You don’t have to go to Barcelona, Berlin, or Bombay to have fun. You can stay at home in your own town. You can also do it cheaply. To help you along the way, we give you "Seven free things you can do in your city".
My friends and I have a game called "What if". Most games tend to have a beginning and an end. You decide that now we are playing hide and seek and now we are playing tennis. “What if” has neither. You never know when it occurs. Suddenly we’re sitting outside a café drinking coffee and one of us says:
-What if all people are really small fish in human robot suits.
And then the game starts. We start thinking of details, surroundings, characters and all entire events from one single idea. Even a single "what if" can generate an entire evening's worth of discussion, and we come back to it during the evening in the form of jokes, dialogues and more details to the surroundings and intricacies in and of our newly created world.
One of the funniest “What if" scenarios we've talked about and which recurs every now and then:
- What if everything in the world was meant literally.
A planet where the people beat dead horses. A world where the sentence "See how far you can go" is not about how far you can push a joke or an argument, but about how far you can actually go with your legs. How many feet you can walk. How many centimeters you can walk. How many times you can put your left foot in front of your right foot before they both break.
Text: Navid Modiri
Required time:
1 week or more
Cons:
Sore muscles. Sore feet. You can get lost. Soreness the day after.
Pros:
Leg muscles. Discovering new areas. Fresh air.
