revealing questionaire

The Proust Questionnaire:

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness? Being able to take care of myself and doing something I love to contribute to the world.

2. What is your greatest fear? Not ever becoming a mommy.

3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? I worry too much. love too hard

4. What is the trait you most deplore in others? selfishness

5. Which living person do you most admire? My sister Angie, I think that she is a great mother and hope that I can one day be like her.


6. What is your greatest extravagance? my sewing machine

7. What is your current state of mind? worried

8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue? patience

9. On what occasion do you lie? when I get tired of talking to people who ask me stupid questions

10. What do you most dislike about your appearance? honestly nothing

11. Which living person do you most despise? I don't totally despise people but there are some that I just would not give the time of day too.

12. What is the quality you most like in a man? gentleness

13. What is the quality you most like in a woman? open heart

14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse? "you know what"

15. What or who is the greatest love of your life? my family, Alexis and Fahim

16. When and where were you happiest? the day I met Micah. I am not sure that I have ever been happier

17. Which talent would you most like to have? singing

18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? being introverted

19. What do you consider your greatest achievement? not sure that I have one.

20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? I would come back as me.

21. Where would you most like to live? in a time and place where the content of your character meant more than the color of your skin

22. What is your most treasured possession? my laptop, my books and my sewing machine

23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? hate

24. What is your favorite occupation? writer

25. What is your most marked characteristic? my love

26. What do you most value in your friends? honesty

27. Who are your favorite writers? Francis Ray, Beverly Jenkins, Maya Angelou, and Rochelle Alers

28. Who is your hero of fiction? Katherine Wildhorse from the book Topaz by Beverly Jenkins

29. Which historical figure do you most identify with? Maya Angelou

30. Who are your heroes in real life? my sister Angelia, Maya Angelou, Oprah

31. What are your favorite names? Amaryss, Brooklyn, Garrison, and Blake

32. What is it that you most dislike? people who waste my time

33. What is your greatest regret? not finishing college

34. How would you like to die? Pain free

35. What is your motto? you only get once chance at this life, take it