When posed the question "if you could trade places with someone else for a day, who would it be?"
I bet the typical answer you hear is some celebrity or uber rich person. But why?! So that you could have a little bit more fun than usual for a day and maybe meet some other celebrities?
I hate to break it to you dudes- you can have fun in your own skin. I'd rather use such an exciting wish to learn something, to be humbled, or to understand the world better.
Who would I choose? I cannot say for certain- and am pretty sure I will never actually be faced with that question as a serious possibility (unless the spider apocalypse happens because we will be forced to advance our technology so that we can have some spider embodied human saboteurs or face certain destruction).
I digress. I would rather be in the mind of someone I love or cared about- someone I wanted to understand either because there were things I did not know or because I just wanted to be able to have patience with them- and vice versa.
Another option would be to switch places with someone in another part of the world. A number of reasons surround this idea:
- Cheaper way to travel and see the world
- Get to experience the perspectives of another culture or race (or what it's like to be a man, even)
- Be humbled by the pain and suffering of others so that I don't whine as much
Guys...plenty of reasons to want to switch places with someone else. Doing it to spend ridiculous amounts of money and party for a day- an awful reason.
Now, who would you be?
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