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featherynscaleNot 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.
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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Date: 2007-10-26 09:12 pm (UTC)2. An older me. And now, a Dr. Me who makes everyone use my first name instead of my title. There was a time when I wanted to be someone else, but those days were missed in the questions coming after being a kid but before now.
3. To strangers -- admit now that they cannot figure me out. To friends and family -- I like you guys pretty much like the way we interact now.
4. I would change my quick temper. I my not (always) react outwardly, but when I do, it pisses me off. :-)
5. Absolutely nothing. Lots of things try, but nothing's stopped me yet.
6. Going through my difficult divorce; while I left by myself, I had fabulous friends and family supporting me who are still fabulous now that things are better. I learned so much, especially about other people. I re-learned some very important things I had forgotten about myself too. The most important thing I learned is my own worth; most people don't realize how much they are really worth, but livng in a state of worthlessness is a nasty place to live.
7. Read baby minds. But then stop it when they turn 2, because I don't want to be able to know exactly what people are thinking because I need to learn too as well as everyone else in the world.
8. Cross stitching and crocheting -- not that i thought they were silly, it's just that I thought they were incredibly easy. I still do, but I have realized now that being able to do them nicely really is a talent. My mom's work doesn't look like mine although she is really good at also; but I didn't really realize that other people just "don't get it" when I attempted to teach a few people. And they produced, well, sloppy projects that I would have been embarassed to put my name on. And techniques become refined over the years, so I can look back on early work and see all my dreadful mistakes that now I could easily avoid while someone else looks at it and sees beauty. But being able to do this "easy" stuff has paid... quite literally.
9. Thing? Not person? Besides, how could a Gemini pick one? It's all one in its multiplicty.
"The fresh Earth in new leaves dressed,
And the starry night;
Autumn evening, and the morn
When the golden mists are born.
I love snow, and all the forms
Of the radiant frost;
I love waves, and winds, and storms,
Everything almost
Which is Nature's, and may be
Untainted by man's misery.
I love tranquil solitude,
And such society
As is quiet, wise, and good"
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
10. It would be unclassifiable like a movie based off an Amy Tan novel (without all the Chinese people) or a Cameron Crowe movie that sometimes you find in comedy sections, sometimes drama when they really belong in a 'tween section. Never horror, though. And no, I wouldn't prefer it any other way.