6. J K Rowling.
I had to include a writer somewhere on this list. I didn't quite know which to choose, though. I thought maybe the French dude who wrote The Little Prince, or some other author I've been reading like Rick Riordan or James Dashner?
Unfortunately, none of those writers really jumped out at me as someone I wanted to meet very badly. The French dude is out because I can't speak French. As for the other two, I loved there books, but know hardly a thing about the authors themselves.
In fact, that's a trend for me. I never know anything about any of the authors I read, except perhaps John Green. But I'll be doing him later, so I can't talk about him now. Forget I ever said that.
So anyways, seeing as I didn't really care all that much about any author, I decided to go with perhaps the best in the business. Of course, that's Rowling. Sure, we haven't heard to much from her in recent years, but that doesn't really matter. She's already immortalized herself with Harry.
Another reason for choosing her? My sister Julia was, and I would argue still is, obsessed with Harry Potter. Not talking to Rowling would be a betraying her, and there's no other word for it. Rowling it is.
So what would I do if I ever did get to meet her? (Oh, fun story. For years, I thought that J K Rowling was a dude. I never heard what her first name was, in my own defense...)
Simply, I'd start grilling her on every single aspect of how she writes. How she plans and outlines, how she writes, and perhaps most importantly, how she edits. I'll take all the help I can get.
And then I'd take a selfie with her, ask her for an autograph, and buy a computer just so she could sign it and bless it with her awesome powers of writingness.
5. Leonardo Da Vinci.
I think that the main reason I want to visit Leo is because he is the ultimate jack of all trades. As well as doing his paintings, he also was a: sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer, according to Wikipedia. Whoa. Did this guy even sleep?
Now, this bit is for you, Laura. Did you know that Leo was a vegetarian, and also reportedly bought caged birds and then released them? I don't know about you, sis, but that sounds rather familiar...
Anyways, Leonardo is another one of those guys where they would be cool to see just for their pure genius, but may be a bit of a gamble in sacrificing one of your ten people-you-want-to-see wishes on. I mean, I know absolutely nothing about the personality of this guy. Nobody really does. I mean, the bird thing makes you think that he was a good guy, but you never know...
Still, he gets a high spot for general awesomeness. He dabbled in everything and was successful in all of the things he did, and what more could you really want?
4. Winston Churchill.
You can tell the you're nearing the top of the list when Churchill's name comes around. We owe so much to this guy. And in his own way, I think he's a genius. I mean, he;
- Invested in airplanes before they were cool
- Figured out that Hitler was a mega-threat before almost anyone else did
- Totally turned the tide of WWII by rallying the British people and not surrendering when people were literally making plans for on how they were going to surrender, and on what terms
- Worked like hell
- Made about fifty different speeches and a hundred different famous quotations that we can all recite nowadays
- Went and predicted the "Iron Curtain" across Europe after WWII
He figured out what was going to happen two steps ahead of everybody else, and he made the most of it.
I've always admired Churchill for what he did. This dude saved Britain and, I'd even go as far as to say, the world. Anyone who can do half of that has earned my everlasting respect. The guy was awesome.
That's it for part two of this little series, folks. Part three coming soon!
Thanks for reading,
-Mark
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