Excuse Me, But Can I Be You For A While?

[neversremedy8]

My dog won't bite if you sit real still

Here's a question, if you could be anyone except yourself, who would you be? What five people from the past, present, future, or myth would you choose to be? Maybe you like being who you are, but what if you couldn't be you anymore? Or maybe you wish you could get away from being you for a while or forever, into what body and life would you wish to enter?

Right now, I think I would pick, in no particular order:

1. Eostre
2. A "sacred whore" (time and place of secondary importance, just so long as she's willing to play her role)
3. Veronica Franco
4. Dionysus
5. Johnny Depp

My job, my car, my cash
My house on the hill
My piano I'd burn to ashes, yeah
I'd get on my knees, my god
If I could

I would give anything
I would give anything
I would give anything
I would give anything
I would give anything
To be you

Comments

[jodawi.livejournal.com]

i wouldn't be me, so it wouldn't be me there, so being them wouldn't mean anything. they're already me.

maybe someone who had brownies available at 4am

[betsycontent.livejournal.com]

I'm really amazed more people didn't respond to this. I found it fascinating. In fact, I couldn't restrict it to just 5 when I re-read the post and realized mythical figures were also allowed. :) So here are my 10:

1. Marilyn vos Savant (person in the world who currently has the highest measured IQ.)

2. Dorothy Parker

3. Saytha Sai Baba (if he really can materialize things, I want to know how)

4. Sophia Loren

5. Tori Amos

6. Leonardo da Vinci

7. David Bowie

8. Jesus (sans cruxifiction)

9. A guardian Angel

10. Merlin

Stephan's List was shorter:

1. Buzz Aldrin

2. Bill Gates

3. Rubens ::smiles::