_friendship ([info]_friendship) wrote,
@ 2005-03-02 22:11:00
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Here, There, Anywhere
I'm sitting here in front of my computer, trying to come up with a question because I keep falling behind on asking them. There's so much work to do, so many friends to visit with, family to keep in touch with, and all these other things I'd rather be doing than sitting here and starting on the work I've been putting off.

If you could be anywhere right now, where would you be?

For me, I'd probably end up choosing to be right where I am. Because right now I'm happy and I don't mind having to do some work.

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[info]katherine8504
2005-03-03 06:42 am UTC (link)
I would be in Wadi Digla (a wadi is a dried up river bed, commonly called 'wadi' in the Middle East) in Egypt, about twenty minutes away from my home in Cairo. It's this nice, beautiful environmental protectorate on the edge of an over-populated, extremely-polluted city, and last year it was frequented by myself and my best friends on numerous camping trips, some lasting three days and two nights. I want to be there, around a camp fire, bundled up in warm garments (it gets quite chilly at night in the desert) and singing goofy songs with my friends while drinking poorly mixed rum and coke and picking melted marshmallow off of our clothing.

That thought, while severly nostalgia-inducing, makes me feel amost infintisimally happy, because I know my best friends are around the world right now with the same happy memories.

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[info]widgey
2005-03-03 07:40 am UTC (link)
I think… it depends on the company, more than anything.

With family, I would be camping someplace. The entire campsite would be beneath the shade of tall eucalypts. It would be late afternoon. The family would be playing Bocce a short way off, barefoot on the moist leaf litter. A glass of champagne, a bottle of beer and an empty packet of crisps would sit to the side, possibly marking the line. Their voices would be one of the only sounds around, the only others being the afternoon breeze through the leaves and the sounds of animals. I would be lying on a chair closer to camp, reading a good book until the sun set.

With friends… I'll make it Japan. That is honestly the best time I have ever had with a group of friends, and the fact that my friendships have altered quite significantly since doesn't change my decision. I would make a few changes, such as the addition of certain people to the group and the removal of any sort of schedule, but it would still be a trip to Japan, touring around aimlessly every day, trouping around the streets and malls singing random Japanese songs and chanting Japanese words over and over as we searched for what we were saying. I'd want to repeat as much of the experience as possible, from the wasabi sandwiches to the Sprite to the baffling variety of toilets. I'm quite disappointed that I can't remember the name of one particular store that I loved. I'd make sure to see everything but Universal Studios again.

Alone, I'd stay right here. I am very happy with where my life is at the moment. I love sitting here, alternating between working on an assignment and blogging on LJ. I feel extremely comfortable in front of my computer, in my room with my music and my cheap optical fibre lamp and my dying cacti and my red panda plushie. After a few weeks away on a trip, I don't feel like I've returned until I reach my room. This is my home.

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[info]hocuspokus
2005-03-03 07:52 am UTC (link)
I would like to be at the beach and not have to worry about year 12.

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[info]ryuuseigun
2005-03-03 08:05 am UTC (link)
I would be curled up among the cushions in some living room, with a blanket around me and a book lying open in my lap. Music would be playing. Nobody else would be in the house except one other, in the same room, quietly absorbed in whatever happens to occupy his or her own attention at the time. There are very few people I could enjoy being 'together alone' with, in the end, but there is something very peaceful in knowing I can look up and have someone smile over at me before returning to her own unbroken thoughts. And vice versa.

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[info]k_m_r
2005-03-03 09:28 am UTC (link)
I'd actually be right here. Things aren't too perfect or anything but I'm working toward better stuff and in a way I like the feeling of working for it, moving forward and getting there eventually.

But if we can wish for things, I'd have more work and MORE MONEY, though, so I could buy stuff for my future apartment (it'll be ready to move into in the summer) and crap like DVDs and stuff.

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[info]helgarr
2005-03-03 09:52 am UTC (link)
I'd be at home, that is my boyfriend's home, on the playstation, with a cola and something good to eat.

I do it almost every night, and I always feel like I should be doing something more important, but honestly, that's where I feel best.

*sigh*

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[info]k_m_r
2005-03-03 07:14 pm UTC (link)
hmmm, your post made me think mine over again.

My new answer: I'd be right here AND I'd have a bottle of ice cold Coke. Mmmmm. Now I'm thirsty.

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[info]burnvictim
2005-03-03 01:29 pm UTC (link)
In a nightclub in Nottingham City, called the Rig. With my best online and offline friends. The music being played is only stuff we can dance to. And stuff we love. Oh lord, I can keep dreaming can't I.

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[info]rainbow_velvet_
2005-03-03 07:03 pm UTC (link)
I would be in Montana, in a mountain cottage. My fireplace would be actively going, and there would be a lot of snow outside. I would be snowed in. I would be able to look through the window of my house and see the beautiful Montana scenery full of animals and mountains and the bluest sky ever, even when it snows.

I would be snuggled on a bear skin in front of my fire place, reading a romance novel, waiting for my man to get home. Once he's home, I would take his clothes off and ravish him, as we'll make love and then continue to snuggle in front of the fireplace, as the winds will be howling outside and the snow would be falling and the mountains would be looking just as beautiful as ever.

Sigh...

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