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Aug 23, 2004 The other day I was driving in town. I actually work as a driver and was working, to be truthful. So, I was driving and, as a driver, you’re basically bored. So, you watch other vehicles, the street action and sometimes the traffic lights. Anyway, I was working and an SUV came up beside me at a red light. The back window had an advertisement on the back in big flowing script. I figured I’d spend a few seconds and read. That may not have been the right thing to do. Normally you see advertisement about “Joe’s Delivery Service” or “Granny’s Babysitting”; you know stuff like that. But not this one. Nope, not this one. It read, “(Name) Women’s Life Experience Coach”. I did a double take as the SUV speed off, late for a meeting I suppose… I continued driving and checking out various things and yes, watching for lights. But that sign on the back of the SUV kept creeping into my thoughts. “Women’s Life Experience Coach”, it kept echoing though my sub-conscience like a wild fire in the Oakland hills. What was bothering me about that advertisement? Why couldn’t I just let it go? Then it hit me! Lifetime Experience Coach.
What the heck would anyone need with a Lifetime
Experience Coach? Aren’t we all going through the
lifetime experience together? I mean, it just
doesn’t make any sense to me. You must pardon me
if I’m wrong here but please, why would I need a
coach to help me with my own lifetime
experiences? I’m living them moment by moment,
like the rest of us and so far, I haven’t looked
to the bench for any signals. So why would
anybody else? Let’s face it we could all use help from time to time, I’ll grant you that but to have a coach standing over me, looking at how I do or experience things? PLEASE!!! No thanks. Aren’t our lives already filled to the brim with people insinuating themselves on to us? Between the government, the media, work and religion, don’t we already have a full plate? Tell me if I’m missing something here. I’d like to know. Now I could be reading more into this than what is really there. That sign could have been another way for a counselor to get her shingle out, so to speak. So this coach is not really a coach but a counselor? Maybe but then again we fall into another deeper hole. Who would want to go to a counselor that’s already cheating on the facts? If you’re a counselor come right out and say that’s who you are. Don’t mask it by using other adjectives to describe what you are or what you do. You’re supposed to help people by having them reflect deeper into themselves for the truth and with that knowledge, hopefully, they’ll be able to change themselves. But how can you do that by camouflaging who you are? So, although the sign got me to reflect on things. I’d have to say the idea of having a life experience coach breathing down my neck, is not something that I can get on board with. But you might be different. Next week’s article is entitled “George Bush, President, or Puppet?” or “When Will The Blue Fairy Make Me A Real Boy?”. Until then, go have yourself a nice little
drive and read as many car advertisements as
possible.
In 1998 and 1999 Mr. Anthony’s poem “What is Winning All About?” was selected by the International Library of Poetry to be placed in their anthology book of American poets for 1998. They contacted him again the following year to seek his permission for “Winning” to be included in their Millennium anthology collection. He, of course, gladly gave it. You can access his webpage at
www.tandemproductions.biz
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