Sunday Stealing

Living in the World, Not on It

1) You're on a trip taking a tour through the jungle. You have a backpack with some food, first aid supplies, a pocket knife, a flashlight and a couple bottles of water. Somehow, you get separated from your group. By night fall you haven't found your group and haven't heard them looking for you. How long do you think you would be able to survive on your own? I struggle with hypotheticals like this because I promise you, there is no way I would ever be in this situation. This old gal is never going to hike through the jungle, dependent on the contents of a backpack. That said, I like to think I'd survive until my group finds me. I remember what they taught us at Girl Scout camp, "If you get lost, stay put because you're easier to find if you're not moving." 

2) Do you think it's okay to lie to spare someone's feelings? Why? Yes. If it's something that doesn't really matter and it makes the other person feel good, why not? BTW, my friend Elaine never does this. Example: We met for lunch after I'd completed a dental adventure. She knew how expensive, painful and time consuming it had been. I proudly asked, "How do you like my beautiful new smile?" She shrugged and said, "It's OK, I guess." I know if I needed help, there is nothing Elaine wouldn't do for me. Except lie. 

3) If a talking doll were made to resemble you, what 3 phrases would it say? First: The thing of it is ... Second: Oh, hell! Third: I'm such an idiot.

4) If the super power to be able to read minds at will was possible, do you think it would be... cool and helpful, intrusive and wrong, manipulative or maddening? Well, not maddening because it's "at will" so I can turn it off when I don't feel like reading minds. I think all the other adjectives would be true at times. 

5) Are drunk confessions things people can't bring themselves to say sober or just the crazy ramblings of an influenced and intoxicated mind? I don't think you say things that haven't ever occurred to you, just because you're drunk. I recall reading something the blogging buddy of a Sat9er said in her comments about Mel Gibson, that Hollywood had turned its back on him because he's a Christian. Well, no. It was because of his sexist, anti-Semitic drunken rants. I know Mel maintains that insulting female cops and blaming Jews for all the wars in the world was just the result of "a bunch of tequilas" and shouldn't define the rest of his life. Maybe the latter is true and he should be allowed to rehabilitate his career and image. But the former is not.