Proust Questionnaire, The best damn survey I've ever seen

[Jadwin]

1. What is your present state of mind?

2. What is your greatest fear?

3. What is your idea of perfect happiness?

4. Which historical figure do you most identify with?

5. What is the trait you most deplore in others?

6. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

7. What is your greatest extravagance?

8. What is your favourite journey?

9. On what occasions do you lie?

10. Where would you like to live?

11. Which historical figure do you most despise?

12. Which living person do you most despise?

13. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

14. What or who i the gratest love of your life?

15. What is your greatest regret?

16. When and where were you happiest?

17. If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?

18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

19. What do you most value in your friends?

20. What is your principal defect?

21. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?

22. What would you like to be?

23. What natural gift would you like most to possess?

24. To what faults do you feel most indulgent?

25. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?

26. In what country would you like to live?

27. What do you consider your greatest achievement?

28. What do you regard as the lowest depths of misery?

29. What is your most treasured possession?

30. What is your most marked characteristic?

31. What is the quality you most like in a man?

32. What is the quality you most like in a woman?

33. Who is your favourite hero of fiction?

34. Who are your heroes in real life?

35. How would you like to die?

36. If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, who or what do you suspect it would be?

37. If you cold choose what to come back as, what would it be?

38. What is your favourite colour, flower, bird, and occupation?

39. Who are your favourite writers, composers, painters, and poets?

40. What is your motto?

[Jadwin]

My answers:

1. What is your present state of mind?

Intellectually numb

2. What is your greatest fear?

Not living long enough to see something fantastic

3. What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Spending your time in a way that you want without any unwanted outside interference

4. Which historical figure do you most identify with?

Helen Keller, because she was locked in her only communicationless universe, which is often how I feel when I try to vocalize what's on my mind

5. What is the trait you most deplore in others?

Hippocracy

6. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

Hippocracy

7. What is your greatest extravagance?

My music collection

8. What is your favourite journey?

One in which you don't know where you're going

9. On what occasions do you lie?

When I'm working

10. Where would you like to live?

Blue Diamond

11. Which historical figure do you most despise?

Jack Ruby. Now we'll never know

12. Which living person do you most despise?

Ingrid Newkirk

13. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

Mate

14. What or who is the gratest love of your life?

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

15. What is your greatest regret?

That I didn't leave sooner

16. When and where were you happiest?

During the six months I spend in Vegas

17. If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?

That they'd just for once listen to what I'm saying before they argue

18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

The courage to say what's on my mind more often

19. What do you most value in your friends?

Honesty. And real honesty, where they tell you as it is; the truth, as they see it, from the bottom of their hearts

20. What is your principal defect?

My lack of honesty

21. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?

To not hear the music any more

22. What would you like to be?

Successful in whatever I choose to do with my life

23. What natural gift would you like most to possess?

True artistic abilities

24. To what faults do you feel most indulgent?

I spend money I don't have on books and records

25. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?

Fake honesty

26. In what country would you like to live?

Right where I am, only 150 to the east

27. What do you consider your greatest achievement?

Getting the balls to get on that Greyhound

28. What do you regard as the lowest depths of misery?

Not being where you want to be and with no way out

29. What is your most treasured possession?

The gifts I get from my friends

30. What is your most marked characteristic?

I try to give without expecting anything in return

31. What is the quality you most like in a man?

Confidence

32. What is the quality you most like in a woman?

Confidence

33. Who is your favourite hero of fiction?

Sherlock Holmes

34. Who are your heroes in real life?

Anyone who has the balls to leave

35. How would you like to die?

Slowly and in a lot of pain to prove that I won't cry out to god

36. If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, who or what do you suspect it would be?

I've never given it any thought, because it's something I simply don't believe in

37. If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be?

I don't think I'd take that option.

38. What is your favourite colour, flower, bird, and occupation?

All of them, liliacs, raven, entertainer

39. Who are your favourite writers, composers, painters, and poets?

Stephen King, Lou Reed, John Williams, Danny Elfman, Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan

40. What is your motto?

You only live once, so make the best of it.

[Takamo]

1. What is your present state of mind?
- A dreamy imaginatory state.

2. What is your greatest fear?
-Other than a slight case of clausterphobia, and a bigger fear of arachnids, my greatest fear is to die totally, utterly, completely alone. I'm not afraid of death itself, but to die alone would be quite a frightening experience for me.

3. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
-The blissful feelings a person can get out of the blue.

4. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
- I was never that good in history, so unfortunately, I can't really identify myself with any sort of figure. But if I were to ponder about it, I'd have to say Shakespeare and those that were in the theatre business. They allowed themselves to be their imagination's play things.

5. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
- I absolutely hate narrow-minds, hypocrisy and lack of tolerence with a sense of stupidity. If I can tolerate your stupidity and such, then you certainly can tolerate me.

6. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
- I hate my lack of back bone and that I have a hard time saying no to something even if it really inconveniances me. (Although if it's someone pressuring sexual things on me that I don't want, I can say no to that easily)

7. What is your greatest extravagance?
-I'd have to say the most expensive thing I've ever bought was the ring for my fiance.

8. What is your favourite journey?
A journey where there's no thought necessary. A journey where you walk out the door in a direction and just continue going 'til you feel like stopping.

9. On what occasions do you lie?
-When I utmost have to. Whether it's getting out of coming into work on a day off, or trying to keep a gift a surprise for someone. Other than that, not that often.

10. Where would you like to live?
-Anywheres, really.. as long as I won't wake up with a spider on my face and a scorpian in my bed.

11. Which historical figure do you most despise?
-Most people might say Hitler.. but I don't really despise anyone. I'm not a despising sort.

12. Which living person do you most despise?
-Like I said, not much of a despising person.

13. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
- Bugger!

14. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
-The greatest love of my life is my fiance. In material things, it's drawing, roleplaying.

15. What is your greatest regret?
- That I'm a bit too trustworthy and that I never experienced what it was like to live with my biological mother.

16. When and where were you happiest?
-I was my happiest when I was proposed to.


17. If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
- That my mother would have not been so afraid to come into my life sooner.

18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
-My skittishness and shyness and slight paranoia.

19. What do you most value in your friends?
-Trust, honesty and loyalty as well as a good sense of humor.

20. What is your principal defect?
-You like a lot of these defect questions. I guess I can't really articulate into words what I'm thinking most of the time.

21. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
-To loose one's senses and one's sense of who they are.

22. What would you like to be?
I wouldn't mind being an animator or actor.

23. What natural gift would you like most to possess?
-The ability to be a good speaker in general.

24. To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
-I spend whatever money I have on other people instead of myself. It makes me happy.

25. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
- In my opinion and experience, it's fake friendship. People are nice to your face, but once you're gone, they'll bash you about more than ever.

26. In what country would you like to live?
-I wouldn't mind living in Australia, Scotland, England or France.

27. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
- So far, it's been graduating from high-school.

28. What do you regard as the lowest depths of misery?
- An unweilding sense of despair that you just can't shake off.

29. What is your most treasured possession?
-My fedora, my engagement ring and my P&T book. (not in that order, mind you)

30. What is your most marked characteristic?
- I'm always willing to cheer somone up by making them laugh, I tend to be the shoulder to cry on and just be there for a person in whatever way possible.

31. What is the quality you most like in a man?
-A sense of humor, respect and loyalty.

32. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
- Same things!

(Unable to finish as I'm being booted off the computer!)