Proust Questionnaire: Aaron Guy Leroux's answers

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On Sat, 07 May 16 07:59:27 UTC Aaron Guy Leroux (37) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be engaged in work that is at odds with your calling
Where would you like to live?: In a state of utter freedom adorned with a strong community
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To have a sustaining practice that holds my desire, demands my attention and requires effort
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: The tearing down of authority
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those who begin their journey thinking they are common only to discover that they are anything but
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Huxley, Montaigne, Moitessier, Bobby Kennedy, Rilke
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Earhart, Jane Goodall, Hepburn, Rosa Parks
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: The relentless ones, filled with grit, resilience, and tenacity.
Your favorite painter?: Renoir
Your favorite musician?: Bob Dylan
The quality you most admire in a man?: Kindness
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Kindness
Your favorite virtue?: Tenacity
Your favorite occupation?: Photographer
Who would you have liked to be?: It would have been interesting to live as Hunter S. Thompson
Your most marked characteristic?: Defiance. I don't claim it is admirable, but it certainly has its place.
What do you most value in your friends?: Kindness, honesty, openness
What is your principle defect?: I have none. I am a human being, I carry no curse; I move from moment to moment and sometimes my gifts and talents match the moment. Other times, they do not.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Living in fear
What would you like to be?: Kind, open, curious and honest. Always willing to change, to explore, and to bet big on myself and my life.
What is your favorite color?: Blue
What is your favorite flower?: Tulip
What is your favorite bird?: Hawk
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Rilke
Who are your favorite poets?: Jason Barry, Rilke
Who are your heroes in real life?: My friends
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Earhart, Jane Goodall, Hepburn, Rosa Parks
What are your favorite names?: It is only a label, some more fitting than others for an occasion.
What is it you most dislike?: Mendacity, Authority, Corruption, Hypocrisy, the smallness of men
What historical figures do you most despise?: Those who destroy and consume for their own granduer
What event in military history do you most admire?: The signing of peace treaties
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: A talent for languages
How would you like to die?: To be torn limb from limb by wolves...I want to be an active participant in my death and I would not like to spared one moment of the sensation.
What is your present state of mind?: Calm, hungry, with a garnish of stress from a task I must do that sits on the horizon
What is your motto?: Everything is possible

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