DAYDREAM BELIEVER: WILLY GOES TO WASHINGTON

CONGRATULATIONS, COLBY WILLIAMS!  

My best friend, COLBY WILLIAMS, was selected by the WASHINGTON CAPITALS in the NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE DRAFT 2015.

Scouts for the Washington Capitals recognized Colby’s hockey prowess and therefore drafted him.  Passed over in his first ever try-out with the Regina Pats of the Western Hockey League, keeping his dream in mind by keeping with hockey, Colby made the team the following year.  Being NOT selected in his first year of eligibility in the National Hockey League draft, he pressed on with his game.  And in the next year following that, he was passed over yet again.  At last Colby’s time has come!  Colby has finally been recognized, in the best possible way, for one longing to play in the NHL.  Being among the top amateur hockey defencemen in the world, Colby kept living the dream and now has officially achieved RECOGNITION … by being drafted into the NHL.

(Readers, I remind you to remember these skates Colby gave me one Christmastime.  Blog posting COLBY SAVES CHRISTMAS: THE SILVER SKATES … December 21^st , 2014.)

RECOGNITION .. the desideratum for what life seems to be about.

We all love being recognized for something.  More than money and more than sex, people want RECOGNITION.

Austrian psychotherapist, Alfred Adler (1870-1937), stated that all behavior is purposeful, and the purpose of all behavior was to find a meaningful place in a social group.  For example, Adlerian educators insist that students when they inappropriately act out in class, they do so for attention.  I’ll take it the next step and suggest they do for RECOGNITION, a thin and significant layer above the attention.

American psychologist, Abraham Maslow (1908-1970), listed ESTEEM above the Physiological and Safety needs on his Hierarchy of Needs pyramid.  Our human compulsion to feel respected is the most essential social requisite to our existence.  RESPECT does not come without RECOGNITION.

American psychiatrist, William Glasser (1925-2013), stated that all we do is behave, and we behave mostly to achieve the social requisites of Love and Belonging.  William Glasser’s notion of Belonging is very close to that of Alfred Adler’s finding a meaningful place in a group. This again is simply, RECOGNITION.

 

As regular entertainer at the REGINA FARMERS MARKET, I am a familiar stranger, a BUSKER seeking RECOGNITION amongst other familiar strangers:

 

ADRIENNE ... PIXIE WINKLE JEWELRY

ADRIENNE … PIXIE WINKLE JEWELRY

ANGELA … ANGELA’S OWN HOMESTYLE ORIGINALS

CLAY … CLAY’S PLANTS AND BAKING

DAVID … PURE T ORGANICS

MICHELLE … ZEE-BEE HONEY

DALLAS and ANNETTE … SASK HILLIBILLIES

VALERIE … ASHER DESIGNS

All of these street merchants are seeking RECOGNITION in order to sell their wares.  Lately at the REGINA FARMERS MARKET, it is particularly these vendors who have been my closest company.  In fact, my pattern this season is to set up and busk betwixt any two of them.

What’s it (life) all about?  

I pose this life question posthumously to the aforementioned theorists, Alfred Adler, Abraham Maslow, and William Glasser … and to the much alive and sedulous, Colby Williams.

WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT ALFIE?  WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT, ABE?  WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT, BILLY?  WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT, WILLY?  

(Amongst his team mates, Colby is affectionately known as "Willy" ... and why not ... everybody never seems to grow up in hockey ... just ask Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, Bobby Orr, Johnny Bower, Billy Lesuk ... need I go on?)

BY DIDACTIC CHANCE I DO KNOW THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION … WHILST BUSKING, I SOMETIMES GET THE DOLDRUMS AND AS A RESULT ... DAYDREAM.  AFTERALL, I AM A SOI-DISTANT BUSKOLOGIST, LIVING THE DREAM AND LONGING TO BE RECOGNIZED ENOUGH TO BE INVITED ABROAD, ALL EXPENSES PAID, AS A KEYNOTE SPEAKER ON THE ART OF BUSKOLOGY.

LIFE … IT’S ALL ABOUT RECOGNITION.
(But keep in mind ... BEHAVING ONLY TO BE RECOGNIZED CAN ONLY RESULT IN A LIFE OF DISSONANCE.  BEHAVING ONLY TO CHASE A DREAM CAN ONLY RESULT IN A LIFE OF HARMONY.)

WILLY LOVES HOCKEY ... HOCKEY IS WILLY'S PASSION ...
AND THAT'S WHY ...
WILLY IS GOING TO WASHINGTON!