Walk a mile in someone else's shoes

"Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes; that way you are a mile away and you have his shoes." or so the saying goes.

I would love to walk a mile in someone else's shoes. Given how short a life time is, a person can have, at most, two careers (careers, not jobs) in one's lifetime. Okay, I can see some highly talented, over achievers maybe having up to three careers in a lifetime, but that's it. A lot of time, life involves choices. Do I want to be a stay-at-home mom or a career-oriented woman? Or in modern days, whether the man or the woman stay home with the kid? To have kids at a healthy younger age or enjoy what life has to offer child-free? There are no right or wrong answers, it's highly subjective. And even for each individual, each choice has it own longs and shorts. Bottomline, you can't have it all.

If I can have one kind of supernatural power, I'd like the ability to "walk in someone's shoes," so to speak. I want to know what it is like to be a successful man in Wall Street or being the editor-in-chief for a top notch fashion magazine in New York. How about the lead singer on Boardway? Or something less metropolitan: What is it like to be a wildlife photographer? Or a scenic one trying to take pictures on a snow-covered alpine right before day break? What is it like to be a marine biologist that spend her time year round on the ocean with marine lives? An archeologist? A paleontologist? Or what goes on in the mind of the volunteers right now in Iraq polling the damages US has done? What is it like to be...... and the questions go on.