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The Friday Five: Changes
Jul. 3rd, 2021 11:50 am1) What one event from your lifetime would you change if you could, and why?
I think the obvious answer would be Covid-19, although Brexit also comes close. I find it hard to pinpoint individual things in my life I would change - they were bad at the time, but the changes they brought have also been positive. Even Covid means that I've met people online and benefitted from knowing them who I would never have met before.
2) If you could give one piece of advice to your younger self, what would it be and how old would your younger self be when they got it? Do you think your younger self would listen?
I must be getting old, because when I think back I can see things I would say, but those things I have learnt from experience which I needed to live through and make those mistakes to learn. Be true to yourself is the closest I can think of, and I'd say that at every age.
3) If you could have a conversation with the historical figure of your choosing, whom would you pick and why? What would you talk about? (You can't give them advice, though - they'll think it was all a very strange dream!)
I was going to say Emperor Franz Joseph, and ask him what he thought he was doing. But, as a Christian, I shall say Mary, Jesus' mother.
4) There are many things that we've lost from the past -- how to make Roman concrete, countless episodes of Dr. Who, most of the plays about Oedipus, my favorite stuffed animal . . . . What one item or secret would you retrieve if you had the power to do so?
Currently two t-shirts which seem to have vanished.
5) What would you like to say to people in the future?
Treat each other and the earth well.
I think the obvious answer would be Covid-19, although Brexit also comes close. I find it hard to pinpoint individual things in my life I would change - they were bad at the time, but the changes they brought have also been positive. Even Covid means that I've met people online and benefitted from knowing them who I would never have met before.
2) If you could give one piece of advice to your younger self, what would it be and how old would your younger self be when they got it? Do you think your younger self would listen?
I must be getting old, because when I think back I can see things I would say, but those things I have learnt from experience which I needed to live through and make those mistakes to learn. Be true to yourself is the closest I can think of, and I'd say that at every age.
3) If you could have a conversation with the historical figure of your choosing, whom would you pick and why? What would you talk about? (You can't give them advice, though - they'll think it was all a very strange dream!)
I was going to say Emperor Franz Joseph, and ask him what he thought he was doing. But, as a Christian, I shall say Mary, Jesus' mother.
4) There are many things that we've lost from the past -- how to make Roman concrete, countless episodes of Dr. Who, most of the plays about Oedipus, my favorite stuffed animal . . . . What one item or secret would you retrieve if you had the power to do so?
Currently two t-shirts which seem to have vanished.
5) What would you like to say to people in the future?
Treat each other and the earth well.
