Did you ever wish you were somebody else?

freshpopcorn

I'm not talking about celebrities here just people you know in day to day life.
I was always fairly content in myself and was fairly happy.
There was one guy at college who I felt had a lot going for him apart from the looks to be honest and the time I thought it would have been amazing to be be him. It was more his confidence than anything.
I don't think it was a man crush.

Did you ever wish you were somebody else?

frosty123

Wish I was slim, six foot tall, had the face of Paul Newman, the voice of Richard Burton, tanned skin.....

.......and a big mickey

Wanderer78

Na, I'm grand

hairyprincess

Nope. You never know what other people are going through, the demons they have or problems they are facing. As stressful as my own life is, I’ll stick with it, thanks.

BuboBubo

I often imagine myself in a parallel life. One where I'm not depressed, slimmer, healthier and give an actual damn about my appearance.

Not imagining I'm someone else, more like a different better me.

Happily, after 2 years of medication and good counselling I can see a vast improvement in my outlook. I'll get there, I know I will, I really believe I will. I have so much to be thankful for. The battle continues, I will win this stupid war.

Sorry for rambling on.

BuboBubo

Berties_Horse wrote: »

Of course not. I can only inhabit my own body, not gifted with superpowers.

Did you ever wish you were somebody else's horse?

The Satanist

I wish I was a tree

Samuel T. Cogley

I wish I was me with the sense I have now but just 20 years younger.

Linoge

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Did you ever wish you were somebody else?

Yep. It’s my 1 regret in life - that I wasn’t born somebody else

andekwarhola

Only once: a fella in school. He was the head boy and the captain of the team. He was really gay and fancy-free. His name escapes me now.

italodisco

Yep always wishing I was someone else but you know what, we are masters of our own destiny and I'm personally responsible for not doing much to change mine.

So much easier to sit around imagining what life could be like than actually trying to improve it.

LaFuton

i often wished i was myself. somebody totally different to who i usually am.

Wompa1

I wish I was a little bit taller
I wish I was a baller
I wish I had a girl who looked good, I would call her
I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat
And a six four Impala

Purple Mountain

I came to realise something in my 30s.
I spent a lot of my teens and 20s wishing I was other people who were more successful/beautiful/nice boyfriend etc.
But then I thought : how come we never wish to be the person who has less money, less facial appeal and has no boyfriend?
So now, I've accepted what I have is what's right for me!

Arghus

Not really.

Just a better version of myself.

Alecto

Every day I wish I was someone else.

corner of hells

Nah , I'm cool with myself. .. Hic.

ILoveYourVibes

I wish i could turn into other people at will ..then turn back at will ...and i would rob banks.

Its probably why god didn't give me this power ..i would SO abuse it.

This is the gayest thread I've seen in a while..

Aceandstuff

I never wanted to be anyone else in particular, but I did wish I had different parents. I still do. And I want to not have diabetes.

Gynoid

Never. Not once. Even in the worst times. Even if the most beautiful woman in the world offered a swop with me. Nope. It seems to me to be symptomatic of some kind of depersonalisation or derealisation experience or such like, to truly want to be someone else. Which is symptomatic of much deeper issues. Sure, sometimes one feels grotty or uncomfortable or very disatisfied, but it is the reality of being in a human body that one experiences both intense pleasure and intense pain.
Wanting to be someone else is a kind of transhumanist desire, a desire to be propelled beyond the limited human material condition, because meaning seems absent most likely and, boy, has deeper meaning been purposefully stripped away from modern life - transhumanism seems to be highly cultivated (via advertisement, cultural reference points, etc.)in this epoch of our civilisation. I suppose it is a way for some to try and make a lot of money. The extremity of the desire is loving death.
Happy Sunday

ILoveYourVibes

i would swap if the person was healthy and i was happy with the outcome and my family were told about the swap

Alf Veedersane

I wish I was Connie Cheewah.