- 10 Nov 2021 16:21
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As I was walking to my grocery store this morning, a scruffy gentleman seated on the fence next to the sidwalk asked me to "Have a nice day, passez une bonne journee" as I passed.
He has been at the same spot, saying the same thing, for the past ten years. I think he's homeless, but stable. There are many shelters near where I live.
After his speech, he then extends a torn baseball hat in order to suggest a voluntary contribution to *his project*.
In short, his routine is: Bonne journee, have a nice day, cap.
What is his project?
1. Raising awareness.
Homeless man is raising awareness as to the importance of having nice days. By being scruffy and down on his luck, it is obvious to the passer-by that his days are often not nice.
2. Starting a conversation
He is trying to start a conversation about how to have nice days. He wants you to think about your day, and the ways you can make it nicer, for example.
3. Changing the culture
He forces you to stop thinking about you were thinking about... and really focus on how nice your day is. If you were on a line of thought about something else, he brutally brings you back to the day-niceness theme. You can't ignore his text.
...
Why am I writing this?
I am writing this because so many of us work in fields in which the three things listed above... are our main contributions to society.
How useful are: marketing? Public relations? Commercial media control? Salesmanship? Political hand-shaking?
These institutions have "baseball hats" that are filled with billions of dollars.
All you ever do is talk...talk (soundtrack)
He has been at the same spot, saying the same thing, for the past ten years. I think he's homeless, but stable. There are many shelters near where I live.
After his speech, he then extends a torn baseball hat in order to suggest a voluntary contribution to *his project*.
In short, his routine is: Bonne journee, have a nice day, cap.
What is his project?
1. Raising awareness.
Homeless man is raising awareness as to the importance of having nice days. By being scruffy and down on his luck, it is obvious to the passer-by that his days are often not nice.
2. Starting a conversation
He is trying to start a conversation about how to have nice days. He wants you to think about your day, and the ways you can make it nicer, for example.
3. Changing the culture
He forces you to stop thinking about you were thinking about... and really focus on how nice your day is. If you were on a line of thought about something else, he brutally brings you back to the day-niceness theme. You can't ignore his text.
...
Why am I writing this?
I am writing this because so many of us work in fields in which the three things listed above... are our main contributions to society.
How useful are: marketing? Public relations? Commercial media control? Salesmanship? Political hand-shaking?
These institutions have "baseball hats" that are filled with billions of dollars.
All you ever do is talk...talk (soundtrack)