Who is Someone Else?

[cjsmith]

If I could design a Someone Else for me to be, naturally I'd first start thinking of someone who has basically no physical pain. Unless injured, I mean. Someone Else enjoys running, backpacking, etc. Someone Else doesn't have great heavy sacks of fat stapled to sensitive chest skin. No foot pain, no abdominal pain, no knee trouble, no continuous bleeding, no osteo in the hands, you get the idea. Heck, a few inches taller while I'm at it.

But that's not the only direction I could go. I could also imagine Someone Else who enjoys (some hobby involving sitting down a lot) and (some exercise not involving feet) and who is happy with the love of her cats. That Someone Else, I might conceivably one day be.

Comments

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

For some reason, the style in which you wrote this post has given me an earworm of Monty Python's Eric the Half a Bee (http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/python/Songs/EricTheHalfABee.html). :-)

[sunnydale47.livejournal.com]

I like your style, CJ! I've thought that way for years, but I could never have articulated it so succinctly or so well.

[jupiter29.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to know who you are, but I also hope you get to be the person you want to be some day. :)