Man Up – The Story


Welcome to the first post of Cosimo!

Coming Home

My company still gives us paper checks so that means I have to stop at the bank. On this particular Friday, the 30th of November, the air was quite cool and brisk you see I live in a small town called Media and usually like to walk to the market, the bar, or the bank. As I left the bank this chilly dark fall evening I passed an old Church whose old bell rang out of its Tower as if to awaken my senses. At that instant I smelled wood burning most likely out of someone’s fireplace: my mind pictured a warmly lit living room. I seem to be startled by a sudden but unthreatening barking of an old dog with a gravily voice, again I felt the wave of heightened awareness, it was pleasantly startling it made me feel more alive than I’ve felt all week… I need to get back out in nature more.

I rounded the corner and headed to my apartment. Sounds, smells, and The Sensation of taste was now coming alive. Just the thought of Bertolli Chicken Parm was making me salivate, yet I hadn’t even open my apartment door. Thank God for Bartoli Frozen bag meals 6 bucks and in about 8 minutes you have a delicious meal for two – I enjoyed every bite. After dinner I relaxed and decided to stay in and get a good night’s sleep. I really like sleeping my dreams take me to other worlds other times. I especially like crossing over at that moment when you know you’re not awake you can’t physically move your body, but your mind knows it still has a little control of your thoughts, at least for a few moments or so it seems…. Okay now he’s asleep… this is a great time for me to introduce myself my name is Cosimo Little Richie chicken legs Marino’s Alter Ego if that’s what you want to think of me as. I’m the one with balls but I’m much, much more than that. I need to stay under the radar I don’t want to freak anyone out. Think of me as the Gatekeeper of conscious thought one of the five realms yes, I can heighten awareness in you… I keep the monsters under the bed… I don’t allow thoughts to manifest not just Richie’s everyone’s thoughts throughout the ages. He is my vessel at this time but I am inside everyone’s head that’s my job to keep order to this universe so that you beings can evolve. I’m thought energy I’m a badass I got the coconuts and I proudly bang them off every chance I get… Except Little Richie doesn’t always share my enthusiasm I am the kind of “guy”, in this time, you love to hate; and hate to love, but I do I love this jackass whose body I call home…  

Faces

…Faces… Shit. I struck a nerve, he’s waking up. Little Richie is a very sensitive guy, I need to toughen him up, but I love his raw emotion. He is a little low on the emotional intelligence scale but I like the challenge. It’s the mean-spirited haters that are a threat to these beings. Oops that did it, chicken legs will be with you about… Now…
I was dreaming such a vivid dream about people’s faces. In recent years facial expressions have become so clear to me in my dreams. Now even when I’m awake it’s as if I can sense their thoughts, feel their emotions, or is it just a reflection of my own feelings? I don’t think so, I’ve talked to many strangers over the years and seemed to have known them. Call it intuition or whatever, I get a kick out of it especially babies and old people. Facial expressions are like a snapshot in time of what we see in others or perhaps reflections of things that that have been thought or felt by the one wearing the expression, or that person may be momentarily holding. At times we are the recipient and other times we are the benefactor. These fleeting moments or connecting gaps between time-space thought and people… This junction has become a huge interest to me that I need to explore, especially in my dark hours.  

A Cold Night in January

Little Richie has been going through a tough time for the past 10 years actually most of his life. He struggles to hold a job, a girl, friends, and even the family don’t care for his company. It’s not that he’s bad he’s just boring. A hollow Man. He can be so dumb he is barely aware of his own existence. It may be because of his insecurities or self-esteem but whatever it is he is now lonely and depressed a hollow Empty Soul that has dimly-lit eyes. Like a ghost people and life pass through him as if he doesn’t exist. Lost in the abyss of emptiness Richie sinks deeper and deeper away from life. The cold howling wind beckons him to depart his dark and lonely life. I can’t take it anymore thought Richie, I’ll send her a clever text message… something to break the ice it’s been six months we barely said a word to each other. I’m losing it I can’t keep it together. Kathy, you bitch I miss you. No. I got it ..the song from Heart … Magic Man…perfect line no commitment no deep thought just appeal to her Passion… you don’t have to love me and let’s get high awhile… that’s it, I’ll send it and see how she if she responds. Kathy texted Richie back, ‘It’s a cold January night babe… We spent a long time together. It’s hard for me too, but you know we tried so many times to make it work, it’s time to let it go. Good night love.’ Richie reads the message and falls to the ground like a sack of s***. You being a sobbing flop is pathetic to me, Cosimo. Pull yourself together man. Cosimo says to a slobbering Richie, she’s right you know, time to move on. She’s got more gonads than you. Grow a spine and pick yourself up. I can’t let this happen. Richie there’s so much more to life. The grace and beauty of nature the Machinery the people the animals the plants the untold stories the music dancing. Start living. Don’t be the hunted or prey become the predator. Think like a wolf or a fox, bring out your beast. This is needed to get things done to take action, right or wrong, doesn’t quite matter. At this time pick yourself up get a better sense of yourself being something is better than being nothing accomplish something. I love you man I want to help you. Richie says Get Out of My Head leave me alone. Cosimos says I can’t we’re stuck with one another. Later I will prove things to you for now just relax pull yourself together trust me.
Throughout the ages Legends have been told of mystical creatures: God’s, monsters, Spirits, superheroes, Angels and Demons– with powers Beyond Mortals yet none of these are creators you and your kind Richie are creators you are a father you are a thinker you have authority in time and space. I do not have many of the things that you have but I can tell you of the legends great stories epic tales of Gilgamesh, the Hebrew Bible, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Beowulf. Great literature that was inspired by dreamers like you. There are Defenders and or adversaries of what is known as the natural order. The natural order to these human Legends involves morals, laws, principles that guide their beliefs to conduct order in their world.
The power is within us all to think dream imagine invent build change or influence and direct our course. Who is Cosimo? Where did the story come from? Who am I? Why am I telling the story now? You need me Richie. Cosimo is within us all. Cosimo is thought energy. I am in everyone. Our story comes to us from our hearts and souls, what is being told to you from me who is also you and I. Cosimo I’m a part of everyone you will relate and come to understand.

Revelation… The Essence or thought

Richie, I know how you struggled with anatomy and physiology especially blood clotting. It was four days of hell, right Richie. Yes Cosimo. I will tell you the brief sequence of blood clotting which will prove to you that I am not your conscience. Blood clotting or coagulation is the process that controls bleeding if a vessel is injured. this involves proteins or clotting factors. In a nut shell…Injury–vessel contracts–platelet plug–fibrin clot…and bleeding stops. The platelets stick together to patch the wound blood proteins and platelets form the fibrin clot…GOT it Richie! YES Cosimo I believe you. Good. Now listen up.

This is the Revelation I bring to humanity. This is science history and physics interconnected and brought to you by none other than me, Cosimo, the embodiment ( or not) of thought energy since the beginning of time. I have been out there waiting to occupy and embrace the souls of people the Realms I briefly spoke of or perhaps better thought of as interdimensional (think string theory) entities… Time, Space, Earth, Spirit, and me… Thought we have a life of our own. It gets a little more complicated. Like brothers and sisters, us five entities have counterparts and or relationships. Earth, for example, is closely related to Matter. Matter is the substance of Earth without the living or what you might call organic. I Cosimo am closely related to Spirit and sometimes like a family member we do not always get along.

Spirit always says my love is true my love is pure my love is trust. Trust my true pure love to give you peace. This thought energy is put out by my sister -so to speak- Spirit AKA sassy. I don’t do all that sappy love junk… Sassy Spirit I call her because she can be a devilish flirt but it always works to bring the eternal entities and humanity back to true love. This is her passion, her thing, her job.
Yes, the science of physics. Time space matter and energy, and the relationship between them. Raise many questions. The effects of an action causes consequences. What did you mean about having authority over time and space Richie asks Cosimo. Cosimo says I knew you would ask that question. Of course, you would you’re a mind reader says Richie. Cosimo says, someday in about 50 million years, if your species survives, you’ll begin to learn how magnificent you are. You will become like me (not being conceited). You will have mental abilities to alter and affect time and space. Theories that your people speculate about, the Big Bang having a mirror image caused by the equal and opposite reaction, of the bang on this so to speak backside time and energy go backwards. Perhaps this may shed some light on dark matter and dark energy, but this is a topic for a later time…
Richie, I have a message, a purpose I need to pass on to you and your son Marty. Pull people together. “What?” Unite humanity. “Unite humanity? Wait a minute I can’t even get my kids to call me. How? How do I do this?” With love, trust, hope, dreams and joy. All given through strength and wisdom. Share these five gifts with receptive souls. Spirit and I will help you awaken their hearts and their souls to the love and joy that will bring strength and wisdom. In turn, building trust, hopes, and dreams. You may have to be a tiger, fox, or a snake; but you will make friends. And all beings will benefit.
I was put in you. I don’t know how or why. Its beyond me. But I know I have grown a lot being with you… Everyone I have been with, even back in the stone age, I have grown a lot from. I try and discreetly pass on my accumulated instincts and intuition. Very few have come to know me. I am a well-guarded secret. “Ok Rich” Cosimo says. You got it Coz.

    Going Dark 

So, what’s the plan now that my life is completely transformed and rebooted? “Rich I’m bowing out… know that I am here. Let your “conscience” (if that’s what you want to call me) be your guide. And we will talk before you pass on. Fare well my man.” Whoa… I feel a little like toast. Hey any fried friggin’ brain with that? But that’s the old me. No, I like this new purpose. I’m going with it. I will continue on the path, starting with love and trust, and seeing where it takes me….
Richie goes on and makes friends with time, space, earth, spirit and people hoping to pull together humanity.