Proust Questionnaire: Daydreamer's answers

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On Thu, 25 Aug 16 21:53:24 UTC Daydreamer (63) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be alienated by my own child
Where would you like to live?: Somewhere idyllic, but safe with healthy resources and technology
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To have my in-home Art gallery, music, water, and nature in close proximity
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Having the feeling of medoicrity while harboring a fear of failure
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: I am certainly drawn to the Romantics and laud the alternate realities
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Gandhi
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Florence Nightingale, Mary Jane Seacole, Nanny of the Maroons
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who show amazing strength of character, yet maintain femininity
Your favorite painter?: Peter Max
Your favorite musician?: Herbie Hancock
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Softness
Your favorite virtue?: Humaneness
Your favorite occupation?: Daydreaming, painting and poetry
Who would you have liked to be?: An improved version of myself
Your most marked characteristic?: The ability to conceal my insecurities
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty
What is your principle defect?: weakness of will
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: never to have loved
What would you like to be?: Stronger
What is your favorite color?: Purple - a perfect blend of hot and cold
What is your favorite flower?: Chrysanthemums, if I must choose
What is your favorite bird?: The Budgerigar
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Elizabeth Bishop
Who are your favorite poets?: Pablo Neruda, Claude McKay, Robert Frost
Who are your heroes in real life?: The people who taught me early in life
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Mother Teresa
What are your favorite names?: Names that have meanings
What is it you most dislike?: Liars, Bigots, and superficial people along with masking cruelty with religion
What historical figures do you most despise?: The ones who had little regard for humankind for their own selfish needs
What event in military history do you most admire?: I don't find anything admirable in military history from my point of view
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The ability to say "No"
How would you like to die?: Peacefully
What is your present state of mind?: Impatience to finish this questionnaire
What is your motto?: Dreams don't die when you rise at daybreak

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