you are infinite.
i first got this from user rushofsun over a year ago. we were moving, so i couldn't post it straight away, and then i forgot about it.
Leave me a comment on this entry and i will respond by asking you five personal questions. Update yr journal with the answers to these questions. People who comment on yr entry get to be asked five questions by you.
here's what m asked me:
01. When you think about having children what is the first image that comes to mind?
a little girl running with her mouth open, laughing. she has straight hair w a fringe and she's about 3 or 4.
the next image i think of is holding -- clutching -- an infant, pre-crawl phase.
the next image i think of is me and curtis going out of our way to embarrass an adolescent at the grocery store (we're gonna be awesome parents).
02. What was yr secret place as a child?
hmm, speaking geographically or of physical locations, i dunno that i had any honestly secret places. usually i could be found in, under or near a tree, if i was outside, or in my bedroom reading, if i was inside. i didn't hide much. seemed futile, even then.
03. If you had to be best friends with a literary character, who would it be?
most of the books i love are filled with impossible people, so i'm going to pick Dorothy Gale of Kansas, later a princess of Oz. she's smart and practical, extremely positive and cheerful, and brave as all hell. you really can't go wrong with a good Southern farm girl, can you? anyone who can punch out a lion is probably a good person to have on yr side.
04. What external event or thing makes you depressed (ie not something you have direct involvement with)? What conversely makes you happy?
i may be misinterpreting this?
this might sound like a cop out, but i can't think of a single thing i am not involved with that actually honestly depresses me (or elicits any other strongly negative reaction). i'm not involved; why let it bother me? if it has nothing to do with me, it has nothing to do with me. as soon as i react, as soon as i become emotionally engaged, i become involved with it, right? i don't know. what makes me happy? the dumb things everyone says are truly amazing: pale light dappled through new maple leaves, trying to catch snowflakes on yr tongue and getting them stuck in yr eyelashes instead, a puppy jumping for a stick. what depresses me? the unstoppable failings of my own body. perhaps i have little control over the failings, but i am very much involved with them, no?
05. What scene of dialogue from a movie has really affected you?
hm. i love the scene in Amelie when she's talking to the Glass Man about the girl in his Renoir painting, and he says, "You mean she would rather imagine herself relating to an absent person than build relationships with those around her? " i did way too much of that before i met curtis, so that comment always hit home for me.
now leave me a comment, and i'll ask you five different questions. x