Proust Questionnaire: Vikram's answers

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On Tue, 27 Mar 18 08:28:19 UTC Vikram (29) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To live a life devoid of wealth and respect
Where would you like to live?: Where I live currently
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To live with good health, loads of wealth, with my friends and family around to share in my happiness and sorrows
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Persistence in the face of failure
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Edmond Dantes
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Vlad The Impaler
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Marie Curie
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Debjani Thakur
Your favorite painter?: Dali
Your favorite musician?: Noel Gallagher
The quality you most admire in a man?: Humility, Calmness
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Dignity, Affection and Optimism
Your favorite virtue?: Kindness, Generosity, and Common Sense
Your favorite occupation?: Listening to music, reading books, watching movies
Who would you have liked to be?: Nobody but myself
Your most marked characteristic?: An ability to see both sides of any given conundrum
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty
What is your principle defect?: A lack of shrewdness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: An inability to take care of one's loved ones
What would you like to be?: A more successful version of myself
What is your favorite color?: Blue
What is your favorite flower?: Daisies
What is your favorite bird?: Sparrows
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Khushwant Singh, Anuja Chauhan
Who are your favorite poets?: Ahmad Faraaz, Jaun Elia
Who are your heroes in real life?: My father, and a few personal friends who shall remain unnamed
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Marie Curie
What are your favorite names?: None
What is it you most dislike?: Arrogance, Entitlement, Disrespect
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Israeli 6 day war, and Operation Entebbe, and of course, Normandy and Stalingrad. Closer home, 1971 and Kargil 99
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Charm and Charisma
How would you like to die?: In my sleep
What is your present state of mind?: Exhausted, mildly anxious over things beyond my control and a sense of yearning for someone who may or may not be.
What is your motto?: If it wasn't this, it'd be something else

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