The Real Deal

You know how people tell you to to "Keep it Real"

That's quite a limiting belief don't you think, keeping it real?

Don't you think we have enough Real?

Don't you think we have slightly more Real than is absolutely needed at the moment?

And if so, have you balanced it out with more Unreal, or are you in a negative balance? 

Are you in a downward spiral? 

In deficit?

I suppose these well-meaning hipsters must be meaning to encourage you in a little more honesty, a little more letting people know who you are.

Well, at least one of those is unnecessary and at least one is a given. 

So why do we need to keep instructing each other to "Keep it Real".

Surely to push, strive and achieve, you need to keep it slightly unreal. 

You need to ignore the edges, erase the lines and blur the edges of possibility. 

You don't just need to "Keep Real", you need to make more Real by crossing over those boundaries.

Keeping it Real is really just maintaining the status quo and the last thing we need more of is Status Quo.  

"Keep it Surreal" if you have to. At least that is considerably more interesting.

But if that's too much of a leap for you, I say "Keep it slightly Unreal".

I will even suffix a  "…, Man !"  on the end if you feel you need it.