Proust Questionnaire

The Proust Questionnaire has its origins in a parlor game popularized (though not devised) by Marcel Proust, the French essayist and novelist, who believed that, in answering these questions, an individual reveals his or her true nature. (Go tohttp://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/archive/proust_questionnaire if you want Krista’s source for info)

Here is the basic Proust Questionnaire:

1.What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Being intellectual and loved for who i am.

2.What is your greatest fear?

Failure or loneliness

3.What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

My lack of confidence

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

Self-centeredness

5.Which living person do you most admire?

my family members

6.What is your greatest extravagance?
BOOKS!!

7.What is your current state of mind?

crazy

8.What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
they are all good but for myself, I need to be less cautious

9.On what occasion do you lie?

when the truth is hurtful and not necessary to say - like, that hat is butt ugly. if a person likes a butt ugly hat let them wear it.

10.What do you most dislike about your appearance?
my lack of investment in it

11.Which living person do you most despise? my ex

12.What is the quality you most like in a man?
acceptance, selflessness, love

13.What is the quality you most like in a woman?
confidence tempered with real interest in others

14.Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
"It's my fault."

15.What or who is the greatest love of your life?
God or books

16.When and where were you happiest?
Costa Rica 2006

17.Which talent would you most like to have?
flirting :)

18.If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
my view of myself

19.What do you consider your greatest achievement?
surviving 1 and a half years of teaching

20.If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
a greatly loved book, one that a person reads over and over, writes in, etc.

21.Where would you most like to live?

a large city

22.What is your most treasured possession?
my books

23.What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
being mistreated by people

24.What is your favorite occupation?

writer or student

25.What is your most marked characteristic?
kindness

26.What do you most value in your friends?

acceptance and nerdyness! :)

27.Who are your favorite writers?

The Brontes, Teresa of Avila, Charles Dickens

28.Who is your hero of fiction?
Jane Eyre, Charles Darnay (Tale of Two Cities), Jean Valjean (Les Miserables), Robert Langdon, Sookie Stackhouse, La mujer del juez (from Isabel Allende story of the same name), Harry Potter and/or Neville Longbottom

29.Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Emily Dickenson, Mary Todd Lincoln, Sacagawea or Teresa of Avila

30.Who are your heroes in real life?

my family

31.What are your favorite names?

Lily, Poppy, Brendan, Caden,Erik

32.What is it that you most dislike?
selfish people, rude people

33.What is your greatest regret?

not standing up for myself in my long term relationship

34.How would you like to die?
in my sleep after a happy life

35.What is your motto?
God doesn't make junk!

Whoever has God is missing nothing! Only God is enough