Proust Questionnaire: Shubhda's answers

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On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:08:33 UTC Shubhda (24) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Being separated from my loved ones
Where would you like to live?: Where I can walk by the sea and feel the sand under my feet
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To have my loved ones happy and healthy, to achieve my material ambitions without abandoning my beliefs in myself and the world around me
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: denials and excuses
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Ones that are not bound by time or possibilities
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Socrates, to borrow from proust, a host of women who lost voice and agency in struggles personal and political, in fact all those who went unheard or heard only through a via medium of a biased nature
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My mother, her strength is something I always admire even though I will always be very different. Again, all those women who fight unnamed battles every day.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Woolfian characters
Your favorite painter?: Vincent
Your favorite musician?: hard to say
The quality you most admire in a man?: Honesty and humility. one who is at ease with himself, comfortable in his skin
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Honesty and humility. one who is at ease with herself. feels no need to prove anything to to the world. only to herself.
Your favorite virtue?: being true to yourself. deserving all the respect you get. and respecting all that you get.
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, dreaming, watching the moon chagnge sides and people change hearts.
Who would you have liked to be?: a more focussed version of myself.
Your most marked characteristic?: to others i'm pleasant, to myself i'm insecure
What do you most value in your friends?: when they're there without being asked
What is your principle defect?: lack of determination
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: if i was born insensitive
What would you like to be?: again, a more determined version of myself
What is your favorite color?: purple
What is your favorite flower?: lilies
What is your favorite bird?: the woodpecker, has a distinct character
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Woolf, Shukle, Winterson, Wilde, shakespeare of course
Who are your favorite poets?: dickinson, ghalib
Who are your heroes in real life?: all those who dare to follow their hearts
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: same as i said already
What are your favorite names?: kabir,
What is it you most dislike?: insensitivity to people and nature
What historical figures do you most despise?: all those who created discontent between brothers
What event in military history do you most admire?: every struggle for freedom
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: a very determined mind. i already think im quite charming.
How would you like to die?: in my beloved's arms.
What is your present state of mind?: peaceful but restless
What is your motto?: to find one, one day

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