700 Common Words Exercise No. 22
I happened yesterday to hear on the radio the
question: If you could be some other person who would you want to be? And the
answer was: Myself. At this the first man asked again: Why, what is so
wonderful about being you? And this time the answer was: There is nothing so
wonderful about it but it is very comfortable. All this was not, of course,
meant to be taken seriously, but I could not help thinking that really it is
comfortable to be just ourselves even though it is not particularly wonderful.
The question who would you like to be? Is not a new once, and I am sure all of
us have played at time with the idea of being some other person. If we are
girls or women we think at first, perhaps, that it would be lovely to be a
very, very beautiful person. Then we think that perhaps it would be still
better to have masses and masses of money so that we could buy whatever we
desired at the moment we desired it. We might perhaps think that it would be
wonderful to be able to marry the most good-looking man in the world. If it is
a man thinking along these lines he will probably want to be a person well known
in science or in the political field; he will want to be a person well in the
public eye. He, too, might find the idea of having masses and masses of money
rather pleasing, but it is not very likely that he will wish to be outstanding
good-looking. There is nothing particularly wrong about playing with the idea
of being very beautiful or very well-to-do or well-known because we all know at
the same time that wishing will not make it so There are indeed some other
words that we still hear from time to time on the radio. They are: Whatever
will be will. The future is not ours to see. What will be will be. The future
certainly is not ours to see, but there is one thing about the future that is
certain, and that is that we shall continue to be ourselves and shall not get
out of bed one morning to find that we are some other person. And this is just
as well because we can be sure that, however many troubles and difficulties we
may have in our lives, it is still much more comfortable to be ourselves than
to be another person. It would be very strange indeed to get up one day and
find everything changed, to see everything with different eyes, to feel
everything with different hands, to think with a different mind, and to have a
different store of thoughts and memories. The most serious of the changes would
probably be to find ourselves thinking with a different mind. If we have always
believed in telling the truth and in being kind to others, we could find little
pleasure in the mind of a person who believed in reaching his or her own end
regardless of truth or kindness. If we have always looked at the world with
eyes that have found. Nature beautiful and wonderful, it would be hard to find
ourselves without a moment in which to interest ourselves in the daily movement
and change round about us. Even less pleasing is the idea of the loss of our
own memories. All the things, all the people and events we have loved in the
past, would be lost to us, and we should find in our minds in place of them
another set of memories of people and events, and they would certainly be of a
different order from our own. Of course, you will say that these things would
not really matter because if we became another person we should think and act
as that person and we should like it, having no memory at all of our old
selves. That, no doubt, is true but the important point is that in wanting to
be that other person we should have to take all the other changes as well. We
could not just have the good looks or the money or the good opinion of the
world. It would be all or nothing and our personality would be lost to us. In
its place would be another and quite different personality. It seems a great
comfort, therefore, to know that we shall never have the opportunity to make
such a change. We shall go on just being ourselves.
Ghulam Mustafa
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