About Me in 35 Stolen Questions

The "35 Questions" from Marcel Proust (1871-1921)
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1) WHAT IS YOUR IDEA OF PERFECT HAPPINESS?
A nice long day with my girlfriend :)

2) WHAT IS YOUR GREATEST FEAR?
Never living up to my potential

3) WHAT TRAIT DO YOU MOST DEPLORE IN YOURSELF?
Knowing I have problems I need to solve but still putting them off

4) WHAT TRAIT DO YOU MOST DEPLORE IN OTHER PEOPLE?
Lack of empathy

5) WHAT LIVING PERSON DO YOU MOST ADMIRE?
My girlfriend

6) WHAT IS YOUR GREATEST EXTRAVAGANCE?
I spend too much money on records and video games

7) WHAT IS YOUR CURRENT STATE OF MIND?
Anxious but hopeful for a greater future, if not for myself then for my future children

8) WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER THE MOST OVERRATED VIRTUE?
Self-indulgent pity

9) ON WHAT OCCASION DO YOU LIE?
When it would be rude to be truthful, or when my brother asks how much he owes me

10) WHAT DO YOU MOST DISLIKE ABOUT YOUR APPEARANCE?
Crooked nose and overweight (although I am beating the second one!)

11) WHAT LIVING PERSON DO YOU MOST DESPISE?
The Orange One

12) WHAT IS THE QUALITY YOU LIKE MOST IN A MAN?
Not just empathy, but wanting to help people in need

13) WHAT IS THE QUALITY YOU LIKE MOST IN A WOMAN?
Same ^

14) WHICH WORDS OR PHRASES DO YOU MOST OVERUSE?
In conversation, "uh" and "um". In writing, I don't know.

15) WHAT OR WHO IS THE GREATEST LOVE OF YOUR LIFE?
My girlfriend. It's not a coincidence my life went uphill when I met her.

16) WHEN AND WHERE WERE YOU HAPPIEST?
In my basement, telling my now Girlfriend that I love her for the first time - and the days after. I won't forget those days.

17) WHICH TALENT WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO HAVE?
I would like to be able to play guitar, but I'm too busy honing my writing skill to learn it

18) IF YOU COULD CHANGE ONE THING ABOUT YOURSELF, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
I don't want to change a single decision I made. I may have screwed myself over a little bit, but I wouldn't dare change a thing. I'm slowly becoming a man I can be proud of, and I don't want to ruin it. The journey has been worth it. That being said, my nose ;-;

19) WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER YOUR GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT?
Placing in the top three in a poetry contest

20) IF YOU WERE TO DIE AND COME BACK AS A PERSON OR A THING, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
A pen in the hand of the next greatest writer. Sounds hella egotistical but that's what I would hope for

21) WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO LIVE?
I think where I am is nice already. I don't want to spoil myself with a mansion, nobody needs that much space. A house with a few floors and a nice basement in a quiet suburban neighborhood in Michigan or Minnesota would be perfect.

22) WHAT IS YOUR MOST TREASURED POSSESSION?
My first Christmas card from my Girlfriend

23) WHAT DO YOU REGARD AS THE LOWEST DEPTH OF MISERY?
Being afraid of yourself

24) WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE OCCUPATION?
Writing poems for my Girlfriend

25) WHAT IS YOUR MOST MARKED CHARACTERISTIC?
I don't talk much, especially when the conversation includes more than one person

26) WHAT DO YOU MOST VALUE IN YOUR FRIENDS?
Still having fun together after all these years

27) WHO ARE YOUR FAVORITE WRITERS?
Ironically, I don't really have one. I'm not terribly interested in reading poetry, just writing it. I have been trying to read Robert Frost, though.

28) WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE HERO OF FICTION?
It changes, but it's currently Ender Wiggin from "Ender's Game"

29) WHICH HISTORICAL FIGURE DO YOU MOST IDENTIFY WITH?
John Locke, because I'm distantly related to him

30) WHO ARE YOUR HEROES IN REAL LIFE?
Robert Fripp, Tyler Okonma, my Dad

31) WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE NAMES?
Lylah, Blandon

32) WHAT IS IT THAT YOU MOST DISLIKE?
Unwillingness to accept change

33) WHAT IS YOUR GREATEST REGRET?
Being in my mother's womb when I should have been buying bitcoin

34) HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO DIE?
Alongside my girlfriend, and at the same time as her so I don't have to live a moment without her

35) WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
"Fuck this"