text: excluding jesus christ, if you could spend the day with a single person, past or present, who would it be? why? that's a really awesome question! thanks for asking it!  mahatma mohandas karmachand gandhi.  why?  ever since i was little and first heard about gandhi i have admired him, what he did, his courage, and his outlook on life.   as one friend said after i converted to hinduism "somehow this doesn't surprise me since you've always admired gandhi and he was a hindu." although, gandhi didn't really claim to be just a hindu, he said he was also a christian, jew, muslim, etc...and i feel the same way. i've studied those religions, have friends of those religions (and others: pagan, buddhist, baha'i, etc).