Day 17: Someone you would want to switch lives with for one day and why
This question is just too complicated.
Do I pick someone real, or someone fictional?
If I pick someone real, what period in history do I want to try out?
Initially, I thought that I should pick an author I like, so that I could see what it was like – it’d give me something to push me forward.
But then, I thought that switching places with someone like Elizabeth Bennet might be fun, since it’s only for one day.
But if it’s only for one day, why not go way far back in time, and switch places with Cleopatra or something?
I’d want to choose someone whose circumstances I could learn from … I mean, how fun would it be to have someone start talking about ancient egypt and you turn up your nose and know definitively that’s not how it was?
So much gets lost in translation, so much we can’t understand because the culture has changed so dramatically. I don’t know … going back to somewhere around the roman era might be interesting.