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I don’t mean in here,I mean out there.
Why would I want to be someone else?
Lord knows I have my faults and troubles, but at least I’m familiar with them. Why go looking for someone else’s troubles (and yes, everyone has troubles and faults)?
As the saying goes, “better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know.”
The Wolf
Moshe Rabbeinu
I would probably choose myself, too.
I would be a little boy who doesn’t care about getting his pants dirty and ripped. I actually thought about this when I taught 2nd grade boys for 2 years. They seem so carefree and just look like they are having a good time. I would also really like to have that innocence again.
Moshe Rabbeinu
I wouldn’t want his problems.
The Wolf
I know I should wanna be myself, but I would like to be a person who really knows the tnach inside and out and be able to open any sefer and study. goes without saying my middos should be perfected to a t. I would also want that at a younger age I would have been taught to actually “live” emuna and bitachon in everything I did. never too late to work on all these things!!
‘I wouldn’t want his problems.’
Wolf,
along with his problems, come all his zechusim.
rabbi mendelson
Hopefully not Moses Mendelssohn….. , this is YWN you know….
I think I might want to be someone who is suffering so that the next day I can appreciate what I really have and all the brachos HKB”H has granted me. But then again, I really don’t want to be anyone besides me. I am me and I am glad for that! I wouldn’t trade my life for anyone else’s!
Isn’t there a medresh or something that someone complained about their chelek in life and they were shown a picture of everyone tossing a little pekela into a pile and then choosing one they wanted (it was a package that consisted of all the good and bad parts of their life….all the troubles and all the simchos). Everyone ended up choosing their own because that is what we are meant to have and it is the only thing we can really deal with without collapsing!
Tony the Tiger and yes I registered just to post that.
One of the Emahos, Yes you’ll have their problems for the day. But you will also have their Kirvas Hashem, and Siyata Dishmaya, and Simchas Hachayim and everything they used to get through the day. It’s not like taking me as myself and pretending to be them. It is them! Just to see really how they lived then (not how kids parsha sheets make them look:) etc etc etc…
Let me preface this by saying that I very much enjoy and appreciate being a frum woman with all the simcha and privileges it brings. But if I could be someone for just one day I would like to be a frum man and daven in the men’s section and get an aliyah to the bima, and then learn with chavrusa just to experience that one time. Maybe dance with the Torah on Simchas Torah, that would be sublime.
myself (I think one more day is enough) jk.
seriously, idk who i would want to be.
My husband.
I think it would do good to anyone to be their spouse for a day! It would give us a better understanding of how to treat and respect them.
It would also help us understand them better.
If Moshiach is not an acceptable response (which would mean he is here) then……
Barak Obama.
I would then promptly pardon Pollard & Rubashkin.
Alt: Carlos Slim, and give all the money away to Tzedaka.
(I see a pattern).
My father, just so i could get an idea of how his mind worked
along with his problems, come all his zechusim.
Berachos 5b
R. Chiya bar Abba became sick. R. Yochanan went to visit him. He (R. Yochanan) said to him “Do you enjoy the afflictions?” He answered “not them, and not their reward.”
The Wolf
This is going to sound bizzare (and I’m not even sure the Mods will let it go thru), but since I’ve already done/said pretty much I can as a 40+ y/o father…
For just one day? (Ready for this)
I’d like to be Sacrilige till 8:00pm, and then Blinky for the rest of the day.
I say this beacuse they have (what is IMHO) the most potential, in terms of street smarts and sensitivity, yet with the hind-sight of experience, they could put their ideas into motion that could really start a revoloution.
Just for a day, right?
Myself! If Hashem chose me to be me, then who am I to (want to)choose otherwise?
BPT
Humph, so you think Blinky has more fun at night than me?!
Eh, probably true.
Myself- But a more improved version. Middos, looks, married…
“be their spouse for a day”
Uh, maybe not the best idea in my case, ’cause if I were my wife, I’d strangle my husband! (kidding, just kidding)
But if I were my wife for a day, you can be sure I’d NOT spend it the way she does! (I mean, talk on the phone for an hour? Iron a weekday shirt like its being worn to a wedding? Nor would I spend it shopping).
So what would I do? Hmmm.. late breakfast / even later lunch for openers sounds like a plan. That gets me trhu about 3:00pm. What to do for the rest of the day? Wait, I know.. Nap time! (and take-out for supper… yeah!)
I don’t know if I would want to be anyone but myself. Hmmm maybe my husband for a day as smartcookie says just to see what goes on in his head…..
BPT
I happened to know Blinky very well…..You don’t know what you are getting yourself into!! JK.
BTW don’t get insulted that she didn’t comment she is not available to answer now.
Blinky’s hardly on lately. I thought already she disappeared from the CR.
More fun? No, Sac that’s not what I meant. Whereas you have the “chilli pepper for breakfast” personality needed to get things moving during the day, I think she has the sensitivity needed to deal with the end of the day stuff.
No, I don’t think Blinky disappeared. I think we just “blink” and we miss her whizz by!
She seems to favor the limmericks and word game threads, so maybe she’s just trying to crack a puzzle.
And Agent, if you know her that well, what did you think of the post I made of her on the “apprciation to Aries” thread?
Me at my absolute, self actualized best.
And as far as what goes on in a husbands head, its really quite simple:
Whats the fastest, easiest,most practical / economical way I can do <enter task at hand>?
That, in a nut shell is it. Sometimes pro sports, but thats about it.
Whatever time is left, gets divided between davening, learning and sleeping (we can eat between innings / during time outs)
BPT
Oh. I just thought you werent fond of the guy I am currently dating 😛
Oh BT Totty- don’t make men THAT simple because they are actually quite an interesting breed!
Keep us posted, Sac… we’re rootin’ for ya!
I’d like to try being each of my kids, at least for a little while, so I could really understand what they deal with. I think it would make me a better parent.
BPT
Where is that thread? I can’t seem to find it
Here’s the link. My post to Blinky is towards the bottom, but you should really read all the posts. Many of them are quite good.
I have to say not bad at all!! You hit in on the nail!
who would i want to be for a day?? thats a very good question, let me think about that one
just for a day?? i would want to be a moderator lol
cb1
who would i want to be for a day?
A singer!!!
🙂
Superman
people who want to be superheroes etc usually dont have tremendous sef esteem therefore they wish they could be something spectacular and special nique to the whole world etc
I would be Osama Bin Laden. Except I wouldn’t be him the whole day because I would kill myself in the morning… MOD-80 close enough to being superman and ridding the world of evil huh?
moving mountains – you totally cracked me up 😀
I would be myself.
A much better version of me. Failing that, myself at a much younger age. I would never presume to aspire to be Moshe Rabbeinu, because a) I’m unworthy to even contemplate such a thing, and b) as Wolf pointed out, he had a lot of problems
nice psychobabble klach
you wouldnt enjoy flying? just for a start.
Every single day we are given the opportunity to be a new/different person – ourself but in a better version.
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