If You Could Be Someone Else for a Day, Who Would It Be?

As we previously agreed in class, this time we will be writing about a person you would like to be for 24 hours/alter ego.
Before you write, try to think about the following:

• why you want to be someone else
• pick a name and add a picture
• describe the personality of your chosen person/character/alter ego
• in what circumstances, your chosen person/character/alter ego will play a part / tell a story if you will
• would you keep it or leave after the 24 hours?

In case you don't get any ideas, you could check:

• http://www.worcestermag.com/2016/10/13/who-would-you-be-if-you-could-be-someone-else
• https://www.quora.com/If-you-could-live-as-someone-else-for-a-day-who-would-you-choose-to-become

Leave comments on three of your classmates' blog posts and one on mine too. A quality post should have no less than 230 words. 

A Successful Engineer

 

Everybody wants to be special. However, in order to be special you have to become someone worth admiring. But who do you really want to impress? and to what extent you're capable of pretending to be someone that seems utterly untrue to every one and yourself? Be careful with what you wish for. You may end up being someone you can't stand.

 
I've always got the feeling that being authentic is a really pain-taking search. I mean, what does it really mean to be yourself? who the (hell) am I? I have no satisfactory answer for this fundamental question. Although I don't want get very profound, as this is not the place to attempt to reveal the truth of all truths, I'll try to explain myself in simple words.

Ever since I was a child, I've tried to imitate some of the people's traits I've considered worth making my own. For example, in our early childhood, who didn't want to be like his/her father/mother? Back in the day, I remember wanting nothing more than becoming like my father. 

As we grow older and our social circle expands more and more, we start paying attention to other people's ways. I think this is the  stage when we start developing some sort of sense of self: we pay close attention to what we want and certainly don't want for our well-being. In other words, here we build up our ego based on the various pieces we come across from 'out there'; our social environment.  We make friends, and start comparing ourselves to them (we actually don't stop doing this till the very day we day). On the one hand, some of these comparisons can be very productive, as they help us to become a better version of ourselves; and, on the other hand, they can also make us feel very miserable, as we experience some sort of lack of achievement in life.

At school, I never had good marks. At that time, I wanted to have good marks in maths, so I could be like everybody else becoming an engineer and making a good living. I wanted to be like my best friend. The things is that getting good marks was a piece of cake for him. I wanted to have that brain. Yes! I thought about a head replacement.

Now, I compare myself to others when I want to achieve something on my own. I'm not the most intelligent person on earth, but when I see other people making things work, I get myself into it too. So, if I could be someone else for one day, I would choose to be one piece of me (my best possible self) reacting to a different experience.