Proust Questionnaire: Camille's answers

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On Sun, 17 Aug 14 22:49:39 UTC Camille (52) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To discover life has no purpose, nor meaning.
Where would you like to live?: Where there are happy loving people.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Enjoying friends, family, interacting with diverse persons...
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: The occasional hubris in anger in not getting what I want when I think it is of the highest good.. there is another plan...
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Le Petite Prince; Winnie the Pooh; Alice in Wonderland; Amelie...
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Captain John Yossarian - of Catch 22... really those characters that question what's wrong in the status quo.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Most "Marys"... Magdellena; Mother...; etc...
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: The archetypes of strength in adversity... as seen in real life examples (as above)...
Your favorite painter?: toulouse lautrec. I narrow down only by who was most impactful... of my life time love of art.
Your favorite musician?: John Coltrane... I narrow down only by who was first... of my life time love of music.
The quality you most admire in a man?: a stong moral compass, with the buffer of humor and humility.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Yes, naturalness... nothing to admire in 'fake' women... throws it off for all of us. (women).
Your favorite virtue?: compassion.
Your favorite occupation?: learning.
Who would you have liked to be?: Someone worthy of living.
Your most marked characteristic?: my attention to detail.
What do you most value in your friends?: they are themselves.
What is your principle defect?: impatience with slow or complicated change that intends improvements.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: That my parents pass away before I am ready... I know - selfish...
What would you like to be?: Better each day. Enough to eventually get my wings... (a metaphor for meaning and purpose...)
What is your favorite color?: a rainbow... Particularly, toward the violet end.
What is your favorite flower?: Orchids.
What is your favorite bird?: Cardinals.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Anais Nin. I narrow down only by who came first to mind.... why have one? how can you have only one?
Who are your favorite poets?: Kahlil Gibran. I narrow down only by who rang true to my heart. early (6th grade)...
Who are your heroes in real life?: Miss Christie; Mr Hughes... My 2 respective high school art teachers.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Anne Sexton; Virginia Woolf; Sylvia Plath... Yes, suicides: spoke so much of vulnerability and the courage it takes to live...
What are your favorite names?: I don't think like that... it's more if the name fits, that it has some appeal, the name has some kind of id...
What is it you most dislike?: the behavior of liars, lying, conmen... any falseness... I want to believe off the bat...
What historical figures do you most despise?: Historically, it will always be reprehensible behaviors... start with falseness...
What event in military history do you most admire?: Most recent years, it is the direction that Pope Francis has guided the troops of humanity in this world.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The ability to heal another's pain on site.
How would you like to die?: quick, painless, arriving immediately on the other side....
What is your present state of mind?: thoughtful.
What is your motto?: I hope to earn my wings...

Hmmm, I wonder what will be me in 10 / 20 years...

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