In which our hero appears to conform to the standards of Content-Free Friday, but actually doesn't.

[featherynscale]

Not that I don't love reading about when you all threw up last, and whatnot, but we seem to spend a vast amount of our journaling time answering lists of questions that were probably written by 15-year-olds. I'm personally inclined to harness that tendency to appease my curiosity. Therefore, I present:
10 Questions, the Answers to Which I Will Genuinely Find Interesting:

1. If a magical wish-granting genie offered you a shoe-box and told you that whatever you wanted most that would fit inside that box would be what you'd find upon opening the lid, what would be in your box?

2. Who did you want to be when you were a kid? Who do you want to be now?

3. If you could ask your friends, family, partner(s), co-workers, or even other people on the street to change the way they interacted with you in one respect in order to make your life better, what would you ask them to change?

4. If you were to make the one change in your habits, behaviour, or lifestyle that be most likely to make your life better, what would you change?

5. What stops you from getting what you want out of life?

6. What's the one thing that has happened to you that has done the most towards making you stronger, better, and more capable?

7. What skill or talent do you most wish that you had?

8. Do you have any skills or talents that seemed useless or silly to you at first, but you now are glad that you have? What are they?

9. What one thing in the world are you most in love with right now?

10. If your life were a movie, what genre would it be in? Would you prefer to live a life that would make a different type of film?


Since I was sort of hoping this would reach meme-level, here's what I'd like to see: answer the questions, here in the comments thread, or in your own journal. You don't have to answer them all. To perpetuate the meme, you could either re-post my questions in your journal and ask your friends-list, or, if you don't like my questions, you could make a post including these instructions and replacing some or all of my 10 questions with questions that you're really interested in seeing people answer.

Comments

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

1. Can the shoebox contents be a placeholder for something larger, like a bank statement, or property deed? Phoo. This is a tough one. I guess I'll go with a boxful of flawless, cut diamonds. I've seen this question before somewhere, only the box was larger.

2a. Batman.
2b. A (lucratively-employed) computer tech.

3. Don't telephone me. Use text. Email and text-messaging are vastly preferable to voice calls.

4. I would see things as they ought to be, rather than as they are.

5. Inertia.

6. Stronger, better, and more capable than what? Are these adjectives supposed to apply to everybody?

7. I wish I could see myself the way that others see me.

8. The "useless or silly" part of this question is really throwing me off. Spatial perceptions, sense of direction, and an ability to tightly and narrowly focus my attention on a given subject have all varied in their usefulness from time to time.

9. San Francisco.

10. Is "Jim Jarmuschian" a genre? That would be my genre, I think. I wouldn't mind living in a surreal comedy movie, like something by the Coen Bros. or Terry Gilliam.

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You ask tough questions! ♥

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Stronger, better, and more capable than you used to be. No, they don't necessarily apply to everyone. I tend to think we improve with experience, but some people don't, at least not immediately. :Z

Jim Jarmuschian is totally a genre. And you probably saw the magic box question before because I think I asked it to you before. I'm always interested in knowing what people want (and knowing whether or not people know what they want).

[greektoomey.livejournal.com]

I'd still like for you to clarify the allowable box contents. If (as some are interpreting) the answer is not actually supposed to be constrained by the size of the box, that would totally change my approach to the question. But if that's your intent, then why specify the size of the box?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

My intent was to have people give answers that would actually fit in the box. Apparently, some people have desires that will not be bounded by other people's imposed limits. I'm cool with that, too.

[project-becky.livejournal.com]

I read it that the genie could make anything fit, because, you know, magic:)