I don’t know. Maybe I’m overthinking this question, but I’m going to roll with the first response that came to mind.
What about Elon Musk? All that money. What would it be like to not have a single monetary care for an entire day? To be able to point and something and say, “I want that” and never care about the price tag.
Or the President of the United States? What would it be like to have all that power and influence? To see behind closed doors and know what’s *really* happening on that hill.
Then there’s Edward Snowden. Talk about opening Pandora’s box. All the secrets and the influence that comes with holding it.
After I ran through the pros and cons of being someone on those levels, I realized that being any of them for a single day would only add misery to the life I had to return to.
All Elon’s money comes with a price that’s not cheap. Presidential power isn’t absolute and nothing gets done in a day except the secrets I would learn and could do nothing about as a private citizen without raising alarms. Same with Snowden -or likely worse. To know the government’s darkest secrets? I’d never sleep again.
The drawback to being someone else is the fact I’d have to come back to my life -good or bad. I thought I was going to be that I’d pass on the opportunity.
Then my subconscious threw out an idea – If I got to be someone, which meant access to their knowledge… I’d be the Dalai Lama. To not just know peace, but understand it. Feel it. The vast amount of wisdom someone like that would have about the things that truly matter.
Knowledge I could take back to my own existence that would provide a jumpstart on living in harmony with myself and the world around me? Now that would be worth managing the disappointment of returning to my own life afterwards.
Off The Rails 