If you could wake up tomorrow in the body of someone else currently living, would you do so? Whom would you pick?
there is a lot to consider when answering this question. i need to know the conditions. am i forever going to inhabit this other person's body? while i'm in this other person's body, will i have all the knowledge i have now or will i take on this person's intelligence and memories? (thinking of drop dead diva) what would happen to this person while i was in his/her body? (thinking of freaky friday)
so in order for me to answer this question, i'm going to make some assumptions...
if i was going to be in this person's body for 24 hours, i would do it. i would not want to forever leave behind who i am (although i have wished i could be someone else, i don't really want to be anyone other than me).
we're going to assume that i will keep my own knowledge and memories. i thought for a moment that it would be good to see someone else's thought processes, but i would learn more about being in someone else's body if i had my own wisdom to bring to the situation.
so, now we get to the part where i need to choose whose body i will wake up in. i'm thinking of this as a social experiment. i have two schools of thought. i could choose someone rich and famous and see how it feels to have the world at my fingertips or i could choose someone in a worse situation than me and learn to appreciate what i have. it's not so much about what kind of life i will lead for 24 hours, but how others will react to me based on the body i am in.
if i could wake up tomorrow in the body of someone else i would choose the homeless woman who hangs out at 610 and westheimer near the galleria. don't laugh! i put a lot of thought into this. although i would have my own thoughts and memories and not know what is going on in her head, i would see where she wakes up. where is she before she goes and stands on that corner for hours trying to get money from whoever will roll their window down? what is her life like? who does she live with? does she have a home? a family? is that corner her only hope for a better life?
in her body, i would like to help her and make a difference. maybe, even if it's only 24 hours, i could change things for her. i could get her in touch with resources. get her "in the system". help her find a job. i don't know. i would like to use that day to help someone who doesn't have things as easy as i do. even if i only make a small difference.
also from that day i would like to take back to my life the knowledge of what it is like to walk in someone else's shoes. being that woman for a day would cause people to react differently to me. even though i feel that my life has been really hard lately, but i know people have it worse. i would see what it is like not to have anything and to have to pray that some stranger would take time to help me. i think i would learn a lot from being in her body for the day.
who would you choose? it doesn't have to be as serious and profound as my analysis of this question. link up and let me know!
