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13 Responses to “Saturday Slant: What Would You Give?”

Pariah Burke
December 20th, 2003 at 13:43

NotifyList.com’s login sys­tem has been down for hours now. Consequently I can’t mail out the Saturday Slant notices to the list. Hopefully every­one will find this week’s Slant anyway.


chris
December 20th, 2003 at 19:56

If the price be only 20 years of my life, I would will­ingly give it up. What the prize be? That would be only between me and my cho­sen recip­i­ent. As it stands now… I will sac­ri­fice my own com­forts to pro­vide for any who are in need of what I have.


pawz
December 23rd, 2003 at 00:53

I’m totally late on this, so I’ll just put this in here. If I had the power, I would bring back my partner’s brother. He passed away a year before I met her — and thus, a fam­ily lost their first-born son, my part­ner lost a hero, and I never got the chance to meet a won­der­ful man. I’d hap­pily give up the twenty years for that!


Chelle
December 23rd, 2003 at 06:49

If I had this power, I would let my Aunt’s baby, who died right after being born, live. Then my Aunt and Uncle could have their first baby boy, and my favorite cousin and her sis­ter could have a brother. Great topic, by the way.


Pariah Burke
December 23rd, 2003 at 21:30

Chris: Fair enough. I’m with ya on the last bit.


Pariah Burke
December 23rd, 2003 at 21:32

Pawz: That’s very heart­warm­ing. You must love your part­ner a great deal. Thank you for shar­ing such a per­sonal Slant with us.


Pariah Burke
December 23rd, 2003 at 21:40

Chelle: Thank you for the com­pli­ment but espe­cially for shar­ing some­thing that must cer­tainly be painful.


Pariah Burke
December 23rd, 2003 at 21:42

What would I give and to whom?

I would eagerly and with­out a moment’s hes­i­ta­tion trade away twenty years of my life to give my mother hap­pi­ness for the rest of hers.


screamingslave
December 25th, 2003 at 14:01

i would sacrafice more then 20 years to bring hap­py­ness to my friend in sandiego.. another 20 to make sure my dad (who is about to die from liver dis­ease) dies hav­ing had the time to do what he needed to do..


Christina
December 27th, 2003 at 10:44

I would take the chance in a heart­beat to give my mom the life she has always wanted, to expe­ri­ence all the things she never could, and to live a long and healthy life. The price would be well worth it, even if only she were only well for a day and wanted to spend it doing noth­ing at all. When she was doing bet­ter, you could see the sad­ness and dis­ap­point­ment in her eyes when I’d get to do some­thing she had been want­ing to do but was too unhealthy to do it. I think that’s why she’s pushed me so hard in life, not only for my well being, but her will to do more than she has. This would be the great­est gift I could give her and the sac­ri­fice, com­pared to all she has been through, is nothing.


Elena
December 28th, 2003 at 13:08

I would give up what­ever was nec­es­sary to ensure that my mother had a happy, peace­ful and lov­ing life, from here on. What’s 20 years less of my life when I can give my mom so much?


Friday's Child
January 3rd, 2004 at 14:19

Mine slant is up.

...now, how did I get here?
December 20th, 2003 at 14:48

the BIG present
Saturday Slant: Imagine if you will that you had the power to give to a sin­gle per­son any gift—a thing, an emo­tion, a state of being, even life. The price would be twenty years from the end of your life. Would you make such a bar­gain? If so, what would

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