Hi, and welcome to the first blog of many for my English Composition class. This first assignment is a questionnaire known as the Proust Questionnaire, which has its origins in a parlor game popularized by Marcel Proust, the French essayist and novelist, who believed that, in answering these questions, an individual reveals his or her true nature. I found this a little difficult to fill out due to the intrusive nature of some of the questions, but it was interesting to have to think about some of them, I discovered some things about myself because of these questions. Things that I normally wouldn’t have to think about.
The Proust Questionnaire __1.__What is your idea of perfect happiness? My idea of perfect happiness would be to wake up every day in a different state at a different drag strip with my mobile home pulling my two-car trailer traveling around the country drag racing, without the pressures of life weighing on me. Also, the resources to live freely without the hassles of having to work for somebody else and the worries of not having money to do what I need or want to do. __2.__What is your greatest fear? The thing I fear the most is being broke and homeless, with no chance of rebounding from whatever situation put me there. __3.__What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? The thing I deplore in myself is my shyness around people I don’t know and not being as outgoing as other people. __4.__What is the trait you most deplore in others? Most people I’ve encountered in this part of the world are always quick to want to argue about whatever the subject maybe. Most aren’t hospitable, most think there is an ulterior motive to a stranger speaking to them. __5.__Which living person do you most admire? Anyone who has the drive and desire to work for themselves and is successful while doing it. __6.__What is your greatest extravagance? My greatest extravagance is my Race Car. I bought it in 1997 finished building it in 2000 and have been racing it, fixing it and updating it ever since. __7.__What is your current state of mind? Calm but with an underling feeling of anxiousness. __8.__What do you consider the most overrated virtue? For me it would have to be friendliness. __9.__On what occasion do you lie? I don’t normally but on the rare occasion I do it would in a situation where I was trying to keep the peace. __10.__What do you most dislike about your appearance? Right now, I would say my weight, if I lost about 20lbs I would feel a lot better about myself. __11.__Which living person do you most despise? Donald Trump __12.__What is the quality you most like in a man? Humor __13.__What is the quality you most like in a woman? Honesty __14.__Which words or phrases do you most overuse? I don’t know __15.__What or who is the greatest love of your life? Cars and making them fast. __16.__When and where were you happiest? There are a couple things that I’m the happiest while doing. One is racing my car. Speed is like a drug to me it puts a huge smile on my face. Two is traveling to places I haven’t been before. __17.__Which talent would you most like to have? There are three talents I would like to have one would be to write with confidence, to draw and the other would be to play the guitar __18.__If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? The biggest thing would be to be more assertive. __19.__What do you consider your greatest achievement? Building my car from the ground up with information that I read in books and magazines. __20.__If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? A car __21.__Where would you most like to live? I don’t have a specific place just anywhere there aren’t a lot of people and my nearest neighbor is far enough away so I can’t hear or see them. __22.__What is your most treasured possession? My car, I have a lot of blood, sweat and tears in it. It took me over three years to build it and it’s the one thing I can say I built myself. __23.__What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Being homeless, jobless and feeling like there is no way up from there. __24.__What is your favorite occupation? Metal fabricator. __25.__What is your most marked characteristic? Using my hands when I talk __26.__What do you most value in your friends? Honesty and trust __27.__Who are your favorite writers? Don’t have any. __28.__Who is your hero of fiction? Spiderman __29.__Which historical figure do you most identify with? Haven’t really thought about it. __30.__Who are your heroes in real life? First responders, and those who gave their lives for our freedom __31.__What are your favorite names? Never really thought to much about it. __32.__What is it that you most dislike? People who steal, weather it be identity or material. __33.__What is your greatest regret? My biggest regret is that I didn’t go back to school sooner than this. __34.__How would you like to die? Happy and wealthy and the last of my family to go. __35__What is your motto? Life is short, live it like every day is your last, because it could be.
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Sabatino
1/27/2020 04:16:43 pm
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Crisa
1/28/2020 07:26:54 pm
I'm the same exact way with the trait you said you most deplore about yourself, shyness is the worst! :(
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