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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Here you are:

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

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 resume for a perfect candidate for the finance director position I'm trying to fill, a monte cristo sandwich, $1500 in fifty-dollar bills, and 5 hits of acid. Preferably, each of these things would be adequately packaged to keep them from getting on each other.

2. Who did you want to be when you were a kid? Who do you want to be now?
a) A scientist, preferably the sort who got to be an astronaut.
b) Mostly myself, but better looking.

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?
Two things: 1) stop fearing the internet, 2) generalize less.

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?
Probably stopping procrastinating. This would also include not worrying about whether the thing I was working on was going to turn out to be inadequate and just do it. So much of my putting off is about understanding that if I say that I did something at the last minute, people will understand why it's crap, whereas if I started the project when I should have, and it's crap, it would be just because I couldn't do any better a job. And that's okay. I prefer to be good at everything I try, but it doesn't kill me not to be.

5. What stops you from getting what you want out of life?
Not enough hours in the day, not enough Saturdays in the month.

6. What's the one thing that has happened to you that has done the most towards making you stronger, better, and more capable?
Perversely, living with the Bad Ex. I don't worry about money any more, because I know that I can support myself and somebody else out of my paycheck for a very, very long time. I also know that a great many things that I thought surely would kill me if they ever were to occur, actually will not kill me, but merely annoy me.

7. What skill or talent do you most wish that you had?
Drawing well. I draw at the level of "Oooh, is that a pony?", and so many of the things in my brain would be better communicated in pictures than words.

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?
Nope. I'm hoping to one day encounter a situation in which my ability to manifest the lyrics to songs I haven't heard in 10 years will be useful, though.

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

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?
I generally suspect it to be British comedy. I'm okay with that.