Summary: Are you willing to put your name in a bowl with several other people’s names, reach in and pull out a name, other than your own, and assume the life of the person’s name on the paper you pulled -- and live their life as them for the rest of your life? My sister asked me this when we were visiting one day. My sister and I were having a discussion about our lives and asking each other if there were any regrets or things we wish we could change. We each came up with some things that we wish we had done differently -- I came up with a whole lot of things I wish I had done differently. We agreed that more than anything. “We wish we knew then, what we know now”. And then, she asked, “If you could trade in your life for someone else's, would you?” And, “Whose life would you trade your life in for? I pulled an invisible champagne glass out of the air. As I walked around sipping invisible champagne from my invisible glass and hugging my upper arms to indicate a mink rap covering my shoulders, we both started to laugh. I then said in an indistinguishable accent, “Well, of course someone who is ridiculously wealthy – we have the freedom to travel anywhere at any time, spend months at only the best resorts and spas, are served the finest foods by the finest servers, and never look at price tags.” “Who?” She asked. I thought long and hard but couldn’t come up with anyone’s life I wanted to trade mine in for. Everyone I thought of has issues or something that I’m not sure I’d want to deal with. Some things and some parts of my life were not happy. I experienced times that were sometimes horrific. However, now that I made it through them, I believe everything in my life had to happen as it did for me to be who I am today. So, if you really think your life sucks . . . Are you willing to put your name in a bowl with several other people’s names, reach in and pull out a name, other than your own, and assume the life of the person’s name on the paper you pulled -- and live their life as them for the rest of your life? If you could, would you be someone else?
