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From thefridayfive:
1. What is the oldest object in the room with you?
Black and white photographs, from either the '40s or '50s.
2. What is the newest?
Christmas card from a friend.
3. What is your favorite object in the room with you?
A camera.
4. What is the most valuable object?
I just said, a camera. As for highest monetary value... I don't know. Everything in my room is used (mostly by me). Most of the electronics are old enough that paying their original purchase price would give me something entirely different.
5. What is the ugliest object?
A pressboard desk that's been used so heavily it barely supports one small monitor.
From the altfriday5:
1. How well do you feel you know your own limits (physical, mental, emotional, etc.)?
Fairly well, all-around.
2. When was the last time you pushed your limits?
I probably push my mental limits daily, emotional limits on a seasonal basis. Physical limits, not so often. I'm not an athlete.
3. Do you feel as though some of your limits are too low? In other words, do you find them frustrating? If yes, which ones, and why?
Duh, all of them. I'm tough to satisfy.
4. Have you ever been surprised by your limits (either pleasantly or unpleasantly)? If yes, tell us a bit about it.
Yes. Possibly in both directions on all three counts above, in the past. I'm spend more time in my head than elsewhere, so when I can't think through a problem, it's rather obvious that I've hit some sort of limit. I tend to complain about it. Sometimes I've looked back in hindsight and been surprised by emotional limits, but I'm not sure 'surprise' applies to non-emotional limits. Surprise is an emotion, after all. I've certainly learned things about my limits that I didn't know until they were exceeded, usually when really weird stuff happens.
5. How do you feel your limits compare to the general population's? Are they higher than average, average, or lower than average?
My tolerances are probably higher than average, or so it seems to me. Most people seem a little less willing to stretch, or at least really get into whatever place they work very well in. But I'd also say my closest friends are definite exceptions to that rule, so maybe I'm just snobbish or short-sighted. Outside of them... sometimes I wonder if the general population gets that time only happens once for humans. Many people seem hung up on the idea of maintaining some state they've slowly fallen into. I tend to complain about that, too.
1. What is the oldest object in the room with you?
Black and white photographs, from either the '40s or '50s.
2. What is the newest?
Christmas card from a friend.
3. What is your favorite object in the room with you?
A camera.
4. What is the most valuable object?
I just said, a camera. As for highest monetary value... I don't know. Everything in my room is used (mostly by me). Most of the electronics are old enough that paying their original purchase price would give me something entirely different.
5. What is the ugliest object?
A pressboard desk that's been used so heavily it barely supports one small monitor.
From the altfriday5:
1. How well do you feel you know your own limits (physical, mental, emotional, etc.)?
Fairly well, all-around.
2. When was the last time you pushed your limits?
I probably push my mental limits daily, emotional limits on a seasonal basis. Physical limits, not so often. I'm not an athlete.
3. Do you feel as though some of your limits are too low? In other words, do you find them frustrating? If yes, which ones, and why?
Duh, all of them. I'm tough to satisfy.
4. Have you ever been surprised by your limits (either pleasantly or unpleasantly)? If yes, tell us a bit about it.
Yes. Possibly in both directions on all three counts above, in the past. I'm spend more time in my head than elsewhere, so when I can't think through a problem, it's rather obvious that I've hit some sort of limit. I tend to complain about it. Sometimes I've looked back in hindsight and been surprised by emotional limits, but I'm not sure 'surprise' applies to non-emotional limits. Surprise is an emotion, after all. I've certainly learned things about my limits that I didn't know until they were exceeded, usually when really weird stuff happens.
5. How do you feel your limits compare to the general population's? Are they higher than average, average, or lower than average?
My tolerances are probably higher than average, or so it seems to me. Most people seem a little less willing to stretch, or at least really get into whatever place they work very well in. But I'd also say my closest friends are definite exceptions to that rule, so maybe I'm just snobbish or short-sighted. Outside of them... sometimes I wonder if the general population gets that time only happens once for humans. Many people seem hung up on the idea of maintaining some state they've slowly fallen into. I tend to complain about that, too.