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.

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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?
The deed, cashed complete mortage checks, receipt for taxes, and keys to my dream house.

2.Who did you want to be when you were a kid? Who do you want to be now? A rikishi, a priest, a novelist, a samurai, and Mechagodzilla (no, really).

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?
Try to be more patient and kinder to each other. Oh, and more wild animalistic sex.

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? Avoid food made with high fructose corn syrup, which is something that I'm actually doing now.

5. What stops you from getting what you want out of life? An evil invisible monkey named Mimblepumbadoodoo who has taken it upon himself to give me a karmic hotfoot and metaphorical stiffarm every chance he gets.
No, seriously, probably my own laziness and distraction.

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

7. What skill or talent do you most wish that you had? The ability to sing David Bowie songs in other languages, like Portugues. See "The Life Aquatic" for more info. I would say if superpowers were included, the ability to cause an orgasm just by touch, the same way an electric eel discharges electricity.

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?
Thanks to a dilettante membership in the SCA during college, I can not only fence, I can also capably hit people in metal/leather/carpet armor with sticks of rattan. My only victory on the field of battle was over a good natured, middle-aged hippie.

9. What one thing in the world are you most in love with right now? Hmm, one thing. If a thing is be a person, it would be rougewench, but if it's an interest, I suppose it would be the thrill of running and playing in especially fun tabletop games with people whose company I really enjoy.

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?
It would be a comedy, because if life has any meaning, it's in laughter. Probably a comedy shown in a theatre with a jumpsuited guy and a couple of robots making wisecracks.
I might say that I would love to live a life that would be a porn film, but frankly, as entertaining as that sort of thing is, you turn it off after a few minutes and are on to a Roger Corman movie.