John Delavera’s story titled “A Story With ‘Mr. Your Future’ & Yourself” is reprinted here. [Article]


John Delavera’s story titled “A Story With ‘Mr. Your Future’ & Yourself” is reprinted here.

A Story With ‘Mr. Your Future’ & Yourself

(I wrote this Story today for you instead of a TurboZine. I hope you will like it. Enjoy your holidays! And THANK YOU for being my subscriber.) “A Story With ‘Mr. Your Future’ & Yourself”

Scene 1

December. Christmas time. It’s dark. Big capital city, lights, traffic. People buying presents in shops. Snow all over the place. There is at least 1 Santa Claus on each corner. Jingle Bells in the background.

Scene 2

You are sitting on the couch starring at your computer. “Warriors’ Forum” on FireFox, “TheDelaverianCode.com” on IE.

You do not speak, do not move. You are starring at the computer.

After 5 minutes, you say: “I really wish to chat with my future tonight…”

Scene 3

Mr. Your Future is out of the window knocking at it.

HE SCARES YOU TO DEATH!

You both look to each other… He is dressed in red: red suit, red tie, red shoes. About 55.

“Can I come in now?? Or was it a childish wish???” he says.

You are approaching the window as hypnotized, open it…

“Who …the &^%&% are you??” is what you are asking the red man.

“I am Mr. Your Future. You called me, didn’t you?”

You look out of the window… You are on the 10th floor… No idea how the red man could reach your window without having to land on it with a parachute…

“You’re kidding me right?”

The red man becomes serious…

“Listen. If you continue acting like a child, then it’s better for me to just leave. And I’ll tell the Big Man that you just spelled something you did not mean.”

“OK.. OK..” you say.

“Let’s start over…” “Who are YOU please??”

The red man answers bored:

“I told you. I am Mr Your Future. Did you call me or not?”

You cannot believe what’s happening but try to calm yourself down…

“YES. I said that. I wished that I could chat with my future tonight… But I did not invite YOU or anybody… here… At the very best, I meant “Chat” – you know “Chat?” MSN, Yahoo, etc?? Oh my God…”

“Please do not mention His name without a reason…” says the red man.

You are shocked. You are sitting on the couch again. The red man looks at his watch whispering: “and I told Him.. he may not meant that… I told Him.” You are trying to understand what is going on.

“My future eh?”

“Mr. Your Future. Not ‘your future’.”

“OK… what now??” you ask.

“Do you want me to explain the situation?” asks the red man. “OK then… There are some times when the Sky is Open. In those times, WE can hear people’s wishes. About 5 minutes ago you wished to have a chat with your future. This is how I am here. I am NOT your future. I am Mr. Your Future. In case this does not make sense to you, I am sure it does not, I am something you may have never imagined that exists, but here I am: the one that knows all the answers you could ever ask about your future. And this is why I am called as such.”

“Splendid. Now I understand…”

“There is no reason to continue with this irony. You have less than 30 minutes to talk about your future – this is why I am here. If you do not want to do that, then it’s OK. Just say it and I’ll report “Wrong Alert” to the Big Man…”

“When you say Big Man… do you mean… ”

“Yes… Judging from what I wear… you know how the Big Man looks like… Red suit, quite fat, white bear and hair, etc… called as Santa Claus by a company, Saint Nicholas in other traditions… etc…”

You are laughing with joy.

“OK, ok… This is unbelievable… but let’s see… Santa Claus listened to my wish and He sent you here to make my wish come true… You are Mr. Your Future and I can ask you anything about my future… Is that it?”

“Mmm… Yes. I was never good with synopses… but this is it… yes… Can we start it now?”

“Sure buddy..”

“Mr Your Future please… I may look 55 but I assure you I am much much older than you… So…”

“OK Mr My…”

The red man looks at you…

“…Mr Your Future. Let’s Go! My name is…”

“I know who you are… Remember?”

“Oh. Yep. OK. Start.”

“No. You called me. You need to start your questions. Less than 25 minutes left.”

Somehow that red man starts is generating an anxiety to you… You look at the clock on the wall. Almost 11:35 pm

You look at the red man again… Your voice is more serious this time…

“OK. Let’s chat.”

Scene 4

Same place, same time. The dialogue between Mr. Your Future (MYF) and Yourself (Y.)

Y: How I can make a lot of money on the Net? MYF: Sell what people buy.

Y: Yeah.. yeah… I know that… But what should I sell? MYF: This is the hardest question and you have to answer this by yourself.

Y: Will it go that way for the rest of the chat?? I need answers… not imaginary scenarios as answers… That’s why I needed to chat with MY future… To see how I’ll be after 10 years… rich or not… MYF: Do you want me to answer this question?

Y: YES, please!! MYF: You are already rich. You are a healthy man, you are young without any special obligations, your brain is safe and sound and as far as I can see, you have the privilege to get Big Man’s attention, thus doing what needed to be done on the right time. Does this give you a clue?

Y: Not at all. MYF: Maybe because you want pretty answers and instant success. Did you know that even the Big Man works as a crazy Man with a staff of millions of helpers just to serve people only for 1 day per year? Does this give you a clue?

Y: That I need to work or something? MYF: Work with your future, yes.

Y: OK.. OK.. It’s that …I do not know WHAT to do. MYF: Do you want me to answer that question?

Y: You know the answer, YES.. no need to ask me anyway…. just answer… MYF: OK. The answer is OBSERVE how other people make money and how they behave to others. Then just replicate what they do and how they behave.

Y: It’s like “You have to believe you are a successful and rich and this will be done” eh? This s… MYF: Nope… Mmm…Quite like that. You do not have to believe in it. You need to LIVE with it. There is a difference.

Y: Aha. SO… if I observe what Bill Gates does and how he acts and do what he does and how he does it, then I’ll become rich… just like that. MYF: Almost correctly. You just have to remember some facts though.

Y: Like? MYF: Like that Bill was rich anyway when he started… actually his parents. He was attending one of the best Universities in the country, and he quit. Did you know that?

Y: Yes. I knew that. So because my parents are poor, there is no chance to become rich, eh? MYF: You are getting pathetic again. Bill quit the University but the fact that his parents were rich did not play any special role to the creation of his mentality. He became rich BECAUSE of his mentality. I know many poor people that became rich by having an almost same mentality. This is what we are talking about… 15 minutes left.

Y: (quite anxious… It’s 11: 46 pm) OK.. just tell me what to do… ok? MYF: You need to sell what people buy. You must do that by observing what successful people do and how they act. And then LIVE that way.

Y: I understand half of it. I can live thinking I am rich… and acting like a rich… MYF: You are missing the whole point. You overlook the MAIN factor of success of those people. And this is that they do what they WANTED to do in this life. Not because their family was rich, or because they were rich either, but just because they could not avoid but DOING what they were crazy about DOING in their life. This is what you must observe and this is how you must live and act.

Y: …. So… the question again comes to the the very first one asked… right? And… it’s not “What should I do?” but instead ‘What do I WANT to do??” Something like that? MYF: YES.. You are getting MUCH closer now.

Y: Mmmm… Right… You said I need to sell what people buy. So just finding out what people want to buy can direct me to riches… How is this related to what I WANT to do in Life?? (you are scratching you head)

MYF: To do what you WANT to do in this life is the prerequisite. Once you find what you want to do in this LIFE, and then work as a mad man with it, and sell what people buy, brings you riches… yes. (whispering and looking at the Sky: “I told you… he is not ready….” A voice sounds inside the red man’s head: “You’re doing good. This was the reason you are there. Just keep it that way.” The red man waves “OK..OK”

Y: (looking at the red man, then the clock: 11:50 pm) You’re not going to disappear in 10 minutes, right? MYF: Mmm.. Am I welcome now? Y: You’ll do… You are going to vanish in 10 minutes… Anyway… Ok… What I want to do in this life… MYF: YES, THIS IS THE RIGHT ANSWER.

Y: Answer?? This is a QUESTION!!! Not an answer! We are making circles to my first question on what should I do to become rich… Or not?? (you are looking at the clock: 11:51 pm) Or…. (thinking) you mean that… the answer to the question “What to do to become rich?” is to find what I want to DO in this LIFE? MYF: Are you getting clever in less than half an hour… or is this my idea??

Y: (you are getting nervous… you’re showing the clock to the red man…) MYF: Oops. Sorry for wasting your minutes with my verbal notes.

Y: You owe me 1 minute now. MYF: Nope. Because your attitude provoked this delay and this is part of the case here. It seems you were not ready to ask the right questions about your future while I have been ready since I came here to answer anything you want.

Y: OK. It’s 11:53 pm now. We have 7 minutes. Do you have anything to TELL me? MYF: I can answer all of your questions. I told you.

Y: (looking at the red man deadly serious… Pause.) … MYF: 6 minutes left.

Y:….

MYF: Still thinking??

Y: (your face got red from the agony…) YES. (looking at the red man.)

MYF: It’s your tiiiimee..

Silence for 1 minute.

MYF: Ah… it’s wonderful to be young… (looking around at your room… quite messy room…) So much freedom to do anything…

(looking at the clock on the wall, then his watch: 11: 55 pm. Fixing his tie and his suit, like being ready to leave.)

Y: I have a question… MYF: It’s my pleasure to answ…. Y: (cutting red man’s phrase in the middle like trying to get an answer to a question already formed in your mind:) Do you mean that if I DO.. I repeat if I DO what I really WANT to do in this life without being wondering how to become rich, but by just DOING what I want to DO in this LIFE and given that I KNOW what I want to DO in this life… will THAT ATTITUDE and this “working” with my Life… on that plan I mean… will that attitude… that behavior… that action… MYF: Action is the right word.

Y: THAT ACTION.. will it bring riches to me? Online of offline? MYF. Yes, this is the answer. Given that you know what you want to DO in your life and that you will DO what you want to DO in your life, yes, this attitude will bring riches to you online and offline with this attitude per se being the riches per se in addition to physical riches.

Y: … MYF: You seem like getting the point… No?

Y: I think yes… no.. Or… I do… Or think so… (looking at the clock: 11:57 pm) OK.. 3 minutes to go, and I am not sure if there are enough for the next question… MYF:…which seems to have been correctly formulated in your mind… Y: Yes, it is… I’ll ask it anyway and please try to answer it straight to me… and do not waste any time… MYF: …you’d doing it right now… The question please.

Y: Why people online, should care about what I want to DO in this LIFE and how the fact I am DOING what I want to DO in this life can BECOME something I can SELL to people…. and… in all cases… how my actions will formulate “sellable” products….?? YES. This is the question… Did you understand it or you want me to… MYF: Of course I understood it. The answer is…

Silence.

Y: COME ON!!! MYF: (smiling) The answer is that life is a journey. You need to take this journey by doing what you want to do. If you do what you want to do in life, then chances are you will be doing something that will satisfy your needs as a person. If you do this all along this journey of your life, you will become an expertise to what you love doing. And then your expertise, or if you prefer: what you can do better than others, can become a product… or service… I mean, the KNOWLEDGE of it… Your Knowledge. People need solutions and answers for things they cannot answer. Your accumulated knowledge can bring riches to you. And what you will create while enjoying the journey and doing what you love doing in your life, will bring the right products and/or services you can then sell. Is this understood now? I did my best… I told you I am not good with synopses…

Y: (looking really serious now… like having grown up in 25 minutes.) I have all my life to think about what you said, and a life to find out what I want to do… and to verify if what you saying here is the needed Truth… But… I think… in all cases… and since you are leaving in some minutes… I shall remember your synopsis… yes… MYF: That’s the greatest thing I heard from you so far…

(Time is 11:59 pm)

Y: Will you come back again? MYF: Do you mean to chat with you again?

Y: YES. MYF: Mmm.. I do not think so… Well… I am not sure. I do what the Big Man wants me to do… but in my humble opinion… and to tell you the truth… there are millions to serve… and we have only 1 day per year… so chances are…

Y: …we are not going to meet each other again. MYF: I cannot be positive, but yes, chances are you’ll need to be lucky next time the Sky is open. (smiling)

11:59′:45” pm

MYF: With that said… Y: (like waking up from a dream…)

MYF: Are you here? Y: Yes… With that said… that was it… MYF: Come on… Do not be that sad. (smiling) Didn’t you get your answers by chatting with your future??

Y: Well… this was not what I had in mind… but… yes…. short of… I have to THINK about what you told me anyway… MYF: You have a life for doing that…

Y: Yes. (smiling) MYF: Make it unique then… OK? (smiling)

Y: And this will make me wise and rich… eh?? MYF: This will make you reach your goals… and this is riches per se… do not forget.;)

Y: (smiling)… Yes… MYF: Well… Sir… I hope that this Big Man’s little servant managed to accomplish the mission…

Y: Hey! MYF: Pardon? Sorry?

Y: (smiling) Am I not supposed to see Santa Himself?? MYF: Mmm… well… outsourcing, multi-working and using the right people for the right tasks on the right time, helps sometimes to serve millions of customers… so..

Y: So I am not that big enough to have the privilege of seeing the Big Man himself… right? MYF: Aren’t you satisfied?

Y: I have a life to judge it. (smile) MYF: Yes, Sir. Time is up. Enjoy your life Sir and this Christmas’ time…

Y: Thank you Mr. My Future… MYF: It’s “Mr….” Y: Thank you Mr. Your Future. MYF: (smiling) Thank you too Sir.

When the red man made a bow, walked to the window, opened it, then jumped out flying to the Sky, you had the impression that he looked at you turning his face back… and that… that face was not Mr. Your Future’s face rather than… the face of Big Man… Santa’s…

And while trying to realize what was the fantasy and what was reality tonight it was that laugh that made you thinking… even more: regretting for not being ready to ask more questions when you had the chance… that laugh that covered the Jingle Bells from the road… and your own thoughts… that…

“Ho…Ho…Ho!

Merry Christmas!”

_end of the “Story With Mr. Your Future & Yourself” Copyright 2006 just before Christmas By John Delavera

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