Imagine that technology on the planet makes it possible to go anywhere that you have read or learned about. Where would you go and who would you be? The catch is that you will have to live the remainder of your natural life span there. There is no coming back, since the asteroid will have wiped your planet into space dust by the time you get where you’re going.
Would you sail a tall ship or live in the jungles of a tropical continent? Would you be a wizard whiz at Hogwarts? A death-eater or a cubicle dweller in the Ministry of Magic? Would you join Gandalf and the hobbits on their journey to Mordor with the ring? Would you be a dwarf, an elf, a black rider, or a rider of Rohan?
If you’re more technically inclined, would you join Colonel Hadfield in the Apollo missions, or other astronauts in the Space Shuttle or International Space Station? Or would you crew the NCC 1701 in TOS (the original series) of Star Trek or Picard in TNG (The Next Generation)? Would you be Jabba the Hut, a nameless storm trooper, Leia, Darth, Chewbacca or Yoda?
Would you become the soul of an artificial intelligence system, or an original creator of the world wide web? Might you be a research scientist, a brilliant neurosurgeon, winner of the Nobel or Pulitzer? Would you go into the highest realms of power, among the world leaders of the time and place you have chosen?
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And wither then? I cannot say.
J.R.R. Tolkein, The Fellowship of the Ring, Chapter One
First verse of the walking song
Would you Howl with the Beat writers or ride with the warriors of Chinggis Khan? Would you be an adventurer and explorer, a settler or a king, czar or leader? Would you join one of the world religious teachers while they lived? Moses. Lao Tse. Mahavira. Confucius. Siddartha. Zoroaster. Guru Nanak. Jesus. Muhammad. Baha’u’llah? Someone else?
Would you be a historical hero, adventuring with Odysseus or Beowulf? Or a tragic character on the wild moors of a Victorian romance? Be you a sleuth to rival Sherlock Holmes and Watson, or would you occupy an elegant castle in Transylvania? Would you be a Harkonnen of Dune or a dragon-rider of Pern? Would you go for a different world, perhaps galaxy entirely, or an earlier time on the one you left?
Would you go for a genre and location that has not been mentioned? Please tell us about it. There is not room in one diary to list all possible options.
Please leave politics and the outrage of the day outside the door. This is just for fun. An escape, you might say. If it turns into a pie fight, I will delete it. Thanks.
This is just for fun! Where would you go and who would you be? Go!