Hi. I’ve been gone for a week but I’m back and am ready to write some new blog posts.
Last week I was in Phoenix and my friend and I went to Build-A-Bear. At Build-A-Bear you choose the fabric skin of an animal to be stuffed, not necessarily a bear. They take a small, red heart that you hold over your heart for a moment and put that inside the bear (or whatever). You can purchase a voice box and record your voice so when someone presses the bear’s hand the message is played. Then they stuff the bear and stitch it up. There are lots of clothes you can buy for your animals and it’s a really neat place.
While I was there, I thought about how special it was that anyone at all can assemble a friend for someone and have the voice saying something friendly and comforting, like “I love you and I miss you”. Then I realized that I could build my own ideal friend. I could choose an animal that I relate to, sort of like a Native American totem animal. Their heart would be like my heart since it was my heart that went into it. The message would be exactly what I wanted to hear since I would record it myself. I could make it a message from the universe. Maybe “You are beautiful inside and out,” or “All your wishes are coming true,” or “You have an abundance of money”.
I could frame the statements as “I” statements, like “I am an extremely creative person,” but I’m not sure I could remember to repeat it. I might just be fooled into thinking that I had an extremely creative stuffed animal. Although that would be pretty good – I might pick up some pointers.
Anyway, next time I feel down in the dumps I will go to Build-A-Bear and stuff myself a new best friend.
Sun, Apr 18, 2010
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