Before I was even a student of Unity, I did something called, "Treasure Mapping". If I had a goal, say, to lose weight, which was most of the time, I'd put up a pic of some svelte model and try to become her. This lasted for as long as I could discipline myself into less weight.
Unity, later, advised I add another step: my own face plastered on top of the body.
That got a little difficult with age. But finally, I found an attractive senior model with a believable body on which to place on my face. This time, it wasn't for the purpose of losing weight, but of becoming what I now do, tell stories. But I couldn't find one for the longest time after that, and I thought, "Where did I find that? Oh yes, it was J.C. Penneys, I think." But even leafing through those catalogs each Sunday became a wild goose chase.
However, Penneys was true to their fairness ethic. On Mothers and Fathers Days, they began to show that, yes, there was another generation beyond the 29 year old parents with an 8 year old daughter and 6 year old son, or vice verse. Many lifestyles and types of children were exhibited as well, but that's another topic.
I had read up on a make-up artist with flowing gray locks, who was asked to become a model. That was after her decision to let the gray show. I thought, "Now that I've seen and heard her, in what magazine has she been lately?"
If aliens from outer space looked at our catalogs, they'd get the impression that we somehow grow to a certain age and are then, killed off, perhaps by our 6 to 8 year old children, once they turn 10.
Get real. Checking the obituaries, the ages as to which the grim reaper comes are shockingly democratic. It's true, the older you get, the more vulnerable you are to sailing over the horizon where nobody often sees you from this side of the Big Lake. But we have V.I.P.'s such as politicians, heads of state, journalists, talk show hosts, etc., who are still very much alive and running things.
It's not just for treasure mapping, but for a sense of, "Does anybody know we are still in this world?", I make this request. Treasure mapping just made me notice that something was clearly off.
