...Any feeling I have has been had by someone else before. Ok. I can deal with that part. But, if the experience has been had by another, still another has cataloged this experience and figured out how to exploit it.
So, I walk down the street and see a dingily dressed woman walking home from work. Maybe she was a cleaning lady. Or worked in a factory. She wasn’t homeless. She didn’t walk like a homeless person. She wasn’t dirty like a homeless person. She didn’t try to obstruct people so they had to deal with her. She was just a woman in a dirty sweatshirt walking home from work. So, I had an interesting feeling when I saw her: I realized how I would end a story where a bunch of different versions of a narrator would come home at night and talk to each other in the kitchen. Seeing this woman gave me the purpose of the story.
Amazingly, this feeling isn’t new. Someone has had this feeling before. And, someone else has witnessed this other person having this feeling. The other person, along with a marketing research group, figured out how to recreate this feeling in movie form. No, not movie form, in commercial form. And, they figured out its usefulness: this is the perfect feeling to elicit from someone when we want them to feel adventurous. So, soon, very soon, there will be a commercial where the feeling of completing-a-story-by-a-happenstance-observation is used to market new corn-flavored ice cream. Mmmm, I feel adventurous because I feel complete. I think I’ll try it.
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