If you could meet any living person...?

Let’s try be interactive. I’m curious.

We’re all taught to develop role models and heroes, to focus on the VIPs. I could probably argue against the judiciousness of this focus. How do important people become important? What is importance? Don’t the unimportant need attention more?

But, it’s human to be sucker for celebrity. So, if you could meet any living person, who would it be? Why? If you’re as indecisive as I am, give me a couple top picks.

My choices:
1. Jean Bertrand Aristide: former president of Haiti, victim to, not one, but two coup d’etats. I want to meet the would-be savior of one of the world’s poorest countries.
2. Nicholas Kristof: journalist from the New York Times. He travels the world to bring its most pressing issues—the under-reported ones—to my laptop every Tuesday and Sunday. I’d love to pick his brain, and thank him.
3. Dith Pran: Cambodian journalist who survived the Khmer Rouge, subject of the movie “The Killing Fields.”
4. Dave Matthews: because “life is short but sweet for certain”

Who would you give anything to have coffee with?