HW 30 - Interviews

For HW 30 (See above) I did an online survey using Yahoo answers (you post questions and people answer them). All questions and answers are as follows. For more on question 5, look here or here.

If you had one day (24 hours) left to live, what would you do?

“Take a nap.”

“I would go on a shopping spree and spend all the money I COULD I WOULD ALSO EAT UP ALL THE FOOD I COULD THAT ALSO INCLUDES DRINK TOO!”

“Put on my fave song, grab a martini and wait for the sunrise over the sea.
I’d def want to be alone. I have already told everything I need to tell to my friends and family.”

“I would make it very public to this world, what I really think of it.”

“Wait for Christmas.”

“I will give away all my belongings to everybody. I also let know some one I love about my feelings.”

“The same thing I do now.
Meditate on God.
Stay focused on serving God and all he has created,
every thing I do I offer to God.”

“Probably go kiss my best guy friend cause I like him, write out a short story to have published, paint a picture very beautifully, watch the sunset, listen to all my favorite songs, read at least one of the many books I need to read, go drive around one last time, write a song, make my family the most spectacular dinner ever, watch a couple episodes of two and a half men, go buy a bunch of flowers and give one flower to each person who was important to me in my life and keep one for myself, play with my dog for one last time, go visit my friends grave one last time, drink some Crown Royal reserved(Even though I cant drink legally yet), write a letter to the president telling him he a screwed up s.o.b, go out and shoot my gun for one last time, watch The Princess Bride(one of my most favorite movies), finish my star collage, get a hot warm bath, wear my pretty black and white dress one last time around town, ride my four-wheeler, go out to dance, go to Starbucks and buy everything on the menu, probably bake some cookies, and lay under a clear night with millions of stars out on top of the mountains near where I live and watch the sky before I die.”

“I do only have one day to live; I'm spending it drinking myself stupid.”

If you had to live your life over and over again, for eternity, would you be happy?

 

“Some of the time I guess...”

“I think it would be cool to see how the world changes but when it’s you time to go, its just time and living that long would be exhausting .”

“The same life lived over and over would quickly become a complete nightmare.”

“If I had to live my life over and over again, I would not know it. Because a baby could not hold everything from his/her's previous life in their brain. Who knows, we might be going through and endless loop.”

“Only if I knew what would happen ahead of time so I can make any changes ahead of time as dictated by necessity. If I can make changes to my past, then my future should be altered accordingly. But, I really do think that's asking for the impossible.”

“Yes, i will be very happy because everytime i live, i will improve what was wrong on the previous life.
The happiness comes from me to know that everytime things are done better.”

“Depends on how your current status is,physical,financial,marital,social,spi… would wish to die the next minute, while others would like to live forever...but anyway depends also on why would you like to live forever. (I’m a theologian and a philosopher)”

“Why not? I bet that the whole world will say the same, YES... But can you imagine how bad life is? The world would be over crowded now and that causes more suffering (famine to be exact). Sure, I would be very happy if Mother Nature will do the same. Lol, if that applies to everyone, that means both my parents (passed away sometime ago) will come back to life again and again and there will be no more sorrows?
Edit: Let's keep on dreaming. But the sad part is, it will never happen...”

“I saw a circus once when i was 12 Years old.
I do not like reruns.
I like new snow and running streams.”

“Oh heck yes, because I could remember ALL the mistakes/regrets from the first time around, and change those the second time, and so on and so forth. I could literally build my perfect life. Eventually though, once I felt I got it "right" and had a life I felt I could not possibly make better, I'd be done lol”

“i like my life, but no, i wouldn’t want to relive it again. There are some things in my life that i wish i could really change, but i cant. That’s why i don’t want to relive it”

If you had one day of your life that you had to live over and over again forever, which would it be?What did you do on that day? What happened to you?

 

“The time when I won a singing competition-- however my drive for variety would have to be deprogrammed from my mind.”

The time me and my late mother went to the fair, I was eight, she died when I was 13.

“It was the day that I was sitting up next to my ex mother in laws house in the hills of Chehalis Washington. We were living with her and it was great, she was great. The sky was blue, with white clouds drifting by the horizon was mountainous, with Mount Rainier and Mount Saint Helen all snow capped, the sun wasn't too warm a soft cool breeze was blowing the buzz of the wilderness animals was humming around me, and the cathedral wind chimes I had bought her were sounding. Her whole hilltop garden looked like paradise on earth, flowers everywhere, wild and garden variety. I could hear her and my kids somewhere off in the forty acre woods clearing the forest of underbrush. It was one of the most eternal moments of peace and quietude I had ever had, and It was also the moment I decided to leave and do what I felt God was calling me to do. Experiential nothing can compare to that moment, except the new heavens and earth I hope for. But I'd walk away from paradise if God was calling me to go to Gehenna. You have to make your choices based on your priorities. My priority is not to live in one divine moment but to obey God no matter the cost.
I will never forget that moment, and the complete peace there was in it. One sunny day in my life.”

“The last day of my life.
I'm not afraid to die,
I just don't want to be there when it happens.”

“I woke up, went to a rally for the homeless, walked around for hours with a 20 ft tall puppet head on top of me (with two friends operating the arms and legs) sang "lost in the stars" like Elvis Presley (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYLA0Jm8xaQ) at the open mike and scared away the fundamentalist (who were using the mike to say homelessness was a curse from God on sinners) and then had a great vegetarian meal served to and BY the homeless, and we all loaded into a microbus and drove home. I hit the bed exhausted at 9PM after twelve of the best hours of my life. 

I'd do that again and again forever." 

“The day I drove out of a big urban assault jungle and made my home in rural America. It was like leaving Hell and arriving in Heaven.”

“Groundhog Day because my name is Bill Murray.”

“I don't know if it would necessarily be the exact same songs, clothes, etc....but the first time I played for and taught some of my songs to what would be my future band mates.”

“It would be that Sunday, that summer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oHiljdik…
She will go nameless here, but not in my heart. Oh, so very many bad times, so much trouble, so many the harsh and hateful words from her far too-oft bitter and vitriolic tongue. Sometimes it is hard to remember us ever having a good hour together, much less a full day. But I remember one day that was perfect from start to finish. She wore a bright, canary yellow tube top and a skirt to match with an unbuttoned, diaphanous, flowered short-sleeved top over everything else, tan sandals on her feet. John Bryan State Park was in its full glory, birds were singing, the sun was shining, a light breeze was blowing and only puffs of clouds in a beautiful, deep blue sky. The picnic lunch was perfect and for once no yellow jackets to fend off, no meandering ants to brush away, the kids were laughing and playing. Her eyes seemed to sparkle when she looked my way and her auburn hair sparkled in the sun. The moment was magical and in a most pleasant way burned into my memory. My love for her never seemed so real as it did then, and forgetting for a while how quickly she could turn a smile into a glare of what seemed to be seething hate, I thought my love would last for eternity.
But eternity ended much too quickly and far too quickly my kids’ laughter turned into quiet cries of emotional turmoil that you can hear only by looking into their still-troubled eyes. She could not make up for all the harm she has done, all the heartbreak she put me through and most especially she could not undo the harm to the kids that her lies have caused, even if she had an eternity to do so. But even though my love finally breathed its last, and now I only remember being in love with her and find myself wondering why I ever fell for her, I still have tears flowing down my cheeks as I fondly remember that day. And now, even after all she has put us all through, if I could make one day last an eternity
It would be that Sunday, that summer.”

“I think it would be one of those Saturdays when I visited my parents, and we sat at the kitchen table eating cookies and drinking coffee, looking at the newspaper and just talking.
They're gone now, and I miss them very much.”

“Today-because today is a gift. THAT is why we call it the present.”

“yesterday - enjoyed every moment, best day of the new year!”

 

If you could do whatever you wanted to in life, what would you do?

“I would want to travel the world with my family. Learn about new cultures and different ways of living.”

“A rock star...so I can rock on..”

“Sex offenders would be exterminated. Free mental health service for all people. No homeless or hungry in USA.”

“My name would be famous, I would be an international influence for good, I would be married to the man of my dreams, I would be rich and spend most of it on other people, and I would wake up everyday, being productive and feeling content.”

What do you want to do before you die? 

“Everything.”

“Nothing great, just my work at right time......”

“I think everyone has been given a different task from God. I want to fully understand what that is for myself and accomplish it.”

“To be "Spiritually Born Again"{to be converted back into the IMAGE in that God created of spirits before Adam and Eve created sin} IS my destiny. This shall occur during the time span and events of the 1st of the 7 hidden seals.”

“To save a life”

“Many things. I suppose I could summarize the ultimate aims though...
I ultimately want to find multiple passions I would be willing to die for, make a lot of money as an upshot of those passions, learn as much about everything as possible, have a solid circle of trusted friends and a good partner.”

“sleep soundly...”

“Live for 100 years more.”

“Keep living”

“Travel around the world
Meet new people
be happy
Meet up with friends/family
Hopefully die old :)”

“Go to the pyramids, go to Japan and go visit my best friend in Egypt.”

“Live to at least make something useful out of myself. Whether it's to help another person or group of people.”

“Be Sucessful,Visit all the Continents including the antartica/artic ;D[ as well the north/south poles aren’t really  wanted but hey if i had the chance.......,Know of another kind of civilization on other planets[if there is any]....................”