Hello, friends of the Weekend Experiences community! I hope you had an amazing weekend. Once again, I thought a bit about this weekend's topic questions, and the topic of "The Talk Show" caught my attention. The truth is that I had never imagined myself as a talk show host, because I have always thought that if I were to dedicate myself to something that had to do with television, movies or any entertainment project in general, I would be more comfortable with a behind-the-scenes role. I consider that all roles are important, but I am more enthusiastic about one where my face is not the main character.
However, just by imagining a scenario where I would interview people I admire, I thought that of course I would want to do it myself and no one else but me. After thinking about the women and men I admire, two names came to mind.
One of them is Freddie Mercury, who I have admired since I was 11 years old. My dad's tastes in music are a little different from mine, but what we do share is a taste for rock. I soon started listening to bands on my own, until one day I stumbled upon Queen's music, thanks to a Google doodle for one of their birthdays. From the moment I started listening to the first few songs, their voice and the whole energy of the band mesmerized me.
Queen is a band that I find masterful in every way (they even have an astrophysicist guitarist, crazy), whose songs have always been with me since I first heard their music. I feel like they have a perfect song for every mood I'm in, and they couldn't have had a more iconic showman than Freddie, so multifaceted in every way.
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I think that of the many questions I would ask him, I would touch on topics such as his illness (bronchopneumonia, which arose from complications after suffering from HIV), for example how it felt to keep something like that to himself for so long and know that he was doomed to die. Did he feel afraid? Did he feel calm? Was he able to do everything he wanted to do before his last days? I would also ask him about his childhood memories, what he liked most about his band members, or what his favorite place to visit in the world was. I have a notion that he was a reserved interviewer, so I'm not sure if he would answer all the questions, but I would do my best to make sure he didn't feel invaded and felt that instead of being treated like a celebrity, he simply felt like a human.
Another thing I would be very excited to ask him about... His love for cats. I love cats, and something that makes me connect with Freddie is that he loved them to such an extent that he treated them like children, I think he had 10 of them and wrote songs like "Delilah" for them. Without a doubt, one of my favorites in this funk-filled gem where his voice sounds amazing (as always):
The next person came unexpectedly to my mind but I received him with a warm feeling in my heart, because since I read his story I felt captivated. It is about the neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, who was Austrian and Jewish. Like any professional, he had a regular life in which he devoted himself to his profession and also spent time developing his own model of psychotherapy, following Freud and Adler. All this changed when, in 1942, he and his family were transferred to a concentration camp, and he began to lose everything: his parents, his wife, his manuscripts, and his freedom itself.
Although Viktor left his experience very detailed in his book, I would like to ask him about how he would apply his therapy to intervene in the existential crises of modern society, what role would AI have in logotherapy now that they can think like us and therefore, I do not doubt that they wonder or may come to wonder about the meaning of their existence, and how they can be applied to logotherapy in immigrants who are being forced to leave their countries.
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Both characters I admire I would like to interview them in an open place, lke this one i had been showing to you and that is not too crowded, instead of the usual TV set with a sofa and a desk, just because I feel that all parties involved would enjoy it very much. To say goodbye, I would like to close with this phrase said by Friedrich Nietzsche that summarizes the idea of logotherapy, developed by Frankl: "He who has a why to live for, can bear almost any how".
