If… (Week 52)

This is week fifty-two 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 be master chef in any restaurant in the world, where would you choose to cook?

I haven’t really had the pleasure of eating at the restaurants that probably most notable amongst the fine dining establishments, so I don’t really have a lot of personal experience from which to make an educated decision. In fact, my choice is a restaurant I’ve never actually eaten at personally, but rather one about which I’ve heard nothing but wonderful things. I would love to eat there sometime, but I feel as if it’s one of those restaurants that warrant a special occasion. I’ve always hoped someone would take me out on a special date night to this place and make a night of it, but as of yet that’s not yet happened. So, until someone does, or I have an occasion special enough to warrant it, I will remain waiting. And that restaurant is Candle 79 on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

If you could ensure that your child has one experience that you have had yourself, what would you want it to be?

Ooh. So many choices. But first I have to wonder where this child came from. I used protection, I swear!

I would love for my child to experience the arts, and in an even bigger capacity than I had growing up. I participated in bands, choirs, theatre, mime, etc. And was able to attend concerts, theatre, etc. But in the small town in which I grew up, the options were still vastly limited. I would want my child to have the same contact with the arts, but with many more chances to experience it and take part in it.

If you could have a free telephone line to any one person in the world, who would it be?

I’m not a big telephone person. At all. I use about 50 minutes per month on my calling plan, and most of that is used up checking voicemails. I’m much more of a text message person. I’ve just never really been a big phone person and my 5000 rollover minutes can testify to that. But I guess if I had to have a free line to anyone, the most beneficial one would be a free telephone line to my family. Maybe I’d actually talk to them more than I currently do.

If you could retract one lie you have told in your life, which would it be?

I don’t think I’ve told any HUGE lies that would really make that big of a difference if it were to be retracted. I could say that I would never have lied about being gay while I was growing up, but I don’t think that’s the case. I think my life would have been even more difficult had I told the truth, and really, my not being honest about it then didn’t really hurt anyone. Some could argue that it hurt me, but I don’t feel that way.

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