6 degrees

There was a saying that between you and anyone else there are only 6 degrees of separation, the saying came from a theory and the theory spurred a film that hardly anybody saw and a game that people used to play called, Back to Bacon. The idea of the game is the same as the theory name an actor and in six films or less you can find a link to Kevin Bacon. I don’t hear this said any more or play the game any longer either but I have pondered the 6 degrees thing and it works. You would be surprised how quickly you can get to most anyone. Some of it is conjecture and you guess where paths might lead and at least in theory it would seem to work. I’ve not ever called in any of my guess work to cash in on meeting anyone in particular by my mere six steps away from meeting someone famous or infamous. Say you only get to do this one time in your life, how do you pick who you would want to meet? Do you just on a whim pick whomever strikes your fancy that particular day or do you try to sort out someone meaningful and fulfilling. The problem is the fulfilling person is statistically more likely to disappoint you than impress your pants off, the crush is going to be a real person with their own thoughts and not your super imposed ones. The point is that your fantasy meeting quickly spiral out of your hands and into reality. Which if you are lucky slightly resembles your idea of the perfect evening, tryst, or conversation I’m not certain if I would aim for the lofty or the bawdy if I dared to take the six steps to meeting anyone. A lot of the people I would like to meet are dead, and that has its own set of drawbacks. However, keeping with the living. The theory only puts you in the room with the person nothing else. So anything happening beyond perhaps embarrassing yourself or the other person is not terribly likely. Take for example when the other one and I met Ryan Reynolds. We are in Vancouver waiting in the smoking lounge and the then not so famous actor asks to bum a cigarette. I glance at him, the other one does too and we trade looks and say we know this person. The other one say, you look familiar. Mr. Reynolds goes into explain how he is on this program and I so eloquently blurt out as loud as possible for everyone to hear, YOU’RE THE PRODUCT TESTING GUY. Yes I became the beaming excited dolt who scared off Ryan Reynolds to hide in some corner with his borrowed cigarette. You are welcome for the cigarette by the way, Mr. Reynolds. Sorry I was an idiot. That said he never tested any more products on that show as part of his character, you’re welcome for that too. Probably saved your career. However any six way step you take to meeting anyone is likely to play out just as well as my random encounters with known people. No matter how you envision it, it is not likely to play out the way you hope. Then you are left wonder why you even bothered in the first place. Disillusioned and perhaps sad about the fall from the pedestal you put the person on. They haven’t really changed only how you see them with less separating you from them. Them from you for that matter. Fans are scary up close, unrealistic and loud. Still who would you try to meet if you could? What would you want to do? Why that person for that reason? I have crass answers, lewd answers, philosophical answers, across the board to meet some desire or another simply too many to pick just one. Well, that’s all for now, other stuff to follow most likely Happy Birthday if it’s your birthday and a very merry un birthday if it isn’t your birthday Thank you for reading, please subscribe, Have a great day and play nice in the neighborhood. Ciao, Invisible Don PS 3 / PS4 Gamer Tag: invisible don Invisible Don PO Box 4425 Roanoke VA 24015 Send me Post Cards … I love Post Cards