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EXERCISE: there is a season, turn, turn, turn...
Original posting: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 03:15:00 -0500
(remember those turning points we looked at yesterday?)
Other Lives
Now, let's try stretching your imagination a bit. Take one of those turning points, and give it a twist. Maybe in your life, you ended up with a bonus for doing the extra work, and felt great. But what happens if Mr. Scrooge decides to save some money, and you don't get that bonus? Or maybe the extra work meant you left late, and there really was a gang waiting outside the shop?
Anyway, take some of those paths you bypassed. What happens when your turning point goes the other way? What happens on that path, who lives and loves and cries along that bent and twisted byway?
What other lessons might you have learned, if things had turned out just a little bit differently?
Write a sketch or a scene from that other life.
"I dream in my dream all the dreams of the other dreamers,
And I become the other dreamers." Walt Whitman
(remember those turning points we looked at yesterday?)
Other Lives
Now, let's try stretching your imagination a bit. Take one of those turning points, and give it a twist. Maybe in your life, you ended up with a bonus for doing the extra work, and felt great. But what happens if Mr. Scrooge decides to save some money, and you don't get that bonus? Or maybe the extra work meant you left late, and there really was a gang waiting outside the shop?
Anyway, take some of those paths you bypassed. What happens when your turning point goes the other way? What happens on that path, who lives and loves and cries along that bent and twisted byway?
What other lessons might you have learned, if things had turned out just a little bit differently?
Write a sketch or a scene from that other life.
"I dream in my dream all the dreams of the other dreamers,
And I become the other dreamers." Walt Whitman