If… (Week 8)

This is week eight 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 have one person from history live his or her full life over again, starting now, who would you pick?

I don’t think anyone would be surprised to hear that I’m picking Walt Disney. He did some amazing things in his lifetime, and I think were he to live his life over again in a world with today’s technology, the things that man could come up with would blow our minds.

If you could have witnessed one event in history, what would you want to have seen?

Dang, this one is tough. I’ve been sitting here for about ten minutes trying to figure out my answer. I keep coming back to openings/beginnings of things. Things like Opening Night of Rent on Broadway. Or the Grand Opening of Disneyland or Walt Disney World. Or perhaps some great moments in sports, like Kerri Strug winning the Olympic Gold for the women’s gymnastics team with her injured ankle. So many choices and these just scratch the surface.

If one of your parents was to be a famous person from any time in history, who would you want them to be?

I would definitely pick my mom. And I think I would want her to be someone who had an easy life full of glamour, as the life I’ve known her to lead hasn’t been that glamourous and certainly hasn’t been anything near easy. Maybe someone like Marilyn Monroe, but without the untimely and tragic death. Or someone like Princess Diana who was both beautiful inside and out. Plus, then I would be a prince, and that wouldn’t be too shabby.

if you could receive one small package this very moment, who would you want it to be from and what would be in it?

I don’t think I would care who it came from as long as it was from someone I loved. If it came from someone I didn’t, I would be very suspicious and wouldn’t be able to enjoy it. While it would be incredible if the package was a key to a brand new Prius or a new baby puppy, I think the thing that would make me the most excited right now would be a membership card to the Disney Vacation Club that someone had went ahead and purchased for me.

I love the direction the questions seem to be going in over the past few weeks. They aren’t too common to be boring and tend to make me actually stop and think a little bit before answering. Here’s hoping it continues like this.

Anyway…

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