what might have been

Apart from a period wishing I was a boy when growing up (I was a tomboy), I haven’t thought about it.

To me, it would be like asking “how long is a piece of string?”. 

The opposite gender, with all the permutations and attributes that come from being created in a vast world, from a sperm and an egg, has infinite possibilities, so I am unable to imagine something that can come close to making a satisfying hypothesis. 

Now if I were to imagine for instance being John, a male office worker, Peter, a male asylum seeker or Patrick, an actor, I could wonder how that might be and could try to imagine being in their shoes. 

In the meantime, I am content being a woman, being me.

Apart from a period wishing I was a boy when growing up (I was a tomboy), I haven’t thought about it.

To me, it would be like asking “how long is a piece of string?”. 

The opposite gender, with all the permutations and attributes that come from being created in a vast world, from a sperm and an egg, has infinite possibilities, so I am unable to imagine something that can come close to making a satisfying hypothesis. 

Now if I were to imagine for instance being John, a male office worker, Peter, a male asylum seeker or Patrick, an actor, I could wonder how that might be and could try to imagine being in their shoes. 

In the meantime, I am content being a woman, being me.