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On Twitter<\/a>, I discovered an account for someone called ‘TheMime<\/a>‘. If you understand Twitter and you know what a Mime is, well, you can imagine that<\/strong> mashup is pretty funny. For those of you who’s face wrinkled up and you head cocked to the side when I said ‘Twitter’, well, just know it’s funny. Imagine a mime with a blog. What would he say?
\nAnywho …
\nThe guy who is ‘TheMime’ also tweets under the name LuckyShirt<\/a> which is frequently funny, so I followed him. Taking the long way around to the point of this post, which is the following.
\nToday he posted on Twitter (or in geek speak, he ‘Tweeted’) a link to his blog<\/a> with this insight for when you’re done with life, you want out:<\/p>\n

Imagine The Unicorn shows up. That should be enough, right? But there’s more\u2026
\nThe Unicorn is in a giving mood, and offers you the opportunity to trade places instantly with anyone<\/em> in the world. Trade bodies, memories, everything. Here’s the catch: it will be random.
\nWould you do it?
\nNo. Way.<\/em> I could end up in a war-torn country, or starving, or worse.
\nThe Unicorn has to meet a quota, so continues\u2026
\nWhat about trading with someone on your continent?
\nNo.
\nIn your country?
\nNo.
\nIn your state?
\nNo.
\nCounty?
\nNo.
\nCity?
\nNo.
\nOn your street?
\nNot even then.
\nThere is a strange comfort that comes with loving my life enough to hang onto it under these conditions. How can I complain about anything if I wouldn’t trade what I’ve GOT for anything (even at random)?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve got to say, I needed that this morning.
\nEveryone’s life is random to a degree. Why was I born in Ohio,or the USA, or in the 20th century, or a male? It’s easy to say “If I were Bill Gates ..” or whatever, but that’s not how life works. Bill Gates didn’t choose to be Bill Gates, it just happened. We get our lot assigned randomly, or at the very least without our input, that’s just how it is. No matter how bad things get, I can’t imagine many would trade their life for any random life out there.
\nHelps to put things in perspective, don’t you think?.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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