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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

So They Say I Have The Joy to Checkbooks

Everybody!
Exclamation that everybody, alright?
I have some great news. This is about something I did today that made me smile and made my day worthwhile. It was remarkable and awe inspiring. First things first, I was in my last class today(sorry, but seriousness is needed between randomness so you know where to read and interpret). At the beginning of class, the professor or TA or whatever you want to call him, was saying random facts about everybody. See, the week before, everybody wrote down one interesting fact about themselves and handed it in. Then, every week we have class, he would pick a few at random and ask the classroom to decide who it was. Mine was called today. It was the fact that I was in Sheltered Reality. I described it in the best possible way to the class and everybody seemed impressed, but more to the fact interested. Not in me, but the group. Already, my happy boost meter went up. Then, after class I told the professor(call it whatever) and one of the classmates about the group as well. After that, the professor was very interested and seems to want to maybe get some more involvement with Sheltered Reality at the University of Iowa. Even the classmate was happy and surprised and even thinking about going to the drum show. I cannot believe that I did it, but I had a room of encouragement. So, I decided to walk to Subway and get something to eat for dinner. On my journey there, I had a huge smile on my face. I realized that all my experience comes from Sheltered Reality. All I am doing is not promoting that I am in it and deserve attention, but I am promoting Sheltered Reality with a wide array of people across the campus. I feel like my joy and happiness is talking about Sheltered Reality to someone who has no clue what it is and trying to see if they can get involved in some way, if any! I love Sheltered Reality so much! Then, after that, I thought about something on the college spectrum.
College is important! Sure, all of you kids have heard that before, but what I am saying is college is not needed ONLY to further your education. College is more for everybody to adjust to different settings and situations than what they are used to. Basically, it is supposed to be an experience! College makes everything different, but in ways you want to perceive it. That is my side note about college. Plus, you meet more friends and you gain much more perspective on issues in the real world and in your life. With me, I realized college was a way for me to work on my marketing skills. I have advertised Sheltered Reality to ten people so far. Who thinks I have the guts to tell the rest of the campus and then the city, and so on and so on? That is my question to you guys for this week. Do you think I can respectfully market Sheltered Reality to even bigger and better things, and bring in more responsible and awesome people? The second question is: Can you!? And can you promote something else that you know of that you think people would like to get involved with?
One last thing, besides the questions this time. I have an assignment for you all. Are you willing to step out and be encouraging? That is what I felt like in the line for Subway. I high-fived the person who made my sandwich and did not know them. I complimented the guy with a cool hair-do. Then I kept giving great compliments to 6 other random strangers on the way back from Subway. Wow! What an adrenaline and happiness rush. Plus, you get noticed. Plus, everybody that I complimented and high-fived all respected it and said thank you back! Check it! I want you all to encourage and compliment five random strangers this week. If you can do that, you can keep doing it and be more encouraging and energetic than ever. Take care, everybody!

Great Scott!
It's an Alex combo, with a Lang smoothie! Cool!

2 comments:

  1. I know you can market it! I think I can market it. And I will take on your challenge.

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  2. Way to Alex! i believe that you can continue to advertise sheltered reality! And I know excatly how you feel when you tell someone and they actually wanna listen and want to know more and are not just like ohhhhhhh weird, cause its not weird they are just stuck in their own little world! I might be able to advertise it idk...And the challenge is on! I probably compliment more than 5 strangers a week anyways! :)

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