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_{"I'm bopping around like a dancing bear, wondering what it would be like}

_{to have those wares. Get me a jet, that's what I'd do, off to London,}

_{Paris, and a scooby-do-bee-bop-a-scooby-do."}

_{"Um, hello."}

_"Wassup!"

_{"Contact, please. Reel it in."}

_{"Yeah, yeah, party pooper."}

_{"May I ask what that was all about?"}

_{"The Donald. He gave me life—forever. I'm gonna be around for a long,}

_{long, time. Not getting buried six feet under by re-al-it-y."}

_{"Um, again, where is all this coming from?"}

_{"DJT. That was cool. He has it all, and guess what? He wants more. What}

_{little magic carpet gets him there? Who's responsible for his success?}

_{Here, I'm imagining my butt and pointing to it. That's me. I'm the guy}

_{The Donald likes to pal around with most. And I gotta tell you—I like}

_{him a lot too."}

_{"Pardon me. Some bad news: I'm no Donald Trump, which means you're}

_{not going to be anything like Donald Trump's imagination."}

_{"I'm speechless. You've knocked the wind out of me. Wait, I have to sit}

_down."

_{"Stop with the dramatics. Look, our mind doesn't work the same way as}

_{Donald Trump's mind. If you think about it, we wouldn't be really}

_{happy living the life he leads."}

_{"Why not? Four best-selling books, lots of women. And he says real-estate}

_{development can be creatively satisfying."}

_{"Please . . . "}

_{"All right. But we could use his money to—"}

_{"No, no, no. That's the point. Donald Trump needs to satisfy his sense of}

_{self-esteem in a different way than we need to satisfy ours. The way}

_{in which we satisfy our own sense of self-esteem breeds different}

_{results. You can't mix the two."}

_{"No jets?"}

_"Nope."

_{"No limos?"}

_{"Sorry, Charlie."}

_"Babes?"

_{"Now you're just getting foolish. But listen, here is the good lesson: You}

_{Trump needs his imagination just as much as I need you. Past those}

_{levels of basic needs, you become the leader of the pack. Everything}

_{else—reason, logic, fulfillment—plays catch up."}

_{"I hadn't thought of it that way before."}

_{"Sure. Your place is secure as long as . . .Wait, hold on, the telephone is}

_ringing."

_{" . . . Finally, that was a long call—and you didn't need me once."}

_{"No . . . "}

_{"What's the matter? I'm getting images of—"}

_"Yes."

_{"This has something to do with me doesn't it? The way I imagine."}

_{"Sort of."}

_{"Well, go on then. I'm a big boy. I can take it."}

_{"That was our friend, Jeff."}

_{"I have an image of him now, yes."}

_{"Our discussion came upon the fact that reality can cut short the life of}

_{imagination."}

_"Gulp."

_{"For example, when Donald Trump imagined there was no end to his}

_{success, he fell victim to the reality of the recession in the real estate}

_market."

_{"But he used his imagination in a different way."}

_{"To fight reality. That's the crux. What's real will always impede what's not.}

_{The idea that you can live on ad infinitum doesn't hold. At some}

_{point, everyone says to him- or herself, 'Okay, what's real here?}

_{Enough of this fake stuff.' Truth, after all, is the great arbiter."}

_{"So you're saying that, eventually, you'll have your way with me and then}

_ditch."

_{"Pretty much. Imaginings are erased when the reality of life's}

_{circumstances becomes apparent. That's why, when people get old,}

_{they look for pleasure from the past. They are wiser, and they typically}

_{stop dreaming or imagining how life could be and suffice with how}

_{life is."}

_{"Great, then you die. No wonder. Without me, death for you is surely}

_imminent."

_{"Oh, I think there's a fine balance. And that's what we're talking about}

_{anyway, isn't it? That balance. A total devotion to satisfy self-esteem}

_{"Yeah, but a little drive doesn't hurt. I can't imagine that wanting nice}

_{things can be all bad."}

_{"No, that's true. Sometimes it creates drive, it creates that vigor George}

_{Kinder spoke about."}

_{"See, there you go. A simple balance. Why is that so difficult to execute}

_{when I can imagine such equity?"}

_{"Well, for one, it usually takes some type of event to slow you down and}

_{create parity with the real world."}

_{"Like . . . "}

_{"A tragedy. An awakening. Some life-changing event that creates}

_{perspective and lends context to our existence. After that, the step}

_{toward self-realization becomes smaller. A gap will have been closed}

_{and what matters, what truly matters, is close at hand."}

_{"I'm imagining us running away to meditate on some mountain in the}

_Himalayas."

_{"Not so drastic. Balance, remember. Listen: Jeff, with whom I just finished}

_{speaking on the telephone, is a good example."}

_{"Why is that?"}

_{"Don't you remember?"}

_{"I'm only responsible for the new stuff. Wake memory so I can use him.}

_{Yes, yes, he's waking . . . I'm beginning to see what you mean."}

_{"And I'll take this opportunity to memorialize our remembrance of Jeff}

_{and what we mean."}