If you could switch lives with a famous person for a week, who would it be and why?
Why would I want to live a life not belonging to myself? And who would want to lose their time to create a history not of their own?
I would not—switch my life with anyone. Because switching lives with another for a week would mean losing one week of my precious time to develop and grow in my own record of life.
Understandably, fingerprints are unique; the number of hairs differs; and the very life of each person is strictly individual. For these very reasons, we are created; our differences make co-existence sound on earth.
Yet we may learn from each other, but we don’t copy-cat; we may share lives with others, but we don’t play other roles. We may appreciate the lives of the distinguished no less than we empathise with the lives of the disadvantaged.
For rich and poor, strong and weak, happy and dissatisfied form the world. Without poverty, wealth means nothing. In the lack of weakness, what does strength mean? Or the absence of dissatisfaction makes happiness incomplete. And celebrities possess fame, not necessarily an uplifted life.
As for me, I don’t pursue fame, and I don’t borrow another’s time. But I pursue Jesus Christ, and I emulate Him to the likeness pleasing to God.
As the Church is the bride of Christ, I borrow the wedding vow—not another’s life, but a borrowed form of words—to express how wonderful those lives in Christ are, as my prayer to conclude this sharing.
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The Church’s Vow
I take You, Jesus Christ, to be my wedded husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till I meet You face to face. Amen!
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