I remembered a funny story today.
This happened when I was something like 14 or 15 yo. I was at my friends house and we were checking some stuff out from the internet and my friends father, who was a bit drunk, came in to the room. He wanted to check something out from an online store. Well he didn't find what he was looking for but he had a brilliant idea. He wanted to put his son for sale. And he did it! He wrote a nice ad for his son and so on... Well, few days later the online store replied and sayed they can't sell that kind of merchandice.
A few years back I read a piece of news about an Australian man who wanted to sell his life on eBay. The deal included everything but social security number and passport. The buyer would have got his friends, family, girlfriend, appartment, job... And of course the deal included a period of training where the buyer would've been taught stuff like: how to windsurf and play the guitar.
I started to wonder if I'd be ready to sell everything I've got and start my life all over. If I'd be ready to move to another country, get a new name and leave enerything behind. Well for a gazillion euros I could imagine myself doing that. :D Living it large on my private island, where naked native girls would serve me Pina Coladas 24/7...
But the leaving everything behind part sounds bit too cruel. I've accustomed to the way I live my life and everyone around me. Don't get me wrong, I like meeting new people but I'm too lazy to do that!
So I'm asking if you would be ready to sell your life to a stranger? We all have tought of it when we've hit rock bottom. And especially when we were young. "My parents are so dumb, I just wanna leave this place". Could you live the rest of your life without having any contact to the people who are around you? I coudn't... And besides, I can't think of a new cool name for myself, except Jack Package!
And what happens if the person buying your life turns out to be a real dickweed? And how long is the period for makin a complaintment, if your new life doesn't turn out to be what you wanted it to be or you just get homesick...
Well, I think I'm gonna stick to this life as myself. It might not be pretty but hey, it's my own...
And on a completely different note
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