Proust’s Questionnaire

I stumbled onto this on an article about Bowie and then found this complete list of Proust questions. Let's see how this goes. 

 

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness? Being loved for just being me.
2. What is your greatest fear? Losing everything I have.
3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? My low self esteem.
4. What is the trait you most deplore in others? Stupidity and laziness.
5. Which living person do you most admire? Oprah, Madonna... women who dont really care what others think and just do their thing.
6. What is your greatest extravagance? Clothes and food.
7. What is your current state of mind? Mild anxiety.
8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Hard work.
9. On what occasion do you lie? When I feel embarrassed about the truth about myself.
10. What do you most dislike about your appearance? Everything.
11. Which living person do you most despise? No one in particular. Perhaps Gareth Cliff, Kanye or Trump but I dont care enough to hate them.
12. What is the quality you most like in a man? Dependability.
13. What is the quality you most like in a woman? Um.... non judgement.
14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse? Literally. :)
15. What or who is the greatest love of your life? The one I never got to meet.
16. When and where were you happiest? Afrikaburn 2014. 
17. Which talent would you most like to have? Ability to follow through on a plan.
18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? How I look.
19. What do you consider your greatest achievement? Getting back on my feet after a divorce.
20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? Butterfly.
21. Where would you most like to live? Mozambique.
22. What is your most treasured possession? Nothing much, at the moment. Perhaps my connection to the internet.
23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Losing a parent/child.
24. What is your favorite occupation? Psychologist
25. What is your most marked characteristic? Sense of humour.
26. What do you most value in your friends? When they laugh at my jokes.
27. Who are your favorite writers? No one in particular. 
28. Who is your hero of fiction? No one in particular.
29. Which historical figure do you most identify with? No one in particular.
30. Who are your heroes in real life? No one in particular.
31. What are your favorite names? Michael.
32. What is it that you most dislike? Anything new and dangerous.
33. What is your greatest regret? Getting married.
34. How would you like to die? Peacefully
35. What is your motto? Try anything once.