I had a dream last night that there were three parts of a person, represented as people:
Personality - This is how you are unconditionally. In a vacuum, without influence, this is your true nature.
Experience - In the dream this person was often disregarded. Useful and meaningful, but often conflicts with the Personality and the Salesman.
Salesman - I should say that a better name was given to the "Salesman", but I forget what it was. Regardless, his essence is a salesman responsible for making you personality and experience relatable and likable. He bent your personality to highlight it's qualities and stifled its less agreeable tendencies. As for Mr. Experience, he was completely disrespected and only pulled out to dance for specific situations.
I was in control of these characters in the dream and I saw that the Salesman was an asshole. I realized that I gave him the power to drive and in the dream, felt sorry for the others. I especially felt bad for experience because he looked like a prisoner.
I woke up and wrote this down. All three characters are necessary, but how often do we "sell out" to the salesman?
I thought at first it should be a democracy, but the Salesman would talk everybody into following his ideas. Experience usually has a negative connotation (who ever learned lasting advice from GOOD choices?!) and Personality...well sometimes they cannot be trusted.
No votes...there needs to be a boss...reluctantly that is me (otherwise the Salesman will convince me to appease everybody).
I'll lift experience out of his hole and try my hardest to listen. The others have been told he's equally important so I don't expect they'll be friends.
I'll listen to the Salesman because he never stops speaking. My Personality says I should listen to him but he's led me wrong in the past an even betrayed Personality from time to time...so I'm skeptical of both of them. Nonetheless, he's in tune with things so "trust but verify."
I'll focus on personality because he is truly me and is the only character that can bend and change over life. Experience radically changed my Personality to the good, and sometimes to the bad. But Personality at its core is a strange cocktail of chemicals in your brain, so Experience can only do so much. In the end though Personality is you, Experience and the Salesman are outsiders.
Love Personality, listen to Experience, use the Salesman.
This is what got me out of bed this morning.
