Proust Questionnaire: Shanna's answers

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On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:06:58 UTC Shanna (19) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To live in a way that disappoints the way I was raised.
Where would you like to live?: Near both family and friends.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Being complete.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Laziness and "knowing" what's best for others.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Superhumans.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Those that set the ways, that do not live by the book.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Mum.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Women that live for something.
Your favorite painter?: Mondrian.
Your favorite musician?: Bob Evans.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence with common sense.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Beauty.
Your favorite virtue?: Loyalty, honesty.
Your favorite occupation?: Whatever stirs happiness and completion.
Who would you have liked to be?: Myself, in a different era.
Your most marked characteristic?: A need to make others feel happiness.
What do you most value in your friends?: Their presence.
What is your principle defect?: Being defensive, all the time.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have lived differently.
What would you like to be?: Me, only more perfect.
What is your favorite color?: Purple.
What is your favorite flower?: Orchid.
What is your favorite bird?: Finch.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: "I fear I am not well educated in prose to answer this question."
Who are your favorite poets?: No, thank you.
Who are your heroes in real life?: My mother.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: As above, and nobody in particular.
What are your favorite names?: Yes there is only one at a time. Veda.
What is it you most dislike?: Physically experiencing "you can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you just might find you get what you need."
What historical figures do you most despise?: None at the moment.
What event in military history do you most admire?: How can you choose only one? Every war, every small incident, requires innocent people donating themselves to their country.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The ability to fly.
How would you like to die?: In a car crash, and as someone that is well-loved and well-remembered.
What is your present state of mind?: I am sad.
What is your motto?: I live by many.

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