Are You Living Your Dream?

I was walking through the local mall today and felt the need to alter the way our society works. Now this is no big change in my usual behavior, I thoroughly enjoy throwing curve balls at people, and today was just another day to throw that ball. The ball? A simple question. The target? Those God damn telephone kiosks that seem to always want to sell you a phone better than the one you currently own. I don't understand how you can walk through a mall and have three different companies say that they are better than the stand ten feet over, when in fact they have the exact same phone and calling plan. Regardless, that was my target for this small social experiment that I was so achingly wishing to try. The question that I wished to ask the person was simple, it was the answer that was going to be complex.

Here I was walking through the mall wishing to be stopped by one of those annoying phone booth flies, awkwardly failing to be stopped mind you, when I was almost to the end of my journey to the exit. Suddenly, out of the corner of my eye I notice a phone booth attendant staring at me. I knew this was my chance. I gave her the, "I'm slightly interested" look and then changed my gaze elsewhere. Hooked. The female attendant began to yell out for my attention. I acted surprised by her yelling out to me, making it seem like I had no intention to speak to her. Slowly, I walked over to the booth, so as to show that I was cautious of the coming situation, making her put on the whole sales persona to sell me that perfect phone. Well, the conversation did not go as she expected and I think it would be best to just write the dialogue out for your reading pleasure.

Sir. Sir!

Hm?

Sir, do you have a phone?

A phone?

Yes, do you have a cellular phone?

No, I don't use a phone.

Well if I could just have-

You know what, we aren't going to do that today.

Excuse me?

You stand here in your booth and ask all these innocent bystanders questions all day long, not this time. This time I'm going to be the one to ask you a question. Just one question.

Uh...alright.

Are you living your dream?

What?

Are you living your dream?

What are you trying to sell me?

Nothing.

What are you trying to offer me?

Nothing.

You trying to hit on me?

No.

Then what are you-

Are you living your dream. Think about it!

-End Conversation-

I didn't care to listen to her conversation anymore seeing as it was most likely going to go back to her attempting to sell me a phone at some point. I just cut her off, asked the question again and hit my hand against the booth counter top when I said, "Think about it!". It was to add dramatic effect and show that I was serious when asking the question. The best part was just walking away from the conversation after that last part. After about forty feet I had to look back and see her reaction to the whole happening. What was she doing? Still standing there staring at me walk away. What did I do? Pointed at her and put my sunglasses on, for the badass effect really. Anyways, I'm sure you, the reader, are wondering what the whole point of this was.

In our society these days there really is no true social interaction. We go throughout our day and simply try and not push the envelope or draw attention to ourselves. Me? I will not have it. I want, sorry, I crave to push the envelope. I crave the attention actions outside of the social norm draw. Now that does not mean that this whole experiment is simply so I can get a rise or a high out of it. The purpose is simply to show people that there are some genuine people out there who have unconditional kindness for others. My hope for this whole little shindig? I hope that woman goes home, does her normal nightly routine, gets ready to go to bed and starts to think about her day. Eventually, she will start to think about the man who asked her if she was living her dream. This will, hopefully, start a chain of events that causes this woman to go out and pursue her actual dream in this life. After all we only have one life and one dream to fill this life with. My next experiment? I am going to go up to some random female, hopefully surrounded by a group of her friends, and simply say to her, "You are a beautiful woman". There will be no sexual, emotional, or primal feelings towards her. Just unconditional kindness towards another human being. Now please, ask yourself, "Are you living your dream?"