If… (Week 5)

This is week five in my personal “If… Project” in which I answer questions from the book “If… (Questions for the Game of Life)”

There are 125 pages of this book, each with four questions. I plan to take one page each week and answer the questions as thoroughly and honestly as I am able. In addition, I invite you to answer the questions along with me, whether it be in the comments section, your own personal blog, or just within your own thoughts.

Perhaps in doing so, we will get to know each other better, but even more importantly, get to know ourselves better.

This week’s questions:

If you could inherit a comfortable home in any city in the world that you could use but not sell, where would you want it to be?

Would it be lame if I said right here in New York City? I would love to have an entire brownstone on the Upper West Side or in Hell’s Kitchen. Or perhaps even a hot apartment in a high rise building with a nice balcony overlooking a view of the city. If I had to choose a city in which I don’t currently live, then maybe somewhere like London, though I wouldn’t want to live there full time. But I could use it as my home base for when I went to Europe, as I often imagine I will do in my future years when I am independently wealthy by means I have yet to figure out.

If you could inherit a vacation home anywhere in the world in which you could spend one month a year, but that you could never sell, where would it be?

Well, considering I already plan to buy into a timeshare at Disney World, I would say I would want my vacation home to be in Orlando. Not only would it give me that vacation property I want already, but it would save me from having to actually buy it myself. Although, I gotta say, maybe I should just buy the timeshare myself and pick something like Hawaii for this free inherited one.

If you could suddenly possess an extraordinary talent in one of the arts, what would you like it to be?

Oh, this one has me really torn. I have a pretty good affection for most branches of the arts and find participating them to all be quite fulfilling. I would really really really love to be a prodigy of a dancer, but now that I am 27, it wouldn’t really leave me that many more years to be able to actually do it, so while dancing may be my first choice, I’m going to have to pick something else for that reason. I would probably have to choose being a singer/songwriter. I can definitely carry a tune and went to a musical theatre academy here in the city, so I know I at least have the building blocks of the talent, but sadly, my skills never seemed to progress far enough to launch me into superstardom. And as far as singers go, I tend to really like those singer/songwriter types, so I would pick to have the songwriting ability as well. Basically, I’d want to be the male Jewel.

If you could be instantly fluent in one other language that you currently do not read or speak, which would it be?

Again, it’s a toss up between a few. I took Spanish in high school and really enjoyed it, but have since forgotten virtually all of it, so it would be nice to get that language back. I would also really love to be fluent in American Sign Language. Since meeting and becoming friends with Garrett, I’ve discovered that it’s actually a very beautiful and emotional language. And I’ve really enjoyed learning the little bit that I’ve picked up from him and from the books I bought on the subject. And it would just be really satisfying to be able to have an actual conversation with him someday without him having to dumb it down for me or resort to writing instead of signing.

Those are my answers for this week’s questions. What are yours?