Proust Questionnaire: Col's answers

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On Mon, 11 Jul 16 04:17:06 UTC Col (41) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To liose my children
Where would you like to live?: Somewhere warm and peaceful in the country but close enough to town
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To feel connected to those I love and share friendship with. To feel I am caring for myself and my loved ones. To help and serve where I can.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Overeating and wasting time on social media
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Han Solo
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Gandhi and Mlk Jr
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My girlfriends, Jane Goodhall, Margaret mead
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Tess of the D'urbervilles
Your favorite painter?: Van Gogh
Your favorite musician?: Leonard Cohen
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, kindness and humour
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, kindness and humour
Your favorite virtue?: Kindness
Your favorite occupation?: Talking to interesting people
Who would you have liked to be?: Queen Elizabeth the first
Your most marked characteristic?: A quiet, disconnected attachment from those inlove the most.
What do you most value in your friends?: Kindness and loyalty
What is your principle defect?: Paralysis caused by fear of hurt and failure
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Never to have had my children
What would you like to be?: A more connected person
What is your favorite color?: Blue
What is your favorite flower?: Hydrangea
What is your favorite bird?: Cardinal
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Anne Lamott
Who are your favorite poets?: Yeats, Mary Oliver
Who are your heroes in real life?: Obama, a few of my old bosses
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Elizabeth the first, Boedica
What are your favorite names?: Names though interesting don't matter.... Grace, Jude, Julia
What is it you most dislike?: Pathological liars and sociopaths
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler
What event in military history do you most admire?: The end of wW2
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Charm, a lack of self-consciousness
How would you like to die?: An old woman, much loved and in her sleep
What is your present state of mind?: Tired
What is your motto?: You sign up, you show up.

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