If I could go back and relive one day of my life, which one would it be? There is nothing like a wide open question to put me in a good mood my dear plinky. After all the simple question Why? (why to pick that day) is far more complex that it may seem. There are so many completely different ways to read this question.
A person could choose to take it as a day they want to relive because they want to change something that happened. Though I'm worried if anybody (I'd predict probably someone of the high school 'emo' set) chooses to relive the day they attempted suicide to make it more complete. Sad though it would be I am also a little worried about people wishing to relive the day when somebody else died or was involved in some freak accident – to all those people there was nothing you could do... Stop mentally revisiting it every day.
Another approach (I’m hoping more common) would be to relive GOOD events from your life. The day your team won the championship game, your wedding day (which really could fall into any of the three approaches I’m describing but my romantic side would like to put into this one) or some other day you accomplished something amazing. Good things are going to be a first or a last, the day you met somebody or the day you finally qualified at your job. The intermediate days are just never as good.
My final ‘approach’ is the time travelling conscious. This one is almost implicitly required in the BAD event approach but for good times it may be a useful addition. Nobody wants to relive the bad things and not have the knowledge to fix them. For good times, or even simply interesting times, taking your current day ‘self’ with you makes it so much more interesting. Or maybe (because I am sure somebody answered this with the day they were born) they simply want an interesting memory of a life event. Or sometime when knowing what you know now would make it a little interesting. Anyway now that I’ve analysed the topic to death maybe I’ll pick something shall I?
There are a lot of good days in my life (I certainly have no desire to relive any bad times) but to pick an interesting one to relive. I have been very bored during my uni holidays so I think I want to relive one of the more interesting holiday activities I’ve ever done. The Science Experience I participated in at one of the Brisbane unis. I have to say I recommend that kind of thing to any slightly nerdy person who wants some fun on their holiday. Unfortunately for you and me both it is a high school only thing so except in this context it’s now a past opportunity for me... Glad I did it while I could then.
It was three days, so I’m going to have to pick a single day, I’ll get to that. First some of the reasons why I would pick this event in general. It was a hell of a lot of fun (but I’m sure that is a given) but more importantly it was a number of firsts for me (being allowed to catch the train to the city alone, being treated in general as an adult – or at least an intelligent being, seeing a university campus, attending my first lecture (yep they were just as bad then as now)). It was one of those unique experiences I had in high school that I DIDN’T have to share with the other high achieving student of my school (ever high achiever whether it is academics or athletics or the arts has the one person who is out in front with them and they have the –I call it healthy – competition).
So I can’t have the whole three days again. That’s ok... I will never forgive them for sending us to the natural sciences facility while the others did – well this many years on I can’t remember what they did but it was something I had really wanted to do. Unlike a lot of those kind of camp activities there was no choice about which to attend nor did everybody attend all of them. Groups A-D simply went to wherever it was and lucky groups E-F got to met some geologist and talk about rocks and erosion. Here is where I point out that I didn’t even do biology in senior let alone geology or geography, ick.
The day I wouldn’t mind re-doing since that day is clearly out. Well, I’d say the day we went to the anatomy department of UQ. Yes I found looking at dead bodies very fascinating (this coming from a girl who at that point in my life still had trouble sleeping after some CSI episodes). I have this awful feeling that is what we did after the rock people though so I’ll pass it.
Instead the day that we played the invention game – if you managed to read some of my previous posts and come back for more drivel (did you know that drivelled is a word? I didn’t. thanks spell check) you may have heard me mention this game. We made a very incredible surf board which could be created on a desert island with nothing more than paper, a couple of straws, string and all the sand in the world. Then created the best pun infomercial (in my unbiased opinion) for said surfboard ever seen, anywhere.
The whole day was just a lot of fun. I think that was the last day of the camp (though I may be wrong). Which unfortunately makes it the short day (but I wouldn’t take natural sciences day even for a full day event). Nevertheless the closing ceremony (by short day it still didn’t end until about 4.30) was entertaining to – science based ‘magic’ tricks and some random interesting banana about how science as a career could be fun.
The random fact was simply that bananas cannot be juiced (and pear juice is most commonly substituted in ‘banana’ flavoured juices) but they had been doing stuff to make bananas (looking similar to lady fingers) which are able to be juiced. Other bananas have been manipulated to increase their nutritional value with the aim being to make one banana cover the full range of vitamins and minerals for use in countries where food availability isn’t good. Just to finish off I would just want to do the day again; not take my memories back with me (that would spoil all the jokes).
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