… I hate those awful riddles that go something like there are 3 or 4 or whatever number of people drowning and you can only save one person, who do you choose? Usually, there will be your partner, possibly your mother or father and a child or 2, an in-law and you are suppose to choose! If this ever happens in real life, that will be an awful, awful situation to be in, especially if you love all these people, even if you don’t it will still be pretty hard unless you are some kind of psychopath and don’t care, so you save the first that comes to mind. Well, I want to believe most of us are not psychopath, so this will be a gruelling decision to have to make. Weirdly, it is almost easier not to make any decision.
I remember J.lo was asked the question in a kind of tongue in cheek interview, 2 of her ex-boyfriends were supposedly drowning and the interviewer wanted to know which of them she would save. She jokingly said she would allow both to drown! Whilst a joke, I wonder in real life how difficult it would be for her to chose.
While all of these sound rhetorical, I believe in real life, we do find ourselves faced with such dire situations where it is a matter of who we save. Atimes, the choices are few, us or some one else. As simple as that. What if it is a choice between us and our child, our parent, another family member or a dear friend? What do we do? Do we protect self and selfishly survive or do we lay down our life for another? Self preservation or self sacrifice?
Tell me, who will you save?
Beautiful Ivory 