Two lives…

[saitaina]

Originally published at Memoirs of a Nobody. You can comment here or there.

Here are two realities–two different lives–and you must choose one of them to be your own. Try to decide which life you would rather be living. While you are reading the descriptions of them, try to imagine what “the catch” is, but also “get into it” and really put yourself into each choice. Try it “on for size.”

Choice one: In this life, you are the absolute ruler of the whole world. You are a young, wise, sexy, 134 IQed, PhDed, devout and charismatic leader with the body of a gymnast. Sycophantastic billions of followers bow at your feet. Love emanates from you at a rate of 295,108 gigglerads per heartbeat. All of your people are happy in their lifestyles. The ghastly tragedies of today’s world are non-existent in yours–no cellulite, dust mites, ear hair, or infomercials (okay, no war, famine, pollution, crime, disease, or accidents either.) In this life, simply breathing is like eating dessert. And, with your ken expanded by cosmic psychic powers, all you survey is, well, just swell!

Imagine yourself “waking up” in this world. Here is a glance at just one scene in this life: the first rays of a morning’s splendor slant across a veranda as you enjoy breakfast that glows with spiritual energy. Like a DaVinci fresco, life is tableaued before you. A spouse’s adoring glances bathe you. Your singing children play in a nearby garden. Butterflies arrange themselves in bouquets on the shrubbery. This precious moment will be one of millions yet to come in a glorious life filled with growth, happiness, and fulfillment. Even at its end, God will come and personally escort you to Heaven.

That’s choice one. Not bad, eh? Tough act to follow! What could compete with such an offering?

Here is your second choice: You get the exact life in which you live now. You know–the one where even household appliances routinely disobey you, where relationships only last until someone makes a bad suggestion for a video rental, and where you’re expected to perform like an organ grinder’s monkey for your next buck. Yeah, that one!

Have you chosen?

The “catch”. In order to live choice number one you will have to be put into a permanent dream-state. The dreams that you have will be of that above described wondrous world of choice number one. At any given moment, if you were to be awakened, you would report a marvelous personal history. But, you will never be awakened. Why should you be? Do you want to argue with your toaster about bread ejection efficacy? Pihhhh! And don’t worry, your body will be cared for 24 hours a day by a trained staff–until you die.

Now that you’ve had the above mental experiences, ask yourself:

Would you do it?

Awnser in the comments section and THEN read my awnser, please.

No. Because it would get boring.

We’ve all had those dreams we want to return to, thos perfect moments of happiness and balance, but if everything’s perfect…bordom, dreariness and just plain insanity will eventually take over.

The ‘crap’ that makes up our lives is what gives it balance between the perfect and the horrid. Sometimes the scales aren’t level and we cry out for that ‘perfect’ world…but if we lived there, we would want the unbalance, the struggle.

But that’s just my awnser.