Propaganda, Slander, Libel and Fiction. What are the protections we have? In a largely reactive, stimuli-oriented population, when follower-minded people allow others to determine their perception of things, when they believe their ears rather than their eyes, that’s a pretty scary situation. A large percentage of the population has this affectation. YIKES. We know who exploits that. But how do we control how we are perceived? What are the protections we have? In a largely reactive, stimuli-oriented population, your best protection is your behavior
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. He likes business and financial soundness. His page is called. I like it. Thanks. I have 40 decades of writing, and I saw an article you posted about a guy who made an app. I have one. Contact me. Help me figure out how to make some cash out of that. I’m all ears. of Peter’s Scribbles. It looks like we think similarly about writing. I hope he podcasts his short stories so we can co-promote.My Comfortable Jacket
I think the podcast part is better, but you do you
I loved my jacket, and I was so sad when it was taken from me. My jacket and I had been through so much. It was my jacket. I earned it. I couldn't believe that I wasn't going to be wearing my jacket. That’s what I thought anyway.
I got a new jacket, but it was put onto me, it wasn’t mine. It was essentially an unwelcome gift. I felt as though I was making a decision. I mean, I did not like this jacket. It was not sized right, it was a jacket that someone else decided for me. Mostly, it wasn't my comfortable jacket, my real jacket. It wasn’t the jacket I had made mine. Nevertheless, here I was with this jacket. It was the jacket that I had. I didn’t want to get used to it, but I thought, “Maybe I can learn something in this jacket.” I needed to really start wearing it like a jacket.
I had put some serious character into my comfortable jacket. I had worked it and ground things into it. It might take several days of very hard work before laundering. Then, other times it would get washed three or four days in a row because it was getting so abused during the day. We are talking about using that jacket like a coat and a jacket and so many other things, all at the same time. It was mine. I was comfortable in it, and when they saw me in my old, comfortable jacket, people knew who they were looking at.
Some involved activity had visited itself upon that jacket. Different places, different grime, different dust and dirt and mud and craziness. I was comfortable in that jacket. This new jacket, however, was not my jacket. Even though I had participated greatly in wearing it, and did not appreciate the way that people saw me in this jacket that was not mine, I continued to be myself inside the jacket that was not my jacket.
Now, the jacket is not here. There came a point that I would be in the house without this jacket. I would be looking in my closet, and it would not be in there. I would be in the car without it. No matter where I went, I would be there without it. Had I somehow shed this jacket?
That was a moment, let me tell you. That was the moment I realized that I hadn’t really lost the jacket. It was a stark moment, but I was looking forward. I had become comfortable in the jacket that was not for me, why? Why was I so comfortable in this jacket? I barely noticed that I was wearing it, and then I didn’t even realize I was wearing it?
Pretty soon, there will be another jacket. It will be a jacket that is not my jacket, and I will make into the jacket it will be. There will be more of these jackets throughout the short course of the rest of my life, I suspect. Since I'm the one who is going to be wearing the jacket, I'm the one who has to make the decision on what other people see beneath the jacket. Because my concern is a lot more centered on people who believe their eyes, and not their ears.
I'll have to make another one after that one, and another after that one. Just as I had before, and before that. There is one thing that is certain. I WILL TRANSFORM ANY JACKET THAT I WEAR, BACK INTO MY COMFORTABLE JACKET. EVERY SINGLE TIME.
The End
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