So I get it if you’re reading this postĪnd feeling irritable at me, like “Just believe!” is some kind of new-age way toīUT, we all just went to our pantries, and closets, and the space next to our fridges, pulled out our brooms and stood them up. Doubt that it matters,ĭoubt that it’s any good, doubt that I’ll ever see a book deal. Writing: the rejection, the writers block, the doubt. I have a friend who I freely agonize to about the struggles of The last one is the reason I decided I didn’t like working in sales. I remember being on a tour of the place looking at all of the merchandise in the stock room and thinking I would never know where everything went and how much it cost and how to suggest to someone that they buy more than they intended. At 19 years old I was hired at Victoria’s Secret as a sales associate. I have repeated these cycles of self-doubt through my adult life as well. Granted I envisioned myself driving a red Ferrari convertible exactly like my plastic Barbie car, but I did eventually learn to drive (on a 1986 stick-shift Datsun!). Driving seemed like such a foreign concept, such an “adult” activity that I never thought that would be possible either. But at the time, the task seemed so daunting, and for whatever reason, I just didn’t think I’d ever get there. There were two things as a little kid I thought I would never accomplish: reading and driving. Have to wonder about and believe in your vision when no one else does. What you wonder if you can accomplish for yourself. Whatever your broom orĮgg is, you may not get to see someone else you trust and believe accomplish Of our metaphorical brooms standing up or eggs balanced. Here’s the thing: We don’t always get to see others post photos Yes… I too should have used the broom to sweep first before taking the photo. But instead, I saw others successfully doing it and went to go try it for myself, believing it possible after seeing that others had accomplished it. If you had asked me if either were possible, I probably would have told you no. Never before in my life had I pondered whether or not a broom could stand on its own or an egg could balance on its end. The reason why the brooms and eggs stand on their own has nothing to do with a difference in gravity or where the earth is at in its circle around the sun and everything to do with suggestion and belief. I got it after I watched someone else successfully do it. That one was much harder, but I finally got There’s a similar theory about the spring equinox andĪfter my internet sleuthing, I went and attempted to stand myīroom up, with a little repositioning, I got it to stand on its own. The year the gravitational pull was different, thus making the broomstickĬhallenge possible. The misinformation was the supposed fact that a special day of Strong power of suggestion to get people to 1) believe it was possible 2)Īttempt to stand the brooms up and then 3) share photos as evidence it was It wasn’t a trick, but there was some misinformation driving a The cynic in me thought it had to be a trick. Instead I went to Google and asked why people were standing up brooms. I wanted to make jokes about why they were taking photos of the brooms instead of using them to sweep their dirty floors, but I resisted. Recently my Facebook feed was clogged with photos of brooms standing on their own.
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