This is week sixteen 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 only keep one of your five senses, which would you save?
Well, I’d hate to lose any to be quite honest. I feel like I could still function rather well without taste, so I can rule that one out. While difficult, I feel I could adapt to not being able to hear over time. I think I could lose smell without too much trauma. That leaves me with sight and touch. Not being able to touch would be creepy as I would constantly feel like I was floating in space without the ability to feel the ground beneath my feet or the chair beneath my ass, but feeling life without seeing life would be harder I think. So I choose sight.
If you could have lived during any one period of time in past history, when and where would it be?
The 50′s would have been fun. Cool cars, jukeboxes, sock hops. What’s not to love?!
If, one by one, you had to place each of the people with you right now in another period of history that you think suits them best, when and where would you place them?
I kinda luck out on this one as there are no other people with me right now. Just Miss Jackson. And I would put her in the time of Cleopatra and she would be Cleopatra’s personal and favorite cat. She already has that attitude about her, so I think it would be a nice fit.
If you had to describe the saddest thing that ever happened to you, what would you talk about?
One very sad memory of my childhood is when my first dog died. Her name was Sophie, and she was a miniture yorkshire terrier. It was the first time in my life that I had experienced the death of someone close to me. I remember crying a lot and being very upset and confused and hurt. Even thinking about it now brings an emptiness to my spirit.
Those are my answers to this week’s questions. What are yours?