This is week eighteen 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 any single writer from history write your biography, who would it be?
This is where my lack of being an avid reader comes into play. I don’t really know a lot about literature. I’m going to pick someone that, at first consideration, I didn’t really consider a “writer” in the normal sense of the word, but after thinking about it, I think she’d be perfect. And that person is Anne Frank. She spoke with the voice of a real person. She was able to so eloquently put into words the things that people think about but don’t realize they think about until after someone else puts them into words. The diary entries of this child still serve as the voice of millions of people over sixty years after they were first written. I would want Anne Frank to write my biography.
If you could have one current writer write your biography, who would you pick?
Oh come on. That’s virtually the same question. And just for that lame variation of a question, I’m going to give you a lame answer. JK Rowling. Because she’s popular.
If you could forever eliminate one specific type of prejudice from the earth, which would it be?
Naturally, I would love to be able to eliminate them all. But if I had to pick just one, I think it is understandable that I would choose one that would affect me personally. So, I would choose homophobia and the inequality that homosexuals in today’s society still face.
If you could transport everyone you are with at this moment to another place, where would you all go?
I guess I can opt out of this one as I am alone right now other than Miss Jackson. And I have no clue where she would be interested in going, so I can’t choose based on her preferences. But I’ll go out on a limb and make a guess that she would enjoy a place that has a bunch of those cat jungle gym sort of things to climb on and toys to chase and play with. Although as soon as we got there, she’d probably give it one glance and lay down and go to sleep.
Those are my answers to this week’s questions. What are yours?