What would you do...

What would you do, if you met an icon of the past, that is no longer around? It sounds like a simple question, but it is not. Think about it. Seriously think about it. We are not speaking of encountering and interacting with random people of the past. This scenario pertains to ICONS, people that held the power and responsibility of influencing millions upon hundreds of millions of people across the entire globe. Someone of such stature.

What would you do?

Before we even think about furthering this line of talk, let us identify how this might potentially feel.

(Read the following paragraph, then proceed to stare at Albert for a good minute and process what you would do or say and how it makes you feel)

Some sort of magic has just occurred. Albert Einstein has somehow appeared in front of you, in this year of 2020. He looks just like he did as he is depicted in most pictures of him. He stares at you, waiting for you to say something. He doesn't seem bothered or confused about why he is facing you, in your presence, in the current moment, away from where he had come from. The moment just is.

(Now stare at Albert for a minute, then proceed beyond the lines below)

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Welcome back from your time of staring at Albert Einstein and interacting with him.

How did it go and how did it make you feel?

Was it nerve racking?

Were you calm and not anxious? As you would be talking to someone you know and feel comfortable around?

Perhaps, you were thrilled and excited about this encounter with Albert Einstein.

Maybe you felt nothing.

Everyone is going to have a different experience doing this type of exercise and however you felt is perfectly normal.

Albert was just an example for this exercise, as you could use a picture of any icon of the past, that is no longer around.

The point of this whole article is: to bring awareness of how you would feel, what you would say, what you would want to do when encountering a person of the past that was famous. Sure, they are just people and have had heart-beats like you and myself currently have, but the idea is fun because they had lives full of fascination on a global scale AND they have forever, in one way or another changed the course of history on some scale.

To interact and hangout with an icon of the past, that no longer lives.

If you were to choose an icon and do this exercise, who would you choose and why? Well.... what are you waiting for? Go and meet someone of the past and interact with them.