The Proust Questionnaire

Vanity Fair has long been my favourite airplane read, the airport bookstore my first stop after checking in for a flight. The first page I turned to, past tense given that I’ve not been on a plane for two years, was always the same, the Proust Questionnaire.

Recently excavating my computer on a quest for an old document, I found my responses to these simple questions in a miscellaneous folder. It was interesting how what it pulled up from deep inside me in 2012, was still true, even though it feels like we are living in a different universe.

My responses:

1 What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Knowing I’m safe to experience and appropriately express what I’m feeling in the moment.

2.  What is your greatest fear?

Knowing it’s unsafe to experience or appropriately express what I’m feeling in the moment.

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

Failing to recognise when patience is no longer a virtue.

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

Hypocrisy.

5. Which living person(s) do you most admire?

Alessio Morassut & DAR

6. What is your greatest extravagance?

Chocolate (daily) & cashmere (when I can afford it!)

7. What is your current state of mind?

Focused.

8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?

Hope.

9. On what occasion do you lie?

I choose silence rather than buying the lie that lying keeps another from being hurt.

10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?

That the holes in my pierced ears have stretched.

11. Which living person do you most despise?

I despise a person’s behaviour, not any person.

12. What is the quality you most like in a man?

Authentically listening, hearing, understanding, accepting, seeing, and responding from the source of Love.

13. What is the quality you most like in a woman?

Authentically listening, hearing, understanding, accepting, seeing, and responding from the source of Love.

14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

“Ya think?”

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

The knowledge that shows how science and spirit are naturally connected.  

How would you answer these questions?