sometimes a meme isn't just a meme...

Sometimes a meme isn't just a meme and today's Sunday Stealing had a couple questions that were so easy for me to answer... here they are:

# 8 You can trade lives with any one person for a month. Who would it be and why? So my answer is that I wouldn't trade. Because really, the grass is always greener and what would happen is one of two things: 1) the life I trade into is so superior to mine that I am depressed forever to revert back to the mindless tedium of being me or 2) I realize that my life isn't so bad, that everyone's got struggles and that no one has a perfect life and start wondering the deeper philosophical questions that a gal like me is never going to answer.

So, no, I'm not interested in trading lives with anyone. I mean, who would I choose to swap with? I don't want to swap ordinary for ordinary, I don't want to swap ordinary for less than ordinary, so that leaves swapping with someone who's life is extraordinary. And then what? How would my life be fulfilling as it is without all the geegaws that a fabulous life would have?

The other question was # 10: You have the chance to go back in time and warn yourself before making a bad choice. What choice would it be and what would you tell yourself? Again, I say I wouldn't. To be honest, I haven't made that many really bad choices. The bad choices I've made have become some wonderful twists in the path of my life. I don't think I'd be the person I am today if I hadn't made those choices or had the opportunities that have sprung from those twisty paths. Does that sound too Pollyanna-ish? I don't mean it to be, nor am I saying I don't make poor choices, because I do daily. But I mean that the big choices haven't been bad choices. And most of the decisions I can even think of right off the top of my head are not life-changing. They wouldn't alter much in the path I'm on now. Because I'm not Pollyanna. And life isn't perfect. But it isn't going to be perfect, that's why it's mine.

So, yeah. I wouldn't trade lives for a month and I wouldn't go back in time to change a choice.