Posted: 16 October 2017 at 3:55pm | IP Logged | 1
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Someone posted an item where he wished that he were in an alternate reality where he was a champion skier. I thought about that for an oh-so-brief moment, and decided that, while I would like to learn to ski and fly down those hills (it looks like great fun), that possibility has passed.
Thus putting lie to the old aphorism, "You can do anything you want." No... I could never have been a long distance runner, or an astronaut. Body wasn't build for either (in different ways.)
But what COULD I have been? What could YOU have been? Let's let our imaginations go fun and fancy free... what would you like to have been? A racercar driver? A master sculptor? A remarkable statesman? A chess champion? A writer/artist for famous comics?
The only limit is that it has to be real (sorry... you cannot be Green Lantern) and it has to be gender specific (no ballerinas, sorry again.) Oh, and try to be a little more specific than "rich", "powerful", or "king of the world." (The Brain as prior claim to that last, anyhow... ;)
No physical limitations... so I COULD be a marathoner, or a submariner. And let's not worry about all the tremendous difficulties associated with any such selection (thus re-emphasizing the "fun" aspect.)
I'd like a detail or two, of course - but just for a fun exercise, let's indulge. Myself? I would have loved to be a professional and famous stage actor. I do it as an amateur, and there is no feeling like making audiences feel emotions, and being live and in person to enjoy it, and to make them feel even more.
I wouldn't so much want to be a movie actor, as there's no feedback. And while television can be filmed in front of a live audience... I feel it would lack something to get to fall back on "take number 12... and go."
Share with me, gang!
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