Proust Questionnaire: Cherlyn's answers

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On Fri, 16 Oct 15 22:52:37 UTC Cherlyn (40) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be completely misunderstood
Where would you like to live?: Somewhere beautiful, where when I wake in the morning I can open my window and look at a mountain.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: A period spent with good friends, in sunshine, with long walks and long laughs.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Eating! Rich, delicious, surprising, intriguing, flavours
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The fiesty and misunderstood - people that want the best but don't know how to get it.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Queen Elizabeth, Buddha, Emperor Ashoka, Ghandi
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Women that are standing up for our rights,
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: The women that can balance it all - that lead by example; but still have the darkness
Your favorite painter?: Van Gogh
Your favorite musician?: Radiohead
The quality you most admire in a man?: Insight, integrity
The quality you most admire in a woman?: congruence, wit
Your favorite virtue?: wisdom
Your favorite occupation?: Dance, read, laugh, watch movies
Who would you have liked to be?: Angelina Jolie
Your most marked characteristic?: Big dreams and big imagination
What do you most value in your friends?: That they are undemanding but ever present
What is your principle defect?: Pride and impatience
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To never graduate from university
What would you like to be?: I want to be a counsellor and free from the constraints of corporate employment
What is your favorite color?: Green - it is the colour of the world
What is your favorite flower?: Any kind of lily
What is your favorite bird?: The crow - other birds may be flashy but the crow knows!!!
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman
Who are your favorite poets?: Judith Wright, Pablo Neruda, Rumi
Who are your heroes in real life?: My brother, Ross Davies, and my friends
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: The sufferagettes
What are your favorite names?: Cairo and Leif
What is it you most dislike?: My limitations
What historical figures do you most despise?: The warmongers
What event in military history do you most admire?: Ghandi's non violent protest against the British
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Great beauty - as a woman in this time it seems to act as a super power
How would you like to die?: Extremely old, surrounded by people I love
What is your present state of mind?: I am irritated, I've got a lot to do today
What is your motto?: It's my decision

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