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Defy Conventional Wisdom - VIP POV

Hi, this is AJ. Welcome to the POV, the point-of-view story. Let’s do the first one.

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Chim-chim felt insecure about his humble life. A newspaper wrote a story about him criticizing him for living in a tree and so he felt very insecure about his humble life and he said to himself “I need to raise my status. I can’t live a humble life anymore.” So the first thing he did was he bought a mansion. He bought a mansion on 120 acres of land.

This was his first status symbol.

Next, he got a trophy girlfriend. He went and found a beautiful, super young trophy girlfriend and then finally he went and he bought a lot of bling. He bought a lot of expensive jewelry, big huge pieces of diamonds and jewels and gold, but of course he wasn’t happy.

Even though he had all of these status symbols he was not happy and so he realized that this was not the key to happiness. He realized that he did not need to raise his status symbol. So he sold his mansion, he broke up with his trophy girlfriend and he gave away his bling and he moved back to his simple tree and he was much happier.

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And that’s the end of version number one. That was, of course, looking back to the past.

The next version will start with ‘since’, okay? So, again, we’re talking about time periods. We’re looking back at something that happened for a while.

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Really since he was young Chim-chim has felt insecure about his humble life. See, he has always lived a humble life. From childhood until recently he has lived a humble life.

His parents did not have a lot of money and even after he became rich he kept a humble life. So he has lived a humble life all the time, this whole time and he has always felt insecure about it.

He has always worried about not having enough, about not having a high enough status and so, finally, one day when a newspaper publishes an article about his humble life and criticizes him, well on that day he feels really bad. He feels terrible and so he decides to change. He decides to buy status symbols and raise his social status.

The first status symbol he buys is a mansion. He buys a big mansion on 120 acres of land. The second status symbol he buys – well, not buys, kind of buys – is a trophy girlfriend. He gets a trophy girlfriend and the third status symbol he buys is bling. He buys lots of bling, lots of jewelry.

But, of course, even after he gets all of these status symbols he’s still not happy and so he sells his mansion, he breaks up with his trophy girlfriend, he gets rid of his bling and he moves back to his humble life in his humble tree and he is happy.

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And, finally, our third version we go to the future. So we imagine this is happening in the future. Just a little practice using the future, talking about the future.

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So in the future Chim-chim will feel insecure about his humble life because in the future a newspaper they’re gonna publish a story about him. They’re going to criticize him for living a humble life, for living in just a little simple tree. (‘Gonna’ means going to. I have to remind the new members that gonna means going to.)

So he’s gonna feel insecure about his humble life already and then in the future when they publish this story about him criticizing him then he’ll really, really feel insecure about it and he’ll say to himself “I need to raise my social status.” So what’s the first thing he’ll do? Well, first, he’ll go out and he’ll buy a huge mansion on 120 acres of land and then he’s gonna get a trophy girlfriend and then, finally, he’s gonna buy a bunch of bling. He’s gonna buy lots and lots of jewelry.

And after doing all of this he’ll feel lonely. He won’t feel happy. He will not, he won’t feel happy and he’ll realize that the status symbols are not important and so he’s gonna sell his mansion, he’s gonna break up with his trophy girlfriend and he’ll get rid of all his bling and he’ll move back to his simple tree and his humble life and be much happier.

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And that’s the end of our point-of-view stories. As always, just listen to these. Don’t think about the grammar. Don’t analyze it. Just listen again and again and again. Notice how the words change. Notice the little changes. That’s all you need to do.

All right, I will see you again next time. Have a great day, great week, great month, byebye.