Rob and I have been working on a project for a gaming company – the CEO is in Istanbul, the other two employees are in Amsterdam. They’re creating a mobile app that takes place in a Japanese diner.
Originally, there were going to be 4 characters and a female chef. They asked for a story by October 1 that could be told in 1,000 words. That meant each character needed a back story that could be woven somehow into a front story. We created two versions of back stories, but they thought the stories were “too dark.” They said the story should be lighter, with “trending lifestyle” material that can be woven into a light mystery.
1000 words is about 4 manuscript pages. Yesterday morning when Rob woke up, he had the word chopsticks in his head. Suppose, he says, these chopsticks are environmental hazards of some sort? So I googled chopsticks. The very first link was about the environmental hazard that chopsticks are.
I had no idea that chopsticks were a hazard. So we created a story around it and they went for it and asked for a second mystery within the story. This is one of those synchronicities that involve creativity and dreams. Chopsticks was from a dream Rob had been having, but the word was the only thing he recalled. & that word was all that mattered. So this is a synchro where creativity and dreams coincided.
Next time you reach for chopsticks, keep in mind that about 80 billion pairs of chopsticks are produced yearly. That’s about 20 million trees annually that are used and is why more than 10,000 square miles of Asian forests are are disappearing each year. When many of these disposable chopsticks are produced, harsh chemicals are often used – acid, bleach, hydrogen peroxide, paraffin, sulfur dioxide. They can leach out when dipped into hot liquids.
So horrific but also timely. I was at a Japanese noodle place yesterday. I didn’t ask for chopsticks but my friend did. I’d been wondering what to get her for a birthday present. Thanks, guys!
Get her stainless steel chopsticks!
That would be my preference, ha! I can’t even use the things. She would probably prefer bamboo. I need to get her a cloth napkin to wrap them in so she can just carry them around in her purse. Her son lives in Japan. I wish I knew where I could order some Japanese chopsticks online.
Amazon
Don’t trust Amazon. They’ve sent me wrong items, unusable items, items that are not what they’ve claimed to be. I don’t live close to a UPS store and don’t have a car so I can’t easily return them.
Too bad. The fact that you’re able to return stuff quickly is a benefit. Here, you can take items to whole foods.
How useful is that! My postal annex which works with UPS can’t get reimbursed for shipping in the return code Amazon sends for the package.
That’s a most interesting story and piece of information. Yea synchros!
Stainless steel chopsticks are the way to go!
Amazon sells them