Would You Take Someone’s Whole Life?

There is a book on my TBR, and while I’m not sure I’ll read it, the concept is interesting: A person buys another person’s whole life. Their home, of course, but also their clothing, their furniture, their car, their belongings, their job, their friends, their family, their cat. All of it.

While parts of it are a tad unrealistic — you cannot control for your job accepting the person or people taking the new person in — the rest of it is entirely possible. The point, of course, is that you would live the other person’s life. Not toss out their stuff, keep the shell, and fill it with what you actually want. You would slip into their life and live it, as if you were them.

It’s something I used to always say to the kids when they were jealous about something. Sure, it would be lovely to have that part of that person’s life, but would you want the rest of it? Would you want their home and their parents and their siblings and their strengths and weaknesses?

I think the answer for most of us would be no. I can’t look at anyone on earth and think, “Yes, I would like to give up everything around me and slip into your life.”

Can you?