needy.
10s have value, real value, so they have no need to be needy. Unlike 9s, nobody can even pretend to be a 10. Remember, you cannot see your own number – but you’d figure it out by how others treat you, wouldn’t you?
Of course you would!
Anyway, that’s my stupid game.
It ain’t fun so don’t bother playing it.
Here be ye lesson:
You might judge someone as a 5 because they are fat. I might see that person as a 8 because they are funny. People value different things in this world, and you cannot see any numbers at all.
Unless you are smart.
(I asked a smart fella once)
Smart people know you have something inescapable called ‘self-image’ which is defined by an average of your perceived emotional life experience. In stupid talk (for us dummies in the back) this means that your current ‘self-image’ might as well be reality.
The person you think you are…
…is the person you will become.
Without a doubt.
In fact, this is so reliable that the real world may as well be a big version of this game. The difference is that you can decide your own number and you can see other people’s numbers, too.
If someone is always needy?
They may be a one (or a two who has never seen a one).
If they are never needy?
They could be a sexy, rich, hot, ten out of ten (or some okay nine who has never seen a unicorn ten before).
A big fish in a small pond is common.
A small fish in a big pond is even more common.
But, in the real world, you can level-up your own number and change ponds at any time you choose. And, that’s exactly what my Evolve Already Letters are all about.
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Keep Reality Real,
Tristan Weatherburn
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