I olika podcasts har jag märkt att det talats en del om Prousts questionnaire i sommar. Det var länge sen det var någon lista här nu så jag biter tag i denna. Krävdes en hel del tankeförmåga! Jag svarar på engelska för jag orkar inte ställa om hjärnan mitt i eller översätta. Svara gärna ni också!
1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Perfect happiness for me does not exist. Happiness is momentary bliss combined with the ability to forget. I focus my life on mercy. Mercy is everywhere and demands nothing of you but acknowledgement.
2. What is your greatest fear?
To lose my core.
3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
That I refuse to give up. Sometimes things are impossible. I realise it only when I am exhausted, sometimes not even then.
4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Opting for quick fixes. I am thinking in a political context mainly but applies generally to.
5. Which living person do you most admire?
I struggle to answer this one!
6. What is your greatest extravagance?
I am quite modest in my spending. I do not like wasting money but I like little luxuries now and then.
7. What is your current state of mind?
Peaceful.
8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Virtues are the counterpart of sins, and I am not too fond of either. But maybe courage. Courage is not something that you have but that you get when you need it.
9. On what occasion do you lie?
When I am scared.
10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
I do my best not to think about it.
11. Which living person do you most despise?
Struggle equally with this as the question of whom I admire.
12. What is the quality you most like in a man?
In the era of equality it is difficult to say why this would differ from just people in general. But in a man specifically I think humility. A virtue actually.
13. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Wit.
14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
I am careful how I express myself professionally or in a formal setting but in everyday life I prefer speed over quality so I would say words that do not exist, no commas and generally strange sentences.
15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
My faith and what it brings me.
16. When and where were you happiest?
Anywhere with friends, wine and cats. 'A cat meowing at your feet, looking up at you, that is life smiling at you' - from the lovely documentary about cats in Istanbul.
17. Which talent would you most like to have?
I would like to have the confidence to use and explore the talents I do have.
18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
That I would trust myself more and follow my intuiton.
19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
I would say to admit failure (see number 3) and have the strength to carry on.
20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
A tree.
21. Where would you most like to live?
By a lake or the sea.
22. What is your most treasured possession?
Nothing material.
23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
When you cannot reach another person.
24. What is your favorite occupation?
Photography.
25. What is your most marked characteristic?
Reliable. Abstracted sometimes.
26. What do you most value in your friends?
Sense of humour, speed in conversations, generosity, depth, fun and trust.
27. Who are your favorite writers?
Pär Lagerkvist. Leo Tolstoj. Fjodor Dostojevskij. Märta Tikkanen. Kerstin Thorvall. Edith Södergran. Karin Boye. Jeanette Winterson. W B Yeats.
28. Who is your hero of fiction?
Alice in Wonderland.
30. Who are your heroes in real life?
Every person who works in care, education and emergency services.
31. What are your favorite names?
No idea.
32. What is it that you most dislike?
Illness.
33. What is your greatest regret?
All the time I have wasted.
34. How would you like to die?
Without a struggle.
35. What is your motto?
Vad gör det om hundra år när allting kommer kring?
