Today in class we ran a simulation, where a group of 16 people were in a sinking boat and had to decide who to keep and who to kick off.
I played the role of a Nobel Prize winning writer. I knew that I was going to get kicked off, and I was. This was because... well, I don't know why I was kicked off! People just picked whoever had a title like "Super strong man" and "Athletic dude" because that is what they valued! Even though I was 39 and able-bodied, I got kicked off when a pregnant woman and a couple of other woman were still aboard! No offense, but they just weren't as good of options as I was!
I didn't even try to stay aboard because I knew I'd get kicked off. A group of a few girls just kept yelling and screaming, and everybody voted off who they wanted to vote off. And I knew they wanted me gone. I was #6 on the list of people to vote on, and because of that, I was a prime suspect. The last person on the list was a poet; if I went, he should have too!
Anyway, if this were real life, I would have put up a fight. I would have been active in the debate and I wouldn't have gone down. But this wasn't real life, and people's real personalities outweighed the character that they assumed. Unfortunately, the simulation was just that, and not a perfect representation of what would actually occur.
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