Proust Questionnaire: Dilip C Louis's answers

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On Wed, 26 Oct 16 19:00:48 UTC Dilip C Louis (32) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To wallow so deeply in self pity as to not realize the sheer joy of simply being alive
Where would you like to live?: In a really big house with lots of family and friends on premises
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be dedicated to some life-long project of social benefit, preferably with family and friends by my side; to have sound mind and sound body for as long as possible
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: The lack of a love life, and the feeling that women see through my weaknesses and will never really desire me
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Jean Valjean, Ip Man (not really fiction I guess), Alan Breck Stewart, Huckleberry Finn
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Seneca The Younger, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Michel de Montaigne, Socrates, Nehru, JFK, Faraday, Alan Turing...many more
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Elizabeth Warren, my mother
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Violet Baudelaire, Leslie Knope
Your favorite painter?: Probably anyone who brings out beauty in the ordinary
Your favorite musician?: Keith Richards
The quality you most admire in a man?: Cooperation
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Determination
Your favorite virtue?: Courage
Your favorite occupation?: Running
Who would you have liked to be?: Bill Gates
Your most marked characteristic?: Unfortunately many people might say I'm "nice", but I don't like that word. I think that my power of introspection and self-correction is formidable.
What do you most value in your friends?: They should have my back like I have theirs. For example, I would never publicly humiliate a friend to get a laugh from an audience.
What is your principle defect?: Lack of willpower
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have had everything "work out" the way I sometimes wish it did
What would you like to be?: Always content, always pushing forward, there for others when they need me
What is your favorite color?: British Racing Green
What is your favorite flower?: Delonix regia
What is your favorite bird?: Hummingbird
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Not sure what a prose writer is.....
Who are your favorite poets?: Omar Khayyam, Rudyard Kipling, Tennyson
Who are your heroes in real life?: My parents, my colleague JJ, my colleague Ed
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Indira Gandhi, Joan of Arc, Marie Curie
What are your favorite names?: Olympia, Elizabeth, Isabel, James,
What is it you most dislike?: When I go against what I know I should do
What historical figures do you most despise?: Mohammed, Henry Kissinger (the bastard is still alive, but thankfully no longer causing global mayhem)
What event in military history do you most admire?: Kruschev and JFK ignoring their hawks and backing away from a potential nuclear WW3 during the Cuban Missile Crisis
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Continous Humour
How would you like to die?: Knowing that I did well in Life, and surrounded by loved ones
What is your present state of mind?: Happiness at how far I've come in the past two years in terms of my mental state
What is your motto?: All real value arises within me.

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