I waffled about my If Question selection this week. It was the next If Question that caught my eye…but it does seem a bit morbid. And I thought, what with all the goings-on this week, that maybe I should pick something a little more upbeat. Unfortunately, I couldn’t remember what the other question was when I was thinking about my answer all day yesterday. So. Screw being morbid. We’ll just call it our theme of the week.
If you were to die in a public place, anywhere in the world, where would you choose?
(See what I mean? Death, dying, moaning, groaning. Ahem.)
My first thought was a hospital – because then probably I would be focused on GETTING FIXED and NOT DYING! I am all about the not dying, people. But I can’t change the nature of the If Questions (I can only bend and tweak the rules, and only then because I am the If Question Dictator). So maybe not the hospital because I don’t want to actually die there, I just want to be there to be cured.
So then I thought maybe I would choose a library or a bookstore because I love libraries and bookstores…being surrounded by all those books at my death does have sort a romantic quality about it. But it didn’t feel quite right.
Then I thought a big field somewhere high up, where I could look out over a big, beautiful valley. Someplace with lots of trees, gently swaying in the breeze. I’m always thought trees had such a graceful way in which they swayed, almost dancing, that is particularly calming. I’m going to need a LOT of calming if I know I’m about to die.
But does my place need to be, you know, populated in order to count as a public place? Because I wouldn’t want there to be a lot of people in my peaceful, tree-lined field. So maybe I should choose some gorgeous monument or famous site. The Eiffel Tower. Or…I don’t know, Fenway Park or something. Something perfectly beautiful. With people.
The people around me is kinda weirding me out, guys.
Screw it. No people. If I’m going to die, in public, it’s gonna go my way or no way at all. So…I’ll just cheat on the rules a little. I pick in front of the ocean, on a beach. In the early morning when it’s nice and calm (no people, except some friends maybe), with the sun throwing a pretty light over everything, beautiful puffy clouds, and the waves crashing around me. No seagulls, though. I ban the seagulls. But otherwise…doesn’t that sound nice?
So. Come along. Choose something. Pick a place. Your answers can be funny or serious, populated or not. But it DOES have to be a public place. What is YOUR place?