Selling

Selling is an uncomfortable act. Getting friends or casual acquaintances to part with money as an exchange is not just difficult, it is unpleasant. But for those who are not connected to the market, the act of selling is only possible with the immediate and close social network. How is the stranger to be approached? How is access to the stranger even something that can be rationally planned and achieved?

Strangers are the most interesting types of people. The word stranger is a mysterious collective noun that makes it seem that we do not have any common ground with a specific set of people and this is the set of people that we need to connect to and test our ideas on. If a stranger feels something is good, it matters more than if a friend says it is good. The stranger brings in an objective perspective. The stranger will not mind refusing an invitation to spend money on what seems to be a badly formulated idea. Now, if we are talking about ideas, we must make it known that ideas are cheap and we like that. We do not feel that only when ideas are acted upon, they become significant. The fault lies in our capacity to imagine and think in an abstract manner.

Capacity to model abstract ideas increases with out acceptance of our own abstract elements. We are not all here, some of us are only products of our own mental constructs. At least we think we are. The weight we give to our faculties that can ideate, critique and continue the cycles is criminal. Thing is that we are conscious all of our waking time and we get used to the flavour of the voices running in our own head. We start identifying with the voices in our heads as if they are real. We start identifying with the voices and believe that the voice represents our self. But the truth is that if that voice is related to us only as a stranger, we can learn how to connect to others by connecting to ourselves in the same way.

Looking in is looking out. By doing both in a divided and conflicted way, we never find this out. We can embrace strangers by relating to our own strangeness. Our own strangeness has something to do with the essence of doing things without why we are doing them. We are lost and while we are lost, we really need a map. We are the prospective customers for maps but at the same time, the only thing we can offer in exchange is the instruments in our shop that can help you get lost too. When we both accept that we are equally lost, we will be able to know each other.