From Holy Blood, Holy Grail to The Da Vinci Code to Relationships...
Today I popped in a DVD on The Da Vinci Code expecting to see secrets and have unexposed issues exposed. I was very disappointed. The DVD I looked at not only made me realize how fabricated and unrealistic the book is, it also made me not want to read it due to the authors "not so fantastic writing skills(maybe I'll check out the movie)."
Anyways, I got to thinking about suggestion. A friend of mine had come from Chicago to visit Toledo (his home) and ended up engaging in a political, religious, social chit-chat at Taco Bell in the wee hours of the morning. Oh, yes, we talked about a lot of things, but the one thing that stuck out was when he turned to us, pushed his glasses up on the bridge of his nose and said, "All it takes is a suggestion."
Could this be applied to the science of relationships? If all it takes is a suggestion for an individual to believe, then why are there so many single people out there?
Being the writer that I am, I decided to do a little research and experimentation. I called up all the people who I knew of that where in a committed and happy relationship. Turns out that I couldn't find one besides myself. So, I thought of that great persuasive author Dan Brown and decided to suggest a mate to my friends, in hopes of seeing if their belief would manifest into reality.
Out of my ten friends (whom I chose to participate in this experiment), two of them seemed to have found what they were looking for. They wanted sex. They didn't want any strings attached, no commitments, just two consenting adults having fun in a parked car, bathroom, or in a (typical) bed.
The other eight had trouble keeping what they wanted, They each came across what seemed to be the perfect person, but in reality was probably only a figment of their desires. Because of the suggestions I planted in their heads, had they immediately went after the first things that suggested a long lasting relationship?
I must tip my hat to the now- most likely- rich author, Dan Brown. He successfully planted the idea, with little strength( after all, he pretty much got most of his inspiration and facts from the book published before his novel, Holy Blood, Holy Grail written by Michael Baigent, Henry Lincoln, and Richard Leigh) and humanity made up a figment of their desires. How imaginative are we humans, you think.
The world used to be flat. What facts did we have of this? It was a suggestion that led the rest of the world to... believe.
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