I am unclear on what Justin and Madonna actually saved the world from in that song. Being that the average pop song has four minutes before it maxes out it's listener's attention span, I reckon they did their dead level combined best in the time given to share the truest essence of their entertaining selves to improve the world, or the little world created in the audio visual psychic space between the entertainer and the viewer/listener. I admit, the song makes me groove, I can dance or drive to it, and that marching band thing just works--it's sort of larger than life and quaintly nostalgic all at the same time....
As for my own attempts given the same amount of time? Well, I am really bad at telling jokes, and I don't have anywhere near the singing-dancing moves of those guys. Most of my tricks only work one person at a time too. Picking people up comes to mind. Yeah, I like to lift people, literally. My most frequent victim is my mother. It's just a spontaneous beyond-hugging type thing to show someone you just love them and want to give them an experience of gravity from like when they were a little kid. Most people protest a bit, so the element of surprise is very important. If you are sneaky enough to get them before they understand what is coming and shy away, there is little they can do to stop you, and in a second it is over anyway. You don't have to lift them super high or carry them off anywhere. For some reason it never fails to make the lift-ee smile or laugh, and once they are smiling that smile tends to last a while. So that might save their world, at least for a little while.
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What an awesome way to save someone's world! And such vivid imagery of literally lifting people up. This was a great post--hilarious and moving.
Awesome post! Yeah, that's about as much as you can do in four minutes.
I imagine you could lift quite a few people in 4 minutes. It might not save the world, but it would be a lot of smiles.
I stopped practicing this technique years ago. Why? I am getting back into lifting my peeps as of now. Might consider a few strangers too. Awesome post.
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