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Imagine if you could live a different person's life every day for a week. For example, one day you'd live a day in the life of an Olympic gold medalist, the day after in the life of a researcher in Antarctica, after that a day in the life of a child living through poverty in Africa, then a day in the life of a billionaire, etc. It would really put your own life in perspective, amirite?
I think many of us would find that our lives truly are average.
Average in the average way or average in the "I saw an old guy dressed like harry potter fighting a dinosaur ninja while making fun of twilight" way.
Average in the average way.
In Aneeica, sure. But in the world, no way. Average throughout the world is not our lives. We have luxuries like air conditioning, computers, shopping sprees, that most people in the world don't have. I think we'd find ourselves to not be average, but extremely blessed.
Well said.
I would want to choose the lives, though.
I think it would be worth it to live a day of any life. Even if it it was the life of a prostitute or a starving kid in Africa, you'd only have to put up with it for 24 hours, so if you didn't like it, you'd know you were moving on in a few hours and would have something to look forward to. A lot of lives are horrible simply because you know that tomorrow won't be any different from today. And think of how fascinating, new, and exciting it would be to live in any different life for a day, even the "bad" ones.
Then you wouldn't have the experience of the things you don't want, and you wouldn't be able to compare yourself...
@Ram
That sort of entirely defeats the point.
I would choose to live a life that is generally considered undesirable. Probably more so than a desirable one. It would teach me a lot and it'd be easier to be grateful for the life I do live.
Maybe if you were you, but knew everything they knew.
What if we are living like the post says, and we just don't know it because each new day we get a whole new set of memories of that new life?
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True, but then you wouldn't be you and you wouldn't be experiencing them. You'd learn nothing.
In that case, g2g stuff my face with burgers and cake and shit, because I'll just be passing this life onto someone else
that would suck if you switched into the body of a cancer patient and died :|
i think even switching lives with someone who isn't living an extremity would still give you a new perspective
Reminds me of that show quantum leap. Good show.
I think you should choose six or the lives, and have one really horrible one for the remaining day. Or else, some people might get all the crappy (as in quality, not worth) lives and some people might get all the good ones. Although some people might pick some hot actress, take nude photos and send them to themselves...
Kinda reminds me of this: http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/An_Egg
YES, I knew this post sounded familiar.
I would not want to switch bodies with someone like Micheal Phelps. I can not swim well so it would most likely tarnish their career.
I'd be like "Wow, I'm average as fuck."
I say this is the week: ( i took some of your ideas)
DAY 1: Starving child in Africa
DAY 2: Billionaire
DAY 3: Someone who is very deformed physically
DAY 4: Someone who is stunningly attractive
DAY 5: Someone who is lonely and lacks friends
DAY 6: Someone who is extremely congenial and has alot of friends
DAY 7: Someone battling a painful terminal illness
I think itd put things in perspective, but it doesnt show you that you have a better life than everyone.
That's a perfect schedule. I mean, they're the types of lives we hear about every day but we never really know what it'd feel like to be in those positions unless we actually experience them.
I think I'd rather make my life super awesome and make others wish they had my life.
I was really thinking that this would have a funny twisted ending.
Wait, so do you switch or...? Because what if they mess up something really important in your life that week?
How about after that week everything goes back to how it was and only those who switched have any recollection of the events?
Yeah, you'd get to experience a different's person's life each day for a week. And if this were actually possible, then it'd be better not to plan anything in that week :P i was just thinking it would be cool if we could actually experience this.
Thanks! I thought so.
Yeah, that could work!
Except would you even have an "own life" if you were living every week as a different person?
No, it is just everyday for one week.
My bad.
I misread the post as "a different person's life every week".
so what would happen to your own original form? does it just live its life by itself without you in it?
hmm i didn't think of that. but i guess like Celestialjess said, you'd just switch bodies with the other person. then again, it's just a hypothetical post :P
I would switch lives with a male pornstar to see who gets more pleasure during sex.
What I'm getting from this post is I'm not allowed to complain about my life because some people have it better and some are worse off. Anyone else get that?
That's a good point, but I didn't mean that we can't complain or even boast about our lives. It would just be a way to experience life from different point of views and to see things happen in ways you normally wouldn't, if that makes sense. Those experiences would help you in your own life and put it in perspective.
Partly... not the 'not allowed to complain' part. But yes, I mainly get 'some people have it better and some are worse off'...
I think that for that to work, you would only be able to live lives of people who have a harder life than yourself. It would be particularly helpful to all of the billionaires out there.
The goal isn't to be like, "Shit, my life is amazing!" the goal is to see what it's like in many other situations other than your own life, and see the positives and negatives of them.