November meme, Day 1
It's the first day of a new month and a new set of questions in the 366 meme.
1 Who is one of your “saints”-a person who was very influential in your faith, spirituality, or life philosophy?
What an interesting question. I was racking my brain trying to think of one person in particular whose works I had read that had been particularly influential. And there were too many writers who have had small or big, individual impacts on the way I live my life. But then I realised that, of course, there could only be one person and that is DJ. We married when I was rather young and we shaped each other through the years. His intelligence and his enquiring and inquiring attitude to everything, particularly to faith and spiritual belief, made me think in a different way. Just as I made him do the same. There is no one who has had more impact upon the way I approach all aspects of living.
The rest of November's questions are under the cut:
2 Have you ever considered moving because of an election result?
3 Have you ever been disappointed by a screen adaptation of a favourite novel or story?
4 Have you ever seen a film that you thought was better than the book?
5 How do you keep up to date with the news?
6 If you could spend one year in perfect happiness but afterwards remember nothing of the experience would you do so? Why? If not, why not?
7 Would you rather be a member of a world championship sports team or be the champion of an individual sport? Which sport would you choose?
8 Who are the three people you spend the most time with each week? How do these people affect you?
9 Would you accept $1,000,000 (or equivalent of your currency) to leave your country and never set foot in it again?
10 What was the last really bad film you watched, and what was bad about it?
11 If you were able to live to the age of 90 and retain either the body or the mind of a 30-year-old for the last 60 years of your life, which would you want?
12 If you knew of a way to use your estate, following your death, to greatly benefit humanity, would you do it and leave only a minimal amount to your family?
13 Do you prefer being around men or women? Do your closest friends tend to be men or women?
14 What’s something you’re really good at, but you don’t like to do?
15 If you knew there would be a nuclear war in one week, what would you do?
16 If you went to a dinner party and were offered a dish you had never tried, would you want to taste it even if it sounded strange and not very appealing?
17 What behaviour in others do you have zero tolerance or patience for?
18 When did you last sing to yourself? to someone else?
19 If you could have free, unlimited service for five years from an extremely good cook, chauffeur, housekeeper, masseuse, or personal trainer, which would you choose?
20 Does the fact that you have never done something before increase or decrease its appeal to you?
21 Would it disturb you much if, upon your death, your body were simply thrown into the woods and left to rot? Why?
22 If you were to become famous, what would you be famous for?
23 Before making a telephone call, do you ever rehearse what you are going to say?
24 Do you establish routines in your life? For example, do you usually sleep in the same place in your bed? eat meals at the same time? regularly return to the same vacation spot?
25 Can you be counted on to do what you say you'll do?
26 Do you think there are benefits to feeling grateful?
27 In conversations, do you tend to listen or talk more?
28 Sum up your personality by choosing three fictional characters that you might combine to make YOU.
29 What’s your favourite colour in the Crayola 64-crayon box? If you are super-fancy and sophisticated and use the 150-crayon size box, that’s fine, too. Ya diva.
30 What’s your favourite tree?
1 Who is one of your “saints”-a person who was very influential in your faith, spirituality, or life philosophy?
What an interesting question. I was racking my brain trying to think of one person in particular whose works I had read that had been particularly influential. And there were too many writers who have had small or big, individual impacts on the way I live my life. But then I realised that, of course, there could only be one person and that is DJ. We married when I was rather young and we shaped each other through the years. His intelligence and his enquiring and inquiring attitude to everything, particularly to faith and spiritual belief, made me think in a different way. Just as I made him do the same. There is no one who has had more impact upon the way I approach all aspects of living.
The rest of November's questions are under the cut:
2 Have you ever considered moving because of an election result?
3 Have you ever been disappointed by a screen adaptation of a favourite novel or story?
4 Have you ever seen a film that you thought was better than the book?
5 How do you keep up to date with the news?
6 If you could spend one year in perfect happiness but afterwards remember nothing of the experience would you do so? Why? If not, why not?
7 Would you rather be a member of a world championship sports team or be the champion of an individual sport? Which sport would you choose?
8 Who are the three people you spend the most time with each week? How do these people affect you?
9 Would you accept $1,000,000 (or equivalent of your currency) to leave your country and never set foot in it again?
10 What was the last really bad film you watched, and what was bad about it?
11 If you were able to live to the age of 90 and retain either the body or the mind of a 30-year-old for the last 60 years of your life, which would you want?
12 If you knew of a way to use your estate, following your death, to greatly benefit humanity, would you do it and leave only a minimal amount to your family?
13 Do you prefer being around men or women? Do your closest friends tend to be men or women?
14 What’s something you’re really good at, but you don’t like to do?
15 If you knew there would be a nuclear war in one week, what would you do?
16 If you went to a dinner party and were offered a dish you had never tried, would you want to taste it even if it sounded strange and not very appealing?
17 What behaviour in others do you have zero tolerance or patience for?
18 When did you last sing to yourself? to someone else?
19 If you could have free, unlimited service for five years from an extremely good cook, chauffeur, housekeeper, masseuse, or personal trainer, which would you choose?
20 Does the fact that you have never done something before increase or decrease its appeal to you?
21 Would it disturb you much if, upon your death, your body were simply thrown into the woods and left to rot? Why?
22 If you were to become famous, what would you be famous for?
23 Before making a telephone call, do you ever rehearse what you are going to say?
24 Do you establish routines in your life? For example, do you usually sleep in the same place in your bed? eat meals at the same time? regularly return to the same vacation spot?
25 Can you be counted on to do what you say you'll do?
26 Do you think there are benefits to feeling grateful?
27 In conversations, do you tend to listen or talk more?
28 Sum up your personality by choosing three fictional characters that you might combine to make YOU.
29 What’s your favourite colour in the Crayola 64-crayon box? If you are super-fancy and sophisticated and use the 150-crayon size box, that’s fine, too. Ya diva.
30 What’s your favourite tree?