Is there anyone whose life you would swap yours with? What about for one day? One hour? If you did swap lives and then got yours back, what lessons would you have learned? What would you do differently if you could? Whose life fascinates you? If you wouldn’t swap lives with anyone, why not?
You can never truly know what someone has been through to get to where they are today. Sometimes I wonder what people see when they look at me. Certainly not my past, given how shocked they are when I do choose to share some of the things that brought me to Australia. I learned early on not to judge because you never know.
That being said, despite every negative thing that has happened in my life – and there have been plenty, just like anyone else – I would not swap my life with anyone. Some days, it’s because I wouldn’t want anyone else to have gone through what I went through. On other days, I wouldn’t give up my husband and his love for anything.
One day? One hour? Well, now my curiosity strikes and the ability to come back to my life makes everything a bit more appealing. I would swap. I’m not exactly sure with who – it would take a long time to decide – but I would simply because I love new experiences. (Call it writing fodder.) I’ve also often wondered what it would be like to be in someone else’s head or someone else’s body.
Now just to decide who…
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